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A programme of recent records
Trio Sonata No. 8, in G major (Purcell)
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Alberto Lysy (violin)
Roy Jesson (harpsichord) Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)
8.11 Dichterliebe (Schumann)
Pete Pears (tenor) and Benjamin Britten (piano)
8.41 Octet in E flat major, for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons (Beethoven)
London Wind Soloists
Directed by Jack Brymer
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BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Led by Granville Casey
Conducted by GRAHAM TREACHER
A request programme of records
Cantata: Die Mauerfreude (K.471)
(Mozart)
RUDOLF CHRIST (tenor) with the VIENNA CHAMBER Choir and the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by BERNHARD BAUMGARTNER
9.54* Viola Concerto in G major
(Telemann)
ULRICH KOCH with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS
Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
10.21* Oratorio: In terra pax
(Martin)
URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) MARGA HÖFFGEN (contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) PIERRE MOLLET (baritone) JAKOB TAMPFLI (bass)
THE UNION CHORALE and LAUSANNE WOMEN'S CHOIR and the SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Record Review
Contributed by JOAN CHISSELL TREVOR HARVEY , WILLIAM MANN
Words and music by Wagner
Act 2
Sung in Gorman on gramophone records
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER
The scene is the garden of King Mark's castle at night
At Melot's suggestion. King Mark has gone on a hunting-party: during his absence, Isolde arranges to meet Tristan In the garden at night. despite the forebodings of Bran. g&ne, who suspects Melot of treachery. At the height of the lovers' passion. Melot leads in King Mark; although bitterly grieved. the King will not revenge himself, but Melot draws his sword. Tristan takes the blow without defending himself. and collapses. wounded.
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
DEKANY STRING QUARTET Bela Dekany (violin) Lajos Balogh (violin) Ervin Schiffer (viola) Gyorgy Schiffer (cello)
Margaret Price and James Lockhart broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Peter Pears (tenor)
Carl Pini (violin)
Philomusica of London
Leader, Carl Pini
Conducted by George Malcolm and Witold Lutoslawski
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Part 1
tPETER PEARS
GEORGE MALCOLM
CARL PINI and the COUNTESS OF HAREWOOD talk, successively, to
HANS KELLER who introduces this magazine programme
Part 2
played by JOHN BECKETT (harpsichord)
D major (L.14) D minor (L.266)
C major (L. Sup. 3) E minor (L.321) E major (L.466)
EILUNED DAVIES (piano) NEW Music ENSEMBLE
Colin Chambers (flute) Janet Craxton (oboe)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Douglas Moore (horn)
Bram Wiggins (trumpet)
Alfred Flaszynski (trombone) Paul Collins (violin)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) John Steer (double-bass)
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE
Three talks by NEVILLE MORAY
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sheffield
3: The Coming of Language
Although many insects and animals communicate with each other in simple ways. it is human language that makes man Quite unique. Dr. Moray outlines how this transition came about in man's evolution.
Second broadcast
sung by † ALAN JONES (baritone)
ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
Though you are young When to her lute
It fell on a summer's day The cypress curtain Follow your saint
Fair, if you expect admiring Author of light
Come, you pretty false-eyed wanton
Shall I come, sweet love
There is a garden in her face
A biographical impression of August Strindberg 1849-1912 withHugh Burden
Script by MARIANNE HELWEG Narrator. PAUL MARTIN with Anna Burden
Noel Johnson , Keith Pyott
Sheila Raynor , Lydia Sherwood Daphne Rogers and Anthony Woodruffe
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Second broadcast
with the London Symphony Orchestra Led by Andrew McGee
Conducted by Colin Davis
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
f by JOHN SHEARMAN
A talk relating to the current series of programmes on Palestrina
Dr. Shearman, Lecturer in the History of Art in the Courtauld Institute, London, considers the extent to which the artistic effects of the Council of Trent were due on the one hand to religious considerations and on the other to aesthetic and humanistic ones.
Part 2
by Arnold Hinchliffe with John Dearth and Eva Stuart
A moral tale, with some music, of a Victorian confidence trickster, and the fate that befalls him.
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Anthony Hall
Music composed and arranged by A. L. LLOYD
Concertina, ALF EDWARDS
Produced by R. D, SMITH
Second broadcast