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Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasia: Hamlet
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
7.23* Wieniawski Violin Concerto No 2, in D minor WANDA WILKOMIRSKA
WARSAW NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
7.48* Verdi Ballet Music (Macbeth)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel
Conducted By:
Witold Rowicki
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch

Morning Concert: part Z
8.5 anon Incidental Music:
Macbeth TAYLOR CONSORT OF RECORDERS AND PERCUSSION
8.8* Mozart Piano Concerto No 19, in F (K 459) RUDOLF SERKIN
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.38* Shostakovich Incidental, Music: Hamlet
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTHUR FIEDLER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
MacBeth Taylor
Unknown:
Rudolf Serkin
Conducted By:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Arthur Fiedler

BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE with DAVID PETTIT (organ) from Clifton College Chapel Bach Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm!
Raison Offerte du cinquième ton: Le vive Ie roy des
Parisiens Copland In the beginning
(mezzq-soprano MOLLIE PETRIE ) Vterne Impromptu. Op 54 No 2 Messiaen Transports de joie (L'ascension)

Contributors

Conductor:
Philip Moore
Unknown:
David Pettit
Unknown:
Parisiens Copland
Unknown:
Mollie Petrie
Unknown:
Vterne Impromptu.

Howells Song-cycle: In green ways, for soprano and piano: Under the greenwood tree; The goat paths; Merry Margaret; Wanderer's night song; On the merry first of May
Sequence of music by Berlioz, Liszt, and Strauss Moeran Seven Poems of James Joyce , for soprano and piano: Strings in the earth and air; The merry green wood; Bright Cap; The pleasant valley; Donnycarney: Rain has fallen; Now, 0 now, in this brown land PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano) MUSICA DA CAMERA Harold Clarke (flute) Wilfred Smith (flute) Denis Vigay (cello)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
Hubert Dawkes (harmonium) with WILFRID PARRY (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Strauss Moeran
Unknown:
James Joyce
Soprano:
Patricia McCarry
Flute:
Harold Clarke
Flute:
Wilfred Smith
Cello:
Denis Vigay
Harp:
Maria Korchinska
Harp:
Hubert Dawkes
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry

England v Pakistan
First Test Match at Edgbaston: second day
Ball-by-ball commentaries by JOHN ARLOTT , BRIAN JOHNSTON and NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
Comments and summaries
TREVOR BAILEY , WAZIR MOHAMMAD Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
11.25* - 1.35' including lunch summary
1.35*-1.40* News
1.50-1.55 Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10* -4.20*
4.30* -6.37 including teatime and close-of-play summaries

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Neil Durden-Smith
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Wazir Mohammad
Unknown:
E. W. Swanton

8: Chuosing Your Festival
In Britain music festivals come in all shapes and sizes: village, small town, or capital city may provide the , setting; programmes may be sophisticated or simple, traditional or avant-garde. How does each festival acquire its own special character, and what does it see as its aims?
On the opening day of the 24th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts LEONARD PEARCEY talks to leading personalities from this and other major music festivals.
Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS
6.40-7.19 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page

Contributors

Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

17: Resolving Conflict
A person's behaviour and his ideas and attitudes are closely interlinked. What happens when there is a conflict between them? PETER WARR discusses some recent thinking on this subject... Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS (Linked with BBC2, alternate Wednesdays, 7.5 pm)
(For publication see page 12)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Warr
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

Community, Culture or Commercer by PETER SHARP
Fifteen years after agreeing in principle to build a new community in the City of London, the deeply divided Court of Common Council recently approved the contract to build the final phase-an Arts Centre to house, among other things, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Peter E. M. Sharp , devotee of the arts and a chartered engineer, talks about planning for leisure in the Barbican

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter E. M. Sharp

An Invention for Radio by Christopher Holme
At the heart of a small, colonial, computer-controlled society there lies a mystery. The strange incidents at the Barrier are an affront to common sense, to all that the Territory stands for. In bureaucratic fashion they are investigated, rationalised, and pushed under the carpet, but never quite exorcised.
Electrozak and Computatone by TRISTRAM CARY with WILLIAM DAVIES (keyboard) EDWARD WALKER (flute) TERENCE EMERY (percussion)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Holme
Unknown:
Tristram Cary
Keyboard:
William Davies
Flute:
Edward Walker
Percussion:
Terence Emery
David Prynne, Director of Education:
Frederick Treves
Voice of the Chief Secretary:
Sarah Brackett
Dr Jones Psychiatrist:
John Glyn-Jones
Edward Mazzini, Principal Assistant:
Frank Duncan
Betsan Hooper:
Frances Jeater
Prudence Como:
Rosalind Adams

Taverner Benedictus (Missa Gloria tibi trinitas)
Maxwell Davies Seven In nomines
Blitheman Six variants on Gloria tibi trinitas, for chamber organ
Smalley Missa brevis; Missa parodia I and II
Taverner Agnus Dei (Missa Gloria tibi trinitas) STEPHEN SAVAGE
(piano and chamber organ) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by ANDREW DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
John Alldis
Conductor:
John Alldis
Conductor:
Nash Ensemble
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis

BBC Radio 3

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