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Purcell
Sometimes a hero in an age appears
But scarce a Purcell in a thousand Years
Incidental music: Abdelazer (z 570)
PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS/
PETER HOLMAN
From Rosy Bowers (z 578) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) JANE RYAN (bass viol) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
Sonata No 10 in D (1697) (Z811)
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH
MONICA HUGGETT (violins) CHRISTOPHE COIN (bass viol)
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (spinet)
0 dive custos Auriacae
(Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary) (z 504)
JAMES BOWMAN MICHAEL CHANCE (counter-tenors)
KING'S CONSORT/ROBERT KING Come, Ye Sons of Art
(Birthday Ode 1694) (z 323) NORMA BURROWES (sop) JAMES BOWMAN CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenors) ROBERT LLOYD (bass)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF
LONDON/DAVID MUNROW Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Holman
Harpsichord:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Catherine MacKintosh
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Norma Burrowes
Unknown:
Bowman Charles

In a sequence of English music of many shades of style and colour, Tippett's Little Music for Strings, Vaughan Williams 's rarely-heard Fantasia on the Old 104th, Variations on Sellinger's Round by various composers, written for the 1953 Aldeburgh Festival, and Walton's Cello Concerto are interspersed with piano music by Rawsthome, Berkeley, Elgar, Bridge and composer/pianist James Walker.
Music for counter-tenor and guitar by Richard Rodney Bennett and Arthur Wills completes the mixture.
Simon Milner puts it all in context.
Producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Pianist:
James Walker.
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Arthur Wills
Unknown:
Simon Milner
Producer:
Paul Spicer

live from the Royal Northern College of Music. Manchester. HANS fagius (organ) Buxtehude Prelude in D minor (BUX wv 140); Chorale prelude (BUX wv 208)
Olsson Prelude and Fugue in D sharp minor, Op 56; Sestetto (Three Studies. Op 45)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 543)
Nielsen Commotio , Op 58 BBC Manchester
0 TICKETS: from Concerts Promotions, PO Bar 27. Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Bach Prelude
Unknown:
Nielsen Commotio

Francis Wilford-Smith presents the fifth of eight programmes in his series on the evolution of black gospel music in America. This week he looks at the gradual transition during the 1930s from the spiritual harmony quartet tradition to the more adventurous concept of 'gospel', led by such groups as the HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS and the DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS. Mono

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Wilford-Smith

The sculptor
Raymond Mason , whose retrospective exhibition is now showing at
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, talks with Martin Kemp , Professor of Art History at St Andrews University.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Mason
Unknown:
Martin Kemp
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

The second of two concerts conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI live from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Bach. orch Webem
Ricercare (The Musical Offering)
Schoenberg Variations, Op 31
8.00 Fritz Spiegl considers Biedermeier Vienna
8.20 Schubert Symphony No 9 in c (Great)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl

by Marivaux, translated by Michael Sadler.
With Janet McTeer a Chevalier, Tim McInnerny as Lelio and Imogen Stubbs as the Countess

Dressed as a man, a Parisienne accompanies her unwitting fiance to the country to keep an eye on him. Her suspicions prove well founded...

Contributors

Author:
null Marivaux
Translated by:
Michael Sadler
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Chevalier:
Janet McTeer
Lelio:
Tim McInnerny
The Countess:
Imogen Stubbs
Trivelin:
Christopher Godwin
Harlequin:
Tom Watt
Frontin/Valet:
Ken Cumberlidge

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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