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
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Bacon
Conducted by David TIDBOALD
Records of the Octet, and some of the choral music conducted by the composer gramophone records
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor, RUDOLF BARSHAI
Broadcast on September 26. 1965
November 15: Slovak Chamber Orchestra, cond. Bohdan Warchal
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
WISSEMA STRING QUARTET
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, BRYDEN THOMSON
Part 1
Margaret Price (soprano)
In her second programme
MARGARET PRICE , with JAMES LOCKHART (piano) sings
James Lockhart broadcasts by arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company
Part 2
Given before an Invited audience in the Town Hall. Manchester
British light music
ORCHESTRA OF THE
LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY
Leader. Henry Datyner
Conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
gramophone records
Ninth of a series of programmes
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
Records chosen by the under-twenties gramophone records
ANTHONY PAYNE looks at non-broadcast musical events in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week
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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
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.
ACT 2
Scene 1 In the Temple
Scene 2 Courtyard of the Temple Scene 3 A garden
Scene 4 A vault In the Temple Scene 5 In the Temple Scene 6 A garden Scene 7 A portal Scene 8 A garden
Scene 9 Before the Temple Scene 10 in the Temple
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.
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