ALEXIS WEISSENBERG
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSK ! gramophone records
A request programme of records Concerto in D minor, for two violins and string orchestra
Bach
JOSEF SUK
LADISLAV JASEK
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
Conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS
Josquin des Pres, Lassus gramophone records
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records
by Herrick Bunney
From St. Giles' Cathedral. Edinburgh
Sonata broadcast on May 22; Quintet broadcast on May 23. 1967
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader. Carlos Villa
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
1.0 News; Weather
Broadcast on August 16. 1967
(piano) gramophone records
ANNON LEE SILVER (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
THOMAS HEMSLEY (bass)
ALAN HARVERSON (organ) GERAINT JONES SINGERS
GERAINT JONES ORCHESTRA Leader. Winifred Roberts Conductor, GERAINT JONES
From Zion Chapel, Kendal
Part 1: Purcell
Anthems:
Rejoice in the Lord alway My heart is inditing
This week
Priaulx Rainier introduces a performance of her First String Quartet
Songs broadcast on Feb. 2. 1967
Part 2: Haydn
Mass in E flat major (Mlssa solennis in honorem B.V.M.)
Mary Murdoch (oboe) after introducing a gramophone record of her father
WILLIAM MURDOCH (piano) playing Intermezzo in E flat major. Bruhins
Plays, with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
JOHN AMIS takes a look at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next seven days
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EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH talks to the Franco-American artist NIKI de SAINT PHALLE about her exhibition of new work at the Hanover Gallery, St. George Street, London, W.1 and discusses
Francois Truffaut 's book on Alfred Hitchcock with PHILIP OAKES and PHILIP STRICK
Produced by Philip French
from the Royal Festival Hall, London 0 Zvi Zeitlin (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Eli Goren
Conducted by Eliahu Inbal
Part 1
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by PHILIP MASON
Director of the Institute of Race Relations
It is still amazing that twelve hundred British Civil Servants once administered all India. Philip Mason, who was an Indian Civil Servant himself, takes two recent books as an occasion to reflect on the development of his own ideas about the Empire; particularly, about the significance of its passing.
A reading of the three major episodes from the Old English poem in Kevin Crossley -Holland's translation
2: The Fight with Grendel's Mother
Beowulf pursues Grendel's mother, who has come to avenge her son, to her lair at the bottom of a lake. There he kills her and her son with a giant sword whose blade her blood melts.
Readers, ALAN WHEATLEY and GARY WATSON
Introduced by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
Produced by George MacBetb
The Fight with the Dragon: tomorrow at 9.55 p.m.
conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA
Recording made available by courtesy of South West German Radio
