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A weekly programme of recent records
String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5 (Haydn)
Quartetto Italiano
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)
8.21 Songs: The shepherd's song (Elsor)
O that it were so (Bridoc)
Loveliest of trees (Butterworth)
Ludlow Town (Head)
Frederick Harvey (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano)
8.35 Piano Quintet No. 1, in C minor (Berwahld)
Ulrich Denthien (violin)
Rudolf-Maria Muller (violin) Martin Ledig (viola)
Wolfram Hentshel (cello)
Robert Riefling (piano)
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from Guildford Cathedral
Wassail Song (trad., arr. Vaughan
Williams)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
(Vaughan Williams)
Bethlehem Down (Warlock)
Adam lay y-bounden (Warlock)
And all in the morning (trad., arr. Vaughan Williams)
ROBERT HAMMERSLEY (tenor) JOHN BARROW (baritone) GAVIN Williams (organ)
CHOIR OF GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL and STRING ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BARRY ROSE gramophone record
Her Majesty's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
A request programme of gramophone records including Tomasi's
Divertissement Pastoral and Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Schutz's The Christmas Story by Alec Robertson
Musical Profile: Carlo Maria Giulini by Noel Goodwin
Three Books on Opera reviewed by Andrew Porter
Thy Birthday is Come by Mary Rowland
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra
Conducted by Claudio Abbado
Part 1
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Next Sunday's programme: 3.50*
Part 2
Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
An opera in three acts
Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA
Music by Puccini Sung in Italian
In a production by the Royal Opera Company, Covent Garden
Cesare Angeloti , an escaped political prisoner. DAVID KELLY (bass}
A sacristan. Ekic GARRETT (bass)
Soldters, police agents, ladies, nobles, citizens, artisans, etc.
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson
MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR OF UPTON HOUSE SCHOOL
Trained by Lionel Sawkins
MEMBERS OF HAMMERSMITH COUNTY SCHOOL Trained by Jean Povey
COVENT GARDEN OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
The action: Rome around 1800
(Stereo) ACT 1
The Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle
Piano Trio in D minor (H.XV.23) played by MEMBERS OF THE
PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET Kenneth Sillilu (violin) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Second broadcast
ⓢ ACT 2
The Palazzo Farnese
played by ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)
Trois nouvelles etudes, Op. posth.
4.5* Barcarolle in F sharp minor,
Op. 60
4.14* Two Etudes:
C major, Op. 10 No.
F minor, Op. 25 No. 2
4.18* Ballade No. 1, in G minor
Second broadcast
ⓢ ACT 3
The Castel Sant Angelo
Devised and introduced by ROGER FISKE
His victims are
NORMAN DEL MAR
EDWARD GREENFIELD
ERIK SMITH and FRITZ SPIEGL
Bruce Webb (boy treble)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Owen Brannigan (bass)
Heinrich Schutz Choir
Continuo:
Alan Harverson (organ) Nigel Amherst (violone)
English Chamber Orchestra
Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz Conducted by Roger Norrington
Introduced by Peter Pears
(Given before an invited audience in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London)
(Second broadcast
A sequence of poems by various hands chosen and arranged with a commentary by Patric Dickinson
The poems read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Produced by Joe Burroughs
played by Annie Fischer (piano)
Part l
by GF.ORGE MACKAY BROWN
Read by G. R. M. BROOKES
Part 2
From the 1966 Edinburgh International Festival
by George Ewart Evans and David Thomson
A programme of ancient mythology and present-day oral tradition about hares, illustrated by recordings made in Ireland, Scotland, and East Anglia
Narration written and spoken by GEORGE EWART EVANS
Reader, ROBERT MOONEY
Produced by David Thomson
To be repeated on January 14
Ballet: The Firebird
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER e gramophone record
