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N.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
GERVASE DE PEVER (clarinet)DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin) gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Arturo Toscanini
Clarinet:
Gervase de Pever
Clarinet:
Daniel Barenboim
Violin:
Neville Marriner

Music GROUP OF LONDON David Butt (flute)
Bernard Walton (clarinet) Hugh Bean (violin)
Frances Mason (violin) Maxwell Ward (viola) Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
MARY THOMAS (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING Quartet
Overture and Waltz broadcast on March 11

Contributors

Flute:
David Butt
Clarinet:
Bernard Walton
Violin:
Hugh Bean
Violin:
Frances Mason
Viola:
Maxwell Ward
Cello:
Eileen Croxford
Piano:
David Parkhouse
Soprano:
Mary Thomas
Piano:
Paul Hamburger

NEW LONDON WIND ENSEMBLE David Sandeman (flute) Neil Black (oboe)
Keith Puddy (clarinet) Timothy Brown (horn) Cecil James (bassoon)
HUNGARIAN STRING QUARTET
Bartok broadcast on January 8

Contributors

Flute:
David Sandeman
Oboe:
Neil Black
Clarinet:
Keith Puddy
Horn:
Timothy Brown
Bassoon:
Cecil James

Die Zauberfldte
An opera in two acts
Libretto by EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER English translation by ADRIAN MITCHELL Music by Mozart
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing:
Slaves, priests, people
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master. Douglas Robinson
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by GONTHER WICB
ACT 1
Scene 1 A rocky pass
Scene 2 Pamina's chamber
Scene 3 Courtyard of the Temple

Contributors

Unknown:
Emanuel Schikaneder
Translation By:
Adrian Mitchell
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
Gonther Wicb

tA surrealist fantasy reviewed and explained by SIMON WATSON TAYLOR
Musrum is either a male gypsy mouse or a space dream It is also a new book by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw. Mr. Watson Taylor explains its history, its charm, and its nuances.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Watson Taylor
Book By:
Eric Thacker
Book By:
Anthony Earnshaw.

Some reflections on the treatment of armed conflict in twentieth-century British fiction by LAURENCE KITCHIN
2: From Tommy Atkins to Private Ball
Mr. Kitchin compares the sensitive avoidance of class consciousness in the war poetry of Wilfrid Owen and David Jones with what he sees as the backward-looking public school ethos of the period's novel writers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Atkins
Unknown:
Wilfrid Owen
Unknown:
David Jones

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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