and Weather Forecast
LONDON LIGHT
CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GILBERT VINTER with NIGEL COXE (piano)
and Weather Forecast
Overture to the New Year's
Ode, 1758 (Boyce)
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
9.8* Concerto No. 1, in G major for oboe and string orchestra (Donmenico Scarlatti, arr. Bryan)
LEON GOOSSENS with the PHlLHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
9.20* Symphony No. 32, in G major (K.318) (Mozart)
BERLIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HANS VON BENDA on gramophone records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Handel's Organ Concertos by John Williams
English Church Music: John Warrack
Recent Chamber Music: Martin Cooper
on the operatic stage
Gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN AMIS
This week: Domestic issues
conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
The Programme includes music by Oscar Straus , Albeniz, Offenbach, Dvorak, Schubert, Haydn Wood
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
with ROBIN BOYLE
12.30* SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Weather Forecast at 12.5S
CRICKET
1.0 : 2.15 : 2.40 : 3.10
South African Invitation Xl v. M C. C.
Commentary by CHARLES FORTUNE , BRIAN JOHNSTON , and KYRLE ROSCOE
Broadcast by courtesy of the South Afrlcan Broadcasting Corporation
RUGBY UNION
1.40 Talking Sport
NEIL DURDEN -SMITH talks to
R. W. D. MARQUES
3.25 County Championship Semi-Finals'
Durham v. Oxfordshire
Commentary by REX ALSTON , with summary by HARRY FRY
From Hartlepool
Surrey v.
Warwickshire
Commentary by PETER CRANMER
From Twickenham
RACING
1.55 The Royal Mail Handicap Steeplechase over three miles
2.25 The Lonsdale Handicap Hurdle over two miles
2.55 The Easter Hero
Handicap Steeplechase over two miles and 170 yards
Commentaries by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Kempton Park
4.50* Racing Results
4.10 ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL
Commentary by BRIAN MOORE and SIMON SMITH during the second half of one of today's English League Matches, followed by football results as they come in, direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0* SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACK. 'Y
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50
1740-77
Harp Concerto in C major ANNIE CHALLAN (harp)
ANTIQUA MUSICA ORCHESTRA OF PARIS conducted by MARCEL COURAUD on a gramophone record
by Yukio Doi
Music composed and conducted by WATARU SAITO with the OSAKA BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
A small boy mysteriously survives for several days alone in a mountain forest.
Produced by KOKYO HAGIWARA
English presentation written and produced by TERENCE TILLER
Commentator, RALPH TRUMAN
This recording of the Japanese entry for the Italia Prize of 1962 is broadcast in the original language, apart from the introduction and epilogue. These were in French, and have been translated into English. Short explanatory passages, also in English, have been added where convenient
Second broadcast
Opera in three acts'
Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden sung in German
Cast in order of singing:
Hotel guests, ball guests, cabmen, waiters, etc.
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus Master,
Douglas Robinson
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conductor, Georg Solti
Produced by RUDOLF HARTMANN
The action takes place in Vienna In 1860
ACT 1
A private sitting room in a large hotel
† by LAURENCE KITCHIN
Some time ago Mr. Kitchin defined a Currently popular form of clatistrophobic drama as ' compression-ism ' and he spoke on the Third Programme about it in a talk called The Cage and the Scream. He now traces the development and, in his view. decline of this form in the theatre and the cinema. with particular reference to the film Goldfinger and the play The Brig.
ACT 2
A Public ballroom
JOHN BOWEN introduces and reads from his forthcoming novel A World Elsewhere
ACT 3
The lounge and main staircase of the hotel
ROBERT STILL examines the composer's psychological crisis and its relation to the Tenth Symphony
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55
