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Bach
RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
PIERRE FOURNIER (cello)
Sonata In E flat major, for flute and harpsichord (S.1031)
Suite No. 1, in G major, for cello Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio
Sonata in E major, for flute and continuo (S.1035)

Contributors

Flute:
Richard Adeney
Cello:
Pierre Fournier

The Innocent Ear
Another in the series of programmes in which the composer of one work will be announced after its performance
A Quintet for clarinet and strings
11.27* Piano Sonata in F minor.
Op. 57 (Appassionata)..Beethoven
11.51* String Quartet No. 4.Martinu
AMICI STRING Quartet
Lionel Bentley (violin) Michael Jones (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Hailing (cello) with GEORGINA DOBREE (clarinet) FRIEDRICH WOHRER (piano)

Opera in three acts
Music by Martinu
Libretto by THE COMPOSER based on the play by George Neveux Sung in Czech gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE
Conducted by JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC
ACT 1
The public square of a small coastal town
3.48* First interval
3.58* ACT 2
At a crossroads In a forest
5.1* Second interval
5.11* ACT 3
An office in a travel bureau, changing to part of the public square again

During the intervals
CHOPIN MAZURKAS
0 played by ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) gramophone records
*
3.48* First interval
C major, Op. 56 No.
C minor, Op. 56 No.
*
5.1* Second interval Op. 63
B maior; F minor; C sharp major

Contributors

Play By:
George Neveux
Conducted By:
Jaroslav Krombholc
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein

A series of four programmes containing interviews with leading people in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden on institutions, politics. welfare, commerce, industry, agriculture. and ways of life. Programme 4
Business and industry
Presented by JOHN COBB
Produced by George Walton Scott
A book list is available from Study Session. BBC. P.O. Box 1AA. London. W:l.

Contributors

Presented By:
John Cobb
Produced By:
George Walton Scott

Trio-Sonata No. 9, in C major MALCOLM LATCHEN (violin) JOHN BROWN (violin)
DAVID LUMSDEN (harpsichord) JANE RYAN (cello)
0 gramophone record

Contributors

Violin:
Malcolm Latchen
Violin:
John Brown
Harpsichord:
David Lumsden
Cello:
Jane Ryan

R. K. NARAYAN talks to WILLIAM WALSH
In ten novels and many short stories the distinguished Indian novelist R. K. Narayan has made the southern Indian town of Malgudi known throughout the world. On a recent visit to this country, Narayan recorded this conversation with .William Walsh, author of A Human Idiom (a study of Commonwealth Literature) and Professor of Education in the University of Leeds. Narayan talks of his personal background, about how Malgudi came to be, and the processes he finds vital for writing novels in English in India.

Contributors

Talks:
R. K. Narayan
Unknown:
William Walsh
Unknown:
R. K. Narayan

Margaret Baker (soprano) Ileana Sinnone (soprano) Margaret Lensky (mezzo-soprano)
Lucienne Devallier
(contralto)
Giuseppe Baratti (tenor) Herbert Handt (tenor) James Loomis (bass)
Schola Cantorum , Oxford Chorus-Master. John Byrt Robert Pagano
(harpsichord continuo)
Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana
Leader, Salvatore Cicere
Conducted by Ottavio Ziino
Part 1: Alessandro Scarlatti
Oratorio: S. Filippo Neri

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Baker
Soprano:
Ileana Sinnone
Mezzo-Soprano:
Margaret Lensky
Contralto:
Lucienne Devallier
Tenor:
Giuseppe Baratti
Tenor:
Herbert Handt
Bass:
James Loomis
Bass:
Schola Cantorum
Chorus-Master:
John Byrt
Harpsichord:
Robert Pagano
Leader:
Sinfonica Italiana
Leader:
Salvatore Cicere
Conducted By:
Ottavio Ziino
Unknown:
Alessandro Scarlatti
Unknown:
S. Filippo Neri

by Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY
' The story of that Oxford scholar poor
Of pregnant parts and quick Inventive brain,
Who, tir'd of knocking at Preferment's door.
One summer morn forsook
His friends, and went to learn the Gipsy lore.'
Produced by David Davis
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Arnold
Read By:
Stephen Murray
Produced By:
David Davis

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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