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Part 1
Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in D (Classical) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET

7.21* Scharwenka Piano Concerto No 1: EARL WILD, BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF

7.51* Otto Klemperer Merry Waltz: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

from Bristol
ROBERT AND JOAN SOUTH (two pianos)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) EDNA BLACKWELL (piano) Arne, arr Geoffrey Bush Sonata in 8 flat
Fricker Fughettas Nos 3 and 4 (Op 2)
Berkeley Nocturne Leighton Scherzo
Purcell Fairest isle; From rosy bow'rs
Peter Wishart Bird of Paradise; Spider (A Book of Beasts) Howard Ferguson Partita

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Piano:
Edna Blackwell

Overture: La clemenza di Tito NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by otto KLEMPERER
10.47* Rondo in A minor (K 511) WALTER KLlEN (piano)
10.58* Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466): RUDOLF SERKIN. who also conducts the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudolf Serkin.

Poet Laureate
Memorial Service from St Martin in-the-Fields London, conducted by THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS Organist ROBERT VINCENT
The service includes a performance of Faure's Requiem WENDY EATHORNE (soprano) BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) ROBERT VINCENT (organ) BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
St Martin
Organist:
Austen Williams
Organist:
Robert Vincent
Conducted By:
Meredith Davies

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation
Craig Sheppard (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E major, Op 109
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major
Bartok Sonata
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets to [address removed], enclosing SAE. Next concert - 8 November: Brahms and Prokofiev played by Stoika Milanova , violin and Mitsuko Uchida. piano)

Contributors

Piano:
Craig Sheppard
Unknown:
Beethoven Sonata
Unknown:
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie
Played By:
Stoika Milanova
Played By:
Mitsuko Uchida.

concert-master PETER MOUTNTAIN conductor MEREDITH DAVIES
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks : concerto for chamber orchestra Richard Rodney Bennett Nocturnes
Haydn Symphony No 103, in E flat (Drum-roll)

Contributors

Conductor:
Peter Moutntain
Conductor:
Meredith Davies
Conductor:
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett

sung by a section of the BBC chorus from St Augustine's Church, Kilburn Park, London
Responses (Bernard Rose)
Psalm 119, vv 73-104: Schubert. Foster, Meymott, Walford Davies
Lessons: Psalm 105, vv 37-45; St John 13, vv 21-35
Canticles (William Mathias: Service for Jesus College, Cambridge)
Anthem: Alleluia psallat (William Mathias: commissioned by the BBC)
Hymn: Lift up your hearts (BBC HB 326)
Director of Music JOHN POOLE
Organist BARRY ROSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Walford Davies
Unknown:
St John
Organist:
John Poole
Organist:
Barry Rose

Records chosen by the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
A programme of music originally written for mechanical devices, including:
Mozart Fantasia in F minor (K 608)
Beethoven Wellington's Victory, or The Battle of Vittoria and the sound of the mechanical nightingale, street organ, 18th-century spinet and mandolin quartet

Contributors

Introduced By:
Christopher Hogwood

Living with Technology
Ten programmes on the social impact of technological change 4: The Car
Can we limit its social costs and keep its advantages? GERALD LEACH talks to TERENCE BENDIXSON

Contributors

Talks:
Gerald Leach
Unknown:
Terence Bendixson

by BARBARA MAUDE
The best designs - those which survive and recur - combine efficient function with versatility, flexibility and elegance. But how, Barbara Maude asks, is this prtcess operating today? Chairman of the newly founded Transport Reform Group, Mrs Maude is well known for her championing of environmental causes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Maude
Unknown:
Barbara Maude
Unknown:
Mrs Maude

Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart. arguably the most influential military theorist of the century, died in January 1970 just before the publication of his History of the Second World War.
This study of Liddell Hart contains assessments by MICHAEL HOWARD. JOHN TERRAINE GENERAL SIR JOHN HACKETT
GENERAL BEAUFRE, RONALD LEWIN KENNETH MACKSEY
MANFRED ROMMEL
GENERAL YIGAL ALLON and BRIAN BOND
Written by ROBERT POCOCK
Narrated by Hugh Burden Producer ROBERT CRADOCK followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Basil Liddell Hart.
Unknown:
Liddell Hart
Unknown:
Michael Howard.
Unknown:
John Terraine
Unknown:
Sir John Hackett
Unknown:
Ronald Lewin
Unknown:
Kenneth MacKsey
Unknown:
Manfred Rommel
Unknown:
General Yigal Allon
Written By:
Robert Pocock
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Robert Cradock

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