BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader. Colin Staveley
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE

A request programme of records

Dvorak
Piano Quintet in A major
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC QUARTET with CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) gramophone record

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Transcendental Studies played by MALCOLM TROUP (piano)
The last of three programmes showing the connection between the Transcendental Studies (1851) and the juvenile Exercises, Op. 1. from which they were derived

Broadcast on May 2. 1963

JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
Louis HALSEY SINGERS
SIMON PRESTON (organ, and organ and harpsichord continuo)
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Robert Masters
Conducted by Louis HALSEY

Funeral Anthem on the death of Queen Caroline

1.0 News; Weather

1.4* Organ Concerto No. 1, in G minor

1.21* Il moderato
Nineteenth in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music and In particular his operas and oratorios

(Chamber music: May 12)

Barber
A nun takes the veil Sleep now
Rain has fallen
2.4* Chausson Le charme
Sérénade italienne Les papillons
2.12* Jensen Standchen
Fruhlingsnacht
Margret am Tore
2.20* Wolf
Der Schreckenberger Rat einer Alten Der Jager
BARBARA STRATHDEE (soprano) CLAUDE MAY (baritone)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)

played by FRANCIS JACKSON
Three Chorale Preludes on Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (S.659-661)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
From York Minster
Broadcast on October 18. 1967

Michael ROLL (piano)
JEANNE LORIOD (ondes martenot) ARLETTE SIBON (ondes martenot) BBC MEN'S CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ
Part 1: Beethoven conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture: Egmont
3.9* Piano Concerto No. 2, in B flat major
3.40* Symphony No. 5, in C minor

This week
Benjamin Britten 's Quartet No. 2 played by the † AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Part 2: Varese conducted by Frederik Prausnlti
Ecuatorial
5.22* Deserts
Broadcast on July 28. 1966
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A series of programmes in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical lives and introduce the music
This week
Patrick Ireland (viola) with PEGGY GRAY (piano) plays
Arpeggione Sonata
Schubert, arr. Forbes

MICHAEL REYNOLDS looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next seven days

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ALAN JONES (baritone)
† JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord)
Blow
The grove; Flavia grown old The self-banished; Clarona
The fair lover and his black mistress
Purcell
Draw near. vou lovers
He himself courts his own ruin If music be the food of love Let formal lovers still pursue O, solitude
On the brow of Richmond Hill

Two new plays opened in London this week: The Duel, based on a story by Chekhov at the Duke of York's Theatre, and Hadrian the Seventh, based on the novel by Frederick Rolfe (' Baron Corvo at the Mermaid.
ERIC RHODE talks to JACK HOLTON DELL . who has dramatised The Duel, and NORMAN MARSHALL. the director; and to PETER Dews , the director of Hadrian the Seventh, and ALEC Mc-COWEN who stars in it
Produced by Oleg Kerensky

Israel after twenty years Three documentary programmes by Ian McIntyre who was commissioned by the Third Programme to visit Israel 1: The June War and its aftermath
Israel's victory over the Arab states made her frontiers more secure than at any time since 1948. But it also areravated some of her most intractable problems.
Produced by George Fischer

Preludes and Fugues ('48'
Book 1):
C major; C minor
HELMUT WALCHA (harpsichord)
0 gramophone record

Thirteen weekly readings 3: Ben Jonson (1574-1637)
Settings of lyrics for voice and lute, mostlv from manuscript sources, by various composers contemporary with the poet
The anthology compiled and introduced by DENIS GOACHER with BETH Bovd (soprano) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) ROBERT Spencer (lute)
Produced by Terence Tiller
Second broadcast
Shakespeare Sonnets - A Woman Coloured 111 ': April 23

played by the Aeolian String Quartet
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Last of three programmes of Mozart's ' Prussian ' quartets and Haydn's Op. 54. played by the Aeolian Quartet

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