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A weekly series of records of the Austrian pianist playing the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Sonata in A, Op 2 No 2
Sonata in F minor. Op 57 (Appassionata)

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Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN'THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.19Tallis Motet: Spem in alium: CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS
9.32* Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme, Op 33
MSTISI.AV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
9.52* Sullivan Symphony in E (Irish) ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Seventy-five years of the Master Musicians Series: by HUGH OTTOWAY.
Maelzel and the metronome: by FRITZ SPIEGL.
Harrison Birtwistle : an introduction to his music by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV (violin) VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF Havdn Violin Concerto in c
11.38* Offenbach Waltz: Abendblatter
11.44* Johann Strauss Waltz : Morgenblatter

R. W. Burchfield , Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionaries, reflects on some of the things we say.
(Repeated: Thursday 2.50 pm) (Today's talk is printed in The Listener dated 27 November)

Part 2
Schumann Symphony No 2, in c (Austrian Radio recording)

A personal choice from the songs of the man who wrote No No Nanette.
Including recordings of JANE POWELL , BENNY GOODMAN , EARL HINES and others.
The second of a series of nine Sunday lunchtime programmes.

A recital of recently discovered or re-edited violin sonatas EDUARD MELKUS (violin)
LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord)
Geminiani Sonata in c minor (first performance In this country)
Handel Fantasia in A; Sonata in D minor
Vivaldi Sonata in b minor (RV 760) (first broadcast performance)
Albinoni Sonata in B flat (first broadcast performance)

leader SIDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY HEINZ HOLLIGER (OOOe)
Strauss Metamorphosen , for 23 strings
Oboe Concerto
Le bourgeois gentilhomme

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated. Monday 10.40 am)

1885-1974
A memorial concert In tribute to Egon Wellesz who died on 9 November 1974, organised by the BBC in association with the Austrian Institute and the Anglo-Austrian Music Society and given in the presence of HE The Austrian Ambassador. FELICITY PALMER (soprano) ERNST GUISTEIN (baritone) ALEXANDER JENNCR (piano) HARALD GOERTZ (piano)
WOLFGANG SCHULZ (flute)
MELOS ENSEMBLE, BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
Geistliches Lied, Op 23, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, violin, viola and piano (first broadcast performance in this country) Tnptychon. Op 98. for piano (played by ALEXANDER JENNER ) Suite, Op 57. for flute
Octet, Op 67, for clarinet, bassoon. horn, string quartet and double-bass
5.10* Martin Cooper , who studied with Wellesz, gives a personal assessment of the composer.
5.25* Egon Wellesz Part 2
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, Op 61, for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano; Lieder aus Wien, Op 82, for baritone and piano; Erinna (1924), for soprano and piano (first broadcast performance in this country); Four Pieces, Op 103, for string quartet (first broadcast performance in this country); Laus Nocturna , Op 88, for mixed choir.
(Given before an invited audience in St John's, Smith Square, on 10 Nov)

America and the World Experience
Six talks by Daniel J. Boorstin. 2: From Pilgrim Fathers to Fuunding Fathers
In his second lecture Dr Boorstin traces the change of consciousness that took place between the early settlement of North America and the creation of the United States, the first man-made nation with visible beginnings.
followed by an interlude

direct from the Deutsches Museum
HELEN DONATH (soprano) rose WAGEMANN (contralto) HERMANN PREY (baritone)
FRANZ LEHRNPORFER (Organ) BAVARIAN RADIO CHOIR
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ WALLBERG
Arne Organ Concerto No 3, in A Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
7.45' Dido -as Virgil Intended ? OR NICHOLAS HORSFALL, Lecturer in Greek and Latin at University College, London, argues that English writers - Nahum Tate included - have created an image of Dido Queen of Carthage very different from that intended by Virgil in his Aeneid. (Repeat;
8.5* Concert Part 2
Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Beethoven
String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 played by the BUSCH QUARTET
Adolf Busch (violin)
Gosta Andreasson (violin) Karl Doktor (viola)
Hermann Busch (cello)
A recent LP transfer of the recording made in 1941 but never released on 78s in Great Britain.

During the next few months Radio 3 is presenting a season of plays by the new generation of Australian playwrights. The rise of a vigorous school of drama in a truly Australian vernacular is one of the most exciting and significant events in the cultural development of the English-speaking peoples.
KATHARINE BRISBANE, one of the leading drama critics of Australia, describes the background to this development with illustrations from the Produced in Sydney by RON BLAIR.
(Recording made available to the BBC by courtesy of the ABC)
(The first play in the series, A Hard God, by Peter Kenna : "Wednesday 10.0 pm)

Derek Jewell's look at the world of popular music this week includes tracks from albums by the French band Magma, the German synthesiser composer Edgar Froese, the guitarist Steve Howe, and the rock singer Steve Ashley.

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