Pavane pour une infante defunte
NEW Philharmonia ORCHESTRA Conducted by RAFAEL FRÜBECK DE BURGOS
Serenade No. 10, in B flat major (K.361)
LONDON WIND QUINTET AND ENSEMBLE
Conducted by Otto KLEMPERER
Dido and Aeneas
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Cantata: St. Nicolas
Peter PEARS (tenor)
DAVID HEMMINGS (treble) RALPH DOWNES (organ) ALDEBUHGH FESTIVAL
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by the composer gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Mahler's Symphony No. 9, by STEPHEN WALSH
Recent Records of concertos: reviewed by Noel Goodwin
Introduced by Steve Race
Introduced by Bryon Butler
Directed by Geoff Dobson and Angus Mackay
12:30 SPORTS PARADE including your afternoon's Weather Forecast
1.0 PRIZE QUIZ
LIAM NOLAN poses this week's questions and reveals the names of last week's lucky Premium Bond winners
Devised by John Fenton
1.15 NEWMARKET - THE HEART OF RACING
Newmarket is famous not only for its racecourse but also as the home of the Jockey Club, Tattersails, and the National Stud, and is the most notable centre in the country for trainers and breeders
PETER BROMLEY examines the special relationship between Newmarket and the racing industry
1.45 MEET LES AMES
BRIAN JOHNSTON talks to the former Kent and England player, and manager of the present M.C.C. team to Ceylon and Pakistan
RACING
2.10 The Brewers' Four-year-old Hurdle, Div. 1
For four-year-olds only, run over two miles and about 150 yards
2.40 The Great Yorkshire Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards, run over about three miles and a quarter
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY
From Doncaster
4.55 Full Racing Results
2.25 YOU'VE ASKED FOR IT
MAURICE EDELSTON introduces commentaries on past sporting events requested by listeners
Compiled by- John Fenton
2.55 RUGBY UNION INTERNATIONAL Ireland v. France Commentary on this afternoon's international by SAMMY WALKER and ALAN GIBSON From Lansdowne Road, Dublin
The second half of the match can be heard on Radio 4
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
F.A. Cup
3.55 Commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and PETER JONES during the second half of one of today's Fourth Round matches
4.42* Results as they come in. direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0 : 5.55
Classified Football Results
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Including reports on today's leading matches
TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.30 Sports Parade and Weather
1.0 Prize Quiz
1.15 Newmarket-The Heart of Racing
1.45 Meet Les Ames
2.10 Racing
2.25 You've Asked For It
2.40 Hacing
2.55 Rugby Union International
3.55 Association Football
4.42*Association Football Results
4.55 Racing Results
5.0 Sports Report
Timings may be altered by events
Fifth of seven programmes
The last three programmes Include Schubert's last three sonatas
Impromptu in C minor (D.899
No. 1)
6.11. Sonata in C minor (D.958) played by JAMES GIBB
Broadcast on April 28, 1968
Sonata in A major (D.959) (Edith Vogel ): February 1
Opera seria in three acts
Libretto after Apostolo ZENO
Music by Alessandro Scarlatti
Edited by ALEC HARMAN
(sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
BBC CHORUS
Joy Hall (cello continuo) Roy Jesson and Charles Spinks
(harpsichord continuo)
English CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Produced by BRIAN TROWELL
The action takes place in and near Palermo in legendary times
ACT I
Scene 1 A public square In Palermo Scene 2 A harbour
Scene 3 An apartment In the royal palace
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John Erickson
Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University, author of The Soviet High Command and of a forthcoming book on the second world war in Russia
ACT 2
Scene 1 A grove near Grlselda's hut Scene 2 A gallery in the palace Scene 3 Griselda's hut
Readings from
Poems and Ballads, first series (1866) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Compiled and introduced by DAVID DAVIS
Readers,
PAUL DANEMAN and SONIA FRASER
Second broadcast
ACT 3
Scene 1 The royal apartments Scene 2 The palace gardens Scene 3 The Amphitheatre in Palermo
Broadcast on June 8. 1968
