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: Overture
Johann Strauss Overture: Die FledermausBAVARIAN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARLOS KLEIBER
7.12* Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op 19 Nos 1-4 DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
7.22* Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor (mono)
JASCHA HEIFETZ , LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
7.44* Johann Strauss Finale, Act 1 (Die Fledermaus) JULIA VARADY (soprano) RENt KOLLO (tenor)
BENNO KUSCHE (bass)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLOS KLEIBER gramophone records
Contributors
Unknown:
Johann
Strauss
Conducted By:
Carlos
Kleiber
Piano:
Daniel
Barenboim
Unknown:
Jascha
Heifetz
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm
Sargent
Conducted By:
Johann
Strauss
Soprano:
Julia
Varady
Tenor:
Rent
Kollo
Bass:
Benno
Kusche
Conducted By:
Carlos
Kleiber
: News
: Morning Concert
Bach Suite No 2, in B minorMARLBORO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by PABLO CASALS
8.26* Strauss Morgen ; Wirbeide wollen springen: HELEN DONATH (soprano), KLAUS DONATH (piano)
8.30* Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat (K 493)
CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) NORBERT BRAININ (violin) PETER SCHIDLOF (Viola)
MARTIN LOVETT (cello): records
Contributors
Conducted By:
Pablo
Casals
Conducted By:
Strauss
Morgen
Soprano:
Helen
Donath
Soprano:
Klaus
Donath
Piano:
Clifford
Curzon
Violin:
Norbert
Brainin
Cello:
Martin
Lovett
: News
: This Week's Composer Prokofiev
Each of this week's programmes will include one of Prokofiev's five piano concertos and music appropriate to the holiday season.Russian Overture
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GAUK
9.19* Piano Concerto No 1, in D flat: SVIATOSLAV RICHTER MOSCOW YOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN
9.34* Cinderella: Ballet Suite
NEW YORK STADIUM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI : records .
Contributors
Conducted By:
Alexander
Gauk
Conducted By:
Kyril
Kondrashin
Conducted By:
Leopold
Stokowski
: Holiday Special
for young peopleAtarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim with a Christmas box for the youngest listeners.
: Brahmsi A Bruno Walter-Myra Hess Concert
given in Carnegie Hall, New York, in February 1951, by the NEW YORK PHILHARMONICSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
Part 1 Piano Concerto No I, in B flat major with MYRA HESS (piano)
Contributors
Conducted By:
Bruno
Walter
Piano:
Myra
Hess
: * For Now and All Time
'My aim is to produce a translation in literary English which is current today, but to avoid words and turns of phrase which were not equally current in the 17th century. The idea is that you want a kind of timeless English.'In this talk taken from the BBC Sound Archives, Monsignor Ronald Knox airs some problems of translating the Bible.
Contributors
Unknown:
Monsignor Ronald
Knox
: Concentus Musicus of Vienna
director Nikolaus Harnoncourt The London debut concert of this celebrated orchestra of baroque instruments, presented by the English Bach Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 30 April. Part 1Bach Suite No 1, in c major (bwv 1066)
Couperin L'apotheose de Lully
Contributors
Director:
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
: News
: Concentus Musicus of Vienna
Part 2Rameau Suite: Castor et Pollux Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5. in D major (BWV 1050) LEOPOLD STASTNY (flute)
ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin)
HERBERT TACHEZ ! (harpsichord)
(Another Concentus Musicus concert: Friday 10.0 pm)
Contributors
Violin:
Alice
Harnoncourt
Harpsichord:
Herbert
Tachez
: Messiaen
La nativite du Seigneur:La vierge et l'enfant; Les bergers; Desseins éternels; Le verbe; Les enfants de Dieu ; Les anges; Jésus accepte la souffrance; Les mages; Dieu parmi nous: ARNOLD RICHARDSON (organ) BBC Birmingham
Contributors
Unknown:
Enfants
de Dieu
Unknown:
Arnold
Richardson
: II Trovatore
An opera in four actsText by SALVATORE CAMMARONE based on a play by ANTONIO GARCIA GUTIERREZ. Music by Verdi (sung in Italian)
A recording from this year's Salzburg Easter Festival
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Set in Spain at the beginning of the 15th century. Acts 1 and 4.30* Interval Reading
4.40* II Trovatore. Acts 3 and 4 (Austrian Radio recording)
Contributors
Unknown:
Salvatore
Cammarone
Play By:
Antonio Garcia
Gutierrez.
