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A weekly programme of recent records
Twelve Minuets (K.568) (Mozart)
Vienna Mozart Ensemble
Conducted by Willi Boskovsky
8.25 Introduction, theme, and variations for clarinet and orchestra (Rossini)
Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Robert Wagner
8.44 Little Suite for String Orchestra (Nielsen)
Tivoli Concert Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Carl Caraguly
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BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader. Trevor Williams
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM
Symphony No. 91. in E flat major
A request programme of gramophone records
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
(Bach) played by EDWIN FISCHER (piano)
9.43* Frauenliebe und-Ieben
(.Schumann) sung by LISA DELLA CASA (soprano) with SEBASTIAN PESCHKO (piano)
10.6* Piano Sonata in C major,
Op. 53 (Waldstein) (Beethoven) played by WlLHELM KEMPFF (piano)
A musical entertainment given by THEA KING (clarinet)
CLARE WALMESLET (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
MACGIBBON STRING QUARTET Margot Macgibbon (violin) Lorraine du Val (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (ceNo)
Devised by DAVID STONE
Second broadcast
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Michael Tippett : 2-The Instrumental Music by COLIN MASON Musical Profile: Vilem Tausky by CEDRIC WALLIS
Shakespeare in Music: book review by ANTHONY BURGESS
Opera in 1964 by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
One-act opera by Ravel
Libretto by Franc-Nohain sung in French
Cast in order of singing:
THE SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on a gramophone record Time: The eighteenth century
Place: Torquemada's shop In Toledo
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Sirgmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello)
Recorded by the BBC Transcription Service at last year's Aldeburgh Festival
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
JOHN OGDON (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, ANTAL DORATI
Part 1
tJOHN OGDON discusses with ALEXANDER GOEHR some of his ideas about music and how they affect the preparation and performance of his works
Part 2
Recorded before an Invited audience In BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
4.44* Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
4.50' Prelude and Fugue in F minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2) played by DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano)
An opera in three acts by Michael Tippett
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR The action takes place during Midsummer Day
Act 1: Morning
by STEVEN VAJDA
The mathematical theory of games ' brings a fresh approach to a wide range of human activi. ties. Dr. Vajda describes some of the elements of the theory, and points a moral.
... And of War, by Max Ham merlon: Monday at 9.35 p.m.
Act 2: Afternoon
Zulfikar Ghose introduces some of his recent poems which are read by THE AUTHOR and by DAVID SPENSER
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
Act 3: Evening and Night
Jeannette Sinclair. John Dobson , and David Kelly broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Roual Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.
Third broadcast followed by an Interlude at 8.35
Georgi Plekhanov philosopher and herald of the Russian Revolution by ISAAC DEUTSCHER
Mr. Deutscher speaks about the great exponent of Russian Marxism and Menshevism, who exercised a decisive influence on Lenin. With this review of Plekhanov's biography by Samuel H. Baron. Mr. Deutscher begins a series of three talks on the Mensheviks. In the second talk he will discuss Menshevism in 1917. Second broadcast
The debacle of 1917: January
The short story by Stephen Crane freely adapted for radio by IAN RODGER
After the success of The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane spent most of his remaining life as a war correspondent. At the end of 1896 he was sent to Florida on board The Commoilore to cover a filibustering expedition to Cuba, and on New Year's Day the ship sank. The Open Boat is Stephen Crane 's re-creation of his fifty-hour struggle for life in the open sea.
Incidental music composed by JOHN BUCKLAND
Orchestra conducted by PETER GELLHORN
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Second broadcast
played by the † NETHERLANDS; STRING QUARTET
Nap de Klijn (violin)
Jaap Schroder (violin) Paul Godwin (viola)
Carel Boomkamp (cello) followed by an Interlude at 10.55
