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7.35 Haydn Sinfonia concertante in Bflat Marieke Blankenstijn (violin)
William Conway (cello) Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Matthew Wilkie (bassoon) Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado
7.56 Rossini Overture:
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LSO/Claudio Abbado
8.05 Stravinsky Suite: Pultinella
English Chamber Orchestra/ Alexander Gibson.
Records

Contributors

Cello:
William Conway
Oboe:
Douglas Boyd
Bassoon:
Matthew Wilkie

Arthur Honegger :
The Delights of Basle La Danse des Morts
(performed in English) Denis Quilley (speaker) Carol Smith (soprano) Susan Kessler (mezzo)
Gerald Finley (baritone) BBC SO and Chorus/ Alexander Lazarev
Symphony No 4 (Deliciae basilienses) Bavarian
Radio SO/Charles Dutoit

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Honegger
Unknown:
Denis Quilley
Soprano:
Carol Smith
Soprano:
Susan Kessler
Baritone:
Gerald Finley
Unknown:
Alexander Lazarev

Joachim Overture: Henry IV, Op 7 (first UK broadcast)
London PO/Leon Botstein
9.50 Szymanowski Two Studies from Op 4 Metopes, Op 29
Martin Roscoe (piano)
10.13 Bartok Kossuth Budapest SO Gyorgy Lehel
10.34 Judith Weir A
Serbian Cabaret: Domus
10.51 Foerster
Viola (Suite: From
Shakespeare, Op 76) Prague SO/
Vaclav Smetacek
10.57 Bartok
Rhapsody, Op 1
Peter Donohoe (piano)
11.17 Joachim Overture
Hamlet, Op 4
(first UK broadcast)
London PO/Leon Botstein
11.32 Szymanowski
Four Mazurkas from Op 50 Martin Roscoe (piano)

Suzanne Murphy (sop)
Birgitta Svenden (mezzo) Richard Margison (tenor) John Connell (bass) Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir
Chorusmaster
Ian Tracey.
BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra/
Edward Downes Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Suzanne Murphy
Unknown:
Birgitta Svenden
Tenor:
Richard Margison
Bass:
John Connell
Unknown:
Ian Tracey.

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Opera in five acts by Debussy, to a text by Maurice Maeterlinck, live from the New Theatre, Cardiff.
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera chorus master Gareth Jones conductor Pierre Boulez. (baritone) (mezzo-soprano) (treble) (bass)
Acts I and 2 8.15 Katharine Worth considers Maeterlinck's creation of a new kind of theatre.
8.35 Act 3
9.10 Richard Langham
Smith reflects on the opera and talks about it to Pierre
Boulez.
9.30 Acts 4 and 5

Contributors

Librettist:
Maurice Maeterlinck
Chorus master:
Gareth Jones
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Interval presenter:
Katharine Worth
Interval presenter:
Richard Langham Smith
Pelleas:
Neill Archer (tenor)
Melisande:
Alison Hagley (soprano)
Golaud:
Donald Maxwell
Genevieve:
Penelope Walker
Arkel:
Kenneth Cox (bass)
Yniold:
Samuel Burkey
Shepherd:
Doctor: Peter Massocchi

Francis Wilford Smith looks at the work of five blues pianists
2: Walter Roland
Besides rousing barrel-house stomps, blues pianist Roland, from Alabama, recorded emotional blues about poverty and disaster in the Depression. He also accompanied singers like Lucille Bogan and Josh White.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Wilford Smith
Pianists:
Walter Roland
Unknown:
Lucille Bogan
Unknown:
Josh White.

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