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Sacred Songs
ENGLISH CONSORT OF VOICES
Ann Dowdall (soprano) Roland Tatnell (alto) Gerald English (tenor) Duncan Robertson (tenor) Kenneth Tudor (bass)
Philip Ledger (chamber organ continuo) Joy Hall (cello continuo)
Ah, few, and full of sorrow
Lord, not to us
9.11* Lord, what is man, lost man We sing to him. whose wisdom How have I strayed
9.22* Hosanna to the highest
Plunged in the confines of despair
Second in a series of six programmes
A request programme of records
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage The Twenty-third Cheltenham Festival: a report by NOËL GOODWIN
Prokofiev's ' The Duenna ' by ANDREW PORTER
Milhaud and the Gallic Muse: book review by MARTIN COOPER
gramophone records
A comic opera in one act
Libretto by CHARLES ALEXANDRE SEWRIN
Based on The Silent Woman of Ben Jonson
Italian translation by Giulio Conialonieri
Music by Cherubini
First broadcast in this country in a shortened version
Cast in order of singing:
Servants, townsfolk, etc.
CHORUS OF THE ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI ASSOCIATION OF NAPLES
Chorus-Master, Gennaro D'Onofrto
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO, NAPLES
Conducted by FRANCO CARACCIOLO
Recording from the Autunno Musicale of Naples, 1966, made available by courtesy of the Italian Radio.
Sonata in G major, for violin and piano
DAVID OlSTRAKH FRrrz BAUER
2.53* Chansons madécasses
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE Richard Adeney (flute) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
C gramophone records
and the English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
0 Part 1:
Beethoven Fantasia in C minor, for piano, chorus, and orchestra
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Beethoven
Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 gramophone record
and the English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
ⓢ Part 2
GWENYTH ANNEAR (soprano) YVONNE MINTON (contralto) JOHN WAKEFIELD (tenor) STAFFORD DEAN (bass) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
Yvonne Minton broadcasts by permission of Ihe General Administrator. Royal Opera House. Covent Garden; John Wakefield and Stafford Dean by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
The first in a series of six concerts in which Daniel Barenboim conducts the English Chamber Orchestra
played by the TEL Aviv STRING QUARTET
Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benyamini (viola) Uzi Wiesel (cello)
Patricia England reads the short story by Muriel Spark
Second broadcast
played by SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano) followed by an interlude at 7.10
The final readings including
BELLA AKMADULINA
YEHUDA AMICHAI
INGEBORG BACHMANN
YVES BONNEFOY
ALLEN GINSBERG
ROBERT GRAVES
LAURIE LEE and HUGH MACDIARMID reading their own poems Introduced by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London
A programme of recordings made at the International Poetry Festival: July 22
WÜRTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Leader, Wilhelm Melcher
Conducted by JÖRG FAERBER
by Mirok Li
The story of a Korean Childhood
Translated and adapted for radio by HANNS HAMMELMANN
Others taking part: Nigel Anthony
Preston Lockwood Denis McCarthy Michael McClain
Humphrey Morton Jonathan Scott and Henry Stamper
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Third broadcast
Ten of his songs about love
Der Konig in Thule
Liebesbotschaft;
Heimliches Lieben
Das Madchen; Am Meer
Lied der Anne Lyle; Delphine tiber Wildemann; Im Fruhling Der Doppelganger
Margaret Neville (soprano) Paul Hamburger (piano)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Martin Isepp (piano)
(Second broadcast of the baritone songs)
(Margaret Neville broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
followed by an interlude at 10.50
