KNOWN UK BBC QUADRAPHONIC & MATRIX H/HJ FORMAT MUSICAL & THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE RADIO BROADCASTS INDEX

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1974 - 2015

(Updated 09/15/15)

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07/05/74

Get Ready For Quad - Raymond Raikes talks about the upcoming quadraphonic experimental broadcast

BBC R3

Stereo?

07/05/74

City Of Birmingham Choir - Mendelssohn  Symphony No 2, in B flat (Hymn of Praise) BBC in Quad: R2 and 3 And Rachmaninov Choral Symphony: The Bells

BBC  R2&3

Quad

Broadcast over 2 stereo channels

07/05/74

BBC In Quad - Our first-ever Experimental Broadcast in Quadraphony. Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury Technical direction Bob Harrison, Producer Raymond Raikes-  Quad's 'surround sound'

BBC  R2&3

Quad

Broadcast over 2 stereo channels

08/05/76

Direct from Westminster Cathedral Mavis Beattie, Eleanor Cap, Susan Dennis, Eiddwen Harrhy (sopranos), Meriel Dickinson, Linda Hirst (mezzo-sopranos), JeanTemperley, Doreen Walker (contraltos) Roger Covey-Crump, Pail Elliot, Peter Hall, Ian Thompson (tenors)
Stephen Roberts , Antony Ransome, Stephen Varcoe (baritones) William Mason (bass) Organ continuo: Celia Harper, Roger Pugh Shultz Choir Of London, London Baroque Ensemble Symphoniae Sacrae conductor Roger Norrington anon Salzburg Festival Mass. for eight choirs and orchestras interspersed with Monteverdi Adoramus te, G. Gabrieli Canzon quart! toni Monteverdi Christeadoramuste G. Gabrieli Sonata XIII Monteverdi Deus tuorum militurn anon Salzburg Plaudite

Proms76- BBC R3

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Unannounced Matrix H test broadcast

08/30/76

Bruno-Leonardo Gelber (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, leader John Brown, conducted by Sir Charles Groves direct from the Royal Albert Hall Part 1 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, In E flat major (Emperor)

Proms76- BBC R3

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Unannounced Matrix H test broadcast

08/30/76

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 10, in E minor

Proms76- BBC R3

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Unannounced Matrix H test broadcast

10/16/76

Lone Star

The Paris Theater, London (09/23/76) - Introduced by Pete Drummond, Produced by Jeff Griffin

In Concert  - BBC R1

H?

10/??/76

Be-Bop Deluxe

Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (10/02/76)

In Concert  - BBC R1

H?

Same as BBC In Concert show #133 issued on LP, but mixed in SQ

04/30/77

Orazio Benevoli Music For Four Choirs, Schutz Choir Of London, conductor Roger Norrington

BBC R3

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1st announced BBC program broadcast in Matrix H

04/30/77

The Jack Bruce Band

The Paris Theater, London - Introduced by Pete Drummond, Produced by Jeff Griffin (04/14/77)

In Concert  - BBC R2

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Same as BBC In Concert show #150 issued on LP, but mixed in SQ

05/01/77

The Pilgrim's Progress -  with John Gielgud,

A new production in quadraphonic sound with John Gielgud as Christian. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come: Delivered under the similitude of a Dream, wherein is discovered the Manner of his Setting Out, his Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. Adapted by Edward Sackville-West from the stage version by W. Nugent Monck. Music specially composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1943 radio production.
Technical supervision by Adrian Revill of the BBC Transcription Services Recording Unit

BBC R3

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05/01/77

Lennie Hastings and his Band and Bonus - At The Nelson - Producers Lawrie Monk and Keith Stewart

Sounds Of Jazz - BBC R2

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05/02/77

The Tempest - with Paul Scofield, Produced and directed by Ian Cottrell, David Cain & Adrian Revill

BBC R4

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05/03/77

BBC Radio Orchestra - guests Geoff Love and Vince Hill, Introduced By Don Moss & Producer John Bussell

BBC R2

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05/04/77

BBC Symphonic Orchestra Royal Festival Hall, London, conducted by Charles Mackerras Part 1 Mozart Symphony No 38, in D (Prague) (K 504) & Concert Aria: Voi avete un cor fedele (k 217)

BBC R3

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05/04/77

Concert - Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 4

BBC R3

Quad/

H?

05/05/77

London Philharmonic Orchestra leader David Nolan conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini Beethoven Violin Concerto

Live From The Royal Festival Hall  - BBC R3

H

05/05/77

Bobok by Dostoevsky, performed by Boris Isarov, Violin Itzhak Perlman, Produced and directed Ian Cotterell

BBC R3

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05/05/77

Concert - Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 2, in c minor

BBC R3

Quad/

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05/10/77

New Philharmonia Brass Enseamble, Justin Connolly - Cinquepaces, Edward Shipley - The Rite of Lucifuge

Music In Our Time - BBC R3

Quad/

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05/25/77

The Band of the Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst) conductor Captain Brian Smith, Producer John Bussell

Listen To The Band -  BBC R2

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05/28/77

Shakti with John McLaughlin

Golders Green Hippodrome, London

In Concert - BBC R2

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Same as BBC In Concert show #153 issued on LP, but mixed in stereo

05/31/77

Pt 1, conducted by Andrew Davis, Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss), Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

Boston Symphony Orchestra - BBC R4

Quad/

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05/31/77

Pt 2, conducted by Andrew Davis, Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss), Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

Boston Symphony Orchestra - BBC R4

Quad/

H?

05/31/77

Pt 3, conducted by Andrew Davis, Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss), Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

Boston Symphony Orchestra - BBC R3

Quad/

H?

