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The first of six programmes of music written for King Louis XTV. Lully Marche de Savoye PARIS WIND AND DRUMS
ENSEMBLE/PAHAARD
Carousel de la Grande Escurie
BOURGOGNE CAMERATA Ballet suite: Xerxes LA GRANDE ECURIE ET
LA CHAMBRE DU ROY
Couperin Concert royal No 1: KUIJKEN BAROQUE
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Records. Series producer EDWARD BLAKEMAN

Contributors

Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Last of six programmes. Cherubini Overture: Anacreon
HANOVER BAND/GOODMAN Rameau Comédie-ballet: Anacreon
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS/
WILLIAM CHRISTIE
Thomas Overture: Mignon COLLN SALON ORCHESTRA Franck Le Chasseur maudit
PHILADELPHIA ORCH/MUTI Delibes Ballet music (Lakme: Act 2): OPERA
COMIQUE/ALAIN LOMBARD Records. Series producer ANTHONY SELLORS

Contributors

Unknown:
William Christie
Unknown:
Franck Le Chasseur
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Roy Harris Symphony No 7 (Mono)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA;
EUGENE ORMANDY
Hahn Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este: ORCH DE Paris,
JEAN PIERRE JACQUILLAT
Sergei Bortkievich Piano Concerto No 1 (Mono)
MARJORIE MITCHELL (piano) VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCH/ STRICKLAND. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Harris
Unknown:
Eugene Ormandy
Unknown:
Jean Pierre Jacquillat
Piano:
Sergei Bortkievich
Piano:
Marjorie Mitchell

The Language of Romanticism:
G Flat: the first of two talks by Hugh Macdonald.
Transcendental Liszt: a conversation with the pianist Janice Weber. Letter from Budapest: Balint Andras Varga reflects on recent developments in Hungarian music.
Producers ANDREW LYLE and EDWARD BLAKEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh MacDonald.
Pianist:
Janice Weber.
Unknown:
Balint Andras Varga
Producers:
Andrew Lyle
Producers:
Edward Blakeman

A live broadcast of Sung Eucharist on the Sunday after All Saints' Day.
THOMAS TROTTER (organ) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE, directed by STEPHEN CLEOBURY
Victoria Mass and Motet: 0 quam gloriosum
Byrd Justorum animae Tournemire L'Orgue mystique: cycle for All Saints
Reading: Father Zossima's sermon from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

Contributors

Directed By:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Byrd Justorum

live from the Barbican Centre, as part of its Magyarok Festival.
MIKLOS PERENYI (cello) FRANZ LISZT CO directed by JANOS ROLLA
Handel Concerto grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 7
Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G (Rv 413)
4.45 There Were Too Many of Us by FERENC SANTA. Reader Struan Rodger. Mono
5.05 C. P. E.Bach Cello Concerto in A minor (Wq 170)
Szollosy Concerto No 3 Bartok Divertimento (In association with TNT Express)

Contributors

Cello:
Franz Liszt
Directed By:
Janos Rolla
Reader:
Struan Rodger.

Second of two programmes about nuclear winter. In 1983, Carl Sagan predicted that nuclear war would cause climatic changes so severe that the human race could become extinct. Other scientists disagreed.
Colin Tudge stands back to watch a clash of scientific styles. Mono (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Sagan
Unknown:
Colin Tudge

live from the Almeida Theatre, Islington. Gyorgy Kurtag
String Quartet, Op 1 Eight Duos for violin and cimbalon
Jatekok (excerpts)
ARDITTI STRING QUARTET ANDRAS KELLER (violin)
MARTA FABIAN (cimbalon) GYORGY AND MARTA KURTAG (piano)
ADRIENNE CSENGERY (sop) FERENC CSONTOS (double-bass)
8.30 Stephen Walsh and Budapest music publisher Balint Varga discuss Kurtag and his music.
8.50 String Quartet, Op 28 (first UK performance)
Scenes from a novel Op 19, for soprano, violin, cimbalon and double-bass (Given as part of the Barbican Centre Magyarok Festival)

Contributors

Violin:
Andras Keller
Violin:
Marta Fabian
Piano:
Marta Kurtag
Double-Bass:
Ferenc Csontos
Double-Bass:
Stephen Walsh
Unknown:
Balint Varga

(horn) in an unpublished performance of Strauss's Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat, recorded in Helsinki in 1956. Introduced by Stephen J. Pettitt.
FINNISH RSO/NILS ERIK FOUGSTEDT. Mono
(Finnish Radio recording)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stephen J. Pettitt.
Unknown:
Erik Fougstedt.

from Adam's sin to the redemption of the Cross. Recorded in Worcester Cathedral with Gabriel Woolf.
Chorale prelude: Durch Adams Fall (BWV 637) (Bach); Adam lay ybounden (Ord); The truth sent from above, arr
R. Hemingway ; Hymn of St Columba (Britten);
Attende Domine (Villette); 0 crux splendidior
(Philips); Christ Is Risen (Edwin Roxburgh );
Psalm 139; Praise to the Holiest (Elgar); Chorale prelude: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (BWV 638) (Bach).
Readings from MILTON. JOHN DONNE. R.S. THOMAS. W.M. MERCHANT and BASIL HUME. WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR conducted by DONALD HUNT ADRIAN PARTINGTON (organ) BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf.
Unknown:
R. Hemingway
Unknown:
Edwin Roxburgh
Unknown:
Milton. John Donne.
Unknown:
R.S. Thomas.
Unknown:
W.M. Merchant
Conducted By:
Donald Hunt
Conducted By:
Adrian Partington

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