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Concerto Grosso No. 10. in G minor
(Oboe Concerto No. 2) (Handel)
Roger Lord with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Directed by Neville Marriner
8.15 Motet: Spem in alium (Tallis)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge and the Cambridge Univerity Musical Society
Directed by David Willcock with John Langdon (organ)
8.27 Variations on an original theme (Enigma) (Elgar)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Colin Davis
Contributors
Oboist:
Roger
Lord
Musicians:
Academy of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields
Conductor:
Neville
Marriner
Singers:
Choir of King's College,
Cambridge
Musicians:
Cambridge University Musical
Society
Conductor:
David
Willcock
Organist:
John
Langdon
Musicians:
London Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader. Philip Whiteway
Conducted by MANSEL THOMAS
Overture: L'isola disabitata
9.14* Symphony No. 103. in Z flamajor (Drum Roll)
Contributors
Leader:
Philip
Whiteway
Conducted By:
Mansel
Thomas
A requesprogramme of gramophone records
Suite No. 3 in D major (Bach)
BATH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Directed by YEHUDI MENUHIN
10.6* Birthday Ode: Come ye sons of ar(Purcell)
MARGARET RITCHIE (soprano) ALFRED DELLER and JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenors)
BRUCE BOYCE (baritone)
THE ST. ANTHONY SINGERS and the OISEAU-LYRE ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLE Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
10.34* Concerto for double string orchestra (Tippett)
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and the BATH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by RUDOLF BARSHAI
Contributors
Directed By:
Yehudi
Menuhin
Soprano:
Margaret
Ritchie
Soprano:
Alfred
Deller
Soprano:
John
Whitworth
Baritone:
Bruce
Boyce
Conducted By:
Anthony
Lewis
Conducted By:
Rudolf
Barshai
edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Mozart's Violin and Piano Sonatas by GEOFFREY BUSH
Bruckner's Wagner Symphony ' by WILLIAM MANN
Maud Karpeles : an eightieth birthday tribute by FRANK HOWES
Verdi's Music, Life, and Times: book review by MARTIN COOPER
Contributors
Edited By:
Anna
Instone
Introduced By:
Julian
Herbage
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Bush
Unknown:
William
Mann
Unknown:
Maud
Karpeles
Unknown:
Frank
Howes
Review By:
Martin
Cooper
Excerpts from the opera by Handel
Words by ANTONIO SALVI
Sung in Italian on gramophone records
Bertarido, King of the LombardsMAUREENFORRESTER (contralto)
VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Bertarido is believed dead. vanquished In battle by Grlmoaldo.
He forces Rodelinda to agree to her son. The faithful Unulfo brings Bertarido to Rodeltnda in secret. gether and imprisons Bertarido.
However, with Unulfo's help, he
Grimoaldo being killed by the treacherous Garibaldo. Grimoaldo pardoned and Bertarido and Rode-
Unda happily reunited.
Contributors
Unknown:
Antonio
Salvi
Conducted By:
Brian
Priestman
Buckaroo Holiday; Saturday night Waltz; Hoe-down (Ballet Suite: Rodeo) (Copland)
Cleveland Pops Orchestra, conducted by Louis Lane
1.12* Variations on America (Charles Ives, orch. William Schuman)
Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Robert Whitney
1.20* Symphony No. 3 (Charles Ives)
Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Howard Hanson
1.42* An American In Paris (Gershwin)
Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler
on gramophone records
Contributors
Conducted By:
Louis
Lane
Conducted By:
Howard
Hanson
Conducted By:
Arthur
Fiedler
accompanied by DALTON BALDWIN sings
Lully
Belle Hermione (Cadmus e Hermione)
Vous etes le charme (Rafrina)
2.8* Gounod
Chanson de printemps Absence
Viens! les gazons sonverts Les deux pigeons
1.21*Ravel
Deux melodies hébralques:
L'énigme eternel; Kaddiscb
8.29* Schumann
Llederkreis, Op 39
Waldesgesprach: Die Sttlle: Mondpacht; Schöne Fremde; Auf einer Burg: In der Fremde; Wehmuth: Zwielicht; Im Walde; Frülings-
Recording of concert sponsored by Royal Manchester College of Music and the Hallé Club in the Renold Theatre, Manchester College of Science and Technology. University of Manchester, on October 20
Contributors
Accompanied By:
Dalton
Baldwin
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Gary Bertini
Par1
Contributors
Leader:
Hugh
Maguire
Conducted By:
Gary
Bertini
Part 2
Symphony No. 4, In D minor Schumann
Given before an invited audience In BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of curreninteres
Repeated on Tuesday a4.54*
† In conversation with BERNARD KEEFFE recalls some of the mosimportanevents in his musical career. He talks abouhis studenyears aLeipzig, the formation of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and his work as a conductor since leaving the BBC
Opera in three acts
Music by Monteverdi
Libretto by GIACOMO BADOARO Sung in Italian on gramophone records
Characters in order of singing:
DIEMUSPELZ (harp) MARTIN GALLING and RUDOLF EWERHAR (harpsichord) WALTER GERWIG
(regal, lute, chitarrone)
DOUGLAS HAAS (organo dllegno) HEINRICH HAFERLAND (cello) JOHANNES KOCH and HEINRICH HAFERLAND (viola da gamba)
JOHANNES KOCH (violone)
SANTINI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF EWERBAR
AC1
Sc. 1: The Royal palace
Sc. 2: The sea shore
Sc. 3: The fountain of Arethusa
Contributors
Unknown:
Giacomo
Badoaro
Harp:
Martin
Galling
Harpsichord:
Rudolf
Ewerhar
Harpsichord:
Walter
Gerwig
Unknown:
Douglas
Haas
Cello:
Heinrich
Haferland
Cello:
Johannes
Koch
Viola:
Heinrich
Haferland
Unknown:
Johannes
Koch
Conducted By:
Rudolf
Ewerbar
† by APRIL
FITZLYON Ivan Turgenev 's play A Month in the Country-published in 1855-is largely autobiographical in thaIportrays the equivocal position he held in the household of Pauline Viardot , the famous opera singer and her husband. In 1856, while staying atheir country house in the Brie region of France, he was visited by his compatrioand fellow writer Fet. APRIL FITzLYON gives an accounof thameeting.
