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Gretry Overture: Le Jugement de Midas: NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA.directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
7.11* Rameau Suite: Les Indes galantes: LAMOUREUX CONCERTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT
7.30* Lalo Symphony in G minor: ORTF SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis de Froment
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

Berlioz Overture: The Corsair LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by colin DAVIS
8.14* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor: RUDOLF SERKIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.45* Strauss First Waltz Sequence (Der Rosenkavalier)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

First of two recitals In which CHARLES SPINKS plays a Handel Suite on the harpsichord, and keyboard works by Bach and Stanley on the organ of All Hallows, London Wall
Bach Prelude and Fugue In C major (' 48 ' Book 2)
Stanley Voluntary in G major, Op 7 No 9
Handel Suite in E major (GHS Set 1 No 5)
Stanley Voluntary in A major. Op 7 No 1
Bach Prelude and Fugue in E major (' 48.' Book 2)

Part 2
Franck Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra CLIFFORD CURZON
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
1.22* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hamlet: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by BERNARD HAITINK : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

AGNES GIEBEL (soprano)
With ERNEST LUSH (piano)
SchumannPhiline (Singet nicht); Die Blume der Ergebung; Die Kartenlegerin
Reger Waldeinsamkeit; Wenn die Linde bliiht; Des Kindes Gebet: Klein Marie; Mariae Wiegenlied
Strauss Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden; Wiegenlied; Einkehr
(A 1966 Brahms recital by Janet Baker : 30 September)

Contributors

Soprano:
Agnes Giebel
Piano:
Ernest Lush
Unknown:
Janet Baker

Excerpts from a recital by the prizewinners in the first London Organ Competition, given at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, on 12 April
DAVID GAMMIE (Second)
Reger Chorale Fantasia: Halleluja! Gott zu loben. Op 52 No 3 MICHAEL OVERBURY (Third)
Messiaen Le banquet céleste: Communion: Les oiseaux et les sources (Messe de la Pentec6te)
GEOFFREY MORGAN (First)
Guilmant Sonata No 1, in minor. Op 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Overbury
Unknown:
Geoffrey Morgan

A Week on Sound
A series of five programmes on successive evenings this week, on aspects of sound and sound broadcasting. The Nature of Sound
As an introduction to the series PROFESSOR ERIC LAITHWAITE Of Imperial College, London, explores the nature of sound, the ways in which we perceive and experience it. and the relationship between sounds and their meanings.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT

Opera in one act
Music by Mascagnl
Libretto by GIOVANNI TARGIONI-TOZZETTI and GUIDO MENASCI , after a story by GIOVANNI VERGA (sung in Italian: records)
This celebrated tale of passion and violence takes place in a Sicilian village on Easier Day.
CUORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
LA SCALA, MILAN conducted by TUI.LIO SERAFIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Unknown:
Guido Menasci
Story By:
Giovanni Verga

Peter Shepheard , architect. town planner and landscape architect, comments on The Landscape of Man by Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe , published today.
The Landscape of Man traces the deliberate shaping of the human environment from prehistory to the present day. ' Man,' the authors say, ' creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas,'

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Shepheard
Unknown:
Susan Jellicoe

by DR NORMAN HAMMOND. Department of Archaeology, University of Bradford
Music is one of the least known arts of prehistoric civilisations but instruments, or depictions of them. do survive. DR HAMMOND describes the main groups of instruments used by the ancient Maya. and includes illustrations with instruments from archaeological sites, those constructed from drawings and paintings, and other designs that have been handed down by past generations to the modern Mayan Indians of Central America.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Norman Hammond.

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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