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7.35 Vivaldi Concerto in A minor, Op 3 No 8 ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN /
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.45 Lutoslawski
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
MARTHA ARGERICH
NELSON FREIRE (pianos)
7.50 Berkeley and Britten Mont Juic Suite
LPO/LENNOX BERKELEY
8.02 Rodrigo Concierto en modo galante
ROBERT COHEN (cello) LSO/ENRIQUE BATIZ Records

Contributors

Unknown:
St Martin

Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lover's Ghost (Five English Folk Songs No 4) LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS/
CHRISTOPHER BISHOP Toward the Unkown Region
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/
NORMAN DEL MAR
Dona nobis pacem SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA/
ADRIAN BOULT
Valiant-for-Truth
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS/ STEPHEN WILKINSON Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Soprano:
Sheila Armstrong
Soprano:
John Carol
Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Singers:
Stephen Wilkinson

Clarinet Quintet in A (K581)
ALAN HACKER (clarinet)
SALOMON STRING QUARTET Simon Standage
Micaela Comberti (violins) Trevor Jones (viola) Jenifer Ward Clarke (cello) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Standage
Violins:
Micaela Comberti
Viola:
Trevor Jones
Cello:
Jenifer Ward Clarke

(L'italiana in Londra)
Opera buffa in two acts by CIMAROSA Libretto by GIUSEPPE PETROSELUNI (sung in a new English translation by AMANDA HOLDEN ) Introduced by Julian Budden.
ALEXANDER CROWE
(harpsichord continuo) MANCHESTER CAMERATA led by RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by ANTHONY HOSE
(Given on 29 July in Buxton
Opera House as part of the 1989 Buxton Festival)

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Petroseluni
Translation By:
Amanda Holden
Introduced By:
Julian Budden.
Harpsichord:
Alexander Crowe
Unknown:
Richard Howarth
Conducted By:
Anthony Hose
Sumers, a Dutch merchant:
Christopher Gillett
Don Polidoro, a Neapolitan:
Andrew Shore (baritone)
Madama Brillante, keeper of a London hostelry:
Susan Bullock (soprano)
Milord Arespingh, an English Lord in love with Li via:
Steven Page (baritone)
Livia, an Italian girl from Genoa, pretending to be a French girl, Enriette:
Joyce Guyer (soprano)

Michael Hall talks to the self-confessed 'failed wunderkind'
Nicolas Slonimsky , otherwise a conductor, pianist, composer and lexicographer - not necessarily in that order. Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Hall
Unknown:
Nicolas Slonimsky
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

YVONNE KENNY (soprano) DIANA MONTAGUE (mezzo-soprano)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
GWYNNE HOWELL (bass) ARDWYN SINGERS chorusmaster
HELENA BRAITHWAITE
BBC WELSH CHORUS chorusmaster
JOHN HUGH THOMAS
CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR chorusmaster
RICHARD ELFYN JONES
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by JAMES CLARK conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Symphony No 2 in D
8.05 Interval Reading
8.10 Mass in c, Op 86 (Given on 16 September in St David's Hall. Cardiff)

Contributors

Soprano:
Yvonne Kenny
Mezzo-Soprano:
Diana Montague
Bass:
Gwynne Howell
Unknown:
Helena Braithwaite
Unknown:
John Hugh Thomas
Unknown:
James Clark
Conducted By:
John Eliot

Fred D'Aguiar 's second collection of poetry
Airy Hall recalls and reinvents his childhood in Guyana. He talks about writing from memory with readings from the poems. Compiled by FRANCES BYRNES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred D'Aguiar
Unknown:
Airy Hall
Unknown:
Frances Byrnes

Metanoia on the Move Introduced by Ian Dearden.
Dearden Airtight Jonathan Impett Gandharva
Javier Alvarez Quemar las naves
(all first broadcasts)
(Given in November 1988 at Bath College of Higher
Education as part of the Arts Council Contemporary Network Tour) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ian Dearden.
Unknown:
Jonathan Impett

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