5/31/77

Concert - Part 2 Schumann Symphony No 3,ineflatmajor (Rhenish)  (Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording: Jan 1976)

BBC R3

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06/??/77

Pink Floyd

-Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One) (1-5)

-Welcome To The Machine

-Have A Cigar

-Wish You Were Here

- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two) (6-9)

Wish You Were Here

Produced By Tony Wilson, special quad reel tape version of the album provided by EMI

Alan Freeman Rock Show  - BBC R1

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Possibly one of 6/4, 6/11 or 6/18 shows

06/25/77

Lone Star

-Firing On All Six
-Lonely Soldier
-Bells Of Berlin
-From All Of Us

Firing On All Six

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show  - BBC R1

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Andy Fairweather-Low

-Checking Out The Checker
-Lighten Up
-Be Bop 'N' Holla
-Shimey Do I Say
-Ain't No Fun Anymore

Be Bop 'N ' Holla

06/26/77

Near all the birds will sing at dawn .... the dawn chorus, Introduced by Dilys Breese, Producer John Harrison

The Living World - BBC R4

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06/29/77

Near all the birds will sing at dawn .... the dawn chorus, Introduced by Dilys Breese, Producer John Harrison

The Living World - BBC R4

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06/30/77

Aida - Acts 1-4, direct from the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden Opera - Libretto by Verdi, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, conducted by Riccardo MutiI

BBC R3

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07/02/77

Van Diemen's Land - A choral fantasy by Alison Bauld, BBC Singers conductor John Poole (A public concert given on 8 November 1976 in St John's, Smith Square, London)

BBC R3

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07/08/77

Conducted by David Atherton Simon Preston,
The closing orchestral concert of the Ninth International Organ Festival direct from the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban Part 1,
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, Peter Dickinson Organ Concerto

BBC Symphony Orchestra - BBC R3

Quad/

H?

07/08/77

Concert - Part 2 Hindemith Organ Concerto (1962) , Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (Presented by the BBC and the International Organ Festival Society)

BBC R3

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07/22/77

First Night of the Proms - The Royal Albert Hall , London, first of  three Jubilee concerts - BBC Singers, conductor Brian Wright, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis - National Anthem (arr Britten); Tippeti concerto for double string orchestra; Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music; Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/22/77

Part 2 Walton Belshazzar 's Feast: John Shirely-Quirk (baritone) (Paul Hudson broadcasts by permission of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/23/77

Part 2 Edwin Roxburgh Montage (BBC Jubilee Commission: world premiere) Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Proms77- BBC R3

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(Part 1 of this concert will be shown on BBC1 on Sunday 7 August)

07/23/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Second of three Jubilee concerts Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) ttoyai Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra leader Alan Traverse conductor Sir Charles Groves Part 1; Arnold Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt
Delius Fantasy: In a summer garden
Elgar Cello Concerto in B minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/24/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London The last of three Jubilee Concerts Part 1, Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia: a song for Saint Cecilia's Day Felicity Lott (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor) Charles Brett (couniter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor), Stephen Roberts (baritone), David Thomas (bass-baritone) Oomtinuo: Stephen Cleobury (organ) David Roblou (harpsichord) Nigel North (theorbo) Stephen Orton (cello), Schola Cantorum Of Oxford
The Purcell Orchestra leader Roger Garland conductor Nicholas Cleobury

Proms77- BBC R4

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(This performance can be seen on BBCl on August 21; Part 2 of this concert can be heard on Radio 3 at 10.20 pm) followed by an interlude

07/24/77

A recording of Part 2 of tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Last of three Jubilee concerts BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Sir Adrian Boult ; Elgar Symphony No 2, in E flat major BBC Music Guide: Elgar Orchestral Music, by Michael Kennedy, 50p from bookshops

Proms77- BBC R3

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(Part 1 of this concert is live on Radio 4 at 7.30)

07/26/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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07/26/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Silvia Marcovici (violin), London Symphony Orchestra leader Neville Taweel conducted by Claudio Abbado Part 1; Strauss Symphonic Poem: Death and Transfiguration; Bartok Violin Concerto No 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/26/77

Part 2: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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07/26/77

Part 2 Prokofiev
Symphony No 3, in c minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/27/77

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 4

Proms77- BBC R3

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7/27/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall John Lill (piano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra leader Brendan O'Brien conductor Paavo Berglund Part 1; Sibelius Tone Poem: The Oceanides
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No lj in D fiat major

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/28/77

direct from the Royal Albert Hall Henze The Raft of the 'Medusa' (sung in English: UK premiere)
BBC Singers, director John Poole Trinity Boy's Choir chorus-master David Squibb  BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by David Atherton Part 1

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/28/77

The Raft of the' Medusa', part 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/29/77

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No5,ind minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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0729/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall John McCaw (clarinet) , New Philharmonia Orchestra leader Carl Pini conductor Riccardo Muti
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 of Part 1 Mozart; Symphony No 31, in D major vParis) (K 297); Clarinet Concerto in A major (K 622)

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/30/77

Steve Gibbons Band

-Rollin' On
-Please Don't Say Goodbye
-2 Lane
-Gave His Life To Rock & Roll

Right Side Of Heaven

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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 07/30/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hau Ida Haendel (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Maurice Brett conducted by David Atherton
Stravinsky Divertimento : The Fairy's Kiss
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D

Proms77- BBC R3

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07/30/77

Part 2 Rachmaninov
Three Symphonic Dances

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/01/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Stephen Bishop - Kovacevich (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra leader Carl Pini conducted by Andrew Davis Part 1 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3. in c minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/01/77

Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 9, in D minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/02/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/02/77

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, Malcolm Williamson (organ) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and James Loughran Part 1 (conducted by Sir Adrian Boult ) Bliss Music for Strings
Williamson Organ Concerto

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/02/77

Part 2, (conducted by James Loughran ) Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/02/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/03/77

Part 2, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Sibelius Symphony No 7, in C

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/03/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, Iona Brown
(violin), BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra led by Trevor Williams conductor Boris Brott Part 1, David Harries The Three Men Beethoven Symphony No 2, in 0

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/04/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Janet Baker
(mezzo-soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Bernard Haitink Part 1, Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales, Duparc Songs: L'invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure; Phidyle; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Au pays ou se fait la guerre

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/04/77

Part 2 Schubert Symphony No 9, in C major

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/05/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hal, Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader Barry Griffiths conducted by Hans Vonk
Mozart Serenade in D major (Serenata notturma) (K 239), Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat major (Emperor)

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/05/77

Part 2 Stravinsky Ballet: The Rite of Spring

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/06/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Sarah Walker
(mezzo-soprano) Timothy Walker (guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and Mark Elder Part 1 (conducted by Sir Adrian Boult ) Brahms Symphony No 3, in F

