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A weekly programme of recent records
Symphonic Poem: The Pines of Rome (Respighi)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conducted by Ernest Ansermet
8.25 Harp Concerto in C major (Boieldieu)
Marie-Claire Jamet with the Paul Kuentz
Chamber Orchestra of Paris
8.47 Pas de deux (Paquita) (Minkus)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
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Symphony No. 87, In A major BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MICHAEL HALL
A request programme of records Romance in F minor, Op. 11, for violin and orchestra (Dvorak)
Josef Suk with the CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
9.45. Symphonia Domestica
(Strauss)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL
A musical entertainment by MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano) FREDERICK STONE (piano)
KYLA GREENBAUM (piano)
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)
LONDON STRING QUARTET Carl Pini (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Devised by DAVID STONE
Margaret Neville broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov by Philip Hope-Wallace
Musical Profile: Arthur Grumiaux by Neville Marriner
Image and Structure in Chamber Music: book review by Geoffrey Bush
Rules of the Game: 1: Do Your Practice by Sidney Harrison
Words and music by Wagner Act l sung in German on gramophone records
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by BRUNO WALTER
Siegmund. wounded in combat, seeks shelter in the warrior Hunding's hut, but when Hunding finds out that Siegmund has slain his kinsmen he tells him that they must meet in battle in the morning. Later, Hunding's wife Sieglinde shows the unarmed Siegmund a sword embedded in an ash tree; Siegmund draws it out easily and he and Sieglinde discover they are both children of the god Wotan. They declare their love and escape into the night.
played by the BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
Haydn, Brahms, and Schubert
Recording made available by courtesy of the French Broadcasting Service
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother played by JOHN BIGG (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader. Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
SIR MALCOLM SARGENT talks about Elgar and his First Symphony
Part 2
From the Assembly Hall, Worthing in association with Worthing Corporation
An opera in a prologue and four acts
Text based on Pushkin's drama
Words and music by Mussorgsky
Revised and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov with additional orchestration by Ippolitov-Ivanov sung in Russian
Cast in order of singing:
Townsfolk, boyars, soldiers, Polish nobility, wandering mendicants, monks
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BOLSHOI THEATRE
Conducted by Nikolai Golovanov
The action takes place between 1598 and 1605 Prologue
Sc. 1 The courtyard of the Novodievichy Monastery tn Moscow
Sc. 2 A square In the Kremlin
Act 1
Sc. 1 A cell In the Chudov
Monastery
Se. 2 An inn near the Lithuanian border
EDWIN MORGAN outlines and comments on the objectives of this international movement started in Switzerland and Brazil in the early 1950s. He reads a number of poems by himself and other concrete poets including Ian Hamilton Finlay and Eugene Gomringer.
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DIE CEZEICHNETEH (The Branded Ones)
Opera by Frans Schreker (1878-1934)
Recording from Germany
First broadcast in this country with an introductory talk by Mosco earner on Saturday
A synopsis of the opera may be obtained by sending a large stamped addressed envelope to Schreker. [address removed]
Act 2
A room in the Imperial Palace
Act 3
The castle gardens at Sandomir
A hole in the road by R. W. M. Dias ,
Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge
A blind man fell over the long-handled hammer guarding a hole in the pavement, and injured himself seriously. He sued the London Electricity Board. Adequate precautions had been taken to protect sighted people. but was that enough?
Act 4
Sc. 1 A square in front of the Cathedral of St. Basil. Moscow
Sc. 2 The great hall In the Kremlin Sc. 3 A clearing In the forest near
Kromy
Recording made available by courtesy of the Moscow Radio
by John Arden adapted by BENNETT MAXWELL with Edward Chapman and Peter Pratt
' No effort in Westminster is worth a damned thing by itself without a sound rammed foundation in the provincial localities. As far as this locality is concerned if we permit the Tories to fix our police force, we're on t'road into mucky marsh, and your old uncle Charlie knows it.'
Labour
The Police
The Electorate
At the Copacabana Club
Music composed by JOHN ADDISON conducted by MICHAEL MOORES
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Second broadcast during THE INTERVAL (9.40*-9.50*)
A gramophone record of Milhaud's Scaramouche played by VITYA VRONSKY and VICTOR BABIN (two pianos)
