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Sacred Songs
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART
(harpsichord continuo)
JOY Hall (cello continuo)
The Blessed Virgin's expostulation
With sick and famish'd eyes
Sleep, Adam, sleep and take thy rest
Morning Hymn: Thou wakeful shepherd
Evening Hymn: Now that the sun hath veil'd his light
Fourth in a series of six programmes
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
A request programme of gramophone records
0 played by PETER FRANKL
Ballade in A flat major
Four Mazurkas, Op. 6 Two Nocturnes, Op. 55 Tarantella
11.22* Sonata in B flat minor
Second in a weekly series
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER with ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
gramophone records
Sonatas for violin and piano
MAX ROSTAL
FRANZ OSBORN
A minor, Op. 23
1.51* A major, Op. 47 (Kreutzer) gramophone records
0 Comic opera in one act
Music by Stravinsky
Libretto by BORIS KOCHNO , after Pushkin
Sung in the English translation by Robert Burness gramophone record
Cast in order of singing:
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
and the English Chamber Orchestra
Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto)
BBC MEN'S CHORUS
Part 1
Beethoven
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) gramophone records
and the English Chamber Orchestra
Part 2
Second in a series of six concerts in which Daniel Barenboim conducts .the English Chamber Orchestra Next concert: August 13 followed by an interlude
Dramma in musica
Libretto by GIOVANNI FAUSTINI
Music by Francesco Cavalli realised by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Sung in Italian .
First broadcast
From the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Cast in order o/ singing:
Continuo:
Jonathan Hinden and Roy Jesson (harpsichords) Courtney Kenny (organ) Elisabeth Fletcher (harp)
Robert Spencer , Desmond Dupr é and Ian Harwood
(lutes and chitarrones) Freddie Phillips (guitar) Terence Weil , Joy Hall and Christopher Irby (cellos)
William Webster and David James (double-basses)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Raymond Leppard
Produced by GUNTHER RENNERT Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
ACT 1
An enquiry
The Plowden Report on English Primary education recommended that the standard of primary schools in deprived areas should be raised to above the national average.
STUART MACLURE
Editor of Education enquired into the relationship between poor home backgrounds and low educational achievement and discusses the principle of 'positive discrimination '
Produced by Keith Hindell
Second broadcast
(guitar) gramophone record
After forty years of continuous existence the Ballet Rambert reappears as a company of soloists trained in contemporary as well as classical styles.
DAME MARIE RAMBERT and NORMAN MORRICE her associate director see this re-formed company as an instrument for creative exploration. At its inception last summer they discussed their organisation and aims With CARL WILDMAN
Ballet Rambert has now returned to the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre with an expanded repertoire.
Extended version of the broadcast of December 10, 1966
ACT 2
A reflection for radio by Frederick Bradnum
Music specially composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE with THE SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by THE COMPOSER
In this dramatic poem. the author describes a period of self-chosen exile. Through the progress of the seasons his own emotions and personality change and develop.
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
To be repeated on September 3
A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT talks about the Fourth Symphony of Sibelius as recorded by ANSERMET, BEECHAM, COLLINS, KARAJAN, and ORMANDY
Second broadcast
played by CLARA BONALDI (violin)
SYLVAINE BILLIER (piano)
Second broadcast
