Faure
Dolly Suite
7 23* Pavane
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records
Le carnaval des animaux
Saint-Saëns
CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SEILICK (pianos)
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
8.27* La boite 4 joujoux Debussy
Suisse Romande ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
Josquin des Pres, and Lassus
BBC CHORUS
† Conducted by JAMES GADDARN
Lassus
Nine sacred lessons from the Prophet Job
A programme of recently released records
A programme to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death
Jesus ETCHEVERRY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins with MICHELE HERBÉ (soprano)
YVES BISSON (baritone)
BBC CHORUS
Overture: Kosikl
Grande Valse (Les cent vterges)
Overture: Girofle-Girona
Introduction and Chanson du petit
Bossu (Le petit due)
Suite: Fete de charité
Music from La fille de Madame
Angot
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson
Valerie Tryon
Chaconne in D minor
Bach-Busoni
Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este; Consolation No. 3, in D flat major; Concert Study in F minor (La leggierezza)
Liszt
Variations on a theme of Paganini, Books 1 and 2 Brahms
Given before an Invited audience In the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets should be sent to the Ticket Unit[address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Excerpts from Ruddigore, lolanthe, and The Gondoliers gramophone records
A romantic opera in three acts by Wagner sung in German
Henry the Fowler, Kintrof Germany
KARL RIDDERBUSCH (bass)
Lohengrin, Knight of the Grail
JAMES KING (tenor)
Elsa of Brabant
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
Frederick of Telramund, a Brabantine Count
DONALD MCINTYRE (bass-baritone)
Ortrud, his wife
LUDMILA DVORAKOVA (soprano)
The Royal Herald
THOMAS STEWART (baritone)
Four nobles:
HORST HOFFMANN (baritone)
WILLIAM JOHNS (tenor)
DIETER SLEMBECK (baritone)
HEINZ FELDHOFF (tenor)
Saxon. Thurlngian and Brabantine nobles. Ladies of Honour, attendants
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF the BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
Conducted by Alberto Erede
Produced by WOlFGANG WAGNER
The action takes place In Antwerp in the first half of the tenth century
Act 1
A meadow on the banks of the Scheldt
3.37* First interval
3.47 Act 2
The citadel at Antwerp
5.7* Second interval
5.17* Act 3
Scene 1 The bridal chamber
Scene 2 The banks of the Scheldt
Recording of a performance at the 1968 Bayreuth Festival made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
See page 49
During the Intervals
† BRIAN TROWELL introduces soma of Wagner's own comments on Lohengrin, read by PETER PRATT
JOHN Amis takes a look at non- broadcast musical events in the West, Wales and Scotland during the next seven days
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10: Arlesheim, Switzerland
gramophone records
A study of John Wilmot Second Earl of Rochester 1647-1680
Written and produced by Terence Tiller
' The readiest way to hell, boy, quick!' 'Ne'er stir:
The readiest way, my lord, 's by Rochester '
DIALOGUE WITH A POSTBOY with Denis Goacher as Rochester and Alan Wheatley as Narrator
Others taking part: Maureen Beck Ernest Bale , Jonathan Cecil
Felix Felton , Denys Hawthorne Peter Marinker , Norman Shelley
Second broadcast
Jonathan Cecil is In ' Halfway up tho Tree ' at the Queen's Theatre. London
by .W. D. M. Paton, F.R.S.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Drug dependence presents a new challenge in preventive medicine. Professor Paton discusses the grave public health risks arising from the subtle interplay of psychological, pharmacological, and social forces upon which it depends. Recorded at the recent meeting of the British Association in Dundee.
The Development of Behaviour. by Dr. P. P. G. Batesvn: Nov. 4
A reading of the three major episodes from the Old English poem in Kevin Crossley -Holland's translation
3: The Fight with the Dragon
In old age, Beowulf goes to fight a dragon, warden of a treasure hoard, which is terrorising his own land where he is now king. He kills the dragon, but is himself mortally wounded, and dies. His- people bury him.
Readers, ALAN WHEATLEY and GARY WATSON
Introduced by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
Produced by George MacBeth
played by the † BOROIDIN STRING QUARTET
Rostislav Dubinsky (violin) Jaroslav Alexandrov (violin) Dmitri Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
