Concerto in C major, for two gramophone records
gramophone records
Victoria and Lassus gramophone records
Clive LYTHGOE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Led by Barry Griffiths
at Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Fifth and final day
Ball-by-ball commentaries by John Arlott, Brian Johnston, Alan Gibson with comments and summaries by Trevor Bailey and W. E. Merritt
Close-of-play summary by E. W. Swanton
10.55 a.m.-1.35* p.m. including lunchtime summary
2.10*-4.20* p.m. including teatime summary
4.30*-5.40* or 6.10* p.m. including close-of-play summary
On Tuesday, when a Test Match is being played, Test Match Special may continue until 6.25 p.m., according to whether an optional half-hour of play is called for. If play finishes before this time, the Music Programme will re-open at any time after 5.40 p.m. The normal Music Programme operates on days when it is known at close of play the day before that there will be no play. On days when play finishes early or is abandoned at any time after it has begun, the Music Programme will resume approximately one hour after play has ceased.
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
HUNGARIAN RADIO AND TV STRING DANCE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GYÖRGY LEHEL with JANOS GYULAI-GAL (piano)
Recordings made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak and Hungarian Radios
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Genetics and Moral Responsibility
The last of six programmes based on discussions in the University of Liverpool and first broadcast in February Speakers:
DR C. O. CARTER
Clinical Genetics Unit. Institute of Child Health. London
BERNARD Williams
Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Cambridge
In the chair.
Lord COHEN OF BIRKENHEAD
President, General Medical Council In each programme there are talks by the two main speakers, discussion, and answers to questions from the audience
Programme arranged by Archie Clow
Second broadcast
Morais and Medicine, published by ttaa BBC. will be available later In the year
Muses of Sicily for chorus, wind instruments two pianos, and timpani
Choir OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS. DRESDEN DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA
JOSEPH ROLLINO , PAUL SHAFTAL (pianos)
Conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone record
The first of two programmes taken from the letters of Horace Walpole selected by TERENCE COOPER
Introduced bv
DAVID Lloyd James
Read by Carleton Hobbs
I walked as a rag of quaUty, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it
Horace Walpole (1717-1796) was the son of the great Whig Prime Minister and he invented the neo-Gothic slyle with the building of Strawberry Hill. He was also a great wit and his letters provide a running commentary on the absurdities of the ' age of reason.'
1150-1600
Music for Maximilian I
Music at the Spanish Court before the Armada
The art of Courtly Love
Ars Xova in medieval Florence Music at the Court of Burgundy, under Philip the Good
Music for an Italian Carnival c. 1520
THE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT
James Bowman (countertenor); Oliver Brookes (bass violi; Mary Remnant (medieval fiddle, rebec, portative organ); Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord, harp, portative organ, percussion); David Munrow (recorder, dulcian, sordun, crumhorn, gemshorn, shawm)
Broadcast on January 24
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