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Overture Fantasia: Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
8.24' Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra (Franck)
JOHN OGDON (piano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.40' Suite: The Love for Three
Oranges (Prokofiev)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDT on gramophone records
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Copland and Barber
Records including Copland's Clarinet Concerto and a group of his Old American Songs
Each Friday some piano music by Schubert
ILSE WOLF (soprano)
MARTIN Isepp (piano)
SHULAMITH SHAFIR (piano)
Members of the LONDON OCTET
Felix Kok (violin)
Jeffrey Wakefield (violin) Harry Danks (viola) John Coulling (viola) Alexander Kok (cello) Denis Vigay (cello)
(tenor) with ELISABETH GRÜMMER (soprano) sings excerpts from Wagner's operas
Rienzi
Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin on gramophone records
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music.
This week's programme is introduced by George Malcolm (organ, piano, and harpsichord) who plays
Organ: Chorale Prelude: Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott - Bach
11.53* Piano: Sonata in F major (K.332) - Mozart
12.6* Harpsichord: Fantasia in C minor (S.906) - Bach
Sonata in G major (L.349) - Scarlatti
PETER LLOYD (flute)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Part I
STEPHEN DODGSON looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week and are not being broadcast
Part 2
Given before an Invited audience in the Town Hall. Manchester. by courtesy of Manchester Corporation
Italian
Recordings selected from the Italian language programmes of the BBC's External Services
Supplementary Series
The theme for the series Is
Art in Britain
2: Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Speaker,
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Produced by GEORGE WALTON SCOTT
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who receive coloured prints of all the main paintings and black and white Illustrations of all the other works discussed, together with background notes. The material Is despatched quarterly and a stiff backed folder to house the year's supply is included in the delivery of the notes for the first quarter.
Subscriptions for the year are
35s... and should be sent to BBC Publications (Painting 1965). P.O. Box 123. London. W.I.
Lesson 19
L'achat d'un cadeau
Introduced by KATIA Ellis with the help of Louis BLONCOURT
Written and produced by ELSIE FERGUSON
Language consultant, PAUL COUSTER
Monday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available
An opera in three acts
Libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI and RENATO SIMONI
Music by Puccini
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing:
Mandarins. Wise men, Imperial Guard and Populace
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
Orchestra of the ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
The action takes place in Peking In legendary times
ACT 1
Outside the walls of the Imperial
Palace
A Mandarin - VICTOR GODFREY (baritone)
Liu, a young slave - ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (soprano)
Calaf, a Prince incognito, son of Timur - NIKOLA NIKOLOV (tenor)
Timur, exiled King of Tartary - JOSEPH ROULEAU (bass)
Three mandarins of the Court - Ping.RONALD LEWIS (baritone)
Pang - JOHN LANIGAN (tenor)
Pong - KENNETH MACDONALD (tenor)
The Emperor Altoum - JOHN DOBSON (tenor)
Princess Turandot - AMY SHUARD (soprano)
by DR. S. J. COLLIER
In December 1897 Coquelin atne" gave the first performance of Cyrano de Bergerac and Edmond Rostand became famous overnight.
His verse play has remained in repertory ever since. At the turn of the century he was charged by American lawyers with plagiarism and the judgment went against him.
In making his dramatisation of the life of de Bergerac, would Edmond Rostand have plagiarised an unknown American writer for a nose and a few situations? Dr. Collier recounts the case.
ACT 2
Sc. 1 A pavilion in the Imperial
Palace
Se. 2 The great court of the Patace
by Michael Tippett
St. Augustine in his boyhood often heard North African wordless folk songs which went by the Latin name of Jubilus.
MICHAEL TIPPETT , who is writing a cantata on St. Augustine, speaks on traditions of expressing ecstasy.
ACT 3
Sc. 1 The palace gardens
Sc. 2 The great court of the Imperial Palace
A play by James Saunders
' In this world which we inhabit together, it is as necessary for me to help you as it is for you to accept my help. We have to pay our way, Mr. Dross, by whatever means are open to us.' with Garard Green as Mr. Dross
Eva Stuart as Annie and Frederick Treves as Shyster, the Salesman
Produced by John Gibson
Second broadcast
Symphony No. 29, In A major
(K.201) glayed by the BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Directed by YEHUDI MENUHIN on a gramophone record
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