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Boyce Overture: Peleus and Thetis - Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Sir Anthony Lewis
7.12* Cherubini Aria: Ahi! che forse ai miei di l'ultima aurora splende! - Teresa Berganza (mezzo-sop) Felix Lavilla (piano)
7.18* Telemann Concerto in E, for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore and string orchestra - German Bach Soloists
7.36* Rameau Suite: Les Paladins - Jean-Louis Petit Chamber Orchestra
(gramophone records)
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Gluck Overture: Orphge et Eurydice: MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
8.8* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2. in B flat: RUDOLF SERKIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.38* Mozart Symphony No 31, in D (Paris) (K 297): STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER gramophone records
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Bartok
The years of exile
Sonata for violin: ANDRÉGERTLER Divertimento for string orchestra: ACADEMY Or
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records
A weekly series featuring records of the 1930s. 40s and 50s of great pianists playing some of the major concertos.
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in z flat:
EMIL VON SAUER PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by FELIX WEINGARTNER
10.20* Albenlz Orientale
Chopin-Liszt My joys (Polish Song)
Rosenthal Carnaval de Vienne, on themes by Johann Strauss MORITZ ROSENTHAL (piano)
10.35* Liszt Piano Concerto No 2, in A: ARTHUR DE GREEF
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR LANDON RONALD gramophone records
A guitar recital by John Williams direct from the Pittville Pump Room including Bach Suite in e minor (BWV 996)
Suite in E major (BWV 1006a) Prelude. Fugue and Allegro (BWV 998) Part 1
During the Interval
AnApproach to New Musfc
The painter ANTHONY DORRELL makes a rejoinder to yesterday's talk by PETER GELLHORN.
Cheltenham Stereo
Part 2
followed by an interlude
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conducted by CARLOS CHAVEZ with SIDNEY WEISS (violin) Satie, orch Debussy Gymnopgdies: No 1, in D; No 3, in A minor
Chavez Violin Concerto
Chavez Symphony No 4 (Sinfonia Romantica)
MARGARET MONCRIEFF (cello) ALEXANDER KELI. Y (piano) Hans Gal Sonata
A. C. Mackenzie Larghetto and Allegretto, Op 10
Les Pecheurs de Perles
The Pearl Fishers
Opera in three acts
Libretto by MICHEL CARRÉ and EUGENE CORMON
Music by Bizet (sung in French) A story of love, friendship and self-sacrifice, set in a primitive Brahmin community.
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master PETER ROBINSON
RADIO TELEFIS EIREANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR NACHSTERN conducted by GUY barbier
The action takes place in Ceylon in ancient times. Act 1 A sea shore
Act 2 The ruins of an Indian temple
Act 3 Sc 1: Zurga's tent; Sc 2: The place of execution
(Recording from the 1971 Wexford Festival made available by Radio Telefis Eireann)
New Music from Sweden, none of it previously broadcast here, including an orchestral work by Ake Hermansson , an organ work by Arne Mcllnas , a work for vocal ensemble and tape by Anders Eliasson , a ' text-sound ' composition by Sven-Erik Back , and a ' team-composition ' by Bengt Ham braeus, Torsten Nilsson and Lars-Erik Rosell.
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Swedish Radio)
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6.30 Leisure and Retirement
Five programmes presented by GEORGE LUCE. 5: New Beginnings Series producer PEGGY BACON Book: Tomorrow at Work, 45p: see page 54
6.50 Community Care: Mental Illness and Handicap
3: ' Mrs Marjorie Calvert Book, 45p: see page 54
7.10 Focus on Education
Parents ring in with their questions on the school leaving years to FRED FLOWER, Principal of Kingsway College for Further Education, and DR JOHN FARTHING , Headmaster of the Beacon School, Crowborough. Chairman DR BARRY TURNER
Mozart Piano Quartet No 1, in G minor (K 478): GEORGE SZELL With MEMBERS OF THE
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET Joseph Roisman (violin) Boris Kroyt (viola)
Mischa Schneider (cello) gramophone records
TAN PASCAL TORTELIER (violin) PAUL TORTELIER (cello) ERIC HEIDSIECK (piano) ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor StR CHARLES GROVES direct from the Town Hall. Cheltenham Part 1 Anthony Gilbert
Symphony (first performance)
Three talks by LAURENCE LERNER about fiction and-our changing attitudes to currency.
3: Everything has a Price
Tonight Laurence Lerner discusses the great realist novelists of the 19th century, in particular Balzac, Trollope and Dickens. In the midst of their most brilliantly matter-of-fact novels, earlier attitudes still crop up - especially in that great traditionalist, Dickens.
Part 2
Beethoven Concerto In c, for violin, cello, piano and orchestra Britten Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes )
1895-1972
A commentary on his life and work by JASON EPSTEIN , V. S. PRITCHETT
STEPHEN SPENDER , GEORGE STEINER LIONEL TRILLING , GORE VIDAL JOHN WAIN and YIGAEL YADIN
Edmund Wilson - critic, editor. novelist, reporter, poet. social observer - was perhaps the greatest man of letters of his time. A close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald at Princeton before World War I, he embarked upon a writing career that continued unabated for nearly 60 years until his death last year.
Few of his contemporaries have ranged so widely in their interests and his works include Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, Apologies to the Iroquois and Patriotic Gore. Compiled and introduced by Philip French
The first of three programmes devoted to
Palestrina's 29 motets setting texts ex Cantico Canticorum
In each programme MICHAEL HOWARD discusses the ways in which the Song of Songs has proved a perpetual source of inspiration to poets, artists and musicians alike:
Osculetur me; Trahe me post te; Nigra sum sed formosa: Vineam meam non custodivi; Si ignoras te; Pulchrae sunt; Fasciculus myrrhae; Ecce tu pulcher es: Tota pulchra es; Vulnerasti cor meum sung by CANTORES IN ECCLESIA conductor MICHAEL HOWARD
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