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A weekly programme of recent records
Come Again (Dowland)
The Madrigal Singers
Directed by Richard White
8.8 Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (Britten)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra Conducted by Boyd Neel
8-35 Dies Natalls (Finzi)
Wilfred Brown (tenor) and the English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Christopher Finzi
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A request programme of gramophone records
Prelude No. 15, in D flat major
(Chopin)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
0.11* Grand Duo Concertant
(Weber)
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) and CYRIL PREEDY (piano)
9-28* Sonata in B minor (Liszt) CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
PAMELA PETTS (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano) WINIFRED DAVEY and JOSEPHINE LEE (two pianos)
Amici STRING QUARTET
Lionel Bentley (violin) Colin Staveley (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Hailing (cello)
A weekly programme about current musical events of outstanding interest The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
FELIX APRAHAMIAN gives a profile of this famous orchestra and offers some challenging arguments regarding its future
Concert Calendar
MALCOLM RAYMENT looks ahead to some musical events of topical interest. including concerts given by the Melos Ensemble and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The composers' Guild of Great Britain
ERNEST TOMLINSON and RICHARD ARNELL discuss the aims and achievements of the Guild with JOHN WARRACK Produced by ALAN WALKER
An Opera in a Prologue and two Acts
Words and music by Leoncavallo
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Of LA SCALA, MILAN
Conducted by LOVRO VON MATACIC on gramophone records
The action takes place Just outside a village In Calabria, In the 1860s on the Feast of the Assumption.
Symphony No. 103, In E flat major (Drum Roll)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, RAE JENKINS
The third concert In an extended series of Haydn symphonies
makes a personal choice of some forthcoming music broadcasts
Alec Robertson introduces some of the music to be broadcast from the Promenade Concerts during the coming week.
ELI GoREN (violin)
PETER THOMAS (violin) PATRICK IRELAND (viola) WILLIAM PLEETH (cello) with CELIA ARIELI (piano)
The St. John Passion
Part 1
3.15* The Interval
PETER PEARS and HANS KELLER discuss this masterpiece, which. in comparison with Messiah or the St. Matthew Passion. they consider neglected
3.33 The St. John Passion
Part 2