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Ravel Pavane pour une Infante defunte: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
7.13* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor:
RUDOLF SERKIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.44* Borodin Polovtslan Dances (Prince Igor): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND chorus, conducted by sir georg solti: records

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Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.12* Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1, in E flat
HSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.41* Rlmsky-Korsakov Musical Picture: Sadko: LONDON PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by david LLOYD-JONES : records

Robin Holmes's monthly selection, setting the bird poems against their natural background.

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Fantasy on Polish Airs, for piano and orchestra
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACXEWSKI
9'201 Two Polish Songs, Op 74 ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (SOp) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
S.25* Concert-rondo: Krakowlak, for piano and orchestra ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAW SKROW aczewski: records

British orchestral music
Vaughan Williams Serenade to music
16 SOLO SINGERS
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by sir ADRIAN BOULT Moeran Symphony in G minor NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR aerian BOULT gramophone records

Antony Hopkins

MINCHO MINCHEV (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN
William Schuman Voyage for Orchestra (first European performance)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in D major (K 218)
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Midday Concert
Part 2 Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5, in D major

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Ida Haendel (violin)
Michaei lsador (piano)
Brahms Scherzo (FAE Sonata)
Bach Sonata No 1, in G minor, for violin (bwv 1001)
Brahms Sonata in D minor, Op 108
(A series of public concerts from St John 's, Smith Square, SW1. Tickets 80p at the door) (Repeated: Thursday 10.30 pm)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR i.eavins conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Schubert, Roussel, Richard Rodney Bennett , Frank Bridge and Bizet

Nun komm ' der Heiden Helland Three different treatments of the Advent chorale melody, from two Royal Festival Hall organ recitals in February.
Chorale Preludes by Bach (Bwv 659) and Buxtehude, played by RICHARD POPPLEWELL
A Partita by Hugo DisUer , played by jiri ropek

Schubert String Quartet In c (D46): MELOS QUARTETOF STUTTGART Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 NO 2: BEAUX ARTS TRIO Meyerbeer Sicilienne
DIETRICH FISCIIER-DIESKAU (bar) KARL ENGEL (piano)
Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op 13 alberni quartet: records

CAMBORNE TOWN BAND conductor BERNARD bygravb
Music by Balay Ball and Eric Ball

with David Munfow
The Story oj the Orchestra from its earliest days in Venice about 1600, then in France where the violin began its powerful reign.

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by HARRY LEGGE and ASHLEY LAWRENCE
BBC NORTHERN IREI.ANDORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with artists on records

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Home and Family
6.30 Families In Crisis
Seven programmes comparing how different families react to similar crises.
2: A Handicapped Child
CLAIRE RAYNER talks to JEREMY and HILARY, and their parents, and to ALAN and ELIZABETH.
7.0 Learning to Read
Six programmes providing help and guidance to parents on their children's reading. 2: Getting Ready
How to encourage pre-reading skills. Presented by ANNE WOOD

On behalf of the European Broadcasting Union, Hess Radio presents
Choral Piano Concertos JAMES WINN (piano)
BESS RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FRANKFURT OPERA CHORUS Conductor CARL MELLES
Beethoven Fantasia in c minor, for piano, chorus and orchestra, Op 80

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, considers a new study of higher education, published under the auspices of the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Prince-ton, which examines how the universities responded to major social changes such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

Part 2 Busoni Concerto in c, for piano, men's chorus and orchestra, Op 39
(From the Radio Concert Hall, Frankfurt)

by Hugh Sykes Davies
In the early 60s a new operation for the relief of epilepsy severed the main connection between the two halves of the brain. This gave psychologists an opportunity to study and speculate about their respective functions.
Hugh Sykes Davies , Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. and a student in linguistics, strongly disagrees with some of the inferences Californian scientists like Michael Gaz zaniga, Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein have drawn from their experiments.

Cantata No 180: Schmiicke dich, o Hebe Seele
HEDY GRAF (soprano)
BARBARA SCHERLER (contralto) KURT HUBER (tenor)
JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
GERHARD BRAUN (flute and recorder)
PETER THALHEIMER (recorder) FRlEDRlCH MILDE
BANSPETER WEBER (oboes) AUGUST WENZINGER
(violoncello piccolo)
BEILORONN REINRICH SCHOTZ CHORUS AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE, conducted by FRITZ WERNER : records

T. s. ELIOT'S famous poem is read by Alec Guinness a life-long devotee of Eliot's work
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(This recording forms the first side of a new double album, T. S. Eliot read by Alec Guin ness, issued by Argo in association with the BBC)

The Howard Riley Trio
Presented by HOWARD bilst

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