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A rcquest programme of records Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Overture: The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
(Rosamunde) (Schubert)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conductcd by PAUL KLETZKI
8.22. Piano Concerto No.1, In
B flat minor (Tchaikovsky)
SVIATISLA RICHTER (piano) with the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
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Bach
Sonata in E flat major, for flute and harpsichord
9.14* Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for harpsichord
9.26. Sonata in B minor, for flute and harpsichord
WILLIAM BENNETT (flute)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
String Quartet No.2, In A minor, Op. 13 (Mendelssohn)
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
10.16* Three Ballads (Loewe)
Tom the Rhymer
The Erlking; Henry the Fowler
HERMANN PREY (baritone), with GONTHER WEISSENBORN (piano)
10.28* Nonet in F major (Spohr)
Members of THE VIENNA OCTET with JOSEF NIEDERMAYR (flute) and KARL MAYRHOFER (oboe) on gramophone records
GEORGINA DOBRÉE (clarinet)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, NORMAN DEL MAR
BBC CHORUS
Conducted by MYER FREDMAN
ELAINE SKORODIN (violin)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Mountain
Conductor, CHARLES GROVES
Part 1
BERNARD KKEFFE looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next seven days and are not being broadcast
Part 2
110 words a minute to verbatim
Compiled by MARY DE LA MAHOTIÈRE
For those who want to develop reporting speeds in any shorthand system
80-120 words a minute: Saturdays.
11.20 a.m. (Home)
50-80 words a minute: Mondays.
6.30 p.m.
A booklet Is available
A course of twenty lessons for students with no previous knowledge of the language
Lesson 18 by PROFESSOR DENNIS WARD with the help of KONSTANTIN IRINSKY
Produced by TONY CASH
A booklet is available
The seventh of twenty-seven programmes for those who would like to know more about the structure of music and its composition
Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Produced by PETER DODD
A booklet is avallable
Copland
Suite: The Tender Land
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA on a gramophone record
A weekly review of the arts
This edition devoted to a dicussion on the work and achievement of Saul Bellow between
A. ALVAREZ
GENE BARO and ERIC MOTTRAM on the occasion of the British publication of Bellow's new novel Herzog
Suite in E minor played by ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord). From the Concert Room. the American Embassy. London
Second broadcast
Speakers,
OLIVER COX
Deputy Chief Architect to the Ministry of Housing
HUGH MORRIS
Architect and Planner
The Ministry of Housing's Development Group was set up five years ago to study new ideas and techniques in house building, to carry out its own experimental building projects, and to publish the results. Oliver Cox talks to Hugh Morris about the aims. ideas, and methods of the Group.
Produced by LEONIE COHN
A comedy by Donald Cotton with music by ALAN OWEN in this version of the classical myth, Phaethon, as he drives the Chariot of the Sun across the upper air. discovers that there is no basis for the traditional description of the universe - it is not supported by an elephant standing upon a tortoise. The whole basis of Olympian orthodoxy is threatened, and Helios is obliged to take immediate action.
Orchestra conducted by the composer
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
' PHAETHON' is the concluding play of a trilogy begun in 1959 with Echo and Narcissus, and continued in 1960 with The Salvation of Faust. All three plays are concerned with the problems confronting the enthusiast who becomes a fanatic. In Echo the target was genetics applied to marriage guidance; in Faust it was psychiatry considered as a universal panacea; in Phaethon it is youth's rebellion against convention.
Phaethon is the son of Helios, the elemental Sun-God, and is a devout shepherd with conventional religious beliefs: but he is goaded by Venus into attempting a proof of his own divinity. In this he is supported by his doting mother, Clymene, who considers it is high time the new-fangled Olympian deities were taught to respect the dynasty of older gods. Overcoming his father's initial opposition, Phaethon insists on supplanting him at the reins of the sun-chariot, whereupon he is brought face to face with the astronomical realities of heaven. His consequent conversion to materialism threatens to undermine Greek orthodoxy, and he is destroyed by an alarmed combination of gods before he can prove to the world that they don't exist.
DONALD COTTON
played by the Czech violinist
JOSEF SUK and ALASDAIR GRAHAM (piano)
