BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records
Sibelius
Tossy SPIVAROVSKY (violin)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by TAUNO HANNIKAINEN Violin Concerto in D minor
8.35* Tone Poem: Tapiola
8.52* Intermezzo; March
(Karelia Suite) gramophone records
Bach
Concerto in D minor, for three harpsichords and string orchestra
GEORGE MALCOLM , VALIDA AVELING and GEOFFREY PARSONS (harpsichords)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.21' Wedding Cantata: Wetchet nur, betriibte Schatten
MARIA STADER (soprano) MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RICHTER
0 gramophone records
Second of ten weekly broadcasts of recordings made during this competition; competitors played Haydn sonatas and modern works in addition to Mozart concertos
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES Lockhart (piano) AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Quartet broadcast on January 15: songs on January 22
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor, ALEXANDER GIBSON
1.0 News; Weather
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Broadcast on March 7. 1965
Cuban Overture
Bess, you is my woman now
(Porgy and Bess)
An American in Paris
0 gramophone records
ORCHESTRA OF THE RUMANIAN NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY
Conductor, VICTOR PREDESCU
A programme of popular and traditional Rumanian melodies
Concert-Master, Peter Mountain
Conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER
Piano: Preludes
The undertone: Obsession
The holy boy; Fire of spring
4.15' Songs:
One hope; Love is a sickness;
Santa Chiara; Love and friendship: The three ravens; Earth's call
4.34* Piano:
Sarnia: an island sequence DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano)
CLARE WALMESLEY (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
The fifth in a weekly series
Harrison Birtwistle
Monody for Corpus Christl
BARBARA ELSY (soprano) with members of the MELOS ENSEMBLE
Broadcast en August 15. 1965
0 Monodrama
(text by Stephen Pruslin )
JULES CURRY (speaker)
THE Pierrot PLAYERS
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Broadcast on December 3. 1967
International Choral Competition
MIXED VOICE CLASS: Semi-final ?
From Bulgaria: RODNA Pessen Conductor, MICHEL Milkov o. From Norway
VALEN'S Soloists CHOIR
Conductor, SVERRE VALEN YOUTH CHOIRS: Semi-final 2 from Japan
CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF N.H.K.
Conductor, NAOZUMI YAMAMOTO b.
From Holland: HAAGS Jbugdkoor Conductor, Marinus Borstlap
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Produced by Anthony Philpott Presented by the BBC In collabora. tion with twenty member countries of the European Broadcasting Union The Finals will be broadcast on Saturday, May 25 at 7.30 p.m. on BBC Radio 4 (Home Service)
JOHN Amis looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the Soutn-East in the coming weekend
See page 43
on East African Pop
Compiled and introduced by JOHN STORM ROBERTS
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon The exuberant world of East African pop music reveals an astonishing range of interweaving styles. Kenya and Tanzania have their own indigenous pop; but a major recent influence has been the Congolese evolution of Latin-American sounds.
Second broadcast
A fairy-tale opera in three acts
Libretto, after Pushkin by VLADIMIR IVANOVicH BYELSKY Music by Rimsky-Korsakov (sung in Russian)
Cast in order of singing:
Councillors, soldiers, attendants
CHORUS AND OPERA ORCHESTRA OF MOSCOW RADIO
Conducted by ALEXEI KOVALEV and YEVGEN YAKULOV
The action takes place in the legendary realm of King Dodon
Act 1: The council hall In King Dodon's palace
Recording made available by courtesy of Soviet Radio
J. M. ZlMAN , F.R.S.
Professor of Theoretical Physics in the University of Bristol gives his views and reactions on Professor J. D. Watson 's The Double Helii, which must surely be the most talked-about book in the world of science at the moment-not surprisingly, since it was refused publication by Harvard University Press, serialised by the Atlantic Monthly, and considered as a basis for legal action by some of the scientists mentioned in it. It is the inside story of the part played by the author in the discovery of the structure of DNA. But should the history of science be written this way?
Act 2: A mountain pass before dawn
A short story by OWEN LEEMING
Read by the author
This is a dead-pan account of the effects of an explosive projectile on a wall in an Italian town, seen from a passing train.
Act 3: The main square In King Dodon's capital followed by an Interlude at 10.55
