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Music to start the day
Toy Symphony (Leopold Mozart) BERLIN BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARL GORVIN
7.25* The Carnival of the Animals
(Saint-Saëns)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA with GEZA ANDA and BELA SIKI (two pianos)
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
7.46* Movements from Facade
(Walton)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carl Gorvin
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch
Conducted By:
Anatole Fistoulari

Overture: Alzira (VerdO PHILHARMONIA PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
11.8* Donde lieta usci-Addlo dolce svegliare (La Bohème) (Puccini)
MIRELLA FRENI (soprano) NICOLAI GEDOA (tenor)
MARIELLE ADANI (soprano) MARIO SERENI (baritone) with the ROME OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
11.17* Intermezos (Acts 2 and 3) and Danza Napolitana (Suite: The Jewels of the Madonna) (Wolf-Ferrari)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by NELLO SANTI on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith— from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover. Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a use with an existing receiver. Is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the pro-

Contributors

Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Soprano:
Mirella Freni
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedoa
Soprano:
Marielle Adani
Baritone:
Mario Sereni
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers
Conducted By:
Danza Napolitana
Conducted By:
Nello Santi

Heather Harper (soprano)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music in weekly recitals
In her fifth programme HEATHER HARPER accompanied by GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) sings

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Unknown:
Heather Harper
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons

Flute Sonata in E major
12.3* Flute Sonata in C major KARL BOBZIEN (flute) MARGARETE SCHARITZE (harpsichord)
EMIL BUCHNER (viola da gamba) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Flute:
Karl Bobzien
Harpsichord:
Margarete Scharitze

La Péri (Dukas)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
2.20* Spanish Rhapsody (Liszt. arr. Busoni)
JOHN OGDON (piano) with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
2.42* The Pines of Rome (Respighi)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Piano:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

(piano)
Two Sonatas (Scarlatti)
E major (L.23); D minor (L.413)
3.6* Siciliana (Flute Sonata No. 2, in E flat major) (Bach, arr. Kempff)
Chorale Prelude: lch ruf' zu Dir,
Herr Jesu Christ (Bach, arr. Busoni)
3.13* Impromptu in G flat major
(D.899, No. 3) (Schubert)
3.18* Sonata No. 3 in B minor
(Chopin)
3.43* Four Waltzes (Chopin)
D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1
C sharp minor, Op. 64 No.2 G flat major. Op. 70 No. B minor. Op. 69 No.2
3.54* Alborada del gracloso (Mir. oirs) (Ravel) on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Herr Jesu Christ

Opera in three acts
Music by Verdi
Words by PIAVE after a play by Victor Hugo Sung in italian on gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA. MILAN
Conducted by Tullio Serafin
ACT 1
Scene 1: A SalOn in the Duke's
Scene 2: The courtyard of Rigoletto's house
ACT 2
Another room In the Duke's palace
ACT 3
Outside lonely inn on a river bank

Contributors

Play By:
Victor Hugo
Unknown:
La Scala. Milan
Conducted By:
Tullio Serafin

Lesson 30
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO Script by Anthony Watson and George Walton Scott Produced by George Walton Scott
Broadcast on April 20. 1964
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 a.m. in the Rome Service
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto
Script By:
Anthony Watson
Script By:
George Walton Scott
Produced By:
George Walton Scott

† by ANTHONY LESTER
The Government has now published its Race Relations Bill outlawing discrimination in public places and incitement to racial hatred. Mr Lester believes that priority should be given to encouraging equality of treatment in such fields as housing and employment by means of a statutory commission.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Lester
Unknown:
Mr Lester

by James Reaney with Beatrix Lehmann
Patience Collier
Denys Hawthorne
Ann Murray , Peter Marinker
The title of the play is symbolic for it is taken from the name of a Canadian wild bird whose cry is particularly sad and haunting. Under a sparkle of word-play and a sheen of black comedy, the author unfolds a story of violent and tragic murder-rather after the style of Lizzie Borden—motivated by inherited traits and inescapable fate, in a way that recalls Greek tragedy.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.5*-9.15*)
A gramophone record of music by Roussel and Britten, played by MARIA KORCHINSKA (harp)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Reaney
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Produced By:
Patience Collier
Played By:
Maria Korchinska
Mrs Vinny Gardner, a matrt arch:
Patience Collier
Madame Fay:
Beatrix Lehmann
Harry Gardner:
Peter Marinker
Mrs Sally Budge:
Tucker McGuirk
Rebecca, the egg girl:
Ann Murray
Clifford Hopkins:
Malcolm Hayes
Eli, retarded son of Madame Fay:
Denys Hawthorne
Judge:
Stuart Nichol
Mrs Delta:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Vernelle, Harry's rich wife:
Diana Olsson
Mrs Soper, jailer's wife:
Phyllis Monte Fiore
Mr Manatte:
Bruce Beeby
Clerk of the Court:
Arnold Yarrow
Lawyer Jenkins:
Anthony Hall
Dr Ballad:
Anthony Jacobs

The first of three weekly pro grammes of the string quartets by Brahms and Haydn's Op. 71 played by the † AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Sydney Humphreys
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Viola:
Margaret Major
Cello:
Derek Simpson

Network Three

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