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Prelude: Werther (Massenet) Orchestra of the OPÉRA-COMIQUE
Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
8.9* Piano Concerto No. 3, in D minor (Rachmaninov)
MALCUZYNSKI (piano) WARSAW NATIONAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
8.46* Suite: Masques et bergamasques (Fauré)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records
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Mendelssohn
Excerpts from the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a movement from the early Piano Concerto in A minor and from the Scottish Symphony on gramophone records
Each Friday some piano music by Schubert
Continued in next column
NATALIA KARP (piano) OROMONTE STRING TRIO Perry Hart (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello) with DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute)
(soprano) with Jussi BJÖRLING (tenor) and MARIO SERENI (baritone) in excerpts from operas by Gounod, Bizet, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Puccini, and Catalani on gramophone records
Musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music.
This week
JOHN FRANCIS introduces the London Harpsichord Ensemble John Francis (flute)
John Tunnell (violin) Bernard Davis (viola) Norman Jones (cello)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord) who play
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Moshe Atzmon
Part 1
Overture
BERNARD KEEFFE 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 at the Royal College of Advanced Technology. Salford
Spanish
Selected recordings from the Spanish language programmes of the BBC's External Services
A monthly programme in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning to t3: PROFESSOR RICHARD HOGGART on The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler with readings by John PULLEN
Lesson 22
Aux sports d'hiver
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
RITA VOLKMAN talks to
JOHN CHANDOS about a new kind of therapeutic community' set up by drug addicts in California which she has been studying. Its purpose is to bring about the cure of its members without the intervention of doctors, nurses, or anyone else outside. DR. R. D. LAING of the Tavistock
Clinic comments on the Synanon idea in the light of current medical practice in Britain.
by Georg Kaiser
Translated by H. F. GARTEN and ELIZABETH SPRIGGE
Adapted for radio by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Narrator, ROLF LEFEBVRE
Music by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Madrigals sung by the Elizabethan Madgrigal Ensemble
Barbara Elsy (soprano), Jennifer Barber (soprano), John Whitworth (counter-tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (bass)
Scendi dal Paradiso
Deh tirsi anima mia
Fiere silvestre; Cedan l'antiche
Al lume delle stelle Solo e pensoso
Voi bramate; Come fuggir
Illustrated talk by DON Locke
Many people, including writers on Jazz, still regard improvisation as the main feature which gives Jazz its special value. Don LOCKE. who has written on jazz in specialist magazines, defines some other Qualities in the playing of jazz which seem to him more truly characteristic and important.
His ' quotations ' are from
Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington, Muggsy Spanier , Charlie Parker , Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis
Last of five programmes to include some of his music
Nonet (1956)
10.25* Concert for 8 (1962) - played by the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble: Gareth Morris (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe) Stephen Waters (clarinet) Cecil James (bassoon) James Brown (horn), with David Mason (trumpet) Alfred Flaszynski (trombone) John Wilson (tuba) Ivor Beynon (accordion) Hugo D'Alton (mandolin) Isabel Smith (guitar) John Steer (double-bass) Eric Allen (percussion) Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod
(Part of the Tuesday Invitation Concert from the Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton, on October 20, 1964)
by MARTIN COOPER
Martin Cooper speaks on one of the great romantic poets who believed that ' everything is vain except pain, and even pain is better than boredom.'
Second broadcast