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Ireland A London
Overture: PHILHARMONIA/
OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
7.13 Martinu La Revue de cuisine
DARTINGTON ENSEMBLE
7.30am News
7.35 Alexis de Castillon
Piano Concerto in D, Op 12 ALDO CICCOLINI (piano) MONTE CARLO PO/
GEORGES PRETRE
8.08 Delius Sleigh Ride RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Owain Arwel Hughes
Piano:
Alexis de Castillon
Unknown:
Georges Pretre

First of three programmes in which MALCOLM PROUD (harpsichord) plays 'a set of six capital
Concertos - a combination of ingenious and masterly modulation, very graceful melody and judicious
IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
Boyce Overture No 2 in G Charles Wesley Concerto in D minor. Op 2 No 1 J.C. Bach Symphony in B flat, Op 9 No 1
Charles Wesley Concerto in E flat, Op 2 No 6 BBC Northern Ireland
* See panel, left

Contributors

Conducted By:
John Lubbock
Unknown:
Charles Wesley
Unknown:
Charles Wesley
accompaniment ':
Samuel Wesley

Introduced by Richard Osborne. Record Review
Building a Library:
Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto by Stephen Johnson.
Robert Philip reviews new releases of Czech music.
10.40 Record Release
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
PABLO CASALS (cello)
CZECH PO/GEORGE SZELL
11.17 Haydn String
Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark): HAGEN QUARTET
11.36 Janacek, orch Ota Zitek and Vaclav Sedlacek
The Diary of One Who Disappeared
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) BRIGITTE BALLEYS (contralto)
WOMEN OF THE RIAS
CHAMBER CHOIR
BERLIN PO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
12.13 Martinu
Cello Sonata No 1
STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello) PETER EVANS (piano)
12.32 Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor (Hen) SLOVAK PO/LIBOR PESEK
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson.
Unknown:
Robert Philip
Cello:
Pablo Casals
Unknown:
Ota Zitek
Unknown:
Vaclav Sedlacek
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Contralto:
Brigitte Balleys
Piano:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

A friend equally to poetry and the voice
CHARLES BURNEY , 1773
A cantata 'Pastorelle che piangete', and an aria 'Superbo di me stesso'; with an organ concerto by Hasse's English contemporary John Stanley.
JULIANNE BAIRD (soprano) PAUL NICHOLSON
(harpsichord/organ)
PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS BAROQUE ORCHESTRA directed by ROY GOODMAN (More Hasse tonight 11.10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Burney
Unknown:
John Stanley.
Soprano:
Julianne Baird
Harpsichord:
Paul Nicholson
Directed By:
Roy Goodman

FIORELLA PEDICONI (sop) DELLA JONES (mezzo)
JEROME PRUETT (tenor) RODERICK EARLE (bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA led by ALISON KELLY conducted by RICHARD HICKOX
Puccini Messa di gloria 3.50 Interval Reading
3.55 Rossini Stabat Mater (Given on 17 May in the Royal Festival Hall. in association with National and Provincial Building Society)

Contributors

Tenor:
Jerome Pruett
Bass:
Roderick Earle
Unknown:
Alison Kelly
Conducted By:
Richard Hickox
Unknown:
Rossini Stabat Mater

A weekly discussion on the arts.
Alexander Walker (in the chair) talks with William Feaver , Gillian Tindall and Jeremy Treglown. This week's subjects:
Marina Bray by Ronald Frame on Radio 3 last
Tuesday; The Artist's Eye - Bridget Riley at the National Gallery, London; Harley Granville Barker 's The Voysey Inheritance at the National Theatre,
London; Billy August 's film Pelle the Conqueror;
The Russia House, a novel by John Ie Carre.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH. Mono

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
William Feaver
Unknown:
Gillian Tindall
Unknown:
Jeremy Treglown.
Unknown:
Bridget Riley
Unknown:
Harley Granville Barker
Unknown:
Billy August
Novel By:
John Ie Carre.

JOHANNES SCHAAF 'S staging from the Grand Theatre, Geneva of Strauss's last opera (1942), a one-act conversation piece about the writing of an opera for the birthday of a Countess with both composer and librettist vying for the Countess's love.
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN (Given last Saturday)
(Swiss Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Johannes Schaaf
Conducted By:
Horst Stein
Countess, a young widow:
Ana Pusar (soprano)
Count:
Wolfgang Schone (baritone)
Flamand, a composer:
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Olivier, poet and playwright:
Andreas Schmidt (bar)
La Roche, a theatre director:
Günter Reich
Clairon, an actress:
Anne Howells (mezzo)
Monsieur Taupe, a prompter:
Hugues Cuēnod (tenor)
Italian singers:
Lucia Mazzaria (soprano)
Italian singers:
Jonathan Welch (tenor)
Major-domo:
Lorenz Minth (baritone)

David Bradby. Professor of Drama and Theatre
Studies at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, considers the way the French Revolution has been presented by the Theatre du Soleil, Jean Genet , Beaumarchais, Biichner, Weiss and Anouilh.
0 See page 62

Contributors

Unknown:
David Bradby.
Unknown:
Jean Genet

The operatic soprano Faustina Bordoni was married to one of the most celebrated composers of the 18th century, Johann Adolf Hasse. Two of Hasse's cantatas 'Quel vago seno' and 'Fille dolce mio bene' are sung by JULIANNE BAIRD with members of PHILOMEL: Nancy Hadden (flute)
Erin Headley (bass viol) Andrew Lawrence-King (harp).

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Adolf Hasse.
Sung By:
Julianne Baird
Flute:
Nancy Hadden
Bass:
Erin Headley

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