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7.35 Eigar Introduction and Allegro: LPO/ Adrian Boult
7.50 Kreisler, arr Schiff Schon Rosmarin ; liebeslied Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Samuel Sanders (piano)
7.56 Suk Serenade in E flat: Czech PO/
Libor PeSek. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Schiff Schon Rosmarin
Cello:
Heinrich Schiff
Piano:
Samuel Sanders

Britten
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi (1971):
James Bowman (counter-tenor) Peter Pears (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bar) The Composer (piano) Dramatic cantata:
Phaedra (1975)
Janet Baker (mezzo) ECO/Steuart Bedford
Quartet No 3 (1975)
Endellion Quartet. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bowman
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
Janet Baker

leader
Geoffrey Trabichoff , conductor Alexander Rahbari
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
(piano) von Einem Suite:
Dantons Tod
Liszt Piano Concerto
No 1
Dvorak Symphony No 8

Contributors

Leader:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Conductor:
Alexander Rahbari
Conductor:
Gordon Fergus-Thompson

In a recording from the 1965 Aldeburgh Festival, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is joined by the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter in a performance of Brahms's Magelone-Lieder. During the interval, Gerald Moore talks about the great German baritone.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Pianist:
Sviatoslav Richter
Talks:
Gerald Moore

Mel Hill contends that jazz is a type of music created largely by black Americans, but taken over to a great extent by white musicians in the early years. In the first of six programmes, he looks at the work of one of these usurpers, Nick La Rocca , who with the Original Dixieland Jazz
Band made the first jazz record in 1917. Series producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Hill
Unknown:
Nick La Rocca
Producer:
Derek Drescher

As an exhibition of work by sculptor David Nash continues at London's
Serpentine Gallery,
Dr Andrew Causey talks to him about his use of living trees, as well as trunks and branches, to express his ideas. Producer Judith Bumpus

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nash
Talks:
Dr Andrew Causey
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

live from St David's Hall, Cardiff.
leader Michael Davis, conductor Mariss Jansons
Arve Tellefsen (violin)

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
8.00 Mariss Jansons talks to Michael Hall.
8.20 Mahler Symphony No 1 in D

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Michael Davis
Conductor/Interviewee:
Mariss Jansons
Violinist:
Arve Tellefsen
Interviewer:
Michael Hall

Music to Murder By
David Pownall 's drama intertwines the lives of two composers from different periods,
Carlo Gesualdo and Philip Heseltine.
Gesualdo was an Italian prince and contemporary of Shakespeare while Heseltine, alias Peter Warlock , committed suicide in 1930. Using his supernatural powers Heseltine materialises in Gesualdo's ruined palace and summons the prince. Then, there's music to murder by.... The production includes music by Gesualdo, Peter Warlock and Stephen Boxer.
Additional singing Diana Kyle Director Guy Vaesen (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Pownall
Unknown:
Carlo Gesualdo
Unknown:
Philip Heseltine.
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Stephen Boxer.
Unknown:
Diana Kyle
Director:
Guy Vaesen
Helen Euterpe:
Mary Ellen Ray
Federigo/Carafa:
Edward Adams
Heseltine:
Stephen Boxer
Gesualdo:
Eric Richard
Maria D'Avalos:
Fiona Victory

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