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A weekly programme of recent records
Duet in A major, Op. 18 No. 5 (J.C. Bach)
Rafael Puyana and Genoveva Galvez (harpsichords)

8.14 Canzonets (Morley)
Good Love, then fly thou to her
Stay heart, run not so fast
Anbrosian Singers
Directed by Denis Stevens

8.21 Sextet No. 1, in B flat major, Op. 18 (Brahms)
Yehudi Menuhin and Robert Masters (violins) Cecil Aronowitz and Ernst Wallfisch (violas) Maurice Gendron and Derek Simpson (cellos)

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BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, RAE JENKINS
Symphony No. 102, in B Bat major

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Der Freischiitz
(Weber)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
9.42* Flute Concerto in D major
(Michael Haydn )
CAMILLO WANAUSEK with the ORCHESTRA OF THE
VIENNA MUSIC SOCIETY
Conducted by ANTON HEILLER
10.2* Symphony No. 2, in B flat major (Schubert)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted bv
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

A musical entertainment given by DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
MARIA DONSKA
ALAN ROWLANDS (piano duet)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Devised by David Stone

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society celebrates its 125th anniversary, by WILFRED STIFF
Cherubini's Medea by RENE ELVIN
Musical Profile: Hervey Alan by CEDRIC WALLIS
The Price of Genius: book review by HAROLD ROSENTHAL

by Bizet
An operetta in one act
Libretto by LEON Battu and Ludovic HALEVY
English translation by DAVID HARRIS
BBC NORTHERN Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by PETER YORKE and VIVIAN A. DANIELS

played by the ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
Eli Goren (violin)
Peter Thomas (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

with the Scottish National Orchestra
Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor,
Alexander Gibson
Part 1
Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No. 3
2.57* Piano Concerto No. 4, in G major
Recorded at a concert given In the Usher Hall. Edinburgh, on Nov. 6

ALEXANDER GIBSON and NORMAN DEL MAR discuss
Beethoven and Stravinsky: opposing creative characters
Chairman, WATSON FORBES

Part 2
Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring

Partita No. 2, in C minor
4.51* Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor (' 48,' Book 1) played by TERENCE BECKLES (piano)

Colin Chambers (flute)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet) Anthonv Jennings (bass-cfarinet)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Douglas Moore (horn)
Howard Snell (trumpet) Paul Collins (violin)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) John Steer (double-bass) Daphne Ibbott (piano)
Second broadcast

In 1963 the young Russian poet gave a reading of some of his work to a large audience in Paris. Tonight's programme contains recordings of Yevtushenko reading three of his poems-Babi Yar, Dead Hand and Stalin's Heirs. Each poem is preceded by an English translation.
English translation and introduction by NICHOLAS BETHELL
Reader, PETER MARINKER
Produced by RICHARD IMISON
Second broadcast

Opera in three acts
Music by Cherubini
Words by FRANÇOlS BENOIT HOFFMANN sung in Italian on gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN conducted by Tullio Serafin
The action takes place at Corintb. In and near the royal palace
ACT 1

by JOHN WREN-LEWIS
Teithard de Chardin's last book, The Future of Man, was published In this country last year. JOHN WREN-LEWIS assesses the contribution of this unusual man of science to our religious thought.
Second broadcast

Act 2

Sentencing the Serious Offender tby RUPERT CROSS
Vinerian Professor of English Law, All Souls, Oxford
Professor Cross looks at the thirty-year sentences passed in the Great Train Robbery Case and argues that they give rise to certain anomalies, particularly in relation to the years actually served by those given ' life' sentences for murder.

ACT 3

A comedy of 1695 by William Congreve adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES with Alec Clunes , Maxine Audley Miles Malleson
Pauline Jameson
Michael Aldridge , Clive Revill
Norman Shelley
Elizabeth Morgan
Denis Quilley
Music by STEPHEN DODGSON based on the original songs for the play by
John Eccles and Godfrey Finger Characters in order of speaking:
with PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) and a section of the NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER FARIS
Scene: In London. April 1695
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Second broadcast
Clive Revill is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Co.
DURING THE INTERVAL (10.5*10.15*): A record of music by Jeremiah Clarke played by the Oiseau-Lyre CHAMBER Ensemble, conducted by PIERRE COLOMBO