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Australia v England
Fourth Test from the Sydney Cricket Ground
Commentary on the last hour of the first day's play by BRIAN JOHNSTON , ALAN MCGILVRAY and JIM BURKE
Summaries bv LINDSAY HASSETT

Contributors

Play By:
Brian Johnston
Play By:
Alan McGilvray
Play By:
Jim Burke
Unknown:
Lindsay Hassett

Barenboim conducts the English Chamber Orchestra
First of the concerts which were broadcast in the mid-1960s and which can be heard again in Saturday Concerts during the next few weeks ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ ‡ Part 1
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in d major
WILLIAM BENNETT (flute)
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
9.37* Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in e flat major, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra (K Anh 9)
PETER GRAEME. THEA KING IFOR JAMES, MARTIN GATT
10.12* Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
BRACHA EDEN (piano)
ALEXANDER TAMIR (piano) (gramophone record) Barenboim, part 2
10.47* Haydn Symphony No 95, in c minor

Contributors

Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Flute:
William Bennett
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Peter Graeme.
Piano:
Alexander Tamir

A personal choice of records presented by David Munrow t This week an English programme, including at 2.5* a sequence of theatre music by Handel, Robert Parsons , and Purcell; at 2.36* Walton's Viola Concerto, played by YEHUDI MENUHIN ; at 3.2* a group of English traditional songs; at 3.15* part of John Tavener 's cantata: The Whale: at 3.29* Elgar's Falstaff, conducted by ANTHONY COLLINS

Contributors

Presented By:
David Munrow
Music By:
Robert Parsons
Played By:
Yehudi Menuhin
Unknown:
John Tavener
Conducted By:
Anthony Collins

Mozart Piano Quartet in e flat major (K 493)
4.31* Fauri Piano Quartet in c minor. Op 15
PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, last June) t

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Lamar Crowson
Unknown:
St John

Opera in four acts Music by VERDI Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Cast in order of singing:
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
The action takes place in Spain in the 15th century.
Act 1: Sc 1: A hall in the Aliaferia Palace in Aragon; Sc 2: The gardens of the palace
Act 2: Sc 1: A gypsy camp in the mseayan mountains: Sc 2: The cloister of a convent near Castellor

Contributors

Unknown:
Salvatore Cammarano

Baroness White Eirene White was formerly
Member of Parliament for East Flintshire, from which she retired last year, and held office in the Labour government from October 1964. Her last appointment was as Minister of State for the Welsh Office. t
(Baroness White's next talk: 23 January)

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness White Eirene White

c. H. WADDINGTON , FRS, embryologist, author of The Scientific Attitude and many works on genetics, and a keen student of modern art, in conversation with DENIS DUERDEN , art critic.
In his recent book Behind Appearance, on the impact of science on painting, C. H. Waddington relates how the Philosopher A. N. Whitehead proposed a description of the world similar to the appearance of some types of modern Painting. This conversation takes Whitehead's account as its starting point, followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Waddington
Unknown:
Denis Duerden
Unknown:
C. H. Waddington
Unknown:
A. N. Whitehead

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared. t CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON discusses three Debussy Preludes, all from Book 1: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans I'air du soir; Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige. The pianists include Casadesus, Cortot, Ferber, Frankl, Gieseking, Gulda, Haas, Ilja Hurnik , and Richter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ilja Hurnik

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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