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A recording of the great Soviet pianist's only London recital this season given in the Royal Festival Hall on March 17
Part 1: Beethoven
Twelve Variations on the Russian Dance from Wranitzky's Das Waldmadchen , in A major
Sonata in C major, Op. 53
(Waldstein)
Thirty-two Variations on an original theme, in C minor
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by Emil Gilels
Part 2
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Debussy
Trois poemes de Stéphane Mal-
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Soupir: Placet futile; Eventatl
9.13* Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
9.30* Trois ballades de
Francois Villon
† NIGEL WICKENS (baritone)
PETER CROSER (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS Ensemble Richard Adeney
Cecil Aronowitz , Osian Ellis
Sonata broadcast June 25. 1967
MALCOLM FRAGER (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conductor, JAMES LouGHRAN
Dvorak chamber music series
DUMKA TRIO
JANET COSTER (mezzo-soprano)
JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
The Bat o Operetta in three acts
Libretto by CARL HAFFNER and RICHARD GENEE after Meilhac and HalSvy
English translation by CHRISTOPHER HASSALL
Music by Johann Strauss
The action takes place in Baden. near Vienna. in the 1870s.
Act 1: The living-room of Eisenstein's apartments
For cast see facing page
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Act 2: The ballroom. Villa Orlofsky
Act 3: The prison governor's office
Leader. John Bradbury
Conducted by MICHAEL MOORES
Ballet Suite: Pineapple Poll
Sullivan, arr. Maekerras
Musicien français
Berceuse héroïque
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EDUARD VAN BEINUM
3.5* Des pas sur la neige: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest; La fille aux cheveux de lin; La sérénade interrompue: La cathédrale engloutie: La danse de Puck; Minstrels (Preludes, Book 1) 1 WALTER GIESEKING (piano)
3.27* Trois chansons de Bilitis
MAGGIE TEYTE (soprano) ALFRED CORTOT (piano)
0 3.36* lbéria (ImaKes)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Pierre MONTEUX gramophone records
This week, from Aylesbury
College of Further Education
THE WELL-TEMPERED SINGERS John Whitworth (counter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Geoffrey Shaw (baritone) Geoffrey Coleby (bass)
English STRING Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Marilyn Taylor (violin)
Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello)
Part 1
A series of illustrated conversations
Introduced by JOHN Amis
This week: DAME MYRA HESS
-Part 2
0 The best on records
Introduced by CHARLES Fox
FELix APRAHAMIAN looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the North during the next seven days
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Histoires naturelles
(Poems by Jules Renard )
Le paon; Le grillon; Le cygne Le martin-pecheur; La pintade
BARRY McDANIEL (baritone) ARIBERT REIMANN (piano)
Broadcast on Nov. 4. 1966
Three lectures recorded from a series arranged bv the University of Manchester ExtraMural Department
3: Polytechnic Possibilities by THE RT. HON.
PATRICK GORDON WALKER. M.P. Secretary of State for
Education and Science .
The designation of thirty new Polytechnics is potentially the most revolutionary development in higher education in decades. Mr. Gordon Walker outlines his hopes for the Polytechnics and answers questions from an invited audience. tA studio recording of the lecture which was to have been given before an open audience and which was interrupted by a student demonstration
JOHN BARSTOW (piano) EDITH VOGEL (piano)
BBC CHORUS
Conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE
VIRTUOSO ENSEMBLE Edward Walker [flute) Leon Goossens (oboe) Sidney Fell (clarinet) John Burden (horn)
Ronald Waller (bassoon) Patrick Hailing (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
William Webster (double-bass)
Conducted by Humphrey Searle
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Piano Sonata played by John Barstow
8.49* Song of the sun
The canticle of the rose first broadcast performance In this country
9.9* Progressions, for nine instruments
BBC commission: first performance
Humphrey Searle , born in 1915, was a pupil of Webern and one of the first English composers to adopt twelve-note technique. His new opera Hamlet has recently had a successful premiere in Hamburg. The works tonight span the last seventeen years: the oldest. the Piano Sonata, commemorates the 140th anniversary in 1951 of Lszt's birth; Song of the sun, a BBC commission, dates from 1964, and The canticle of the rose, a setting of Edith Sitwell. from 1966. Progressions is his most recent composition.
by ELIZABETH BARRETT Browning
A selection read by MARGARET RAWLINGS
ⓢ Part 2: Beethoven
Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 played by Edith Vogel
Given before an Invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. W 1. Applications for tickets should be sent to the Ticket Unit[address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Next invitation Conrert, Indian music (Ustad Vilayat Khan. Imrat Khan , and Manik Bao ): April 16 followed by an interlude at 10 50
