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Wagner Prelude: Lohengrin, Act 3
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
7.8* Haydn Symphony No 14, in a major
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.23' Debussy Suite bergamasque
WALTER GIESEKING (piano)
7.39* Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO MUTl
8.0 News
8.5 Mendelssohn
Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.18* Schubert Auf dem Strom
PETER SCHREIER (tenor) PETER DAMM (horn)
WALTER OLBERTZ (piano)
8.27* Becthoven
Symphony No 1, in c
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT SANDERLING : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Piano:
Walter Gieseking
Conducted By:
Riccardo Mutl
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Conducted By:
Kurt Sanderling

Antonin Dvorak
The programmes this week consist of the last five symphonies, written between 1875 and 1893, and some of the other orchestral music from the same period.
Symphony No 5, in F
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
Slavonic Rhapsody No 1, in D: CZECH PHILHAIARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonin Dvorak
Conducted By:
Witold Rowicki
Conducted By:
Vaclav Neumann

(soprano)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Mahler Ablbsung im Sommer; Nicht wiedersehen; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
Brahms Es steht ein Lind; Sehnsucht; Wie komm ich denn zur Tiir herein?; Die Trauernde; In stiller Nacht; Regentropfen fallen; Der Jager (Hungarian Radio recording)

Contributors

Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Mahler Ablbsung

played by CARLOS BONELL Purcell, arr Bonell Music from The Fairy Queen: Rondeau: Dance of the Fairies; Chaconne.
Bernard Stevens Ballad for Guitar. Op 45 (The Bramble Briar)
Michael Blake Watkins Solus

Contributors

Played By:
Carlos Bonell
Unknown:
Bonell Music
Unknown:
Bernard Stevens Ballad
Unknown:
Michael Blake Watkins

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Kalichstein/Laredo/ Robinson Trio
Haydn Piano Trio in E major (H xv 28)
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in c minor, Op 66
(Tickets, £1.50, available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, [number removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
St John

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville Fauré
Elegie NIGEL BLOMILEY (cello)
Johann Strauss Emperor Waltz
Gordon Langford Four movements for string orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov Spanish Caprice

Contributors

Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Cello:
Elegie Nigel Blomiley
Cello:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Gordon Langford

10: The Final Songs The sphinx; Not like thunder, trouble struck; Softly the spirit flew up to heaven; Pride; Is spinning man's work?; It scatters and breaks;
Thevision; The wanderer; Mephistopheles' song of the flea
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (baritone)
EDWARD DOWNES (piano)

Contributors

Piano:
Edward Downes

Wolf Symphonic Poem: Penthesilea
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN John Foulds String
Quartet No 9 (Quartetto intimo)
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Festival
Overture on the Danish National Anthem
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEOFFREY SIMON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Horst Stein
Conducted By:
John Foulds
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Simon

Presenter Francis Smith 7: People
The names of a wide variety of real people crop up in the blues:
Frank Stokes sang about his local mayor;
Sam Lightnin ' Hopkins sang about the difficulties of life down on ' Tim Moore 's Farm ';
Otis Spann was inspired by the death of President
Kennedy. (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Francis Smith
Unknown:
Frank Stokes
Unknown:
Sam Lightnin
Unknown:
Tim Moore
Unknown:
Otis Spann

; We need complete, truthful information. And the truth should not depend on whom it
Is to serve.' (v. i. LENIN) At a recent conference in Vienna, journalists and broadcasters from Communist Bloc countries met colleagues from the West to discuss how they see the job of the press, TV and radio. Chris Cviic of The
Economist reflects on the debate. Contributors include PETER RENYI
(Nepszabadsag). PAUL
LENDVAI (Financial Times), MARION DONHOFF (Die Zcit), MELVYN LASKY (Encounter), JOZE SMOLE (Radio and TV Ljubljana) and DAVID BINDER (The New York Times)
Producer DAVID PERRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Cviic
Unknown:
Peter Renyi
Unknown:
Marion Donhoff
Unknown:
Melvyn Lasky
Unknown:
David Binder
Producer:
David Perry

Fourth of six concerts of 20th-century music recorded by the BBC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and the LONDON SINFONIETTA in London colleges of music. Introduced by Arnold Whittall
OTHELLO LIESMANN (cello) BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by LOTHAR ZAGROSEK Part I
Boulez ' cummings ist der dichter ... '
York Höller Mythos
(first UK performance)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Arnold Whittall
Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Conducted By:
Lothar Zagrosek

Part 2
Johannes Kalitzkc De profundis, for electric cello with synthesiser and ensemble (first UK performance)
Gyorgy Ligeti Clocks and Clouds
(Given on 28 January at Goldsmiths' College, University of London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Johannes Kalitzkc
Unknown:
Gyorgy Ligeti Clocks

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