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/06/77

Johnny Douglas and his Orchestra play the week's most popular tunes from Radio 2 programmes. Introduced by Don Moss

Radio 2 Top Tunes  - BBC R2

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08/06/77

Part 2, (conducted by Mark Elder ) John Buller Proenca (BBC Jubilee commission: world premiere) Ravel Rapsodie espagnole

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/07/77

The Merchant Of Venice - The Philomusica Of London, A Transcription Services recording, Directed by Ian Cotterell

BBC R3

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08/08/77

A recording of tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall which began at 7.0 pm
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Dramma giocoso in two acts Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Glyndeboiirne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Chorus chorus-master Nicholas Cleobury, Martin Isepp
(harpsichord continuo), London Philharmonic Orchestra leader David Nolan conductor Bernard Haitiuk Act 1

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/08/77

Mozart: Don Giovanni Act 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/09/77

Part 2, Maxwell Davies St Thomas Wake: Foxtrot, Ravel La valse: poème choregraphique

Proms77- BBC R3

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(The Beethoven and Maxwell Davies can be seen on BBC1 on 21 August)

08/09/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Alfred Brendel (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Sir Charles Groves Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 57, in D major, Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major BBC Music Guide: Beethoven Piano Sonatas, by Denis Matthews, 60p, from bookshops

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/09/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/09/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/10/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Joaquin Achucarro (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader Barry Griffiths conducted by Sir Charles Groves Part 1, Goehr Pastorals
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/10/77

Part 2 Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 5, in E minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/11/77

Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 8

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/11/77

Direct from the Roval Albert Hall Ida Haendal
(violin). London Philharmonic Orchestra leader David Nolan conductor Bernard Haitink
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2, Brahms Violin Concerto in D

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/12/77

Part 2, Mozart Piano Concerto No 9. in E flat (K 271), Dvorak Four Slavonic Dances from Op 46

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/12/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Barry Tuckwell (horn), Deszo Ranki (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Walter Susskind Part 1, Schubert Symphony No 3. in D Richard Rodney Bennett Actaeon, for horn and orchestra (world premiere), Written for Barry Tuckwell , Actaeon has the subtitle Metamorphosis 1. Its inspiration derives from a 17th-century translation of Ovid's, Metatnorphoses, which the composer admires.

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/13/77

direct from the Royal Albert Hall Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Alan Hacker (clarinet), Scottish National Orchestra leader Edwin PalingI conductor Sir Alexander Gibson Part 1, Haydn Symphony No 86, in D, Liszt Piano Concerto No 1. in E flat

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/13/77

Part 2, Birtwistle Melencolia I, Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/16/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/16/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1 Bach Magnificat,  in D major rencity I'aimer (soprano) Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Brian Burrows (tenor) Wynford Evans (tenor), Stephen Roberts (baritone) Continue : David Fletcher (Cello)
Jeffrey Box (double-bass) David Chatwin (bassoon) Keith Elcombe (organ) RBC Singers director John Polle, BBC Northern Singers director Stephen Wilkenson BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, leader Dennis Simons conducted by Walter Susskind

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/16/77

Part 2 Schubert Mass in E flat major

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/16/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/17/77

Part 2 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/17/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Peter Frankl (piano), BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader Dennis Simons conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and Walter Susskind Part 1, (conducted by Sir Adrian Boult ), Vaughan Williams Job: a masque for dancing

08/19/77

A recording of tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall which began at 7.0 pm
Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage An opera in three acts, Libretto by The Composer
Welsh National Opera and Drama Company
Welsh National Opera Chorale chorus-master Julian Smith Welsh Philharmonia leader John Stein conductor Richard Armstrong Scene: A woodland clearing Time: The present Act 1: Morning

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/19/77

Tippett , The Midsummer Marriage Act 2: Afternoon, 10.5* Sir Michael Tippett talks to Patrick Carnegy. Extract from an interview, part of which was published in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 July 1977., 10.20* Proms 77 Tippett , The Midsummer Marriage Act 3: Evening and Night

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/20/77

Part 2 Brahms Symphony No 2 (The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain broadcasts in association with Lloyds Bank)

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/20/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall BBC Singers
(women's voices) director John Poole
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conductor Christopher Seaman Part 1 Holst The Planets

Proms77- BBC 08/20/77R4

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08/22/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Kerstin Meyer
(mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor)
Malcolm King (bass) London Sinfonietta leader Nona Liddell conducted by Simon Rattle Part 1
Mozart Serenade No 11, in Et flat maior (K 375)
Schoenberg The Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder), 8.10* The Poet of the Gurrelieder: Martin Esslin talks about the Danish poet Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) whose work had an enormous impact on the continent. It was this sequence of poems which Schoenberg used in his famous setting. ,8.25* Proms 77
Part 2 Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No 1
8.50* Schoenberg and his Public: Alfred Burke reads (in an English translation) the article My Public which Schoenberg wrote in 1930, 9.5* Proms 77, Part 3, Stravinsky Pulcinella : ballet in one act, with solo voices

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/23/77

Three Choirs Festival - from Gloucester Cathedral - Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester conducted by John Sanders Roy Massey - Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt ; Bach Three Chorale Preludes: Komm, heiliger Geist (bwv 651); Herzlich tut mich verlangen (bwv 727); Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (awv 655) 0 salutaris hostia - Britten Missa Brevis , Op 63 Kodaly Jesus and the Traders (conducted by Donald Hunt ); Mendelssohn Kyrie , for double chorus, Op 111; Mitten wir im Leben sind, Op 23 No 3; Warum toben die Heiden, Op 78 No 1; Heilig (conducted by John Sanders )  (Sponsored by the Royal School of Church Music to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the School by Sir Sydney Nicholson )

BBC R3

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08/23/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/23/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/23/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, Richard Deakin m violin), Judith Pearce (flute), Philippa Davies (flute) Stephen Barlow, (harpsichord continuo) Orchestra of St John 's, Smith Square leader Richard Deakin conductor John Lubbock Part I
Bach Brandenburg . Concerto No 3, in c, major
Stravinsky Orpheus

