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Village ScenesJosef Strauss Waltz: Swallows from Austria VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKT
Haydn Wood The village that nobody knows (mono) JOHN MCCORMACK (tenor) GERALD MOORE (piano)
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Stephen Foster Village Festival Quadrilles
COLUMBIA SOCIAL ORCHESTRA conducted by GREGG SMITH Gerard Hckking Village oise
PAUL TORTELIER (cello) MARIA DE LA PAU (piano)
Chabrier Suite pastorale SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
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Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4, in G, by BRYCE MORRISON.New opera records reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer ARTHUR johnson
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The last two acts of Massenet's opera Le roi de LahoreSita, a priestess
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano) Scindia, Minister to the King
SHERRILL MILNES (baritone) LONDON VOICES
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE gramophone record
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The first of six children's concerts, direct from the Royal Festival Hall, LondonCristlna Ortiz (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra led by BARRIE MOORE
Introduced and conducted by Christopher Seaman
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Tchaikovsky Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato (Symphony No 4. in F minor)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
Sibelius Valse triste; Alia marcia (Karelia Suite)
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BEDFORD TOWN BANDConductor TERRY HEXT
Philip Sparke Concert Prelude
Henry Geehl Romanza
MICHAEL HEXT (trombone)
Granville Bantock Tone Poem: Prometheus Unbound
Gareth Wood Coliseum followed by an interlude
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Introduced by Nicholas KenyonGrett and Solompne Singing
Andrew Parrott puts forward a radical view of the role of instruments in English cathedral music of the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Musical illustrations from Byrd, John Mundy , Weelkes, Gibbons and Tom-kins.
DAVID THOMAS (bass)
MARGARET PHILLIPS (organ) TAVERNER CHOIR
TAVERNER PLAYERS conductor ANDREW PARROTT
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Ronald Corp introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.Contributors
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A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual artsAnthony Thwalte (in the Chair) talks with Paul Bailey. Peter Porter and Marina Warner.
This week's subjects: John Arden 's Radio 4 dramatisation of Don Quixote ; Lone Stars and Private Wars, by James McLure , at the Bush Theatre; Collected Poems 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell ; the Thomas Gainsborough exhibition at the Tate Gallery; and Stanley Kubrick's new film, The Shining.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
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conducted by EDO deWAART Gounod Petite Symphonie in B flat gramophone recordContributors
: Cosi fan tutte
Comic opera in two acts Music by Mozart Libretto" by LORENZO DA PONTESung in the English translation by THE REV MARMADUKE BROWNE , reVised by JOHN COX
English National Opera Production, direct from the London Coliseum
The notion that all women are fickle is the subject of a wager laid by Don Alfonso. Eager to prove him wrong, Guglielmo and Ferrando pretend to go off to the wars, then return, disguised as Albanians, and each woos the other's girl. Such chauvinistic pranks are clearly not a good idea. as the men are just as hurt by the girls' capitulation as are their victims.
English National Opera Chorus, chorus-master HOWARD WILLIAMS
English National Opera
Orchestra. leader BARRY COLLINS , conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras
HAZEL VIVIENNE (continuo) Act 1
8.30* Lorenzo da Ponte
Although there's between us
An ocean immense
Which takes seeing and touching
Away from our sense, It doesn't talce loving:
It makes it the stronger.
Though tve've no hope of meeting,
So fast is life fleeting, Yet this little greeting
Is the better the longer.
This is part of a doggerel letter to his sisters which the librettist wrote in his later years, translated by Wayland Young , who suggests that the conversion to Christianity required of da Ponte by his father accounts for his roguish behaviour and many of the gifts he brought to his collaboration with Mozart.
8.45* Cosi fan tutte. Act 2
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: The Organ Works of J. S. Bach
played and introduced by Peter HurfordOrgan of All Souls' Unitarian Church, Washington DC
Chorale Preludes from ' The 18 ': Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr ' (BWV 663 and 664); Jesus Chrisder Hoh' sei Ehr' (bwv
665 and 666); Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger
Geist (BWV 667); Vor deinen Thron tret' ich (BWV 668) records followed by an interlude
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