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Quartet In D major. Op. 20
No. 4
TEL AVIV STRING QUARTET Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benyamini (viola) Uzi Wiesel (cello)
Broadcast on September 29
9.26* Symphony No. 60, in C major (II distratto) ESTERHAZY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by David BLUM gramophone record
Last programme in this series

Contributors

Violin:
Chaim Taub
Violin:
Menahem Breuer
Viola:
Daniel Benyamini
Cello:
Uzi Wiesel
Conducted By:
David Blum

Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ' by NoEl GOODWIN Tito Schipa (1889-1965) by CHARLES OSBORNE
Early Jazz book review by STEVE RACE
Opera in 1968 by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Goodwin
Unknown:
Tito Schipa
Unknown:
Charles Osborne
Review By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Harold Rosenthal
Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage

Part 2
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) SVEN OLOF ELLASSON (tenor) ODD WOLSTAD (bass)
DEMKIRKEN Motet SINGERS
BERGEN SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by KARSTEN ANDERSON Tippett
Oratorio: A Child of our Time
Recording made available by court tesy of Norwegian Radio

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Conducted By:
Karsten Anderson

1: Edward Elgar
The Starlight Express Op. 78
A Fantasy for
Children of all ages arranged for broadcasting by RAYMOND RAIKES from the novel
A Prisoner in Fairyland by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD and the play by VIOLET PEARN with all the original music written by Elgar for the production at the Kingsway Theatre, London In December 1915
Cast in order of singing and speaking: with the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LIONEL SALTER who edited the music
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Broadcast on December 26. 1965

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Algernon Blackwood
Play By:
Violet Pearn
Conducted By:
Lionel Salter
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
The Organ-Grinder:
Denis Dowling
Some of the sprites: A Gardener:
Wilfrid Carter
Some of the sprites: A Dustman:
Bruce Beeby
A Lamplighter:
Brian Hewlett
A Tramp:
John Dearth
A Guard:
Patricia Gallimore
A Sweep:
Hector Ross
The Lauglier:
Audrey Attxxd
Jane Anne:
Jane Wenham
Mother:
Noel Hood
Monkey:
Elizabeth Proud
Jimbo:
Danny Rambler
Daddy:
Noel Howlett
Madame Jequier:
Cecile Chevreau

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
BERTHOLD GOLBSCHMlDT talks about some of the problems of interpretation that arise in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and illustrates them from recordings made by BERNSTEIN, Golsch-MANN, HORENSTEtN, MRAVINSKY. PREVIN, ROWICKI, with the WARSAW PHILHARMONIC and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, STOKOWSKI, and others
Second broadcast

by DR. ANTHONY HEWISH of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Cambridge last December, says Dr. Hewish, we stumbled on something so strange that we could hardly believe that what our radio telescope recorded was true. What it was recording was radio signals which still present one of the major outstanding problems In astronomy. Dr. Hewish describes what has happened since this utterly unexpected discovery was made.
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Anthony Hewish

by Colin Finbow with Michael Hordern and Beatrix Lehmann
Withdrawn from a world which has no use for them, an old couple long out of love relive their past through their old gramophone records.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Finbow
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Ernie:
Michael Hordern
Ada:
Beatrix Lehmann
Boy:
Paul Dorfman
Liftman:
Leonard Fenton

Heinrich SchUtz Choir
Charles Spinks
(organ and harpsichord) London String Players
Conducted by Roger Norrington
Part 1
Blow up the trumpet In Zion Suite:
Abdelazer Lord. how long wilt thou be angry 0 God, thou hast cast us out My beloved spake

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Schutz
Unknown:
Charles Spinks
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington
Unknown:
Abdelazer Lord.

by DR. R. A. WEALE of the Institute of Ophthalmology
Architects of the past sometimes used special devices to enhance-or preserve-the impressiveness of their buildings. Have modern architects forgotten how to play this game—or are they unwilling?

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. R. A. Weale

Poems chosen and Introduced by Sir Charles Tennyson Read by NICOLETTE BERNARD
ANTHONY JACOBS. HENRY STAMPER BRIAN HAINES
Produced by R. D. Smith

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sir Charles Tennyson
Read By:
Nicolette Bernard
Read By:
Anthony Jacobs.
Unknown:
Stamper Brian Haines
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

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