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Delibes Ballet Suite: Le roi s'amuse: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.20* Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
7.46* Svendsen Carnival in Paris OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by OIVIN FJELDSTAD gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Conducted By:
Oivin Fjeldstad

Cherubini Overture: Anacréon VIENNA PHII.HARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
8.16* Bach Concerto in D minor, for two violins and string orchestra: IGOR AND
DAVID OISTRAKH , ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR EUGENE GOOSSJ '.NS
8.34* Mozart Five Minuets (K 4611: VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.44* Beethoven Wellington's Victory, or the Battle of Vittoria LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
David Oistrakh
Conducted By:
Sir Eugene Goossj
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Bach - Weimar
Prelude and Fugue in G (bwv 550): HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
9.14* Sonata in e minor (bwv 1023): STEVEN STARYK (violin)
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)
9.24* Vivaldi/Bach Concerto No 2, in A minor
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (Organ)
9.37* Toccata in c (BWV 916)
RALPH KIRKPATRICK ' harpsichord) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Helmut Walcha
Violin:
Steven Staryk
Harpsichord:
Kenneth Gilbert
Harpsichord:
Ralph Kirkpatrick

Words and music from The Tempest. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Henry V
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE With BARBARA JEFFORD and JOHN TURNER
The second of three weekly programmes devised and produced by ALAN OWEN

Contributors

Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Conductor:
With Barbara Jefford
Conductor:
John Turner
Duced By:
Alan Owen

played by GEOFFREY TRISTRAM from Christchurch Priory, Hampshire
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A (BWV 536)
Widor Scherzo (Symphony No 4, in F minor)
Reger Fantasia and Fugue on BACH, Op 46

Contributors

Played By:
Geoffrey Tristram
Unknown:
Reger Fantasia

A series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s
Two trios and two sonatas from the 1780s
JAMES GIBB (piano)
OROMONTE PIANO TRIO Part 1
Piano Trio in A (H xv 9)
Piano Sonata in E minor (H XVI 34)
2.35-* During the Interval Innocence and Experience
JAMES GIBB describes the special qualities of Haydn's late sonatas.
2.50* Haydn: part 2
Piano Sonata in c (H xvi 48)
Piano Trio in E minor (H xv 12)

Contributors

Piano:
James Gibb

Berg Violin Concerto HENRYK SZERYNG
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
3.45* Prokofiev Symphony No 7, in c sharp minor
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

John Cage Suite for Toy Piano JEANNE KIRSTEN
Terry Riley In c TERRY RILEY
(leader and saxophone)
MARGARET HASSELL (piano) LAWRENCE SINGER (oboe)
DARLENE REYNARD (bassoon) JON HASSELL (trumpet)
JERRY KIRKBRIDE (clarinet) DAVID SHOSTAC (flute)
DAVID ROSENBOOM (viola)
STUART DEMPSTER (trombone)
EDWARD BURNHAM (vibraphone) JAN WILLIAMS (marimbaphone) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cage Suite
Piano:
Jeanne Kirsten
Piano:
Terry Riley
Leader:
Terry Riley
Piano:
Margaret Hassell
Bassoon:
Darlene Reynard
Bassoon:
Jon Hassell
Clarinet:
Jerry Kirkbride
Viola:
Stuart Dempster

6.30 Perspective A weekly series on the arts Do Books Matter'
A report on the one-day seminar on the future role of books held by the National Book League.
Producer ALAN EREIRA
7.0 Workface
Script by BENNETT STRUTTON with analytical commentary by PAT LOWRY
17: Steward or Staiesmanf
Trouble now among members of the Combine Committee at Astley Products. ' If the directors can save money, they'll be transferring our jobs down there quicker than you can say Jack Robinson. ' (Wilcox, Shop Steward at the London plant)
With ANTHONY HALL. JOHN ROWE JOHN HOLLIS , GEOFFREY BEEVERS
MICHAEL MCCLAIN , MALCOLM HAYES GODFREY KENTON , NERYS HUGHES Producer JOHN TURTLE

Contributors

Producer:
Alan Ereira
Script By:
Bennett Strutton
Commentary By:
Pat Lowry
Unknown:
Jack Robinson.
Unknown:
Anthony Hall.
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton

Music can often make us laugh in the same way that jokes can. The range of ' musical jokes ' is very wide - from the imitation of birds and animals or the setting of funny words, to the subtle and more inherently musical wit that characterises so much of Haydn's work.
RICHARD RASTALL. Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds, has chosen his examples from all periods of the past 500 years of Western music,

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rastall.

the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA co leader GERALD JARVIS with SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
McCabe Song-cycle: Notturni ed
Alba Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat major (Emperor)

Contributors

Leader:
Gerald Jarvis
Soprano:
Sheila Armstrong
Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Piano:
Alba Beethoven

W. H. Auden is perhaps the best known poet writing in English, and his work has been consistently admired through four decades. Tonight he introduces and reads a selection of poems from all periods of his career.
Producer GEORGE MACBETH {

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Auden
Producer:
George MacBeth

A series of late-night musical entertainments
This week English and American music including songs by Lord Berners , Ives and Gershwin; Constant Lambert's The Rio Grande: Walton's Music for Children and Ives's Fourth of July.
The performers are MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
PETER DICKINSON (piano) and on gramophone records: LEONARD BERNSTEIN and the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SIR WILLIAM WALTON and the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONSTANT LAMBERT and the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
With KYLA GREENBAUM (piano) GLADYS RIPLEY (contralto) and CHORUS

Contributors

Songs By:
Lord Berners
Mezzo-Soprano:
Meriel Dickinson
Piano:
Peter Dickinson
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Sir William Walton
Contralto:
Gladys Ripley

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