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anon Westron Wynde; Hey Nony Nony No CIRCA 1500
7.07* Vaughan Williams
Concerto for oboe and strings
CELIA NICKLIN
ACADEMY OF ST MARTININTHE-FIELDS
7.30 News
7.35 Copland Music for Movies LONDON SINFONIETTA/
ELGAR HOWARTH
7.53* Debussy Rhapsody No 1 GEORGE PIETERSON (clarinet) AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK
8.02* Purcell Fantasia, three parts upon a ground
MEMBERS OF THE EARLY MUSIC
CONSORT OF LONDON
8.08* Britten Simple Symphony ECO/THE COMPOSER Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Celia Nicklin
Unknown:
Elgar Howarth

Janacek
In the Mists: I had become convinced that nobody would ever notice anything of mine ... Fate: Act 3
Cast headed by VILEM PRIBYL (tenor)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BRNO STATE THEATRE/FRANTISEK JILEK In the Mists
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano)
Mr Broucek 's Excursion to the Moon: Act 2 (excerpts) Cast headed by VILEM PRIBYL (tenor)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/FRANTISEK JILEK Records

Contributors

Piano:
Rudolf Firkusny
Piano:
Mr Broucek

You, my dear friend, were the first to understand my wishes and to allow my works to make an undreamt of, possibly even miraculous, impression. suk to Talich, 1933 The last of six programmes presented by Patrick Lambert Smetana Symphonic poem: Blanik (1954 recording) Mozart Violin Concerto in D (K 218): with JIRI NOVAK CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (1955recording) Dvorak Serenade in E, for strings: PRAGUE SOLOISTS ' ORCHESTRA (1951 recording) Stabat Mater (Sections 2 and 3) DRAHOMIRA TIKALOVA (soprano) MARTA KRASOVA (contralto) BENO BLACHUT (tenor) KAREL KALAs (bass) CZECH SINGERS' CHORUS CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Suk Symphony No 2 in c minor, Astral CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (1952 recordings) Mono records Series producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Contributors

Presented By:
Patrick Lambert
Unknown:
Jiri Novak
Unknown:
Dvorak Serenade
Unknown:
Prague Soloists
Unknown:
Stabat Mater
Soprano:
Drahomira Tikalova
Contralto:
Marta Krasova
Tenor:
Beno Blachut
Bass:
Karel Kalas
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

Four conversations on a new approach to understanding the human brain.
2: From Charles Darwin to Darwin III
Georgina Ferry talks to
Gerald Edelman of Rockefeller University. New York, about how he sees the selection of. and the interactions between, groups of nerve cells as the keys to understanding the versatility of the brain.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Darwin
Unknown:
Gerald Edelman
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Philippa Davies (flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Bela Dekany, conducted by Matthias Bamert

Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor

8.05* Maeterlinck and Vienna
Peter Vergo explores the influence Maeterlinck's plays exerted on artists and musicians, including Schoenberg, in early 20th-century Vienna.

8.25* Mozart Flute Concerto in D (K 314)

Schoenberg Symphonic poem: Pelleas und Melisande

(Sibelius's 'Pelleas et Melisande' tomorrow at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Flautist:
Philippa Davies
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert
Speaker (Maeterlinck and Vienna):
Peter Vergo

Nine plays by JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D'ARCY with and 5: Fowlers' Nets
The Emperor has let loose
Colonel Jaxartes. Head of his
Secret Service, upon the history of Christianity. Jaxartes is loyal neither to the new religion nor to the old but only to his own caste, the subterranean servants of imperial power.
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by PENNY LEICESTER (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Unknown:
Margaretta D'Arcy
Conducted By:
Stephen Boxer
Directed By:
Penny Leicester
Kybele:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Constantine:
Michael N. Harbour
Hosius:
Timothy West
Jaxartes:
Sam Dastor
Fausta:
Samantha Bond
Mary:
Angela Pleasence
John the Reader:
Geoffrey Matthews
Eumolpus:
Steve Hodson
Semiramis:
Souad Faress
Helen:
Mary Wimbush
Constantia, Constantine'ssister:
Karen Archer
Haroun:
Raad Rawi
Chief of Station:
Tony Wredden
Alpha Secundus:
David Goodland
Guard:
Anthony Jackson

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