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Kalinnikov Allegro moderato (Symphony No 1, in G minor): USSR SYMPHONYORCHESTRA, conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
Three English Ballads
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Geoffrey Toye The Haunted Ballroom: LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA. COndUCted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN Hubay Hejre Kati
AARON ROSAND (violin) LUXEMBOURG RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs: Sousa Stars and Stripes: CLEVELAND
SYMPHONIC WINDS, conducted by FREDERICK FENNELL gramophone records
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: Record Review
Edited and introduced by John LadeBuilding a Library: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, by ROBERT PHILIP.
JOHN BORWICK reports from London's ' High Fidelity 80 ' exhibition.
New opera records, reviewed by JOHN STEANE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
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: Release
Act 2 of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with a cast including HILDEGARD BEHRENS as Leonore, PETER HOFMANN as Florestan, HANS SOTIN as ROCCO, THEO ADAM as Don Pizarro , and the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone recordsContributors
: Bandstand
FODENS MOTOR WORKS BAND Conductor DEREK GARSIDEGordon Jacob Overture: Pride of Youth
Henry Geehl Threnody
Gordon Langford Rhap sody for trombone and band (soloist: NORMAN LAW). BBC Manchester
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: Diversions
Far and NearJeremy Siepmann 's selection of records this week includes exotica from Java, India. Latvia, Romania, and the Outer Hebrides. We discover the influence of these musics in composers nearer home, such as Debussy, AlbSniz, Glinka, Bartok, and even Mendelssohn. hot-foot from Fingal's Cave.
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: Early Music Forum
A Vivaldi edition presented by Anthony Bur ton, including a concerto, a religious work, and Nicholas Anderson talking about Vivaldi's style of vocal writingEIDDWEN HARRHY (SOpranO) MONICA HUGGETT , ELIZABETH WILLCOCK (violins)
CELIA HARPER (chamber organ), NIGEL NORTH (lute) BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, leader CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by JANE GLOVER Concerto in G, for two violins, string orchestra and continuo (RV 516)
Psalm 112: Laudate puerl
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: Critics' Forum
Michael Billington (in the Chair), talks with Chris Dunkley , Bryan Robert -son and Clancy Sigal.This week's subjects: Alan Pakula 's film Starting Over; Somerset Maugham by Ted Mor gan; paintings by Al Held at the Annely Juda Gallery, Tottenham Street, London; David Storey 's Early Days at the National Theatre; and Ian McEwan 's BBC1 Play for Today, The Imitation Game. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
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: The Organ Works of J. S. Bach
Introduced and played by Peter HurfordPrelude and Fugue in C major (bwv 547)
Chorale Preludes: Wer nur den lieben Gott Iasst walten (bwv 690-1); Ach Gott und Herr (bwv 693); Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 695)
Seven Fughettas on Chorales (BWV 696-9, 701, 703 and 704) Fugue on the Magnificat (bwv 733)
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: The Poetry of Walter de la Mare
Compiled and presented by Michael FfinchRead by Richard Pasco Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
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: II Re Pastore
Opera in two actsMusic by Mozart. Libretto by PIETRO METASTASIO
(sung in Italian: records)
SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER
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: The Scholar-Critic
An appreciation of the life and work of F. W. Bateson (1901-1978), teacher, critic, editor and polemicist, by Mark Storey. F. W. Bateson 's influence on the study and appreciation of English literature extended far beyond Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he taught from 1946 until 1969.Bateson's combative and irreverent manner, his battles within the Oxford English school and the long-running debate with F. R. Leavis are recalled by former pupils, colleagues and friends, including A. L. ALVAREZ , ALAN BRIEN , JOHN CAREY , VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM , DONALD DAVIE , MARTIN DODSWORTH, GRAHAM MARTIN , CHRISTOPHER RICKS , WALLACE ROBSON, IAN SMALL, STEPHEN WALL.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
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: Piano Ballades
PHILIP MARTINLiszt Ballade No 2. in B minor .
Barber Ballade , Op 46 (first uk broadcast)
Grieg Ballade in G minor, Op 24. BBC Bristol
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: The Waltz
A monologue by DOROTHY PARKER with Beth Porter'Oh, this is even worse than I thought it would be. I suppose that's the one dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.' Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
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: Schubert
String Quartet in A minor (D 804)MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
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