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Herbert Howells
I love all beauteous things BBC Singers/
Stephen Jackson
Andrew Lucas (organ) Three Figures
Britannia Building Society Band/Howard Snell
The Ladv Caroline ; Three Cherry Trees (A Garland for de la Mare)
Philip Langridge (tenor) Eric Parkin (piano)
The Summer is Coming BBC Singers/Jackson Sonatina
Eric Parkin (piano) Take him Earth for
Cherishing: King's College Choir/Stephen Cleobury

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Singers:
Stephen Jackson
Singers:
Andrew Lucas
Unknown:
Ladv Caroline
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Piano:
Eric Parkin
Piano:
Eric Parkin

Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner) South German
RSO/Gianluigi Gelmetti
10.20 Jonathan Dove
Figures in the Garden
Members of the Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/ The Composer
10.40 Vaughan Williams Flos campi
William Primrose (viola) BBC Chorus
Philharmonia/ Adrian Boult
11.10 J S Bach
Cantata No 60 (0
Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort) Paul Esswood (counter-ten) Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Ruud van der Meer (bass) Tolz Boys Choir; Vienna Concentus Musicus/ Nikolaus Hamoncourt
11.30 Berg Violin Concerto Franz Peter Zimmerman
(violin)
South German RSO/ Gianluigi Gelmetti

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dove
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Flos Campi
Viola:
William Primrose
Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Paul Esswood
Tenor:
Kurt Equiluz
Bass:
Ruud van Der Meer
Musicus:
Nikolaus Hamoncourt
Violin:
Franz Peter Zimmerman
Unknown:
Gianluigi Gelmetti

Stephen Johnson introduces a concert from the 1965 Aldeburgh Festival. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone); Alberni Quartet Benjamin Britten (piano) Purcell
When night her purple veil Bridge Tno Rhapsody Shostakovich
String Quartet No 8
2.55 Gerald Moore , recorded in 1964, talks about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .
3.10 Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Producer Philip Tagney

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Aldeburgh Festival.
Piano:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Unknown:
William Blake
Producer:
Philip Tagney

Philip Glass's new opera in a recording from the world premiere given last Monday at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Commissioned for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World, the work celebrates man's enduring spirit of discovery and exploration in a combination of historical and imaginary events, and people from the past and future.
Metropolitan Opera
Chorus and Orchestra conductor Bruce Ferden
(Given in association with the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network) 0 MUSIC AND ARTS: page 14

Contributors

Conductor:
Bruce Ferden
Isabella:
Tatiana Troyanos(mezzo)
Columbus:
Timothy Noble(bar)
Scientist/First mate:
Douglas Perry(tenor)
Space Ship Commander:
Patricia Schuman(sop)
Ship's Doctor/First Space Twin:
Kaaren Erickson(sop)
Second Mate! Second Space Twin:
Julien Robbins(bass)
First Earth Twin:
Jane Shaulis(mezzo)
Second Earth Twin:
Jan Opalach(bass)

The first of four programmes in which Heinrich Biber 's
Mystery Sonatas are set in a devotional context by Fr Cormac Rigby.
The Joyful Mysteries
Micaela Comberti (violin)
Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Jennifer Ward-Clarke (cello) David Ponsford (organ/ harpsichord); Kathryn Hurlbutt (reader)

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Biber
Unknown:
Fr Cormac Rigby.
Violin:
Micaela Comberti
Violin:
Paula Chateauneuf
Cello:
Jennifer Ward-Clarke
Cello:
David Ponsford
Harpsichord:
Kathryn Hurlbutt

A Portrait of Herbert Howells
In the summer of 1935, the sudden death of Herbert Howells ' nine-year-old son left the composer, in his own words, "frozen".
Working on his choral masterpiece
Hymnus Paradisi was to prove one of the keys to his recovery. Andrew Green reassesses his music with contributors including the composer's daughter and his biographer Christopher Palmer.
Producer Michael Emery

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Unknown:
Hymnus Paradisi
Unknown:
Andrew Green
Unknown:
Christopher Palmer.
Producer:
Michael Emery

Philip Tagney presents Music from Unheard-of Places by the French-
Canadian electro-acoustic composer
Robert Normandeau and by Pierre Boulez , including a 1985 concert recording of Boulez's Le marteau sans maitre, with Elizabeth Laurence (mezzo) and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by the composer. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Tagney
Unknown:
Robert Normandeau
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Elizabeth Laurence
Producer:
Alan Hall

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