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/23/77

Part 2, Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G major, for violin, two flutes and strings
Mozart Symphony No 39, In 2 flat (k 543)

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/24/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Michel Beroff (piano), John Morton (ondes martenot), BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Eli Goren conducted by Andrew Davis, Messiaen Turangalila-Symphony

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/26/77

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 5, in c minor

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/26/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London
BBC Singers director John Poole, BBC Choral Society conductor Brian Wright, BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Eli Goren conducted by Andrew Davis Part 1, Haydn Symphony No 103, in E flat major (Drum-roll), Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/27/77

Part 2, Debussy Poeme danse: Jeux Tchaikovsky Fantasia after Dante: Francesca da Rimini

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/27/77

Colosseum  II

-Intergalactic Strut
-Lament
-Put It This Way

Electric Savage

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show  - BBC R1

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-The Inquisition

(their upcoming album for '77)

08/27/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Peter Frankl (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader Raymond Ovens conductor Christopher Seaman Part 1, Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Beethoven Concerto in c major, for violin, cello, piano and orchestra

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/30/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Han de Vries (oboe) , BBC Symphony Orchestra leaner Eli Goren conducted by Norman Del Mar Part 1
Schoenberg Transfigured Night Strauss Concerto for oboe and small orchestra

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/30/77

Part 2, Gerhard Concerto for Orchestra Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/30/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/30/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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08/31/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, CBSO Chorus City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra leader Felix Kok conductor Louis Fremaux Part 1

Proms77- BBC R3

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08/31/77

Berlioz: La damnation de Faust Part 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/01/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Luciano Berio: Coro (UK premiere), Cologne Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra (leader, Theo Giesen) conducted by the composer
(Presented in association with Westdeutscher Rundfunk)

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/02/77

Part 2 Liszt Prelude and Fugue on Bach, for organ, Janacek Sinfonietta

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/02/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Zara Nelsova (cello), Richard Coulson (organ), BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Eli Goren  conducted by Charles Mackerras Part 1, 
Bartok Dance Suite, Dvorak Cello Concerto in * minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/04/77

Part 2 Berlioz Te Deum

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/10/77

Part 2 Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die
Fledermaus Josef Strauss Polka: Eingesendet
Johann Strauss (son) Csardas (Die Fledermaus); Waltz: The Blue Danube Josef Strauss Polka: Plappermaulchen, Johann (son) and Josef Strauss Pizzicato Polka, Johann Strauss (son) March (The Gypsy Baron)
(Part 2 of this concert is on BBC l tomorrow 10.20 pm)

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/10/77

Viennese Night direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sheila Armstrong - (soprano). John Constable (piano), Halle Orchestra , leader Michael Davis conductor James Loughran
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Divertimento in D (K 136), Concert Aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te (K 505) , Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

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09/12/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Eli Goren conducted by Pierre Boulez Part 1 Boulez, Rituel: In memoriam Maderna

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09/12/77

Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 7

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/13/77

Part 1: as Radio 3

Proms77- BBC R4

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09/13/77

Part 2 Brahms, Symphony No 4, in E minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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09/13/77

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

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09/13/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Jessye Norman (soprano), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra leaders Gerard Hettema and Jacques Holtman  conductor Edo de Waart Part 1, Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini, Alphons Diepenbrock Entr 'acte: Marsyas (UK premiere)
Strauss Songs: Zueignung; Ruhe. meine Seele; Waldseligkeit; Wiegenlied; Meinem Kinde; Befreit

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09/14/77

Bobok by Dostoevsky, performed by Boris Isarov, Violin Itzhak Perlman, Produced and directed Ian Cotterell

BBC R4

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09/14/77

Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 1, in D major

Proms77- BBC R4

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09/14/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Paul Schenly (piano), Rotterdam Phiiharmonic Orchestra leaders Gerard Hettema and Jacques Holtman conductor Edo de Waart Part, Tristan Keuris Sinfonia (UK premiere), Tristan Keuris was born in Holland in 1946. The form of his Sinfonia corresponds to that of the classical symphony but with the music playing continuously. Mozart Piano Concerto No 23, in A major (K 488)

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09/15/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall Michel Beroff (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Pierre Boulez Ligeti San Francisco Polyphony Bartok Piano Concerto No 2

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09/15/77

Part 2 Stravinsky, Ballet: The Firebird
(This concert will be shown in The Lively Arts series on BBC2)

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09/16/77

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Part 1
John Scott i organ), Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm

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09/16/77

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 9. in D- minor (Choral) London Philharmonic Choir conductor John Alldis London Philharmonic Orchestra

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09/17/77

Last Night Of The Proms - Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)
Jennifer Smith - (soprano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Malcolm King (bass) BBC Singers director John Poole  BBC Choral Society conductor Brian Wright, BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by James Loughran Part 1
Sullivan Overture di ballo, Walton Violin Concerto in B minor, Britten Cantata Academica

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09/17/77

Part 2. A simultaneous broadcast with BBC1
Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D major, Sullivan, arr Mackerras Suite from the Ballet: Pineapple Poll Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem

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09/21/77

Charlie Chester featuring the Band of the 5th Battalion Queen's Regiment,  conductor Edward Clarke, Producer John Bussell

Listen To The Band -  BBC R4

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09/26/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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09/27/77

BBC Radio Orchestra - guests Tony Osborne and Wilma Reading, Introduced By Don Moss & Producer John Bussell

BBC R2

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09/27/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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09/28/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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09/29/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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09/30/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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10/02/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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Repeat  of above episode

10/03/77

Radio Serial Episode - Producer Tony Shryane BBC Birmingham

The Archers - BBC R2

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10/07/77

John Fox Conducts BBC Radio Orchestra - with guests, Produced by Royston Herbert & Mel House

BBC R2

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10/16/77

Three Choirs Festival - from Gloucester Cathedral - Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Part 2,,Howells Hymnus Paradisi (conducted by Donald Hunt )

BBC R3

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10/16/77

Three Choirs Festival - 250th Meeting
April Cantelo (soprano) David Johnston (tenor)
Three Choirs Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader Barry Griffiths conducted by Donald Hunt and John Sanders Part 1 Hoist,  The Hymn of Jesus (conducted by John Sanders), Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (conducted by. Donald Hunt

