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Music to start the day
Suites: The Married Beau
(Purcell)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
7.20* Flute Concerto in C major,
Op. 7 No. 3 (Leclair)
HANS-MARTIN LINDE with the CONCERT GROUP OF THE
SCHOULA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS
Directed by AUGUST WENZINGER
7.36* Sinfonia in B flat major,
Op. 18 No. 2 (J. C. Bach)
DANISH STATF. RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by MUGENS WÖLDIKE
7.47* Capriol Suite (Warlock) BOYD NEY. L STRING ORCHESTRA Conducted by BOYD NEEL on gramophone recorda

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Records of music by Mendels sohn , Elgar, Grieg, and Massenet

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Rawsthorne and Tippett
Records of movements from Rawsthorne's Second Symphony and an excerpt from Tippett's A-Child of our Time

Each Friday some piano music by Schubert
JANET BAKER (contralto)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
LIZA FUCHSOVA PAUL HAMBURGER (piano duet) PORTIA ENSEMBLE
†Mary Ryan (flute and piccolo)
Mary Murdoch (oboe) Thea King (clarinet)
Daphne Down (bass-clarinet)
Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon) Valerie Smith (horn)

(soprano) in scenes from stage works by Mozart, Lortzing Donizetti , Richard Strauss , and Johann Strauss on gramophone records

This week
A programme In which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
† LEONARD BRAIN introduces the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble
David Sandeman (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Cecil James (bassoon) James Brown (horn) Wilfrid Parry (piano) who play

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part

† ALAN JEFFERSON 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 Guildhall, York

Overture: Poet and Peasant
(Suppé,
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Three Gypsy Dances (Haydn) THE BOSKOVSKY ENSEMBLE
Conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
Emperor Waltz
(Johann Strauss )
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
Radetzky March (
Johann Strauss the elder)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN on gramophone records

played by the PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BENEDICT SILBERMAN with SOPHIA VAN SANTE (mezzo-soprano)
Recording made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union

Pierre Monteux
Pavane for a dead Infanta (Ravel) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
3.7* Suite: The Firebird (Stravinsky)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA on gramophone records

played by MALCOLM TROUP (piano)
NEW LoNDON WIND ENSEMBLE
David Sandeman (flute) Ian Wilson (oboe)
Keith Puddy (clarinet) Cecil James (bassoon) Timothy Brown (horn)

† Introduced by NORMAN FULTON
TREVOR WILLIAMS (violin) JOAN DICKSON (cello)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Led by Granville Casey
Conductor, NORMAN DEL MAR
4.55* Concerto in A minor for violin, cello, and orchestra
Brahms

A choice of records for the under twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER This week's programme includes
Bartok's Music for strings, percus. sion, and celesta and works by Brahms and Chopin

Italian
Recordings selected from the Italian language programmes of the BBC's External Services

The theme for this year's series is Art in Britain
5: CORNARD WOOD by Gainsborough
National Galaery, London
Speaker,
FRANCIS HOYLAND of the Chelsea School of Art, London
Produced by George Walton Scott
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who receive coloured prints of all the main paintings and black and white illustrations of all the other works dls. cussed. together with background notes. The material is despatched quarterly and a stiff-backed folder is included to house the year's supply. Subscriptions for the year are 33s..., and should be sent to BBC Publications (AE 68). P.O. Box 123. London. W.1
Sunday's broadcast (Home)

Lesson 30: Au marché
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of LouIs BLONCOURT
Written and produced by Elsie Ferguson
Language consultant, Paul Couster
Monday's broadcast

Motet and Mass:
Hodie Christus natus est sung by SCHOLA POLYPRONICA
Director, HENRY WASHINGTON
From the Brompton Oratory, London
The fifth of a series of thirteen programmes of music by Palestrina Motet and Mass. Assumpta est Maria: May 12

Nine broadcasts about the theory. problems. practice, and future of Aid and development
8: Priorities of Education
PETER WILLIAMS
Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute argues that education lies near the heart of the development process, but it must be approached in a discriminatory frame of mind, both by the developing countries themselves and by the donors of foreign aid.
† Introduced by ANDREW SHONFIELD
Final programme-Economists are not Kings: May 10

A tragedy by Jean Racine
Translated by ROBERT LoWELL with Barbara Jefford and Stephen Murray
The action takets place in Troezen, a city about forty miles from Athens, on the opposite side of the Gulf of Aegina
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX tSecond broadcast
John Rye is appearing in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' at the Strand Theatre, London

played by the BEROMUNSTER RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERICH SCHMIDT
Last of three programmes including works by Max Reger
Recording made available by courtesy of the Swiss Broadcasting Service followed by an interlude at 10.50

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