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Schubert
Symphony No 3, in D: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA con. ducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.29* Rondo in A, for violin and string orchestra JOSEF SUK ; ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Josef Suk
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

First of 13 weekly programmes, each devoted to music composed in the same year. Weber Overture: Oberon BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK (gramophone record)
9.55* Chopin Rondo a la mazur. Op 5: ALBERT FERBER (piano)
10.6* Berlioz Overture: Les francs-juges
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS (gramophone record)
10.19* Schubert String Quartet in G major (d 887)
HUNGARIAN STRING QUARTET (gramophone record)
10.58* Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS (gramophone record)
11.9* Glinka Variations on Benedetta sia la madre ALBERT FERBER (piano)
11.21* Rossini Overture: The Siege of Corinth
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERINO GAMBA (gramophone record)
11.31* Beethoven String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131 ITALIAN STRING QUARTET (gramophone record)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Unknown:
Chopin Rondo
Piano:
Albert Ferber
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Piano:
Albert Ferber
Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba

DaUapiccolu Canti di liberazione
5.11* Ligeti Requiem LILIANA POLI (soprano) ANNA MALEWICZ-MADEY (mezzo-soprano)
CONCERT CHOIR OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARL MELLES
(A concert given in the Festspielhaus on 31 July as part of this year's Salzburg Festival. Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Soprano:
Liliana Poli
Mezzo-Soprano:
Anna Malewicz-Madey
Conducted By:
Carl Melles

6.30 New series
Perspective
A programme on the arts National Brass
There are 10,000 people playing in brass bands up and down Britain today, and 100 bands competing in the National Brass Band Championships, the finals of which take place on Saturday at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
GEOFFREY BRAND , Editor of the British Bandsman, talks about this unique British form of music With SIR ARTHUR BLISS , HARRY MORTIMER , VAUGHAN MORRIS , PETER WILSON and IFOR JAMES .
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
(Highlights from the Brass Band Festival Concert can be heard next Saturday on R2)
(Another weekly series on the arts begins on Wednesday evening at 7.30 pm. Radio 3)
6.30-7.0 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page
7.0 pm Affluence and Inequality New series
Ten programmes on the problems of the developing world presented by PETER DONALDSON , author of Worlds Apart 1: The Widening Gap
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe, struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them to help themselves.'
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
But despite the aid-giving programmes of the more affluent nations - to which the British taxpayer last year contributed 1250 million - the developing countries are becoming relatively poorer: the gap is widening. What is going wrong? Producer HUGH PURCELL (Rptd: Sat. 11.30 am, R4)
(For publication - Worlds Apart - see page 17)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Geoffrey Brand
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Bliss
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer
Unknown:
Vaughan Morris
Unknown:
Peter Wilson
Unknown:
Ifor James
Producer:
Graham Tayar
Presented By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
John F. Kennedy
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

JOHN HALE , Professor of Italian at University College, London, talks about Savonarola and his relations with Renaissance Florence in the last days of the government of the Medici family and the revolution which overthrew them. 1

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hale

PETER PEARS discusses Lotte Lehmann 's book Eighteen Song-Cycles. He recalls her special qualities as a lieder singer, analyses her interpretation of some cycles in the light of his own, and talks about the delicate balance between singing and acting, words and music. (Peter Pears sings Schubert's Winterreise tomorrow, 10.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lotte Lehmann
Music:
Peter Pears

from Balliol College, OxfordNOELLE BARKER (soprano)
ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS Part 1 Messiacn Le merle de roche
(Catalogue d'oiseaux)
Robert Sherlaw Johnson The resurrection of Feng-Huang

Contributors

Soprano:
Noelle Barker
Piano:
Robert Sherlaw Johnson
Piano:
John Alldis
Conductor:
John Alldis
Unknown:
Robert Sherlaw Johnson

Part 2
Robert Sherlaw Johnson Green whispers of gold (first performance)
Messiaen Cinq rechants
(Given before an invited audience at Balliol College Hall, Oxford, on 3 October)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Sherlaw Johnson Green
Unknown:
Messiaen Cinq

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