BBC R3

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10/21/77

Direct from the Hippodrome, Golders Green James Howe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Trevor Walmesley Friday Night's Star Singers: Cynthia Glover Patsy Gilland Uel Deane with the Charles Young Chorale, Producer Robert Bowman

Friday Night Is Music Night - BBC R2

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10/29/77

Racing Cars

-Nobody's Business

-Standing In The Rain

-Weekend Rendezvous

-Clever Girl

Weekend Rendezvous

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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11/04/77

Conductor Brian Fitzgerald plays music from the movies Guest Sheila Buxton, Producer John Wilcox, BBC Manchester

BBC Northern Radio Orchestra - BBC R2

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11/12/77

Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance - The Royal Albert Hall , London, Service of Remembrance conducted by The Bishop of London, The RT Rev & Hon Gerald A. Ellison, DD, Massed Bands Of The Guards Division & State Trumpeters Of The Household Calvary

BBC R2

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11/26/77

Phil Manzanera w/801 Band

-Law And Order
-Remote Control
-That Falling Feeling
-Out Of The Blue

Listen Now

(Possibly also sourced from the unreleased late 1977 live performance from Manchester that was issued as 801 Manchester in 1997.)

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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12/12/77

Alice In Wonderland - The world premiere of a new musical adapted for radio , Associate conductor Michael Reeves, A Transcription Services Recording , Directed by Ian Cottrell

The Monday Play - BBC R4

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12/18/77

Belief One - An unusual collaboration in which jazz-rock composer Neil Ardley provides an electronic setting to a poem by Patrick Huddie,
Neil Ardley (synthesizer and variable speed tape recorder) Producer Richard Else

BBC R3

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12/24/77

The Steve Gibbons Band

Including the pick of this year's Matrix H quadraphonic broadcasts. Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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Racing Cars

Andy Fairweather-  Low

Colosseum II

The Stranglers

The Motors

Phil Manzanera

Lone Star

12/24/77

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Chapel of King's College, Cambridge - In King's College Chapel, Cambridge - Hymn: Once in royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett ) The Bidding Prayer
A Hymn to the Virgin (Britten)

First Lesson: Genesis 3, w 8-15, 17-19: A Chorister
Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord); Sussex Carol (trad English)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, w 15-18: A Choral Scholar, King Herod and the cock (Walton); Ding, dong! merrily on high (16th-century French)

Third Lesson: Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6, 7: A Representative Of The Cambridge Churches, In dulci jubilo (14th-century German)
Hymn: 0 little town of Bethlehem (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, w 1-3a, 4a, 6-9: A Representative Of The Cambridge Churches, Stille Nacht (Gruber); Sans day Carol (trad Cornish)
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1, vv 26-35, 38: The Dorector Of Music, The Linden Tree Carol (Gwllym Beechey); Personent hodie (Mosburg Gradual)
Sixth Lesson: St Luke 2, w 1, 3-7: A Representative Of The Sister College At Eton, I saw three ships (trad English)

Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8-16: A FEloow Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592) Quelle est cette odeur agrgable? (trad French)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2. W 1-11: The Vice-Provost, The three kings (P. Cornelius ); A babe is born (William Mathias )
Ninth Lesson: St John 1, w 1-14: The Provost, Hymn: 0 come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade )
Collect and Blessing Hymn: Hark, the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
Director of Music Philip Ledger Thomas Trotter (organ scholar)

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12/25/77

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Chapel of King's College, Cambridge - In King's College Chapel, Cambridge

BBC R3

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01/01/78

As You Like It - music composed and conducted by David Cain, A Transcription Services Recording, Directed by Ian Cottrell

World Drama - BBC R3

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01/02/78

The Motors

(1 track)

The Motors

Jonathan King Rules - Produced By Dave Tate

BBC R1

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The Stranglers

-No More Heroes

No More Heroes

Tom Robinson

(1 track)

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Michele Delpeche

(1 track)

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Tavares

(1 track)

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Queen

- We Will Rock You

- We Are The Champions

- It's Late

-Get Down, Make Love

News Of The World

01/02/78

Cliff Richard

Fairfield Hall, Croydon

In Concert - BBC R2

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01/03/78

Haitink Conducts Malhler - A recording of the annual Christmas concert given in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, last week. Bernard Haitink conducts the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No 1, in D,

BBC R3

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A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2

01/08/78

The Pilgrim's Progress -  with John Gielgud,

by John Bunyan adapted by Edward Sackville-West from the stage version by W. Nugent Monck, Music specially composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1943 radio production
Delyth Jones (soprano) Elsa Kendal (contralto) Robin Leggate (tenor), Christopher Underwood (bar) BBC Nothern Singers chorus-master Stephen Wilkinson BBC Norhterb Symphony Orchestra, leader Barry Griffiths conducted by Sir Charles Groves with and Technical supervision by Adrian Revill of the BBC Transcription Services Recording Unit, Music recorded by Don Hart-Ridge and mixed by Bill Aitken Musical adviser, Ernest Warburton, 
Directed by Bennett Maxwell followed by an interlude

BBC R3

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01/21/78

Gentle Giant

Golders Green Hippodrome, London, 01/05/78, Introduced by Pete Drummond, Producer Michael Appleton

[Other sources list as this performed  at Paris Theater, London]

In Concert  - BBC R1

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simultaneous radio broadcast with BBC2 Sight And Sound In Concert television program

01/28/78

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Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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01/29/78

The Beggar's Opera - Written by Mr Gay, With the original music newly realised and conducted by David Cain for this production to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the first production at the Theatre Roval in Lincoln's Inn Fields on Monday 29 January 1728. Directed by Ian Cotterell, Praetorius Consort director Christopher Ball (recorders), Paul Arden Tavlor, (recorders and oboe) Simon Standage (baroque violin) Rachael Isserlis (baroque violin), Christopher Wilson
(lute and baroque guitar) Alan Wilson (harpsichord) Fiances Kelly (harp), Anthony Pleeth (baroque cello) Michael Laird (trumpet) Roger Brenner (sackbut) Anne Collis (percussion), (Patrick Stewart is a member of the RSC)

