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Last of four programmes Including large-scale chamber music by Brahms and Dvorak
Part 1
Symphony
Members of the BERLIN PHILHARMONICOctet Alfred Malacek (violin)
Rudolf Hartmann (violin) Kunio Tsuchiya (viola)
Heinrich Majowski (cello)
Rainer Zepperitz (double-bass) gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Alfred Malacek
Violin:
Rudolf Hartmann
Viola:
Kunio Tsuchiya
Cello:
Heinrich Majowski
Double-Bass:
Rainer Zepperitz

including
TEST MATCH
SPECIAL
England v.
New Zealand
FIRST TEST MATCH at Lord's
Third day
Commentary by: JOHN ARLOTT ALAN GIBSON
NEIL DURDEN-SMITH with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and W. E. MERRITT
Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
11.25-1.35*; 2.10*-3.35-
3.50*-4.15*; 4.35*-5.5*
5.10*-6.37 including lunch and close-of-play summaries

Contributors

Commentary By:
John Arlott
Commentary By:
Alan Gibson
Commentary By:
Neil Durden-Smith
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
W. E. Merritt

by G. M. ROWAN-ROBINSON
Lecturer in Mathematics at Queen Mary College, University of London
It was only recently that astronomers first discovered quasi-stellar radio sources. Their light, their behaviour, their disposition in the sky all revealed unusual features. One of the implications of these may be that we have already seen all the way round the universe.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. M. Rowan-Robinson

Opera seria in two acts
Libretto by CATERINO MAZZOLA after METASTASIO
Music by Mozart
A concert performance recorded in the Royal Festival Hall sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing:
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Eli Goren
Conductor, COLIN DAVIS
Broadcast on Jan. 29 (Radio 4)
ACT 1
Sc. 1: A room in Vitellia's house in Rome, 79 A.D.
Sc. 2: The Forum
Sc. 3: The Emperor's garden Sc. 4: The Forum

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Colin Davis

ACT 2
Sc. 1: The Emperor's garden
Sc. 2: A hall in the Imperial
Palace
Sc. 3: A room in Vitellia's house Sc. 4: The Coliseum
Patricia Kern broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; John Constable by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Kern
Unknown:
John Constable

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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