Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MONCHINGER
7.18* Paganini Violin Concerto No 1, in D: YEHUDI MENUHIN, ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERTO EREDE
7.46* Mendelssohn Symphony No 6, in E flat, for string orchestra LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT MASUR
(gramophone records)
Pctrini Harp Concerto No 4, In E flat: ANNIE CIIALLAN
ANTIQUA MUSICA ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCEL COURAUD
8.27* Mozart Quintet in E flat, for horn, violin, two violas and cello (K 407) GERD SLIFERT
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
8.45* Haydn Symphony No 17, in F: VIENNA FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER gramophone records
arr Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
9.11* Bridge Impression: There is a willow grows aslant a brook: ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
9.23* Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
with Antony Hopkins
A series of programmes featuring British amateur choirs
SOLIHULL HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
CHOIR conductor MARGARET WHARAM ST CECILIA SINGERS conductor RICHARD latham
This week's programme includes music by Passereau, Tate, Howells, Mozart and E. W. Naylor , and folk songs.
TUNNELL PIANO TRIO
JOAN DAVIES (piano)
Haydn Piano Trio In F major (H xv 4)
10.58* Ivor Walsworth Twelve Grounds for complaint
11.18* John Field Nocturne No 4, in A major
11.24* William Mathias Piano Trio, Op 30
DAVID WILDE (piano)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader SAM BOR conductor ALEXANDER GIBSON
Haydn Symphony No 84, in I flat major (mono)
12.10* Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major
Boulez Le marteau sans mattre MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by EI.GAR howarth
Mozart Quintet in E flat major (K 614): LINDSAY STRING QUARTET with GRAEME SCOTT (viola)
(A series of public concerts given in St John's, Smith Square, London, SW1. Tickets 40p, obtainable at the door)
1911-1913
Dukas Poeme danse: La perl
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIOORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON d'lndy Istar
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAX RUDOLF
Ravel Valses nobles et sentlmentales
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records
(liana Vered plays the piano version of Ravel's Valses: Wednesday. 1.5 pm)
introduces and plays contemporary British piano music
Richard Rodney Bennett Fantasy
Thea Musgrave Monologue
Malcolm Williamson Sonata No 1
Alan Rawsthorne Ballade
Madrigals
HILVERSUM VOCAL ENSEMBLE conducted by MARINUS VOOBERG gramophone records
by John Morehen from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle
Schumann Fugues on Bach (Op 60): No 1, in B flat major; No 3. in G minor
4.30' Durufle Prelude sur l'Introit de Epiphanie
4.32* Christopher Brown Nocturne
4.36* Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (bwv 582)
CITY OF COVENTRY BAND conductor ALBERT CHAPPELL
Peter Yorke Overture: The Overseer
Eric Ball Preludes: To a Comedy; To a Tragedy; To Pageantry
Percy Fletcher Tone Poem: Labour and Love
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow gramophone records
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader Reginald LEOPOLD conducted by OVVAIN ARWEL HUGHES and JOHN CAREWE
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with artists on records
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6.30 Starting German: Reiseburo Atlas
Listeners' request programme with Ilse Singer and Jorg Sorensen
(Rptd: Sun, 29 April, R4 VHF)
(Part 3 of Reiseburo Atlas begins on 30 April)
7.0 Introduction to Arabic: Programme 5
Fifteen lessons in spoken Arabic for complete beginners
(Rptd: Sun, 29 April, R4 VHF)
Book, 70p; Pronunciation record, 99p: see page 66
SHEII.A ARMSTRONG (soprano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by JOHN CAREWE Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 87, in A major
7.54* Ravel Shéhérazade
8.10* Reading
8.15* Concert: part 2
Dvorak Symphony No 7, in D minor
Change and continuity in the world's longest surviving civilisation
Richard Harris of The Times presents 14 programmes 3: China's Old World
In the last 500 years China has been enclosed, hesitant in welcoming outsiders, but still regarding herself as the upholder of civilisation in a world of which she was the centre. This programme includes:
JOHN FAIRBANK , Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard c. p. FITZGERALD, Professor Emeritus in Far Eastern History at Canberra d. c. twitchett, Professor of Chinese at Cambridge
MARK MANCALL, Professor of History at Stanford
Reader WILLIAM SLEIGH
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON (Rptd: Thursday, 10.25 pm)
Book: A Chinese View of China, 70p: see page 66
A fortnightly series
GILLIAN WEIR (harpsichord)
B flat (Kk 16); r (Kk 468); F (Kk 469); B flat (Kk 503); flat (Kk 504): A (Kit 499); A (Kk 500); D minor (Kk 18)
Elisabeth Lutyens , whose two operas. Infidelio and Time Offr Not a Ghost of a Chance.', are broadcast on Wednesday, talks to JOHN AMIS
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
The first complete broadcast in this country of Gesualdo's highly dramatic Responsoria in Parasceve of 1611 for voices, interspersed with Haydn's Seven Last Words from the Cross, Op 51, for string quartet
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