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STUYVESANT STRING QUARTET Sylvan Shulman (violin) Bernard Robbins (violin) Ralph Hersh (viola) Alan Shulman (cello)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Victoria
DE LOS ANGELES (soprano) GONZALO SORIANO (piano)
ROBERT MASTERS (violin) DEREK SIMPSON (Cello) MARCEL GAZELLE (piano) gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Sylvan Shulman
Violin:
Bernard Robbins
Viola:
Ralph Hersh
Cello:
Alan Shulman
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Soprano:
de Los Angeles
Piano:
Gonzalo Soriano
Violin:
Robert Masters
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Piano:
Marcel Gazelle

Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In her first programme
IRMGARD SEEFRIED with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano), sings
Mussorgsky
Mit der Njanja: Im Winkel Der Kafer; Mit der Puppe
Abendgebet; Steckenpferdretter (Kinderstube)

Contributors

Soprano:
Irmgard Seefried
Unknown:
Irmgard Seefried
Piano:
Paul Hamburger

HEATHER HARPER (soprano) PETER PEARS (tenon)
THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone) Melos ENSEMBLE
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
Boys from EMANUEL SCHOOL
Conductor. CHRlSTIAN STROVER LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Conductor, FREDERIC JACKSON SIMON PRESTON (organ and chamber organ)
BBC SYMPHONY Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and MEREDITH DAVIES
Symphony No. 6, in E minor
Vaughan WilUams conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
3.33* War Requiem Britten conducted by Meredith Davies and Benjamin Britten
Broadcast on August 4. 1964
Fifth of fifteen weekly programmes

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Conductor:
Frederic Jackson
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Vaughan Wiluams
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Meredith Davies

George Melly talks to the Belgian collagiste and poet E.L.T. Messens, the friend and early collaborator of the Painter Rene Magritte.
Produced by Leonie Cohn

An exhibition of paintings by Rene Magritte (1898-1967). organised by the Arts Council is at the Tate Gallery until March 30

Contributors

Interviewer:
George Melly
Interviewee:
E.L.T. Messens
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

A Parenthesis for Radio by Henry Reed
with Mary O'Farrell and Hugh Burden

(First broadcast on May 24, 1954; seventh broadcast)
See page 42

Contributors

Writer:
Henry Reed
The music composed by:
Donald Swann
Producer:
Douglas Cleverdon
Hilda Tablet, a composeress:
Mary O'Farrell
Herbert Reeve, a scholar:
Hugh Burden
Stephen Shewin:
Carleton Hobbs
Connie, his wife:
Gwen Cherrell
Elsa Strauss, a singer:
Marjorie Westbury
Sir Eric Tablet, Hilda's father:
Norman Shelley
Lady Tablet, Hilda's mother:
Susan Richmond
Evelyn Baxter Hilda's secretary:
Colin Campbell
The Duke of Mulset:
Frank Duncan
The Duchess of Mulset:
Diana Maddox
The Rector of Mull Extrinseca:
Deryck Guyler
Nancy Shewin:
Dorothy Primrose
A few of her sons - Owen:
Denis Quilley
A few of her sons - Brian:
Wilfrid Downing
A few of her sons - George:
M. Westbury
A few of her sons - Humphrey:
D. Maddox
Miss Welbeck, a headmistress:
Vivienne Chatterton
Harold Reith, a librettist:
Frank Duncan
R. Egerton Bunningfield, A.R.A.:
Norman Shelley
Roger Cloud, a male composer:
Deryck Guyler

A recording of the first performance of Dallapiccola's opera ' Ulysses ' at last year's Berlin Festival will be broadcast in the Third Programme on March 15. It will be sung in German. A timed synopsis can be obtained by sending a large stamped addressed envelope to ' Ulysses,' BBC. Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]

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