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Otto Klemperer conducting the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Gluck, rev Wagner Overture: Iphigénie en Aulide
8.18* Brahms Symphony No 4, in E minor gramophone records
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Edited and Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Mozart's Symphony No 38, in D (Prague) (K 504), by STEPBEN DODGSON
Recent opera records: reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNI
Excerpts from some of the new opera records considered in this morning's Record Review, including the first act of Verdi's early opera Attila
Test Match Special
England v
New Zealand at Trent Bridge (Third Day) Ball-by-hall commentaries by BRIAN JOHNSTON
ALAN RICHARDS , JOHN ARLOTT and ALAN GIBSON with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and NORMAN YARDLEY
Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
11.25-1.35* including lunch summary
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A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Larry Hodgson
(Rptd: tonight, 8.15 pm)
Test Match Special
England v
New Zealand at Trent Bridge Ball-by-ball commentaries on the afternoon's play
1.55*-2.5* Lunchtime Scoreboard and reports on selected County Championship matches
2.10*-4.20* and 4.30*-6.40 including teatime and close-of-play summaries
Octet (1948) VIENNA OCTET
(gramophone record)
Music for string orchestra (1965) (first broadcast in this country) FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE GIRARD
(Recording made available by courtesy of French Radio)
J. G. Ballard introduces and reads from his forthcoming novel Crash.', in conversation with GEORGE MACBETH followed by an interlude
A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Larry Hodgson.
(Broadcast at 1.40 pm)
Opera in three acts Music by Janacek
Libretto based on the novel by DOSTOEVSKY
(sung in Czech)
(gramophone records)
Based on Dostoevsky's novel, which is set in a Siberian prison camp, the opera concerns oppression, humiliation and degradation among the prisoners, while focusing on two characters who form a connecting link with the various episodes of the piece. Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE conducted by BOHUMIL GREGOR
Act 1: A Siberian prison camp Act 2: By the banks of the River Irtysh
Reflections on current affairs.
James .loll. Professor of International History in the University of London, gives the second of four fortnightly talks.
(Third talk: 23 June)
Act 3 Sc 1: The prison hospital; Sc 2: The courtyard of the prison
Suite No 1, in G (BWV 1007) played by PABLO CASALS (cello) gramophone record
Derek Jewell examines the best from today's popular music gramophone records
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