BBC R3

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02/04/78

Be-Bop Deluxe/Tom Robinson Band (also possibly Jenney Darren)

Golders Green Hippodrome, London, England (01/19/78), Introduced by Alan Black, Producer Jeff Griffin

In Concert - BBC R1

HJ?

simultaneous radio broadcast with BBC2 Sight And Sound In Concert television program

02/05/78

David Jacobs introduces Melodies for You BBC Concert Orchestra & The Reginald Leopold Orchestra and the Bambos Orpington Junior Singers, Producer Peter Bell

BBC R2

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02/06/78

St Albans 77 - Excerpts from a recital given by the prizewinners in the two competitions forming part of the Ninth International Organ Festival -
Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation, 
Sweelinck Chorale Prelude on Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr. Fantasia Chromatica, Dupr6 Variations sur un Noel

BBC R3

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02/13/78

St Albans 77 - The last programme from the Ninth International Organ Festival: a recital given by Michel Chapuis de Grigny Movements from the Organ Mass, Buxtehude Chorale Preludes: In dulci jubilo; Lobe Gott , ihr Christen allzugleich; Wir dank-en dir, Herr Jesu Christ ; Prelude and Fugue in G minor

BBC R3

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02/24/78

The Ted Heath Band - under the direction of Don Lusher with Alan Elsdon And His Band, Producer Jack Dabbs

BBC R2

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03/05/78

Barry Tickwell (horn) Deszo Ranki (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Walter Susskind Part 1, Schubert Symphony No 3, in 9 Richard Rodney Bennett Actaeon, for horn and orchestra

Proms77- BBC R3

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03/05/78

Part 2, Mozart Piano Concerto No 9. in E fiat (K 271), Dvorak Four Slavonic Dances from Op 46: No 4, in F; No 3, in A fiat; No 2, in E minor; No 1, in c, (Promenade Concert broadcast on 12 August 1977 from the Royal Albert Hall , London)

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03/12/78

Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Alan Hacker (clarinet)
Scottish National Orchestra leader Edwin Laing conductor Sir Alexander Gibson, Haydn Symphony No 86. in o, Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat

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03/12/78

Part 2, Harrison Birtwistle Melencolia I Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

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03/15/78

Charlie Chester. and the Band of HM Royal Marines conductor Captain James R. Mason, Producer John Bussell

Listen To The Band -  BBC R2

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03/20/78

Henze The Raft of the ' Medusa ' (sung in English) BBC Singers director John Poole  Trinity Boy's Choir chorus-master David Squibb BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by David Atherton Part 1

Proms77- BBC R3

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03/20/78

Henze The Raft of the ' Medusa '. Part 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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03/24/78

Cliff Richard

Fairfield Hall, Croydon

In Concert - BBC R2

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Repeat?

03/25/78

Jethro Tull

--The Minstrel In The Gallery
-Cold Wind To Valhalla
-Black Satin Dancer

Minstrel In The Gallery

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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-The Chequered Flag

Too Old To Rock And Roll, Too Young To Die

03/25/78

The House On Secker Street - by Michael Johnson. An allegorical verse drama on the theme of Death and Resurrection. The piece is set in the present dav and it is preceded by an introductory talk by Norman Hidden.
Electronic music composed by Malcolm Clarke Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Producer Alec Reid

BBC R3

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03/25/78

Gillian Weir (organ) in a recital recorded in Westminster Cathedral, London Reger Praeludium. Op 80, Dupre Symphony No 2; Variations sur un Noel, Op 20

International Organist - BBC R3

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03/26/78

Murray Perahia (piano), English Chamber Orchestra leader Jose-Luis Garcia conducted by Murray Perahia and Christopher Nicholls, Part 1
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12. in A (K 414) (directed from the keyboard), Haydn Symphony No 44, in E minor iTrauer)

Proms77- BBC R3

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03/26/78

The Royal Albert Hall, London - Part 2, Strauss Serenade in E flat for 13 wind instruments (conducted by Christopher Nicholls), Mozart Piano Concerto No 27. in B flat (K 595)

Proms77- BBC R3

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Repeat of a Promenade Concert broadcast on September 5th,1977

03/27/78

Alice In Wonderland - A new musical adapted for radio , Associate conductor Michael Reeves, A Transcription Services Recording , Directed by Ian Cottrell

The Monday Play - BBC R4

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Repeat

04/01/78

Sensational Alex Harvey Band

-King Kong
-Rock And Rule

Rock Drill

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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-Midnight Moses

Framed

04/08/78

The Tale of the Knight, the Witch and the Dragon - With Patrick Stewart and Peggy Paige.
Scrull the Dragon created by Peter Howell of the Radiophonic Workshop, who also composed the sound score.

Saturday Night Theatre - BBC R4

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04/09/78

Michel Beroff (piano), BBC Syphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conducted by Pierre Boulm Part, Ugfti San Francisco Polyphony Bartek Piano Concerto No 2

Proms77- BBC R3

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04/09/78

The Royal Albert Hall, London - Part 2 Stravinsky, Ballet: The Firebird

Proms77- BBC R3

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Repeat of a Promenade Concert broadcast on September 15th,1977

04/10/78

The Tale of the Knight, the Witch and the Dragon - With Patrick Stewart and Peggy Paige.
Scrull the Dragon created by Peter Howell of the Radiophonic Workshop, who also composed the sound score.

