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USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
7.15* Haydn Symphony No 53, in D (L'lmpériale): ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.38* Beethoven Fantasia in c minor, Op 80
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
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Part 2 Barber Violin Concerto
ISAAC STERN: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.29* Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (Jupiter) (K 551) (mono)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
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Prokofiev
The Years Abroad
Overture on Hebrew themes. Op 34: PARRENIN STRING QUARTET MICHEL PORTAL (clarinet) - MICHEL BEROFF (piano)
9.15* Five Melodies, Op 35b DAVID OISTRAKH (violin) FRIDA BAUER (piano)
9.29* Quintet in G minor, Op 39, for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double-bass
MEMBERS OF THE PARIS OCTET with GASTON MAUGRAS (oboe) gramophone records
HERRICK BUNNEY
Richard Stoker A Little Organ Book
Howells Partita
(from St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) WILLIAM BENNETT (flute) CHARLES TUNNELL (cello)
Michel Blavet Sonata No 2, in D minor (La vibray)
Couperin Ordre No 6, in B flat major, for harpsichord
Rameau Premier concert (Pieces de clavecin en concerts)
11.0* Interval Reading
11.5* Concert: part 2
Bach Sonata No 1, in B minor, for flute and harpsichord
Bach Toccata in D major, for harpsichord
Telemann Trio-Sonata in f major
leader ei.i GORÈN conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN SYlVIA ROSENBERG (violin)
Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor
Schumann Symphony No 1, in B flat major (Spring)
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A weekly series given by artists of the younger generation David Lively (piano)
Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini (Book 2)
Liszt Sonata in B minor
Ravel Prelude. Forlane and Toccata (Le tombeau de Couperin)
(Given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, For tickets write ta Ticket Unit, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
Delius Two pieces for small orchestra: On hearing the first cuckoo in spring: Summer night on the river
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
2.15* Gerald Finzi Intimations of Immortality
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
GUILOFORO PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
The second of two programmes featuring the young Japanese violist with MICHIO KOBAYASHI (harpsichord and piano)
J. S. Bach Sonata No 1, in G major (Bwv 1027)
W. F. Bach Sonata in c minor Schubert Arpeggione Sonata (D 821)
(NHK transcription recording)
Verdi's II Trovatore discussed by CHARLES OSBORNE with illustrations by BJÖRLlNG, MUZIO, PRICE, SCHLUSNUS, SCHWARZ, and SIMIONATO, Gramophone records
/or the Eve of St Philip and St James from Exeter Cathedral
Responses (Bernard Rose ) Psalm 112 (Attwood)
Lessons: Isaiah 30, vv 15-21; John I, vv 43-51
Office Hymn: Let the round world with songs rejoice (EH 176)
Canticles (Dyson in o)
Anthem: 0 what their joy and their glory must be (Harris)
Organist and Master of the Choristers LUCIAN NETHSINGHA
Assistant organist PAUL MORGAN
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6.30 Vient de Paraitre
A third-year French course y RICHARD MARTINEAU and ANNE-
MARIE GIROLAMI
6: Conseils utiles
With CATHERINE GRAHAM , GERARD PLAUX , ANNETTE LUGAND and LOUIS BI.ONCOURT
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
Book 60p: 2 I.P records £1.20 each: from bookshops
7.0 Kontakte
23: Was sind Sie von Beruff
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)
Boofc 3 75p, LP 3 £ 1.40, Cassette 3 £1.83 from bookshops
Opera in four acts
Libretto by LEONCAVALLO, PRAGA. OLIVA, ILLICA and GIACOSA, after the novel by ABBÉ PRÉVOST Music by Puccini (sung in Italian) direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff
' How I love her! My passion is so strong that I feel I am the most unhappy creature alive.... And I will follow her! who says: ' The role of Manon Lescaut is difficult because she is so capricious, unlike the heroines in Puccini's later operas.'
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JULIAN SMITH
WELSH PHILHARMONIA leader JOHN STEIN conducted by RICHARD ARMSTRONG Producer JULIAN HOPE
8.5* Julian Smith discusses Puccini's difficulties in arriving at a definitive version of the opera.
(Tuesdays broadcast)
Act 3
S.40* The Death of Manon
MARTIN JARVIS reads from the novel by ABBÉ PRÉVOST, translated by L. W. TANCOK.
9.55* Manon Lescaut Act 4
A discussion between Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone and Stuart Hampshire, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.
Chairman Anthony Quinton. Fellow of New College, Oxford Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
(This discussion will be printed in The Listener, dated 15 May)
Rondo in D (p 608)
11.5* Fantasia in F minor (o 940)
- Ingrid Haebler and Ludwig Hoffmann (piano duet)
(gramophone records)
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