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Overture: The Sicilian Vespers
(Verdi)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by TULLIO SERAFIN
8.13*Piano Concerto No. 20, in D minor (K.466) (Mozart)
RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.45* Petite Suite (Debussy)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records
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Mussorgsky and Borodin
Movements from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2, in D major and two groups of songs by Mussorgsky with Boris Christoff (bass) as soloist on gramophone records
Schubert: including some of his piano music
Songs:
Der Schiffer: Auf der Donau Des Sängers Habe
9.55* Sonata In C major
(Grand Duo), for piano duet
10.37' Songs:
Des Lebens Tag: Im Walde Das Heimweh
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
MARIA DONSKA and ALAN ROWLANDS (piano duet)
Second broadcast
(tenor) with LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano) in scenes from operas by Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi, and Saint-Saens on gramophone records
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
PFTER MOUNTAIN introduces
The Mountain String Quartet
Peter Mountain (violin)
Tom Rowlette (violin)
Robert Braga (viola)
Christopher Catchpole (cello)
The programme includes:
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Part 1
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 in the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford
Italian
Recordings selected from the Italian language programme of the BBC's External Services
Supplementary Series
The theme for this year's series Is Art m Britain
3: Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Speaker.
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Produced by GEORGE WALTON SCOTT
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who receive coloured prtnts of all the main paintings and black and white illustrations of all the other works discussed, together with background 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 23
Au grand magasin
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
5: Henry James by GRAHAM HOUGH
Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in English
The fifth in a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the English novel.
Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis)
Heather Harper (soprano)
Maureen Lehane (contralto)
Ronald Dowd (tenor)
Raimund Herincx (baritone)
Martindale Sidwell Choir
Hampstead Choral Society
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Raymond Cohen Conducted by Martindale Sidwell
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
Kyrie Eleison
Gloria
Credo
by C. S. STEVENS
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
The British threw out the Romans before they were conquered by the Saxons. The British were never, like France, wholly Roman. Mr. Stevens discusses some basic differences.
Missa Solemnis
Part 2
Sanctus and Benedictus Agnus Dei
An Entertainment in Prose, Verse, and Music during which the Listener may be constantly misted
Written and produced by TERENCE TILLER with Quotations from the works of William Shakespeare
James Shirley , Robert Burns Lord Byron. A. E. Housman and others
The music arranged and partly composed by ANTHONY SMITH-MASTER . sung by MARJORIE WESTBURY STEPHEN JACK a section of the AMBROSIAN SINGERS and members of the cast accompanied by the composer at the piano and harmonium
ROLAND HARKER (guitar)
Others taking part:
Olive GREGG, FRANK DUNCAN
DENIS GOACHER , MARtUS GORING DUNCAN MCINTYRE
Narrator, FELIX FELTON followed by an interlude at 10.50
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