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Britten in America
Little
Sir William Peter Pears (tenor)
The Composer (piano) (Mono)
Canadian Carnival, Op 19 City of Birmingham SO/ Simon Rattle
Purcell, ed Britten The Knotting Song Neil Mackie (tenor) John Blakely (piano)
Britten Violin Concerto
Mark Lubotsky (violin)
English CO/The Composer

A sequence including Lieder by Brahms and Schumann sung by Ruud van der Meer (baritone) with Rudolf Jansen (piano) Brahms Einegute , gute
Nacht; Mein wundes Herz; Dein blaues Auge (Op 59 Nos 6-8)
10.06 Joachim
Overture: Henry IV
London PO/Leon Botstein
10.22 Brahms Es traumte mir; Ach wende diesen Blkk; In meiner Ndchte Sehnen (Op 57 Nos 3-5)
10.30
Brahms Strahlt zuweilen auch; Die Schnur, die Perl an Perk; Unbewegte hue Luft (Op 57 Nos 6-8)
10.38 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: An der schonen, blauen Donau
Vienna PO/Karajan
10.49
Schumann Blondels Lied, Op 53 No 1; Ich wandre nicht, Op 51 No 3; Fruhlingsfahrt, Op 45 No 2; Abends am Strand, Op 45 No 3
11.03 Brahms Piano
Concerto No I in D minor
Clifford Curzon (piano) LSO/George Szell

conductor John Lubbock
Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Glazunov
Summer (The Seasons) Shostakovich
Symphony No 9
Medtner Piano Concerto
No 3 in E minor

First of two programmes including quartets by Milhaud.
Brindisi Quartet
Faure String Quartet in E minor, Op 121 Milhaud
String Quartet No 14

A concert given in June, in the City Hall, Sheffield, by the Williams Fairey
Engineering Band and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band conducted by Peter Parkes and Frank Renton. The programme includes the first concert performance of Cambridge Variations by Philip Sparke , Flight by Philip Wilby and music by Eric Ball , Bliss and Richard Strauss.

In this last of eight programmes, Mike Westbrook talks to
Geoffrey Smith about his arrangements of songs by the Beatles - Off Abbey Road - and a very different project, a saxophone concerto for John Harle , called Bean Rows and Blues Shots.
Series producer Derek Drescher

with Michael Oliver.
Including an interview with the conductor of the London
Symphony Orchestra.
Michael Tilson Thomas.
Producer Ray Abbott

Michael Berkeley presents an evening of recordings from the BBC Archives, extracts from new biographies of Britten and Peter Pears, and, in Night Waves, a discussion on the art of the biographer, in anticipation of the publication next week of Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Britten.

7.35pm English Song
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
The last public recital Pears and Britten gave together, recorded by the BBC at Snape Maltings 20 years ago today during the inaugural Masterclass course of the Britten-Pears School.
Purcell: A Morning Hymn; I attempt from love's sickness to fly; The Knotting Song
Haydn: She never told her love; Sailor's Song
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content; The Trellis

8.10 Richard Pasco reads from Christopher Headington's authorised biography of Peter Pears.

8.15
Britten: Winter Words
Grainger: Bold William Taylor; Six Dukes went a-fishin' arr Britten
The Miller of Dee; The Foggy Foggy Dew; The Plough Boy

9.00 Richard Pasco reads from Humphrey Carpenter's new biography of Benjamin Britten.

9.10pm Britten and the ECO
A concert from the BBC Archives reflecting Britten's long association with the English Chamber Orchestra, ensemble-in-residence at the Aldeburgh Festival during Britten's lifetime, here recorded at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, in 1964.
Peter Pears (tenor)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Purcell, arr Britten: Cliacony in G minor
Mozart: Per pieta, non ricercate (K 420); Symphony No 40 in G minor (K 550)

10.00 Richard Pasco reads from Humphrey Carpenter 's biography of Britten.

10.10
Britten: Nocturne, Op 60

10.45pm Night Waves
Tony Palmer explores the issues surrounding the booming biography industry in conversation with recent practitioners: Humphrey Carpenter (Benjamin Britten); Victoria Glendinning (Trollope); Hugh David (a 'portrait' of Stephen Spender) and Ian Hamilton (J.D. Salinger).
Producer Nigel Acheson

11.30pm Winterreise
Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano)
A performance of Schubert's great song-cycle, recorded for the BBC in March 1962, introduced by Peter Pears.

Evening devised and produced by John Evans

12.55am News

Except in Scotland. As broadcast this morning on R5

English study texts: Lamb (1)