Contributors
Unknown:
Fitzlyon Ivan
Turgenev
Unknown:
Pauline
Viardot
AC
Sc. 1: In the countryside
Sc. 2: The Royal palace
Sc. 3: The countryside
Translated by BRIAN FENTON from twelfth-century Irish poem with Produced by DOROTHY BAXER
Contributors
Translated By:
Brian
Fenton
Produced By:
Dorothy
Baxer
Oisin:
William
Devlin
St Patrick:
Denys
Hawthorne
AC3
Sc. 1: The Royal palace
Sc. 2: The shore
A series of six conversations between RAYMOND ARON Professor of Sociology athe Sorbonne and FRANCOIS DUCHtNE formerly Paris Correspondenof The Economis
2: The French Economic Miracle
Contributors
Unknown:
Raymond
Aron
Unknown:
Francois
Duchtne
A comedy of 1695 by William Congreve
Adapted by RAYMOND RAIKES with Alec Clunes , Maxine Audley Miles Malleson
Pauline Jameson
Michael Aldridge , Clive Revill Norman Shelley
Elizabeth Morgan Denis Quilley
Music by STEPHEN DODGSON based on the original songs for the play by John Eccles and Godfrey Finger Characters in order of speaking: with PATRICIA CLARK (soprano) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) and a section of the NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALEXANDER FARIS
Scene: In London. April 1695
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Clive Revill broadcasts by permission of the Royal Shakespeare Company
DURING THZ INTERVAL (10.5-10.15): A record of music by Jeremiah Clarke played by the OISEAU-LYRE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE, conducted by PIERRE COLOMBO
Contributors
Unknown:
William
Congreve
Adapted By:
Raymond
Raikes
Unknown:
Alec
Clunes
Unknown:
Maxine
Audley
Unknown:
Miles
Malleson
Unknown:
Pauline
Jameson
Unknown:
Michael
Aldridge
Unknown:
Clive
Revill
Unknown:
Norman
Shelley
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Morgan
Unknown:
Denis
Quilley
Music By:
Stephen
Dodgson
Play By:
John
Eccles
Soprano:
Patricia
Clark
Tenor:
Ian
Partridge
Conducted By:
Alexander
Faris
Produced By:
Raymond
Raikes
Produced By:
Clive
Revill
Music By:
Jeremiah
Clarke
Conducted By:
Pierre
Colombo
VALENTINE LEGEND, fallen under his pensive way of living, in love with Angelica:
Alec
Clunes
JEREMY FETCH his servan:
Geoffrey
Matthews
SCANDAL, Valentine's friend a free speaker:
Clive
Revill
TRAPLAND a scrivener:
Malcolm
Terris
SNAP, an officer:
Fraser
Kerr
JACK TATTLE, a hair-witted beau, vain of his amours, yevaluing himself for his:
Michael
Aldridge
MRS. FRAIL, sister to Mrs. Fore sight a woman of the town:
Elizabeth
Morgan
FORESIGHT, an illiterate old fellow. peevish and positive, superstitious and pretending to under stand astrology, palmistry physiognomy omens, dreams etc , uncle to Angelica:
Miles
Malleson
SERVANto Foresight:
Fraseb
Kerr
NURSE to Miss Prue:
Vivienne
Chatterton
ANGELICA, niece to Foresight, of a considerable fortune in her own hands:
Maxine
Audley
SIR SAMPSON LEGEND, father to Valentine and Ben:
Norman
Shelley
MRS FORESIGHT, second wife to Foresight:
Pauline
Jameson
MISS PRUE, daughter to Foresigh by a former wife, a silly, awk ward country girl:
Sheila
Gran
BEN LEGEND, Sir Sampson's youn ger son, half home-bred, and half sea-bred, designed to marry Miss Prue:
Denis
Quiley
BRIEF BUCKRAM a lawyer:
Howieson
Culff
JENNY, maid to Angelica:
Valerie
Kirkbrigb