Chorus-Master:
Walter
Hagen-Groll
Conducted By:
Herbert
von Karajan
: Interpretations on Record
Christopher Headington talks about Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit as recorded by Achucarro. Argerich. Ashkenazy, Gieseking,Gulda, Haas. de Larrocha, Perlemuter, and the composer himself.
Contributors
Talks:
Christopher
Headington
: Guillaume de Machaut
(died 1377)Messe de Notre Dame
A liturgical reconstruction in which the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by a known composer is performed in the context of the Procession and Missa Magna of Christmas Day according to the usage of Rheims Cathedral in Machaut's time.
The parts of the Celebrant, Deacon, Subdeacon, and a "Clerk of the highest form" (Prophecy) sung by John Dudley (tenor)
Richard Suart (baritone)
David Thomas and Paul Elliott
Choristers of Westminster Cathedral, trained by Roger Pugh.
Men of the Taverner Choir directed by Andrew Parrott (organ)
Introduced by Cormac Rigby
(Recorded in Westminster Cathedral)
(Stereo)
Contributors
Presenter:
Cormac
Rigby
Tenor:
Paul
Elliott
Tenor:
Andrew
Parrott
Bass:
David
Thomas
Bass:
Richard
Savage
Celebrant:
John Dudley
(tenor)
Deacon:
Richard Suart
(baritone)
Subdeacon:
David Thomas
(bass)
Clerk of the Highest Form:
Paul Elliott
(tenor)
Singers:
Choristers of Westminster
Cathedral
Choir-Master:
Roger
Pugh
Singers:
Men of the Taverner
Choir
Choir Director/Organist:
Andrew
Parrott
Plainchant Transcription/Liturgical Reconstruction:
Nick
Sandon
: Michelangeli plays Gaspard de la nuit
A public recital given on 30 June 1959 by Arturo Benedetti MichelangeliClementi Sonata No 22, in 1 flat major
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit:. Ondine; Le gibet; Scarbo
: Rubbra
Sympony No 7, in c, Op 88LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone record
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian
Boult
: Music Quiz
This year's quiz takes the form of a musical variant of Call My Bluff.Denis Matthews devises the questions while Ronald Crich ton. James Gibb , Philip Hope-Wallace. Bryan Magee. Virginia Pleasants and Colin Wilson find the answers.
Producer ROBERT LAYTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Denis
Matthews
Unknown:
Ronald
Crich
Unknown:
James
Gibb
Unknown:
Colin
Wilson
Producer:
Robert
Layton
: A Victorian Musical Evening
Mr Alan Melville introducesMiss Sandra Dugdale (soprano) Mr William Bennett (flute) and Mr Clifford Benson (piano) in a programme of charming music that might well have been performed in an English parlour in the reign of Queen Victoria. Among the items are affecting melodies by several musical knights - Sir Arthur Sullivan , Sir Charles Stanford , Sir Henry Bishop and Sir William Sterndale Bennett, as well as little-known salon pieces by Monsieur Chopin and Herr Richard Wagner - and not forgetting Mrs Florence A. Marshall.
Contributors
Introduces:
Mr Alan
Melville
Soprano:
Miss Sandra
Dugdale
Flute:
Mr William
Bennett
Piano:
Mr Clifford
Benson
Unknown:
Sir Arthur
Sullivan
Unknown:
Sir Charles
Stanford
Unknown:
Sir Henry
Bishop
Unknown:
Monsieur
Chopin
Unknown:
Herr Richard
Wagner
Unknown:
Mrs Florence A.
Marshall
: Jazz in Britain
Conversation PieceBeck, Clyne. Holdswortb, Stevens. Introduced by CHARLES FOX
Contributors
Introduced By:
Charles
Fox
: News
: Christmas Song
3: 16th CenturyTonight, from the 16th century, Pro Cantione Antiqua , directed by Bruno Turner , sing the traditional question to the watching Shepherds: Pastores, dlclte, quidnam vidistis?, as set by Cristobal de Morales. gramophone record
Contributors
Unknown:
Cantione
Antiqua
Directed By:
Bruno
Turner
Unknown:
Cristobal
de Morales.
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