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Music to start the day Overture: Alzira (Verdi)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
7.11* Ballet music: Le rot s'amuse
(Dehbes)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.26* Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat major (Chopin)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) with the SYMPHONY OF THE AIR ORCHESTRA Conducted by ALFRED WALLENSTEIN
7.40* Notturno (Martucci)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
7.47* Rumanian Rhapsody NO.1
(Eneseo)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Grande Polonaise
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Conducted By:
Alfred Wallenstein
Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba
Conducted By:
Constantin Silvestri

Haydn Quartet series continued
MORAG NOBLE (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
LOUIS LEFF (clarinet)
DAPHNE DOWN (clarinet)
GEORGINA DOBREE (basset-horn) THEA KING (basset-horn)
WILFRED HAMBLETON (basset-horn)
Ϯ DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)

Contributors

Basset-Horn:
Georgina Dobree
Basset-Horn:
Wilfred Hambleton
Violin:
Colin Sauer
Violin:
Peter Carter
Viola:
Keith Lovell
Cello:
Michael Evans

Part 1
Overture. Scherzo, and Finale. Op
52 (Schumann)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARL ScHURICHT
12.31* Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (Hindemith)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carl Schuricht
Unknown:
Carl Maria Von
Conducted By:
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Part 2
Concerto in C major for piano, violin, cello. and orchestra (Beethoven)
GEZA ANDA (piano)
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (vIOlin) PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) with the BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY
1.47* Six German Dances (K.567)
(Mozart)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE
Conducted by WILLI BOSKOWSKY on gramophone records

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Conducted By:
Ferenc Fricsay
Conducted By:
Willi Boskowsky

Symphony No. 35. in D major (K.385) (Haffner) (Mozart) - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik

5.21* Piano Concerto in G major (Ravel) - Philippe Entremont with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

5.44* Ballet Suite: The incredible flutist (Piston) - Cleveland Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Louis Lane

(on gramophone records)

Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language
Lesson 11
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER with Lily Kann and Paul Hansard
Written and produced by Edith R. Baer

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler
Unknown:
Lily Kann
Produced By:
Edith R. Baer

Seven programmes about the changes in economic thought and practice in the last thirty years
3: The Economy under the Conservatives
NICHOLAS DAVENPORT describes the development of Conservative ideas during their thirteen years in power, about the way in which the economy should be run, and how the economy responded to -the application of these ideas
Illustrated by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Robert Hutchison

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Davenport
Produced By:
Robert Hutchison

Ϯ ROMOLA NUINSKY recounts how she felt her husband was being merctlessly drawn away from his art. his life. and her by an invisible force. He wrote feverishly for hours and hours and when by chance, after his death, she discovered his diary, she realised that. despite mental illness Ie dieu de la danse had been trying to communicate his message to mankind.

Translated and edited by Romola Nijinsky
Music by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Paul Scofield speaks Nijinsky's words
Music played by the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by MARCUS DODS
The Diary abbreviated and produced by H.B. FORTUIN
Second broadcast

Contributors

Music By:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Spoken By:
Paul Scofield
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin

Marilyn Horne (soprano)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Handel
Here amid the shady woods;
Calm thou my soul; Convey me to some peaceful short (Alexander Balus)
Iris hence away (Semele)
9.47*
Wolf Auf einer Wanderung Auch kleine Dinge
Benedelt die sel'ge Mutter
In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Kennst du das Land?
10.11* Rossini
An quel giorno (Semiramide)
10.21*
Hindemith Geburt Maria (Das Marien feben)
The moon Echo
La Belle Dame sans Merci
10.37* Nin
Four Spanish Carols:
Villancico castellano
Villancico asturiana Jesus de Nazareth Villancico andaluz
Recorded at a public concert in the Theatre at Rosehill Cumberland.
followed by an Interlude at 10.58

Contributors

Soprano:
Marilyn Horne
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons

Network Three

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