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With Penny Gore.
Janacek String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)
New Helsinki Quartet
7.05 Cimarosa Chi per Peta Mi Dice; Deh, Parlate (II Sacrificio d'Abramo) Amanda Roocroft (soprano),
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
7.32 Pugnani Overture No 2 in F Academia Montis Regalis, director Luigi Mangiacavallo
8.05 Sallinen Songs from the Sea Tapiola Choir, conductor Erkki Pohjola
8.16 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm
Sea and a Prosperous Voyage London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.48 Saint-Saens Africa
Gwendolyn Mok (piano), London Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon

Contributors

Soprano:
Amanda Roocroft
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductor:
Erkki Pohjola
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
Saint-Saens Africa
Piano:
Gwendolyn Mok
Conductor:
Geoffrey Simon

With Peter Hobday.
Boyce Symphony in D, Op 2 No 5 Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.08 Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor, K310 Dinu Lipatti
9.24 Spohr Nonet in F, Op 31 Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Dinu Lipatti

With Piers Burton-Page .
Palestrina Missa Aeterna Christ!
Munera
Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly
10.21 Pfitzner Symphony No 2 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
10.39 Artist of the Week:
Leon Goossens (oboe)
Schumann Three Romances, Op 94 Gerald Moore (piano)
10.50 Phyllis Tate Choral Scenes from "The Bacchae" of Euripides BBC Singers, conductor Jeremy Backhouse
11.08 Leclair Premiere Recréation, Op 6 (mvts 4-6)
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
11.16 Nielsen Overture: Helios
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
11.27 Warlock The Curlew
Rene Soames (tenor), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Aeolian Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Burton-Page
Conductor:
Jeremy Summerly
Conductor:
Werner Andreas Albert
Oboe:
Leon Goossens
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Phyllis Tate
Conductor:
Jeremy Backhouse
Unknown:
Collegium Musicum
Director:
Simon Standage
Tenor:
Rene Soames
Tenor:
Geoffrey Gilbert

Presented by Susan Sharpe , with readings by David Holt. Dvorak discovers the New York way of life and the music of native America, sung to him by the student Harry T Burleigh.
Spiritual: Go Down Moses Harry T Burieigh (baritone)
Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Discs
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Susan Sharpe
Unknown:
David Holt.
Unknown:
Harry T Burleigh.
Unknown:
Moses Harry

lain Burnside introduces the first of seven recitals given at London's
Wigmore Hall. This recital was given last year by Nathan Berg (baritone) and Julius Drake (piano).
Schumann Lied eines Schmiedes; Meine Rose : Die Sennin; Requiem (Seven Songs, Op 90)
Schoeck Waldeinsamkeit ;
Kurze Fahrt (Eichendorff Lieder, Op 30); Im Wandern; Nachklang; Auf dem Rhein Schumann Dichterliebe
Producer Adam Gatehouse

Contributors

Baritone:
Nathan Berg
Baritone:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Meine Rose
Unknown:
Schoeck Waldeinsamkeit
Unknown:
Kurze Fahrt
Producer:
Adam Gatehouse

With Susan Sharpe , including
Bernstein Gloria ; Meditation No 2
(Mass) Lee Hooper (soprano), Alan Titus (bass/celebrant), Norman Scribner Choir ,
Berkshire Boys' Choir, orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Hanson Symphony No 2 (Romantic) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerard Schwarz
Ellington Three Dances (Black, Brown and Beige)
Duke Ellington and his orchestra Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe
Unknown:
Bernstein Gloria
Soprano:
Lee Hooper
Bass:
Alan Titus
Unknown:
Norman Scribner Choir
Conductor:
Gerard Schwarz

From Winchester Cathedral.
Introit: Abendlied (Rheinberger)
Responses (Lloyd) Psalms 22 and 23 (Camidge, Walford Davies )
First Lesson: Wisdom 8, v21 - 9, end
Office hymn: Beyond All Mortal Praise (Harewood)
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: James 3
Anthem: Lass Dich Nur Nichts Nicht
Dauren (Brahms)
Hymn: How Shall I Sing That Majesty? (Coe Fen)
Organ voluntary: Fugue No 6 on BACH (Schumann)
Organist and master of the music
David Hill. Sub-organist Stephen Farr. Repeated tomorrow lam

Contributors

Unknown:
Walford Davies
Music:
David Hill.
Unknown:
Stephen Farr.

Music for Spaces
Sonic Landscapes. An opportunity to hear an experiment by Alvin Lucier , who explains how he created a piece of music out of an empty room. American La Monte Young was encouraged by Yoko Ono to begin performing in a New York loft space, and this programme contains the first broadcast of his Dreamhouse.
Brian Eno 's sound installation Music for
White Cube and Peter Lawrence 's beatless ambient club The Big Chill are part of a growing interest in ambient environments.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alvin Lucier
Unknown:
Yoko Ono
Unknown:
Brian Eno
Unknown:
Peter Lawrence

With Jeremy Nicholas , including
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 in C
ECO, conductor William Boughton
5.35 Moore When He Who Adores
Thee
Margaret Burke-Sheridan (soprano)
5.52 Tchaikovsky, arr Pabst
Paraphrase on "Sleeping Beauty" Oleg Marshev (piano) Producer Ray Abbott

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Conductor:
William Boughton
Soprano:
Margaret Burke-Sheridan
Piano:
Oleg Marshev
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Seven programmes of dance band recordings from Europe and America from 1920 to 1945. 2: Mickey Maus at the Hotel Adlon. From Berlin, Dajos Bela and his orchestra with vocalists
Richard Tauber and Leo Monosson , and the Four Admirals in a song in praise of Mickey Maus , plus German versions of Irving Berlin songs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mickey Maus
Unknown:
Dajos Bela
Unknown:
Richard Tauber
Unknown:
Leo Monosson
Unknown:
Mickey Maus

Patrick Wright reviews Bryan Magee 's Confessions of a Philosopher, an autobiographical account of a lifetime in philosophy. Plus a report from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , where poet James Fenton is collaborating with composer Dominic Muldowney. Producer Lore Windemuth
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright
Unknown:
Bryan Magee
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
James Fenton
Unknown:
Dominic Muldowney.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Stuttgart Radio Symphony
Orchestra/Heinz Holliger, Hansheinz Schneeberger (violin),
Sylvia Greenberg (soprano) Holliger Two Liszt Transcriptions Berg Violin
Concerto Mahler Symphony No 4 in G
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 Music for Dance 4.15 Listen and Write 4.40
Le Club 4.55 Come and Praise Special
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Violin:
Hansheinz Schneeberger
Violin:
Sylvia Greenberg

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