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Berlioz Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.10* Saint-Saëns Wedding-Cake: caprice-valse
GWENNETH PRYOR (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.17* Gounod Petite Symphonie in a flat
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DEWAART
8.34* Bizet Suite: La jolie fille de Perth
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERTO BENZI
8.48* Chabrier Fete polonaise SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Edo Dewaart
Conducted By:
Roberto Benzi
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Schumann's song-cycle: Frauenliebe und -leben, by RICHARD OSBORNE
Recent chamber and instrumental music:JOHN WARRACK Recent orchestral records: MARTIN COOPER

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Richard Osborne
Music:
John Warrack
Unknown:
Martin Cooper

A programme of new records
Handel Suite in D (Water Music) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
16.25* Stravinsky Capriccio for piano and orchestra MICHEL BÉROFF
PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
10.43* Bax Symphony No 5, in c sharp minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Stravinsky Capriccio
Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard

England v Australia First Test at Old Trafford (Third Day) Ball-by-ball commentaries by JOHN ARLOTT , BRIAN JOHNSTON and ALAN MCGILVRAY with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and ALAN DAVIDSON
Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
11.25-1.35* including lunch summary
1.40*-1.50*
Lunchtime Scoreboard and reports on selected County Championship matches
1.50*-2.10* Your Letters An. swered
The commentators answer some of the points raised in listeners' letters
2.10*-4.20* and 4.30*-6.40 including teatime and close-of-play summaries

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Alan McGilvray
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Alan Davidson

Art
Introduced by GEORGE MELLY
The Pre-Raphaelites and the Symbolists: IAN FLETCHER , literary historian. GRAHAM OVEN-den, painter and BRIAN PETRIE , art historian, discuss some contrasts and similarities between these two movements in the light of two current exhibitions -The PreRaphaelites at the Whltechapel Gallery, and French Symbolists at the Hayward Gallery, London Producer LEONIE COHN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduced By:
George Melly
Unknown:
Ian Fletcher
Unknown:
Brian Petrie
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

An opera in three acts Music by John Gardner Libretto by JOHN ORMEROD GREENWOOD
First broadcast performance direct from the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
A trendy couple, Damaris and Philip, are drawn to Yoga and meditation. Other girls (like Nora) are Irresistibly drawn to Philip, which causes rows. During one of these Philip quits, is run over by a car, and mysteriously vanishes. While their Indian guru is dabbling with a light-show, Philip reappears, furious that no one searched for him, and leaves for ever.
Cast In order of singing:
ENGLISH OPERA GROUP ORCHESTRA leaderROIF. WILSON conducted by STEUART BEDFORD Repetiteurs NICHOLAS KRAEMER and MARY NASH
Producer ANTHONY BESCH
Act 1 Sc 1: The bedroom of Damaris and Philip's flat; Sc 2: A cemetery
».10' During the Interval
JOHN GARDNER talks about his work to JOHN AMIS.
1.30* The Visitors
Act 2 The living room of the flat

Contributors

Music By:
John Gardner
Unknown:
John Ormerod Greenwood
Leader:
Roif. Wilson
Conducted By:
Steuart Bedford
Repetiteurs:
Nicholas Kraemer
Repetiteurs:
Mary Nash
Producer:
Anthony Besch
Talks:
John Gardner
Unknown:
John Amis.

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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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