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A record request programme
Poulenc Concerto for organ, timpani and strings MAURICE DURUFLE
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÈTRE
7.29' Gottschalk, arr Kay Grand Tarantella: REID NIBLEY (piano) UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL
7.38* Prokoiiev Winter Bonfire Suite: CHILDREN'S CHORUS
PRAGUE RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ALOIS KLIMA

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Durufle
Conducted By:
Georges Prètre
Conducted By:
Maurice Abravanel
Conducted By:
Alois Klima

Part 2
Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.18* Mendelssohn Symphony No 3. in A minor (Scottish)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Recorded by R. A. MEGRAW In Hillsborough Parish Church, Co Down
Couperin Dialogue (4e couplet); Offertoire sur les grands jeux(Messepourlesparoisses)
Bach Chorale Prelude: Lamm Gottes unschuldig (bwv 656); Prelude and Fugue in B minor (The Great) (bwv 544)

Contributors

Unknown:
R. A. Megraw
Unknown:
Lamm Gottes

The Triumph of Time and Truth
An allegorical oratorio In three acts (sung in German)
' It is a testament of Handel's art, a serene document which at one and the same time records his youth, his maturity, and the mellowness of his age.'
(JULIAN HERBAGE)
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHOIR OP
ST OTHMAR. VIENNA
MARTINU CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF
BRUNN
VIENNA WIND SOLOISTS
JOHANN SONNLEITNER
(harpsichord continuo) conducted by HELMUT SOMMER
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio) Act 1
11.15* Handel the Borrower Handel was an inveterate borrower, both from himself and from other composers. BASIL LAM talks about attitudes to this practice in earlier times, and illustrates some of the ways in which Handel made use of borrowed material.
11.35* Handel: The Triumph ot Time and Truth Act 2
12.20* Interval Reading
12.25* Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Schoenberg
Harpsichord:
Johann Sonnleitner
Conducted By:
Helmut Sommer
Unknown:
Borrower Handel

A weekly series given by artists of the younger generation Claus Kanngiesser (cello) Nerine Barrett (piano)
Prokofiev Sonata in c major, Op 119
Chopin Sonata in G minor, Op 65
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London)

Contributors

Cello:
Claus Kanngiesser
Piano:
Nerine Barrett

Sibelius Symphony No 3, In C HELSINKI RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by OKKO KAMU
2.30* Hans von Bronsart Piano Concerto in F sharp minor MICHAEL PONTI
WESTPHALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by Richard KAPP
2.53* Gottfried Sonntag Nibe lungen March
WIND ENSEMBLE OF THE
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Okko Kamu
Piano:
Hans von Bronsart
Unknown:
Michael Ponti
Conducted By:
Richard Kapp
Conducted By:
Gottfried Sonntag Nibe
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

from Brecon Cathedral
Responses (Thomas Tomkins ) Canticles (John Travers in F)
Anthem: How long wilt thou forget me? (Frederick Ouseley ) Organist and Choirmaster DAVID GEDGE
Assistant organist HAZEL DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tomkins
Unknown:
John Travers
Organist:
Frederick Ouseley
Choirmaster:
David Gedge
Organist:
Hazel Davies

6.30 Svidaniye v Moskvye
A second-year Russian course by MICHAEL FREWIN and ALLA BRAITHWAITE 18: Polyklmika with TANYA FEIFER , SASHA TRIFONOV MARIA GORDEYEVA , LISA MILLER EUGENE ISOTOW , SASHA DOROGOI
(Rptd: Sunday 2.30 pm R4 VHF) Book: £1.40; 2 LP records: £1.40 each; 2 cassettes: £1.83 each from bookshops
7.0 Kontakte
A combined television and radio course for beginners in German, with on-the-spot recordings
17: Haben Sie ein Hobby? Introduced by LUTZ LIEBELT and LIANE RUDOLPH
Script by IRIS SPRANKLING
(Complementary television programmes: Sunday 10 0 am, Wednesday 12.5 pm and Saturday 10.25 am, on BBC1)
Books 1 and 2 75p each, 2 LPs £1.40 each, Cassette 1 £1.73, Cassette 2 £1.83, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Frewin
Unknown:
Tanya Feifer
Unknown:
Sasha Trifonov
Unknown:
Maria Gordeyeva
Unknown:
Lisa Miller
Unknown:
Eugene Isotow
Unknown:
Sasha Dorogoi
Introduced By:
Lutz Liebelt
Unknown:
Liane Rudolph
Script By:
Iris Sprankling

from St John 's, Smith Square. London
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 80, in o minor
Gerhard Harpsichord Concerto

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Director:
John Poole
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard

How long will the present laws of physics last? The special theory of relativity is 70 years old this year and the general theory is 60 years old. Are they still adequate enough to account for what has been discovered since their formulation? Will the newly discovered elementary particles bring with them a new synthesis and further insight into the behaviour of matter?
Speakers include:
Professors Herman Bondi, John Bachall and Robert Dicke and Dr Burton Richter
Producer David Paterson followed by an interlude

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Herman Bondi
Speaker:
Professor John Bahcall
Speaker:
Professor Robert Dicke
Speaker:
Dr Burton Richter
Producer:
David Paterson

First of three programmes which explore different ways of presenting Lieder on radio. Some of the songs tonight are heard in new translations by LESLIE MINCHIN , others use the original English words by SHAKESPEARE and SIR WALTER scoTT, and two are in German... Who is Sylvia?; Lachen und Weinen; Ellen's second song (Huntsman, rest): To music: The traveller's song to the moon: In the sunset light (Im Abendroth: To his guitar (An die Laute): The sorrowing Mary (Vom mitleiden Mariä); Man's limitations (Grenzen der Menschheit); Delphine (sung In German)
SANDRA DUGDALE (soprano) ANTONY RANSOME (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
(Sandra Dugdale broadcasts by permission of the English National Opera)
(Schubert with readings-Elizabeth Gale , Paul Hamburger: 7 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Minchin
Soprano:
Sandra Dugdale
Piano:
Sandra Dugdale
Unknown:
Elizabeth Gale

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