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A weekly programme of recent records
Suite No. 1: L'Arlesienne (Bizet)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
8.20 Romance for contralto: Chorus of Huntsmen (Rosamunde) (Schubert)
Diana Eustrati (contralto) Berlin Motet Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Lehmann
8.27 Incidental music: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Strauss)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Victor Desarzens
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BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Symphony No. 96, in D major
The extended series of Haydn symphonies continued
A request programme of gramophone records
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (Debussy)
London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
9.41. Nuits d'ete (Berlioz) REGINE CRESPIN with the SUISSE romande ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
10.13* Escales (lbert)
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PAUL PARAY
A musical entertainment given by WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
MARSYAS WIND QUINTET Clifford Seville (flute) John Barnett (oboe)
Basil Tschaikov (clarinet) Martin Gatt (bassoon) Alan Civil (horn)
Devised by David STONE
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage
Peter Warlock (1894-1930) by ERNEST BRADBURY
Musical Profile: Enrico Mal nardi by JOAN DICKSON
Offenbach's ' La Belle Hélène . by MARK LUBBOCK
Two Books about Richard Strauss reviewed by DERYCK COOKE
A comparison of Massenet's and Puccini's treatment, in their operas, of the story of Manon Lescaut
Gramophone records introduced by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Quartet in B flat major, Op. played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with GWYNNE EDWARDS (viola)
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Repeated on Monday at 9.20 a.m. (Home Services, not Welsh)
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
BBC MEN'S CHORUS
BBC CHORAL Society (Men's voices)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Dean Dixon
Part 1
2.55* The Concert Interval
HUMPHREY SEARLE talks about
Liszt's Faust Symphony
Part 2
Given before an invited audience In Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Toccata in D minor played by JEAN MACKIE (piano)
CHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some of the outstanding musical events taking place in Britain in the coming week