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Byrd and Tippett Byrd
This sweet and merry month of May; Let not the sluggish sleep; Come, jolly swains; Crowned with flowers
Tippett
Sonata for four horns
Plebs angelica; Dance, clarion air (A Garland for the Queen); Lilliburlero (Four Songs from the British Isles)
BBC CHORUS
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN
Alan CIVIL HORN QUARTET
Sonata broadcast on June 8. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Tippett Byrd
Conductor:
Peter Gellhorn

Tuesday Brahms Sonata series
JEANNETTE SINCIAIR (soprano)
PAUL Hamburger (piano)
BHONlSLAV GimPEL (violin)
Wijdvshw SZPILMAN (piano)
Bralims A major Violin cSonutu, and Prokoliev in F minor

Contributors

Soprano:
Jeannette Sinciair
Piano:
Wijdvshw Szpilman

A series of concerts given before invited audiences throughout the country
This week, from the Dyfi Hall , Aberdovey
Sybil Michelow (contralto) Martin Jones (piano)
Vlach String Quartet Josef Vlach (violin) Vaclav Snitil (violin)
Josef Kodousek (viola) Viktor Moucka (cello)
Part I
Schumann
Quartet No. 3. in A major 4.32* Mahler Rheinleyendchen
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Das irdische Leben Starke Einbildungskraft

Contributors

Unknown:
Dyfi Hall
Contralto:
Sybil Michelow
Piano:
Martin Jones
Violin:
Josef Vlach
Violin:
Vaclav Snitil
Viola:
Josef Kodousek
Cello:
Viktor Moucka

Part 2
Arnold van
Wyk Van Liefde en Verlatenheld (Oi
Love and Forsakenness)
5.131 Smetana
Quartet No. 1. In E minor (From my life) from Montrose.
Anthony Habtrad Omni), Bernard Sumtier (piano) and the Darting-ton String Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Wyk Van Liefde
Piano:
Bernard Sumtier

born October 17, 1892
Song: Lost love
Chorus:
The scribe
The summer is coming
Songs:
The dunce (Peacock Pie) King David
Chorus
A spotless rose
Chorus and organ:
God is gone up Like as the hart
JANE MANNING (soprano) Susan BRADSHAW (piano)
BBC CHORUS with Richard POPPLEWELL (organ)
Conducted by John POOLE

Contributors

Piano:
Susan Bradshaw
Unknown:
Richard Popplewell
Conducted By:
John Poole

A series of six programmes
3: Japan: the shattering of the chalice by G. R. STORRY
St. Antony's College, Oxford Japan has fought three great wars in his century, against Russia ( 1 904-5 ) . China (1937-45). and the Allied democracies the poitticai. Mr Storry considers the political. economic and social impact of each struggle, especially of the last. which brought with it total disillusionment and' the shattering of the chalice.'
Produced by Adrian Johnson
South and South-East Asia: the laboratory of escalation

Contributors

Unknown:
G. R. Storry
Unknown:
Mr Storry
Produced By:
Adrian Johnson

A series of six programmes
3: The pity war distilled
Poetry of pity and protest
Speaker, VERNON SCANNELL with contributions by STEPHEN SPENDER , PETER PORTER and Roy FULLER and readings by GARY WATSON
Produced by Edith R. Baer
The poet as a recorder
Study Notes for ' An Age of Conflict ' are available. An accompanying exhibition is being held at the Imperial War Museum. Lambeth Hoad, London. S.E.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Stephen Spender
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Roy Fuller
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Produced By:
Edith R. Baer

Six Lectures by Sir Isaiah Berlin given at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation
3: The true fathers of Romanticism
Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts aU heaven in a rage
' The cage of which William Blake speaks is the Enlightenment, and that is the cage in which he and persons like him appeared to suffocate in the second half of the eighteenth century.'
Second broadcast
October 24: The restrained Romantics followed by an interlude at 8.25

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Redbreast
Unknown:
William Blake

2: Demythologizing-a false trail for preachers by THE Rev. JAMES PACKER
Warden of Latimer House, Oxford
In his talk last week the Rev. David Ravens argued that to be understood the modern preacher must demythologize, ' because secularism is one of the dominant myths in present-day use.' Dr. Packer contends that the renewal of Christian preaching in this secular age lies along another road.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. James Packer
Unknown:
David Ravens

Part 2
Byrd
Sing joyfully
Justorum animae
Laetentur coeli
O God when our offences have justly-displeased
In resurrectione tua
10.2* Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor
Given before an invited audience In the ante-chapel of New College, Oxford. Applications for tickets should be sent to [address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Next concert: from University College, Cork. Music by Schubert ,Cage, Beethoven, and Klaus Huber October 24

Contributors

Music By:
Schu Bert
Unknown:
Klaus Huber

Two programmes
1: You and Me and the Continuum
A short story by J. G. BALLARD This story on ' the idea of the second coming, and how it might take place in the twentieth century ' is one of a group of five in which Mr. Ballard explores a new kind of narrative style based on extreme concision and a wide range of reference.
Readers: HUGH DICKSON
FRANCES HOOKER , ALAN WHEATLEY
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
Second broadcast
Prospective Narrative, a conversation with J. G. Ballard : Friday at 10.40 p.m. followed by an interlude at 16.55

Contributors

Story By:
J. G. Ballard
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Readers:
Frances Hooker
Unknown:
Alan Wheatley
Introduced By:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
J. G. Ballard

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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