Afternoon Theatre - BBC R4

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04/15/78

Conductor Bernard Haitink with Helen Watts (contralto) direct from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Part 1, Alphons Diepenbrock Symphonic Suite: Elektra Hymne an die Nacht. No 2

BBC R3

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04/15/78

Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 1. in D

BBC R3

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04/16/78

Singcircle - Suzanne Flowers (soprano)
Penelope Walmsley-Clark (sop) Nancy Long (contralto), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Geoffrey Shaw (baritone) Paul Hillier (bass) directed by Gregory Roase Steekhausen Stimmung, (Given before an invited audience last year in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House)

Music In Our Time - BBC R3

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04/16/78

Part 2 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor

Proms77- BBC R3

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04/23/78

Part 2 Elgar Symphony No 2, In E flat BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrain Boult (Promenade Concert broadcast on 24 July 1977 from the Royal Albert Hall , London)

Proms77- BBC R3

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04/23/78

Part 1 Purcell Hail. bright Cecilia: a song for Saint Cecilia's Day, Felicity Lott (soprano)
James Bowman (counter-tenor) Charles Brett (counter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Stephen Roberts (baritone), David Thomas (bass-baritone),  Stephen Cleobury (organ continuo),  David Roblou (harpsichord continuo),
Nigel North (the orbo continuo) Stephen Orton (cello continuo) Schola Cantorum Of Oxford Purcell Orchestra leader Roger Garland conductor Nicholas Cleobury

Proms77- BBC R3

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04/29/78

Sensational Alex Harvey Band

-King Kong
-Rock And Rule

Rock Drill

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

HJ

Repeat

-Midnight Moses

Framed

04/30/78

Part 2 Schocnbers Chamber Symphony No 1
12.25* Interval Reading, 12. JO* From the Proms 77 Part 3, Stravinsky Pulcinella : ballet in one acti with solo voices (A Promenade Concert broadcast on 22 August from the Royal Albert Hall , London)

Proms77- BBC R3

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04/30/78

Kerstin Meyer (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langhidge (tenor) Malcolm King (bass) London Sinfonietta  leader Non Liddell conducted by Simon Rattle,
Mozart Serenade No 11, in E flat major (k 375)
Schoennerg The Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder)

Proms77- BBC R3

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05/21/78

Sleico - Tim Souster introduces two of his recent pieces and the first broadcast of his live-electronics group 0dB, formed in 1976 with Peter Britton and Tony Greenwood.
- Song for instruments and four-track tape

- Arboreal Antecedents (22 min.), for three instrumentalists and four-track tape, first performed at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London (both first performances)

Music In Our Time - BBC R3

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05/27/78

Boomtown Rats

-Clockwork

-Living On An Island,

-Me And Howard Hughes

-Watch Out For The Normal People

Tonic For The Troops

Produced By Tony Wilson

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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06/04/78

Radio Serial Episode 1 - The Red-Headed League - Barry Foster as Sherlock Holmes and David Buck as Dr Watson in a new dramatisation of 13 of the best-known short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dramatised by Michael Bakewell, "There is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of four pounds a week for purely nominal services. All red-headed men who are sound in body and mind are eligible.", BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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06/11/78

Radio Serial Episode 2  - The Musgrave Ritual -Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. With an ancient ritual handed down from the fathers to the sons of one of the most distinguished families in the realm suddenly demands the attention of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps not surprisingly, its relevance is at last exposed. Directed by Roger Pine BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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06/18/78

Radio Serial Episode 3 - Silver Blae - Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. The disappearance of a famous race-horse, followed by a murder, takes Sherlock Holmes to the West Country. As we have learned to suspect, the devious solution put forward by the police is not sufficient to satisfy Mr Holmes. Directed by Roger Pine BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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06/25/78

Radio Serial Episode 4 - The Naval Treaty -
Dramatised by Bill Morrison with Richard Kay as Percy Phelps and Richard HurndaU as Lord Holdhurst, 'This small roll of papers Is the original of a secret treaty between England and Italy which has just been concluded. It is of enormous importance that nothing further should leak out. I need them copied. Can you do it? '

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

Binaural Quad 4.0

07/01/78

Genesis

In a special Fifth Anniversary edition presents a quadraphonic recording of Genesis from last week's Knebworth Festival (06/24/78)

Alan Freeman Rock Show - BBC R1

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07/02/78

Richard III - Part Two - by David Pownall with music by Stephen Boxer with members of the Paines Plough Company Stephen Boxer as George Orwell/Richard III (guitar, crumhorn, electric piano), Diana Kyle as Louise/Richard, Duke of York (guitar, electric piano, glockenspiel, sopranino recorder, crumhorn, percussion) Robert Mclntosh as George McMasters/ Warwick/ King Edward/Henry Tudor (nordic lyre, percussion) Eric Richard as Francis Lovell/King Louis (penny whistle, dulcimer, percussion)
Harriet Walter as Cecily Neville/Edward (flute, psaltery, glockenspiel, percussion), Fiona Victory as Elizabeth Woodville (rebec, nordic lyre, percussion) Joe Marcell as Chrysostom (percussion), John Adams as Announcer
The action of the play moves in and out of the years 1948, 1984. 1484 and 1485. Richard III - Part Two has been presented at the National Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival.
Directed for radio by Ian Cotterell

BBC R3

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07/02/78

Radio Serial Episode 5 - The Priory School - Dramatised by Michael Bakewell with William Fox as the Duke of Holdernesse, '.. It is the best and most select preparatory school in England. But I felt that it had reached its zenith when, a few weeks ago, the Duke's secretary intimated that Lord Saltire, the only son and heir, was to be committed to my charge...". Directed by Peter Novis.

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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07/09/78

Radio Serial Episode 6 - Charles Augustus Milverton - Dramatised by Bill Morrison
' I've had to do with 50 murderers in my career but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion I have for this fellow. And yet I can't get out of doing business with him.', ' Why? Who is he? 'The king of all the blackmailers'. Directed by Peter Novis.

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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07/16/78

Radio Serial Episode 7 - The Copper Beeches -
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell with Rosemary McHaleViolet Hunter, Tony Church Jethro Rucastle, and Zena Mrs Toller Walker, '... Look at those lovely houses, each in its own fields ... Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty which may go on year in. year out and none the wiser. Had Miss Hunter gone to live in Winchester, I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of country which makes the danger.' Directed by Vanessa Whitburn.

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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07/23/78

Radio Serial Episode 8 - The Blue Carbuncle -Dramatised by Bill Morrison, Barry Foster as Sherlock Holmes and David Buck as Dr Watson
"A Christmas goose, Mr Ryder, a singular bird, white with a black bar across the tail. And a most remarkable bird it proved. It laid an egg after it was dead, the bonniest. brightest little blue egg that was ever seen." BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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07/30/78

Radio Serial Episode 9 - The Reigate Squires -Dramatised by Bill Morrison, 'A petty affair, one of our little country crimes, much too small for your attention, Mr Holmes, after this great international affair you've just accomplished.'
But the convalescent detective is soon tempted back to work when murder follows house-breaking. BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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08/06/78

Radio Serial Episode 10 - The Solitary Cyclist - Dramatised by Michael Bakewell with Miriam Margolyes as Violet Smith, "Two weeks ago I was on the loneliest part of the road when I looked behind me and saw a man on a bicycle. He had a short, dark beard. I looked back before I reached Farnham, but the man was gone, and I thought no more about it. But you can imagine how surprised I was, Mr Holmes, when on my return on the Monday I saw the same man on the same stretch of road." BBC Birmingham.

