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f'ux Overture
CONCENTUS MUSICUS OF VIENNA directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
Wagenseil Concerto in flat major 0 MICHEL PIQUET (oboe)
WALTER STIKTNER (bassoon) VIENNA CAPPELLA ACADEMICA directed by EDUARD MELKUS
Dittersdorf Harpsichord Concerto in A major 1WONA SALLING
FOLKWANG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ DRESSEL gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Oboe:
Michel Piquet
Bassoon:
Walter Stiktner
Directed By:
Eduard Melkus
Conducted By:
Heinz Dressel

A record request programme

Balakirev, orch Casella Oriental Fantasia: Islamey - Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy

8.15* Strauss Don Quixote: fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character - Pierre Fournier (cello) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan

JF.AN-ROOOLPHE KARS (piano) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD † Brahms Academic Festival Overture
9.57* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor
10.35* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Tod und Verklarung

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Bradley
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford

Pfitzner Duet for violin and cello, with small orchestra (first broadcast in this country) LUDWIG BRANDT (violin) JACQUES DOCQ (cello)
RADIO SAARDRUCKEN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF MICHL
Berg Chamber Concerto, for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments
PINA C.VRMIRELLI (Violin) LYA DE BARBERIIS (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE MILAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO conducted by GARY BERTINI
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Saarbrücken and Italian Radios)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pfitzner Duet
Violin:
Ludwig Brandt
Conducted By:
Rudolf Michl
Conducted By:
Gary Bertini

leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with RONALD SMITH (piano) play musical rarities
Introduced by ROY WILLlAMSON † Mehul Overture: Horatius Codes and Adrien Saint-Saens Fantasy: Africa. for piano and orchestra Debussy March écossaise
Alkan Le festin d'Esope, for
Widor Ballet Music: La Korrig>ane

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Piano:
Ronald Smith
Introduced By:
Roy Willlamson
Introduced By:
Adrien Saint-Saens

A series of programmes containing works by 20th-century British composers
Birtwistle Précis, for piano
2.9* John Mayer Sonata for violin (first broadcast performance in this country)
2.20* Bach Partita in E major, for violin
2.42* Chopin Berceuse in p flat major; Polonaise-Fantaisie in a flat major
MALCOLM TROUP (piano)
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin)

Contributors

Piano:
John Mayer Sonata
Unknown:
Bach Partita
Violin:
Chopin Berceuse
Violin:
Erich Gruenberg

from the Church of St Clement Danes. London
Introit: Salve Sancta Parens (Byrd)
Responses (Smith of Durham) Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Edwards, Burd, Goss)
Lessons: Zechariah 1, v 18 to 2, v 13; John 4, vv 1-26
Canticles( TalUs, Faux Bourdon) Anthem: Fiaire is the heaven I Harris)
Organist and Director of Music MARTINDALE SID WELL

6.30 Europe and the Indies
The Era of the Companies, 1600-1824
8: Western taste transplanted How Europeans carried Western artistic taste to the Eiast, where patronage was extended to European as well as native craftsmen by traders, colonists and local potentates.
Presented by ROBERT SKELTON , Assistant Keeper, Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum , with the help of contemporary writings.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS ‡
(For publication see page 9)
7.0 Help Yourself to English
Eleven programmes of conversational English for foreigners, written by JOHN PARRY and presented by BARBARA MITCHELL 8: Hiph Tide
With NIGEL ANTHONY and PATRICIA GALLIMORE Producer ANN CALDWELL
(iRptd: Sat, 11.0 am. B4)
(For publication see page 9)
7.0-7.30 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Skelton
Presented By:
Albert Museum
Written By:
John Parry
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Producer:
Ann Caldwell

Tonight: from the Royal Albert Hall London

A concert version devised by Peter Pears, edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Mary Wells (soprano) Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) James Bowman (counter-tenor) Charles Brett (counter-tenor) Peter Pears (tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Owen Brannigan (bass)
Wandsworth School Choir, Director of Music Russell Burgess
Philip Ledger (harpsichord)
Kenneth Heath (cello continuo)
English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten

Part 1
Oberon's Birthday Night and Silence

(This Week's Proms: page 14)

Contributors

Devised by:
Peter Pears
Edited by:
Imogen Holst
Edited by/Conductor:
Benjamin Britten
Soprano:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Soprano:
Mary Wells
Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Counter-tenor:
James Bowman
Counter-tenor:
Charles Brett
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Bass:
Owen Brannigan
Singers:
Wandsworth School Choir
Director of Music:
Russell Burgess
Harpsichordist:
Philip Ledger
Cellist:
Kenneth Heath
Musicians:
English Chamber Orchestra

A series of five talks
4: Values in Psychology by NICHOLAS JOHNSON
It is commonly assumed that scientists are trained to root out ideological influence In their communications. NICHOLAS JOHNSON , a psychologist, claims that scientists are, if anything, trained never to think about ideological considerations. In this talk he argues that psychology as a science is hardly even beginning to ask the right questions,

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Johnson
Unknown:
Nicholas Johnson

BBC Radio 3

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