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Auber Overture: Lestocq
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.13. Offenbach Doll's Song (The Tales of Hoffmann)
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.18* Bizet Suite: Children's Games: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULlNI
8.29* Pierne Impromptu-Caprice
8.35* Marcel Grandjany Le bon petit roi d'Yvetot
MARISA ROBLES (harp)
8.38* Lecocq Bonsoir perez le capitaine (Le Coeur et La Main): JOAN SUTHERLAND (sop) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.42* Ibert Divertissement
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Soprano:
Joan Sutherland
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giullni
Harp:
Marisa Robles
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Jean Martinon

Excerpts from some of the subscription sets discussed In Record Review, including ANTAL DORATI conducting Haydn's Symphony No 37. in C; lotte LENYA in Kurt Weill 's Die Dreigroschenoper; and VLADIMIR ASH-KENAZY playing Rachmaninov's fourth Piano Concerto gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Antal Dorati
Unknown:
Kurt Weill

The first programme of a new series presented by well-known public figures
Lord Harewood, Managing Director of Sadler's Wells Opera, introduces a personal selection of opera excerpts on the theme of love
He includes the Dawn music and Love Duet from Gdtterdämmerung, a lute song from Gloriana, the opening scene from Prokofiev's War and Peace (mono), the love duet from The Trojans and the suite from Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen (mono). gramophone records

A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

York Minster
FRANCIS JACKSON speaks about the Minster organ and discusses his records of music by Camidge, Bossi, Norman Cocker. Fricker and others Producer JOHN LADE
(A leaflet giving the specifications of the organs used in all six programmes may be obtained from [address removed], enclosing SAE) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Jackson
Unknown:
Norman Cocker.

direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff
An opera in two acts
Libretto by E. M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER adapted from the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Music by Benjamin Britten
Set in the heyday of the British Navy. this is a tragedy of innocent goodness destroyed, and of a conscience torn between humanity and a sense of duty.
BOYS OF ST TEILO'S HIGH SCHOOL AND THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF
SCHOOL. CARDIFF
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ANTHONY HOSE
WELSH PHILHARMONIA leader JOHN STEIN conducted by RICHARD ARMSTRONG Producer MICHAEL GELlOT Prologue and Act 1
8.35 Melville and Billy Budd
A talk by TONY TANNER , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, author of several studies of American fiction.
8.50* Billy Budd
Act 2 and Epilogue

Contributors

Unknown:
E. M. Forster
Unknown:
Eric Crozier
Story By:
Herman Melville
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Leader:
John Stein
Conducted By:
Richard Armstrong
Producer:
Michael Gellot
Producer:
Billy Budd
Talk By:
Tony Tanner
Unknown:
Billy Budd

PETER WALLFISCH (piano) GABR1ELI STRING QUARTET
String Trio in B flat (D 471). including incomplete second movement
Quartet-movement in c minor (D 703), including incomplete second movement
Sonata in c (Reliqule) (d 840), in completed version by Ernst Krenek
(First broadcast performances of piano sonata in completed version by Krenek and incomplete second movements of string trio and string quartet)

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Wallfisch

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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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