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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08/13/78

Radio Serial Episode 11 - The Six Napoleons - Dramatised by Bill Morrison. It is summer and from Sherlock Holmes's point of view a particularly dull season, since there has been no crime of any magnitude for several months. He and Watson are bored. Then a visit from Inspector Lestrade provides a welcome surprise. It seems that someone is determined to break every plaster bust of the Emperor Napoleon that can be found in Brixton. At first it appears little more than hooliganism but suddenly the case involves murder and Sherlock Holmes becomes very interested indeed. BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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08/20/78

Radio Serial Episode 12 - The Abbey Grange -
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell, ' My dear Mr Holmes - I should be very glad of your immediate assistance in what promises to be a most remarkable case. Except for releasing the lady I will see that everything is kept exactly as I have found it. but I beg you not to delay an instant, as it is difficult to leave Sir Eustace there.', Directed by Michael Bakewell BBC Birmingham.

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

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08/27/78

Radio Serial Episode 13 - The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax - Dramatised by Michael Bakewell, with Brian Blessed as The Hon Philip Green, "Lady Frances left The Englisher Hof Baden, for England three weeks ago in the company of a missionary from South America but the centre of the whole mystery is the vast bearded Englishman of whom I spoke in my last cable. He is pursuing her with relentless vigour. Signed, Watson." BBC Birmingham

Sherlock Holmes - BBC R4

Binaural Quad 4.0

11/12/81

Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas, Llareggub Hill , that mystic tumulus, the memorial of peoples that dwelt in the region of Llareggub before the Celts left the land of summer and where the old wizards made themselves a wife out of flowers.
and David Barry, Heather Bell, Jan Edwards, John Francis, John Griffiths, Anthony Hall, Jennifer Hill, Mary Jones, Shirley King, Henry Knowles, Elizabeth Morgan, Sharon Morgan, Patricia Mort, Jennifer Piercey, Derek Pollitt, Christine Pollon, Sion Probert, Elizabeth Revill, Talfryn Thomas, Jo Manning Wilson. Songs set by Daniel Jones, Bobby Campbell, (accordion) Music Director Neil Rhoden (piano). A Transcription Service recording by Adrian Bevill, With Michael Black and Prudence Menmuir. Produced and directed by Gerry Jones and Ian Cotterell (In the 1970s a series of experimental productions by Ian Cotterell and the BBC Transcription Service were recorded in quadraphonic sound, using a BBC Matrix
System. Next Thursday Moby Dick will be repeated on 26 November David Pownall 's Richard III - Part 2; on 3 December Shakespeare s The Tempest.)

BBC R3

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11/19/81

Moby Dick - Henry Reed's radio version of the novel by Herman Melville, Music by Antony Hopkins, starring Colin Blakely as Captain Ahab with Philip Sully as Ishmael, Marius Goring as Fr. Mapple and Malcolm Hayes as Starbuck
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Singers conducted by the Composer
"Oh to have heard it in quad - an intensity almost as frightening at Melville's own vast cosmology - an example of what radio can still do marvelously well when it gets itself together." (The Listener), A Transcription Services recording by Adrian Revill, Prudence Menmuir and Derek Horsman, (Henry Reed 's dramatization was first broadcast in 1947)
During the interval, 8.30-8.35*, a gramophone record of Debussy's "Feuilles mortes", played by Claudio Arrau (piano)

BBC R3

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Repeat

11/26/81

Richard III - Part Two - by David Pownall with music by Stephen Boxer, Directed by Ian Cotterell (In the 1970s. a series of experimental Productions by Ian Cotterell and the BBC Transcription Service were recorded in quadraphonic sound, using a BBC Matrix System. Next Thursday at 7 0: Shakespeare The Tempest)

BBC R3

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Repeat

12/03/81

The Tempest - by William Shakespeare adapted for radio and produced by Ian Cotterell with music by David Cain, Spirits in the Masque:
Master of a ship. Alan Rowe. Boatswain... William Sleigh, David Cain's music played by Mike Westbrook , Clive Heath, Christopher Hogwood, Brian Godding, Roger Potter, John Royston Mitchell and Tristan Fry conducted by The Composer, Directed by Ian Cotterell (A Transcription Service recording by Adrian Revill)

BBC R3

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Repeat

04/07/84

A new series of the antidote to panel games Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton lose to Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden Chairman, Humphrey Lyttelton  At the piano Colin Sell. This new series is recorded in super-wide track binaural Quad which is of wonderful quality, incredibly expensive and far too advanced for any listener's radio. Producer Paul Mayhew Archer

I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue - BBC R4

Super Wide Binaural Quad 4.0

12/24/07

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/2011/12/the-festival-of-nine-lessons-and-carols-in-surround-sound.shtml

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Chapel of King's College, Cambridge - In King's College Chapel, Cambridge

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Binaural Quad 4.0

Online experimental demonstration, access via link at left

12/24/11

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Chapel of King's College, Cambridge - In King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury

BBC R4

HD Sound

One Time Experimental Broadcast

03/15

-31/14

Various evening concerts performed at the Southbank Centre, London, Certain concerts were broadcast in this experimental format.

BBC R3

Binaural Quad 4.0

Streaming webcast (surround sound in headphones)

07-09/14

Various evening concerts from this series. Not all concerts in this series were broadcast in this experimental format.

Proms 2014 - BBC3

Binaural Quad 4.0

Streaming webcast

07-09/15

http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/proms-surround-sound

Various evening concerts from this series. Not all concerts in this series were broadcast in this experimental format.

Proms 2015 - BBC3

Binaural Quad 4.0

Streaming webcast, access thru duration of series via link at left