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Suite No. 9, in G minor.Handel
A request programme of gramophone records
Rachmaninov (1873-1943) by STEPHEN WALSH
Mozart's ( Solo ' String Quartets by HANS KELLER
Famous Verdi Operas: book review by ANDREW PORTER
Walking Encyclopaedia by SidNEY HARRISON
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced this week by JOHN LADE
0 Cantata No. 132: Bereitet die
Wege, bereitet die Bahn
0 12.22* Cantata No. 61: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland
Ingeborg Reichelt (soprano)
Hildegakd Rutgers (contralto' THEO Attmeyer (tenor) Eduard Wollitz (bass)
Barmen-Gemarke SINGERS
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS
Conducted by HELMUT Kahlhofer
12.41* Cantata No. 182: Himmelskonig, sei willkommen
FRANKE HAASEMANN (alto) JOHANNES Hoefflin (tenor) Wilhelm POMMERIEN (bass)
WESTPHALIAN SINGERS
GERMAN Bach SOLOISTS
Conducted by WILHELM Ehmann gramophone records
Music for violin and piano
Broadcast on October 8. 1967 Next Sunday. April 7. at 3.0 p.m.: Josel Suk and Jan Panenka give the first of three public concerts in the Beethotien scries organised bu the Music Programme and given in the Queen Elizabeth Hull. London
The programme consists of the Sonata in E flat major, Op. 12 No. 3, the Sonata in A minor, Op 23. and the Kreutzer Sonata (in A major. Op. 47). Denis Matthews will talk about the works during the concert interval.
A programme for the three concerts, with notes on the music to be played and an essay by Denis Matthews on Beethoven's Sonatas for violin and piano. will be available from April 1. The price is 2s. bd. (by post 3s. M.) from BBC Publications. P.O. Box 1AR. Lundon, W.l.
An opera in one act by Arthur Benjamin
Libretto by ALAN Collars and JOHN B. GORDON
Narrator, GEORGE HAGAN
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by BRYDEN Thomson
Produced by Vivian A. Daniels and DAVID ELLIS
The lyrics for the ' Blind Beggar's Song ' and the ' Drinking Song ' are by Cedric Cliffe
Action. A poet's living-room open. ing directly on to a street. Time: 15th-century London
Broadcast on June 18. 1967
From the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea
In association with Southend-on-Sea Music Club
Peter Frank] (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Hugh Maguire
Conducted by James Loughran
Part 1: Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5, In E flat major (Emperor)
John Amis talks to PETER FRANKL
Part 2:
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
DON SMITHERS (trumpet)
John Beckett (harpsichord)
DAPHNE WEBB (cello continuo)
Broadcast on June 8. 1966
Hamish Gray of the Institute of Economic Affairs believes that the time has come for a radical reform
Second broadcast
French National Radio Orchestra
Conducted by Maurice le Roux
Conducted by Hiroyuki Iwaki
Recording from the 1967 Royan Festival made available by courtesy of French Radio. All the works are first broadcasts in this country
A comedy by Ben Jonson arranged by RAYMOND RAIKES with A!fred Marks, Robert Harris Brenda Bruce , Charles Gray The- Scene: London. 1609
Cittern played by DESMOND Dupr
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Second broadcast
Opera by Janacek
ACT I
Recording made available by cour. tesy of Czechoslovak Radio
See panel and page 39
by W G. Chaloner
A meteorite fell at Orgueil in France in 1864. It contained an undoubted plant seed. Was it proof of extraterrestrial life. or a a Piltdown from the Sky '?
ACTS 2 and 3
A short story by BORIS PILNYAK translated by Beatrice Scott
Eead by Garard GREEN
