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A weekly programme of recent records
Overture: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
8.13 Piano Concerto No.2, in B flat major (Beethoven)
Leon Fleisher (piano) with the Cleveland Orchestra Conducted by George Szell
8.42 Symphonic Poem: Don Juan (Strauss)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Lorin Maazel
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BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MICHAEL HALL
Symphony No. 85, in B flat major
A request programme of gramophone records
The Agfncourt Song (anon.) NEW YORK PRO MUSICA
Directed by NOAH GREENBERG
9.35* Organ Concerto No.4, In
F major (Handel)
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (organ) with the JEAN-FRANÇOlS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN-FRANÇOlS PAILLARD
9.51* Belshazzar's Feast
(Walton)
DONALD BELL (baritone) and the PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
A musical entertainment given by JOHN BIGG (piano)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano) LONDON STRING QUARTET Carl Pini (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Devised by David Stone
Second broadcast
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Alban Berg (1885-1935) by ROBERT HENDERSON
George Baker (born February 10, 1885): a tribute for his eightieth birthday by JULIAN HERBAGE
Two Brandenburg Concertos by NORMAN CARRELL
The First Hundred Years of Wagner's Tristan: book review by MARTIN COOPER
Excerpts from his opera* Ariadne auf Naxos
Die Liebe der Danae and Die sChweigsame Frau sung by INGEBORG HALLSTEIN (soprano) MELITTA MUSZELY (soprano) HEINZ HOPPE (tenor)
HUGH BERESFORD (baritone) KARL CHRISTIAN KOHN (bass) with the NATIONAl. ORCHESTRA OF THE FRENCH RADIO
Conducted by RICHARD KRAUS In the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
Introduced by LIONEL SALTER
Recording made available by cour. tesy of the French and Bavarian Radios
played by the TEL AVIV STRING QUARTET Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benyamini (viola) Uzi Wiesel (cello) with YONA ETTLINGER (clarinet)
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Norman Nelson Conducted by Walter Susskind who also plays the concerto
Part
WALTER SUSSKIND discusses the music in this afternoon's concert with HUGH MAGUIRE and NORMAN NELSON
Part 2
Given before an invited audience In BBC Studio 1. Malda Vale, London
Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit. BBC. Broadcasting House.
Prelude and Fugue In C major
(' 48 ' Book 2)
4.40* Prelude and Fugue In C minor (' 48 ' Book 2)
4.45* French Suite No. 3, in minor played by MARJORIE FEW (piano)
† An illustrated talk by DENIS STEVENS in which he discusses the way in which composers used instrumental resources during the Renaissance
or The Love of Geometry by Max Frisch translated by MICHAEL BULLOCK adapted by Archie Campbell with Other parts played by Carlos Douglas , Stephen Saggers , and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Singer, JEAN ALLISTER
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WRELEN
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Second broadcast
Keith Michell is In Robert and Elizabeth' at the Lyric Theatre. ber of the Royal, Shakespeare Theatre Company
DURING THE INTERVAL (6.55*-7.5*)
A record of music by Byrd and Morley played by THE JULIAN BREAM CONSORT followed by an interlude at 7.55
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA Led by Joseph Segal
Conducted by MICHAEL HALL From the Rutherford Technical College, Newcastle upon Tyne
Part
This was Adolph Menzel 's most famous painting of Frederick the Great. L. D. ETTLINGER Professor of the History of Art in the University of London, considers Menzel as a painter and as a propagandist for the court of Prussia.
An exhibition of works by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) is on view at the Arts Council Gallery in London
Part
† CHRISTOPHER SCAIFE reads Lycidas by John Milton ; Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold : and Virgil's Fifth Eclogue in the translation by E. V. Rieu
played by JORGE BOLET