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KURT REDEL, MANFRED CLEMENT MUNICH PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA
Directed by KURT REDEL
STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
MUNICH PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA Conducted by KURT REDEL gramophone records
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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTlNON
WILLI BOSKOVSKY (violin)
GUNTHER BREITENBACH (viola) NIKOLAUS HÜBNER (cello)
JOHANN KRUMP (double-bass) CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records
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Haydn
Mass in C major (Missa in tempore belli)
ELSIE MORISON (soprano)
MARJORIE THOMAS (contralto) PETER WITSCH (tenor)
KARL CHRISTIAN KOHN (bass)
BAVARIAN RADIO
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK gramophone records
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
LONDON ALPHA TRIO
Meyer Stolow (violin) Regina Schein (cello) Natalia Karp (piano)
The songs broadcast on April 20
RAYMOND COHEN (violin)
NEW BBC ORCHESTRA
Conductor, LEONARD HIRSCH
Part 1
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BERNARD KEEFFE looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming midweek
Part 2
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS Dods
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio
BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST BOUR BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF ALBERTH
BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST BOUR
Recordings made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
All four works are receiving their first broadcasts in this country
John Ogdon (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Led by Desmond Bradley
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL
Part 1
4.25* During the Interval
† JOHN OGDON discusses his choice with Bryan Balkwill and Eric Rose berry
4.40* My Favourite Concertos
Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by MEIRION BOWEN
This week: Stravinsky's Symphonies of wind instruments; Symphony for voices by Malcolm Williamson , and Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)
A beginners' course planned jointly by the BBC and the University of Essex primarily for use in evening classes throughout the country
Lesson One
Written by L. M. O'Toole , P. T. Culhane and P. S. Mirsky of the University of Essex
Given by L. M. O'TOOLE , MARINA RYAN LYUBOV VOLOSSEVICH VICTOR GREGORIY and ALEXEI JAVDOKIMOV
Produced by Dennis Simmons
Last Monday's broadcast (Radio 3:
Study)
A booklet is available: for details see page 6
The theme for this year's series Is French Impressionists
10: LES PARAPLUIES (painted 1881-86) by Pierre Renoir
National Gallery, London
Speaker: EVELYN KING
Lecturer in the History of Art University of London and the National Gallery
Produced by George Walton Scott
An art book entitled French Impressionists has been issued with colour reproductions of the main paintings. black and white illustrations of the other works discussed, together with notes, tables, and an introduction: for details see page 16
Repeated: Sunday, 11.15 a.m. (Radio 4)
A series of three programmes
1: Post Impressionism
Speaker: ANDREW FORGE Artist, critic and Head of Painting Department Goldsmiths' College, London
Extracts read by PETER ORR
Produced by George Walton Scott
Paris version, 1774
Tragic opera in three acts
Music by Gluck
Libretto by PIERRE-LOUIS MOLINE after Ranieri Calzabigi
English version by TOM HAMMOND
From Sadler's Wells Theatre
Cast in order of singing:
Nymphs, shepherds, spectres, furies, blessed spirits
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, John Sealey
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL
Produced by GLEN BYAM SHAW
The action takes place in legendary times
ACT 1
The tomb of Eurydice
BRYAN BALKWILL , conductor and PETER DARRELL , choreographer in conversation with PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE about this production of Orpheus and Eurydice
Recorded after the first performance on Wednesday
ACT 2
Scene 1 The banks of the River
Styx
Scene 2 The Elysian Fields
A short story by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by Frederick May
Read by ROBERT RIETTY
This Sicilian peasant comedy was written in 1894.
ACT 3
Scene 1 A subterranean vault
Scene 2 The temple of Cupid
† ERIC BENTLEY , the American critic, introduces recordings of the young East German poet and singer, with English versions written and performed by himself
Sonata in A major (D.664) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) gramophone record
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