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Handel Organ Concerto No 14 in A
SIMON PRESTON (organ)
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.17* Bach Motet: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (Bwv 226)
STOCKHOLM BACH CHOIR
CONCENTUS MUSICUS OF VIENNA/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
7.30 News
7.35 Faure Suite: Pelleas et Melisande, Op 80
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN M-THE FIELDS/
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.52* Glazunov Piano Concerto No 2 in B, Op 100 MICHAEL PONTI
WESTPHALIAN SO/SIEGFRIED LANDAU
8.11* Stravinsky Ragtime for 11 instruments
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER
PLAYERS
8.15* Johann Strauss (son), transc Godowsky Wine, Woman and Song
SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano) Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Michael Ponti
Unknown:
Siegfried Landau
Piano:
Shura Cherkassky

Delius: Germany
Sonnenscheinlied; Durch den Wald
CBSO CHORUS/SIMON HALSEY
The Song of the Lyre; The
Dance-Song (A Mass of Life) HEATHER HARPER (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LPO/CHARLES GROVES. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Halsey
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Tenor:
Robert Tear
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon

CARINA RASCHER (soprano saxophone) JOHN-EDWARD KELLY (alto saxophone) BRUCEWEINBERGER (tenor saxophone) LINDA BANGS (baritone saxophone) Miklos Maros Quartet (1985) Hans Kox Quartet (1985) Nicola LeFanu Quartet (1985) (all first UK broadcasts)

Contributors

Unknown:
Miklos Maros
Unknown:
Hans Kox
Unknown:
Nicola Lefanu

with Francis Wilford-Smith 8: The Accompanist
The popular image of the blues pianist is that of a solo performer, but many provided highly sympathetic accompaniments to other artists. They included
MYRTLE JENKINS. BLACK
BOB BILL OBRYANT and TOM WEBB. Mono

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Wilford-Smith
Unknown:
Bob Bill Obryant
Unknown:
Tom Webb.

A tragedy in verse and prose by W. H. AUDEN and CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD adapted by GLYN DEARMAN
Music by Benjamin Britten
This famous collaboration, part satirical, part Boy's 's Own story, part mystical experience, was written, and is set, in 1936. Choruses spoken by VICTORIA CARLING . ANDREW DOWNER .
RICHARD PEARCE . EVA STUART , JOAN WALKER and members of the cast.
Choruses sung by BBC SINGERS Music played by CATHERINE EDWARDS. ANDREW BALL (pianos) GREGORY KNOWLES (percussion) and JUDD PROCTOR (ukulele) Musical director SIMON JOLY Directed by GLYN DEARMAN and JOHN EVANS
(Auden and Britten's 'Paul Bunyan next Thursday)
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Contributors

Unknown:
W. H. Auden
Unknown:
Christopher Isherwood
Adapted By:
Glyn Dearman
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Spoken By:
Victoria Carling
Spoken By:
Andrew Downer
Unknown:
Richard Pearce
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Joan Walker
Played By:
Catherine Edwards.
Director:
Simon Joly
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Directed By:
John Evans
Unknown:
Paul Bunyan
Michael Ransom:
Mick Ford
Mrs Ransom:
Patricia Routledge
Sir James Ransom:
Jeremy Child
Mr A:
Bernard Hepton
Mrs A:
Polly James
Lord Stagmantle:
Peter Jeffrey
the Abbot:
Robert Eddison
Lady Isabel:
Emily Richard
David Gunn:
Stephen Rashbrook
Ian Shawcross:
Julian Firth
Gen Dellaby-Couch:
Garard Green
Dr Williams:
William Simons
Edward Lamp:
David Learner
Announcer:
Michael Tudor Barnes

Third of five programmes Songs, madrigals and instrumental music by Verdelot, Willaert, Ortiz and others, originally performed by favourite Venetian courtesans, like 'la bella Pecorina'.
ASTRAEA
Tessa Bonner (soprano) Pavlo Beznosiuk
(violin and lira da braccio) Richard Boothby (viola da gamba) Tom Finucane
(viola da mano and flute)
Shirley Rumsey (guitar and lute) Christopher Wilson (lute and cittern)
(Given on 8 March at the Wigmore Hall, London)

Contributors

Soprano:
Tessa Bonner
Violin:
Pavlo Beznosiuk
Viola:
Richard Boothby
Viola:
Tom Finucane
Guitar:
Shirley Rumsey
Unknown:
Christopher Wilson

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