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Liszt MARLENE FLEET (piano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (mezzo-soprano) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
Chapelle de Guillaume Tell: Au lac de Wallenstadt (Premiere annee de pelerinage)
Three Petrarch Sonnets
Benedetto sia 'I glorno Pace non trovo
I' vidi in terra angellcl costuml
Le mal du pays; Les cloches de
Geneve (Premiere annee de pelerinage)

Contributors

Unknown:
Liszt Marlene
Mezzo-Soprano:
Maureen Lehane

0 A programme of recently released records
SIR RALPH RICHARDSON (narrator) HEATHER HARPER (soprano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN

Contributors

Narrator:
Sir Ralph Richardson
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Andr==>:
André Previn

Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Butterworth Loveliest of trees: When I was one-and-twenty: Look not in my eyes: Think no more. lad; The lads in their hundreds; Is my team Ploughing?
Continued in next column
Bredon Hill
Oh. fair enough are sky and plain When the lad for longing slgbs On the idle hill of summer With rue my heart is laden
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) FRANCIS ROUTH (piano)
MAUREEN JONES (piano)
AMICI STRING QUARTET
Lionel Bentley (violin) Colin Staveley (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Halling (cello) with LÉON GOOSSENS (oboe)

Contributors

Unknown:
Butterworth Loveliest
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Piano:
Francis Routh
Violin:
Lionel Bentley
Violin:
Colin Staveley
Viola:
Christopher Wellington
Cello:
Peter Halling

0 Opera in two acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by PIETRO METASTASIO Sung in Italian gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
NAPLES ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DENIS VAUGHAN
The action takes place at Sldon, In the time of Alexander the Great
ACT 1
The countryside near Sldon
4.4* ACT 2
Scene 1 Alessandro's camp Scene 2 A large cave
Scene 3 The forecourt of the temple of Hercules in Stdon
First of three weekly broadcasts of Mozart operas
Cosi fan tutte (March 7); The Marriage of Figaro (March 14)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pietro Metastasio
Conducted By:
Denis Vaughan

† BRIAN BEEDHAM
Foreign Editor of The Economist talks to
THE Hon. ALASTAIR BUCHAN Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies
Robert McNamara is to leave the American Department of Defence next month after having been its boss for over seven years. He was, by common consent, the most remarkable Secretary of Defence the U.S.A. has ever had. What were McNamara's achievements? How far did he deserve the labels (' whiz kid,' desiccated calculating machine that were attached to him? What will the American defence establishment be like without him?

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Beedham
Unknown:
Alastair Buchan
Unknown:
Robert McNamara

Clifford Curzon (piano)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
0 Part 1
Mozart
Piano Concerto in B flat major
(K.595)

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

Sir HUGH CASSON considers some of the problems of interior design that face designers and Management of large liners
An exhibition, Q.E.2-a First Look Inside the New Cunarder, has just opened at the Design Centre in London. It includes full-size mock-ups of two cabins, and diagrams, models, and photographs of the rest of the ship's interior.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson

The first of two talks by Paul Mayersbcrg on the role of genre in the cinema
Mr. Mayersberg argues that ' the power of fantasy ' lies in the hold genre has over the minds of the audience. It appeals to the individual's desire for freedom and mastery, perhaps particularly in the neglected case of the war picture, which he examines in detail.
Second broadcast
The Fantasy of Power: March 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Mayersbcrg

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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