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Delius North Country Sketches ULSTER ORCHESTRAl
VERNON HANDLEY
Brahms Four Quartets, Op 92 ANDREAS ROTHKOPF (piano) STUTTGART CHAMBER CHOIR/
FRIEDER BERNIUS
Arnold Flute Concerto No 2 RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
RONALD THOMAS
Couperin Les Moissonneurs ; Les Baricades misterieuses; Les Bergeries (Ordre No 6)
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 USSR SO EVGENY SVETLANOV Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Handley
Piano:
Andreas Rothkopf
Unknown:
Ronald Thomas
Unknown:
Couperin Les Moissonneurs
Harpsichord:
Kenneth Gilbert

with Michael Oliver
Wagner's Other Boring Bits!: Act 1 of Gotterdammerung defended by Malcolm Hayes.
Technical Mastery, Expressive Refinement and Beautiful Tone: the legacy of Leon Goossens assessed by John Warrack.
An Eclectic and Conservative: Gerard McBurney surveys the work of Sergey Taneyev. Producer ANDREW LYLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes.
Unknown:
Leon Goossens
Unknown:
John Warrack.
Unknown:
Gerard McBurney
Unknown:
Sergey Taneyev.
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Wagner's
Der Ring des Nibelungen in a new production by HARRY KUPFER Siegfried
Introduced by Patrick Carnegy
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
Act j
2.50* A Lost Paradise?
Patrick Carnegy talks with Graham Clark and Siegfried
Jerusalem about their roles of Mime and Siegfried and reflects on diametrically opposite views of how Wagner's evocations of nature should be staged.
3.10* Act 2
4.30* The Dramaturgy of Fragments
Is the Ring a single or four separate works? Harry Kupfer and Matthias Vogt discuss this in the light of the Bayreuth production, with readings from CARL DAHLHAUS and PIERRE BOULEZ Readers EDWARD DE SOUZA,
PETER WOODTHORPE. CLAUDE LE SACHE
4.45* Act 3
(Given on 30 July in the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth)

Contributors

Production By:
Harry Kupfer
Introduced By:
Patrick Carnegy
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Talks:
Patrick Carnegy
Unknown:
Graham Clark
Unknown:
Harry Kupfer
Unknown:
Matthias Vogt
Unknown:
Carl Dahlhaus
Readers:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe.
Unknown:
Claude Le Sache
Siegfried:
Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor)
Mime:
Graham Clark (tenor)
The Wanderer:
Franz Mazura (baritone)
Alberich:
Gunter von Kannen (bass)
Fafner:
Phllip Kang (bass)
Erda:
Anne Gjevang (mezzo-Soprano)
Brünnhilde:
Deborah Polaski (soprano)
Woodbird:
Hilde Leidland (soprano)

The island is the anvil where was made the puritanical heart. The daisiesfoam out of the summer grass. The rigid dead sleep by the Braighe, tomb on separate tomb. lain Crichton Smith reads from his own poetry, and discusses some of its central themes, such as his upbringing on the island of Lewis, his teaching career, and a recurring sense of exile. Researcher ANDREW MITCHELL Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Crichton Smith
Unknown:
Andrew Mitchell
Producer:
Stewart Conn

conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ as part of the South Bank
Centre's Schoenberg Cycle,
'The Reluctant Revolutionary'. Schoenberg Serenade, Op 24 STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) Ode to Napoleon, Op 41 STEPHEN ROBERTS (reciter)
7.55* Roger Nichols and Doda Conrad recall the first performance of Pierrot Lunaire in Paris, in 1922. (R)
8.00* Pierrot Lunaire, Op 21 ELIZABETH LAURENCE (mezzo)
(Given on 13 November at the Royal Festival Hall, London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Unknown:
Stephen Roberts
Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Unknown:
Doda Conrad

The Rediscovery of Politics
Six talks on authority, culture and community in the USSR by Professor Geoffrey Hosking. * A Civil Society in Embryo Nothing could change the nature of the system more than the stable existence of political associations independent of the Party's control and with secure access to the public media.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Geoffrey Hosking.

recorded earlier this evening in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
The Advent Prose
Processional Hymn: Of the Father's love begotten
First lesson: Jeremiah 23, w 1-6 Carols: The Cherry Tree Carol (arr Martin Shaw );
O my deare hert (Ian Shaw ) Second lesson: Philippians 2, W5-13
Carols: The holy Son of God (Alun Hoddinott );
There is no rose (Stanley Vann) Third lesson: Romans 10, vv 5-15
Carol: Jesus Christ, the apple-tree (Elizabeth Poston ) Fourth lesson: Luke 8, vv 4-15 Hymn: On Jordan's bank
Carols: A spotless rose (Howells); In night's dim shadows lying (arr George Guest)
Fifth lesson: Isaiah 42, vv 1-9 Carol: The holly and the ivy (arrWalfordDavies)
Sixth lesson: Isaiah 35, vv 3-10 Hymn: Hark! a herald voice is calling
Carols: There is a flower (John Rutter ); Righteous Joseph (arr-Martin Shaw )
Seventh lesson: Luke 12, vv 32-40
Magnificat: Plainsong (Tone i) Eighth lesson: John 3, vv 1-8 Chorale: Break forth, 0 beauteous, heavenly light (harmonised Bach)
Hymn: 0 come, all ye faithful Organ voluntary: Chorale Prelude on 'Wachet auf (Bwv 645) (Bach)
Organist ANDREW NETHSINGHA Director of Music
DR GEORGE GUEST

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Shaw
Unknown:
Ian Shaw
Unknown:
Alun Hoddinott
Unknown:
Elizabeth Poston
Unknown:
John Rutter
Unknown:
Righteous Joseph
Unknown:
Martin Shaw
Organist:
Andrew Nethsingha

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