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and his Orchestra

Monologue: I have attained the highest power (Boris Godunov , Act 2) (Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov): sung by Alexander Kipnig (bass) with the R.C.A. Victor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicolai Berezowsky
Romeo's Reverie: Fete at the Capulets; Love Scene (Romeo and Juliet) (Berlioz): played by the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Toscanini

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Rafael Kubelik
Symphony in D (Mica)
From Bohemia's Woods and Fields
(Smetana)
Sinfonietta (Janacek) on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced this week by Julian Herbage
Contents:
' Debussy's " Pell6as et Mélisande," ' by Alec Robertson
' Early Keyboard Instruments,' by Alec Hodsdon , with illustrations by Margaret Hodsdon (spinet and virginals)
' Stephen Foster (born July 4, 1864),' by Arthur Jacobs

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio and art
Conducted by John Summerson
12.11 Films : Connery Chappell
12.20 Theatre : Ivor Brown
12.28 Books : John Connell
12.37 Radio : Stephen Bone
12.45 Art: Denis Mathews

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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by a team of experts: Brian Vesey -FitzGerald, Eric Hobbis , and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland

Directed by Reg Pursglove with Jan Rosol

(Leader, Reginald Whitehouse )
Conductor, Maurice Miles
Denis Matthews (piano)
The overture to Wagner's opera. The Mastersingers, uses many of the main themes heard in the opera, beginning with the heroic theme of the Mastersingers followed by their Guild March, then the theme of ' artistic brotherhood ' and finally part of the tune of Walther's Prize Song. It is an overture of panoply and joy, with banners bearing the image of the great King David, whose own song was of joy.
Beethoven's second pianoforte concerto,
Opus 19, is a slighter work than the three which follow and Beethoven himself considered it the least effective. It contains much to enchant the ear. It is in the usual three-movement form, the second, an adagio, having the greatest depth.
Tchaikovsky inscribed bis fourth symphony ' to my best friend '- Nadejda Van Meek, the woman of his life whom Tchaikovsky never met, and writing to each other they referred to it with much passion as our symphony. The work has a definite programme. ' This is Fate ' Tchaikovsky wrote of the first movement. ' that inevitable force which checks our aspirations towards happiness 'ere they reach their goal.' The second movement reflects on this, while the third seeks solace in the company of a ' tipsy peasant and a street song.' In the last movement, though the fate theme is inexorable happiness is found in the spectacle of other people ' and the forgetting of self and self-pity.
Arthur Spencer

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by Alistair Cooke

Stabile (baritone)
Marguerite Wolff (piano)
BBC Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conductor, Walter Goehr
(Stabile broadcasts by permission of the New London Opera Co.)

Second of three services on the Christian Hope
Conducted by the Rev. Alan Booth
General Secretary,
Student Christian Movement
Jesus comes with all his grace
(M.H.B. 87)
Reading: Micah 6. vv. 1-8 First Address
Reading: Philippians 2, w. 1-11 Thine be the glory (M.H.B. 213) Second Address
Prayers
Through the night of doubt and sorrow (M.H.B. 616; A. and M. 274; C.H. 214)
Blessing

On June 28 the Berlin Airlift became one year old: for a year it had been going on every day, and for twenty-four hours of every day. This programme tells the story of that year: it deals with the blockade, its effects, and* its ultimate lifting. It tries to show how this unprecedented situation involved the lives of ordinary people, from the airlift pilot to the Berlin housewife
Compiled and written by Tom Waldron and W. P. Rilla
Produced by Alan Burgese

Piano Sonata in E, Op. 14 No. 1 played by John Hunt (piano)

Hallowed Be Thy Name
Psalm 29 (Broadcast psalter) Genesis 28, vv. 10-22
Lo, God is here (A. and M. 526) Psalm 99. v. 9