Today's time GTS 7.0 am

Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 8 No 9
HAROLD GOMBERG , NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.15* Dittersdorf Partita in r major
FRENCH WIND QUINTET
7.27* Viotti Violin Concerto No 22, in A minor
SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by c. A. BÜNTE gramophone records

Shield Overture: Rosina
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.12* Mozart Concerto in F major, for three pianos and orchestra (K 242)
HEPZIBAH MENUHIN , YALTAHMENUHIN jeremy menuhin LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
8.34* Dvorak Czech Suite MUSICA AETERNA ORCHESTRA conducted by FREDERIC WALDMAN gramophone records

Schumann Albumblatter , for piano (Bunte Blatter, Op 99)
9.11* Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 105
9.27* Stiicke in Fughettenform, Op 126, for piano
MARIA LIDKA (Violin)
PETER WALLFISCH (piano)

VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano)
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
10.0* Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)
10.33* Hendrik Andriessen
Symphony No 2 (first performance)
10.50* Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)

Claude Ballif Sonata for violin and piano, Op 17 (first broadcast performance)
Fallo Seven Spanish Popular Songs
Roussel Sonata No 1, for violin and piano, Op 17
CLARA BONALDI (violin)
SYLVAINE BILLIER (piano)
HAZEL SIMKINS (soprano)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)

COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet) NERINE BARRETT (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conductor COLIN DAVIS
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
12.28* Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major (K 622)

1.4 Tchaikovsky Suite: Nut-cracker
1.29* Poulenc Piano Concerto
1.50* Stravinsky Three Scenes from Petrushka
(piano ERNEST LUSH)

opera in three acts by HANDEL English translation by GEOFFREY DUNN
This opera, based on the Alcestis of Euripides, is considered to be aniong the finest of Handel's Italian operas. It was first performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, in January 1727 and proved a remarkable success. There were several revivals in London. and it was the last of the composer's operas to be performed during his lifetime Cast in order of singing:
OLIVER BROOKES (cello) MALCOLM HICKS (harpsichord)
ALAN CUCKSTON (harpsichord) BAROQUE OPERA ORCHESTRA leader PAUL DOE conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
Act 1
Scene 1 A room in the palace in Pherae, capital of Thessaly Scene 2 A wood near Pherae Scene 3 A room in the palace Scene 4 A wood near Pherae

Sylvius Leopold Weiss Tom-beau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy
Robert de Visée Suite in D minor
JULIAN BREAM (guitar) gramophone records

Act 2
Scene 1 Hades
Scene 2 The royal garden
Scene 3 A wood near Pherae Scene 4 The same, next morning

STEVEN STARYK (Violin) NETHERLANDS RADIO
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN FOURNET
Three movements from Suite: The Love of Three Oranges
5.7* Violin Concerto No 1, in "D major
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union)

Act 3
Scene 1 A room in the palace Scene 2 A square in Pherae Scene 3 The throne room

Community and Leadership
'The idea of community implies a fairly settled set of relationships between people: settled by the passing of time, and settled because people know each other and have certain expectations of each other.'
The radio tutor, ALAN f. silli -TOE, talks to JOHN CARRIER. lecturer in Sociology at Gold-smith's College, London, and to COLIN BELL , lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex Produced by RON BLOOMFIELD

Symphony
IVOR KEYS concludes his study of the first movement of Brahms's Second Symphony Produced by PETER DODD
(For publication see page 42)

Quartet in A minor, Op 132 played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

by DR DAVID STAFFORD-CLARK Director of the York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, London a shortened version of a Royal Institution Discourse recorded earlier this year

by JEAN COCTEAU Jill Bennett in Le bel indijfirent
The man PETER tuddenham
This companion piece to Cocteau's The Human Voice again portrays a woman at the end of her tether, pleading with her indifferent lover, abusing him, showing her tenderness and her fury: the handsome man's reply is to whistle before hiding behind his paper.
Originally written for
Editn Piaff. the monologue is here spoken by 'Actress of the Year ' Jill Bennett
The monologue translated for radio by PETER MEYER
Produced by H. B. FORTU ØI

Symphony No 10
(full length performing version by DERYCK COOKE )
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDT gramophone records

Luigi Dallapiccola recalls how he came to write the libretto of his new opera Ulysses, to be broadcast for the first time in English next Saturday, 20 September (Third)

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