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A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Lelio by JOHN WARRACK
Musical Profile: Quartetto Italiano by JOHN Amis
Liszt's Piano Music-1: by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Paisiello's II Barbiere by MARK LUBBOCK

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
John Warrack
Unknown:
John Amis
Music By:
Humphrey Searle

Mass in E flat major
ALISON HARGAN (soprano)
FELICITY HARRISON (contralto)
JOHN STONE (tenor)
DAVID BACKHOUSE (baritone)
JOLYON DODGSON (bass-baritone)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master. Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN
Broadcast on November 16. 1968

Contributors

Soprano:
Alison Hargan
Contralto:
Felicity Harrison
Bass-Baritone:
Jolyon Dodgson
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Peter Gellhorn

played by Louis KENTNER
Variations on a theme of Bach:
Weinen. Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
Concert Study in F minor
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Feux-follets: Mazeppa: Chasse neige (Etudes d'execution transcendante)
Funerailles (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses)
First in a weekly series

Contributors

Played By:
Louis Kentner

Szymon Goldberg with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Hindemith Sonata in E flat major. Op. 11
No. 1
2.56* Sonata, Op. 31 No. 1, for violin
The third of four programmes
Next Sunday: Henryk Szeryng with Ernest Lush

Contributors

Unknown:
Szymon Goldberg
Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Unknown:
Ernest Lush

A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Cast:
JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by Michael Moores and Peter Bryant
.Broadcast on January 30. 1966

Contributors

Singers:
John McCarthy
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
Michael Moores
Produced By:
Peter Bryant
Sir Marmaduke:
John Cameron
Sir Marmaduke Spoken by:
Ralph Truman
Alexis:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Alexis Spoken by:
Barrie Ingham
Dr Daly:
Leslie Fyson
Dr Daly Spoken by:
Frederick Treves
Notary:
John Frost
John Wellington Wells:
Eric Shilling
John Wellington Wells Spoken by:
Hugh Burden
Lady Sangazure:
Sybil Michelow
Aline:
Jeannette Sinclair
Aline Spoken by:
Judy Franklin
Mrs Partlet:
Catherine Lawson
Mrs Partlet Spoken by:
Shirley Cooklin
Constance:
Ellen Dales
Constance Spoken by:
Gudrun Ure

by Angus Wilson
Adapted for radio by NESTA PAIN with Joan Miller
A young man meets for the first time the family of the girl he wants to marry. Joan Miller plays her American stepmother.
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus Wilson
Radio By:
Nesta Pain
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Jennie:
Miranda Connell
Peter:
Brian McDermott
Nan:
Joan Miller
Hamish:
Jon Rollason
Flopsy:
Betty Hardy
Mr Cockshott:
Rolf Lefebvre

0 Opera in two acts
Music by Paisiello
Libretto by GIUSEPPE PETROSELLINI after Beaumarchais
Sung in Italian: gramophone records
PICCOLO TEATRO MUSICALE DEL COLLEGIUM MUSICUM ITALICUM
Conducted by RENATO FASANO
ACT 1
Scene 1 A street in Seville
Scene 2 Rosina's room in Dr. tiartolo's bouse

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Petrosellini
Conducted By:
Renato Fasano

A series of nine talks in which scientists of various disciplines talk about concepts crucial to their field of study.
3: Species by A. J. CAIN
University of Manchester
It's said God made all creatures great and small-and if you're a biologist it helps to be able to name each kind, each species. But evolution is-and always has been-changing kind into new kind: species changes with time. if species is only a word, then it's a very helpful word: the example par excellence of a scientist's tool.
Second broadcast
Genes and Genetic Coding by Dr. Sydney Brenner : Oct. 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Sydney Brenner

of the Soviet Union
A group of three lectures 1: The Disintegration of the Imperial Regime by PROFESSOR GEORGE KENNAN followed by a comment from PROFESSOR HUGH SETON-WATSON
Professor Kennan analyses some of the factors leading to the collapse of the autocracy which had maintained itself with an obsessive intensity.
Recorded during a seminar at Harvard University
Second lecture: The Significance of the Russian Revolution, by E. H. Carr : October 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor George Kennan
Unknown:
Professor Hugh Seton-Watson
Unknown:
E. H. Carr

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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