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Erich Kleiber
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.9* Strauss Final Scene, Act 3 (Der Rosenkavalier)
MARIA REINING (soprano) SENA JURINAC (soprano) HILDE GUEDEN (soprano) ALFRED POELL (baritone)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.29* Beethoven Symphony No 5. in c minor: AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Erich Kleiber
Soprano:
Hilde Gueden
Baritone:
Alfred Poell

NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550) Q conducted by ROELOF KROL
9.30* Berio Serenata I, for flute and 14 instruments 0 SEVERINO GAZZELLONI conducted by ERNEST BOUR
9.41* J. C. Bach Piano Concerto in E flat, Op 7 No 5 PAUL NIESSING conducted by ROELOF KROL t.50* Webern Five Pieces, Op 10 0 conducted by ERNEST BOUR
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)
10.3* Beethoven Songs: Ich liebe dich: Der Liebende; Lied aus der Feme; Der Zufriedene; Der Kuss
PETER SCHREIER (tenor) RUDOLF DUNCKEL (piano)
(Recording from the Salzburg Festival, made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
10.19* Schubert Quartet in d minor (Death and the maiden) BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET (gramophone record)

Contributors

Unknown:
Berio Serenata
Conducted By:
Ernest Bour
Conducted By:
Ernest Bour
Tenor:
Peter Schreier

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major, by JOSEPH COOPER
Recent records of chamber music and songs reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Joseph Cooper
Reviewed By:
Robert Henderson

Introduced by Peter Jones
Produced by JOHN HASLAM and ANGUS MACKAY
Events may alter timings

12.3* Sports Parade
including weather, previews of racing and football and a report on the first Test Match between S. Africa and Australia

1.0 News Summary

1.2 Sports Forum
Journalists, sportsmen, and commentators discuss questions from an invited audience. This week the panel includes J.L. Manning of the Evening Standard, Peter Jones, BBC sports commentator, and Ted Dexter of Sussex and England Chairman, Peter West
From the Shell Centre Theatre, London; produced by GEOFF DOBSON

1.30 Behind the Sporting Scenes: Does Athletics Pay?
We constantly hear stories of athletes making big money out of their amateur sport. Are these really true? An investigation by Norris McWhirter

1.50 Meet Alan Hardaker
Jacob de Vries talks to Alan Hardaker who came from a Rugby League family in Hull, but chose soccer as his game - scored 100 goals in a season as an amateur, played for Hull but gave up soccer to take up a career in local government. Later he returned to soccer and became Secretary of the Football League

2.11; 2.40 Racing from Doncaster
Commentary by Peter Bromley on the 2.15 Brewers Four Years Old Hurdle Race, and the 2.45 John Smith's Great Yorkshire Handicap Steeple Chase
4.55 Racing results

2.25 Cricket: South Africa v Australia
First Test Match at Cape Town A relay of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's ball-by-ball commentary on the last 15 minutes before tea on the third dav. Included in the team of commentators is Brian Johnston of the BBC.

2.55; 4.50 Rugby Union
Wales v South Africa
Commentary during the first half of the final international of the Springboks' tour by Kim Shippey and Alun Williams, with summaries by W.E.N. Davis, from Cardiff Arms Park (The whole match on Grandstand. Commentary on the second half on Radio 4 from 3.40 - not Scotland or N. Ireland: Radio 4 Wales broadcasts the whole match from 3.0 pm)
France v Ireland
Score flashes during the afternoon on the international at Stade Colombes, Paris.
(Commentary on the whole match: Radio 4 N. Ireland, from 3.0 pm)
4.50 Illustrated reports on both matches
(Highlights in Rugby Special on BBC2 at 7.35)

3.45 Association Football
Commentary by Maurice Edelston and Bryon Butler on the second half of one of today's fourth round FA Cup ties, followed by the day's results as they come in

5.0 Sports Report
Including classified football results, reports on selected soccer matches, a report on the Test match between South Africa and Australia and further news of the rest of the afternoon's sport.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
John Haslam
Produced By:
Angus MacKay
Unknown:
J. L. Manning
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Ted Dexter
Unknown:
Peter West
Produced By:
Geoff Dobson
Unknown:
Norris McWhirter
Talks:
Jacob de Vries
Unknown:
Alan Hardaker
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
John Smith
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Kim Shippey
Unknown:
Alun Williams
Unknown:
W. E. N. Davis
Commentary By:
Maurice Edelston
Commentary By:
Bryon Butler

A dramatised documentary on the life and work of John Millington Synge by MAURICE GOOD
'And that inquiring man John
Synge comes next
That dying chose the living world for text.
And never could have rested in his tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place Towards nightfall upon a race hisPassionate and simple heart ' (W. B. Yeats)
Produced by RONALD MASON
(' Deirdre of the Sorrows': Sunday, 6.20 pm)

Contributors

Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Synge:
Maurice Good
Yeats:
Sean Barrett
A man:
Kevin Flood
A woman:
Pauline Delaney

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The Game of Love and Death The action of this opera in one act after
Romain Rolland takes place in Paris in 1794 Words and music by JAN CIKKER
German version, KURT HONOLKA First broadcast in this country Cast in order of singing
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAVARIAN STATE OPERA chorus-master
WOLFGANG BAUMGART conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN (Recording from the Munich Festival 1969: made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)

Contributors

Unknown:
Romain Rolland
Music By:
Jan Cikker
Unknown:
Kurt Honolka
Chorus-Master:
Wolfgang Baumgart
Conducted By:
Vaclav Neumann
Denis Bayot:
Max Proebstl

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared. JOHN MCCABE discusses Bartok's Third Piano Concerto as recorded by Anda, Bernathova, Gabos, Katchen, Ogdon, Sandor, Peter Serkin , and others f (Bartok String Quartets, first of six: Friday, 9.30 pm)
10.55 Interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John McCabe
Unknown:
Peter Serkin

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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