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Music to start the day
Divertimento in C major (H.11.7)
(Haydn)
LONDON BAROQUE Ensemble Conducted by KARL HAAS
7.15* Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (Stamitz)
JOST MICHAELS with the MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARL GORVIN
7.34* Sonata No. 2, in A major
(Rossini)
ANGELICUM ORCHESTRA OF Milan Conducted by LUCIANO ROSADA
7.47* Two Mazurkas (Lanner)
BOSKOVSKY ENSEMBLE
Directed by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
7.52* Carnaval (Suite: Roma)
(Bizet)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM on gramophone records
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A programme of records
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Overture: In the countryside
(Dvorak)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
8.19* Piano Concerto No. In D minor (Mendelssohn)
PETER KATIN (piano) with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANTHONY COLLINS
8.43* Four Sea Interludes (
Peter Grimes ) (Britten)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by Benjamin BRITTEN
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The Spaniards: Victoria to Falla
JOAN BARKER (piano)
LAURA SARTI (mezzo-soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
String Quartet in D major, OP.
No. 1 (Mendelssohn)
10.12* Frauenliebe und -leben
(Schumann)
10.32* Cello Sonata in F major
(Strauss)
CHRISTA. LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
LUDWIG HOELSCHER (cello)
HANS RICHTER-HAASER (piano) on gramophone records
† ERIC PARKIN (piano)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whitewaj Conductor, RAE JENKINS
BBC CHORUS
Conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE
KEITH WOOD (oboe)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leader, Peter Mountain
Conductor, CHARLES GROVES
BERNARD KEEFFE looks at some outstanding musical events taking place in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next seven days that are not being broadcast
Part 2
From the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
May 26: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
conducts the † LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Leopold with DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano) Including and piano music by Schumann. Benjamin , Mompou, and Albeniz
9: The London Symphony
Overture: Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
3.9* Symphony No. 2. in D major (Sibelius)
Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX on gramophone records
Gramophone records celebrating musical anniversaries occurring this week
† ILSE WOLF (soprano)
MARTIN Isepp (piano)
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
the best of present-day jazz on records
Introduced by CHARLES Fox
110 words a minute to verbatim
Compiled by VALENTINE MCNEFF
For those who want to develop reporting speeds in any shorthand system
50-80 words a minute: Mondays.
6.30 p.m.
80-120 words a minute: Saturdays at 11.25 a.m. (Home Service) A new booklet is available
A course of twenty lessons for students with no previous knowledge of the language
Lesson 11 by PROFESSOR DENNIS WARD with the help of KONSTANTIN IRINSKY
Produced by Tony Cash
Broadcast on December 16. 1964
A booklet is available
The twenty-first of twenty-seven programmes for those who would like to know more about the structure of music and its composition
Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Produced by Peter Dodd
A booklet is available
A weekly review of the arts
John Richardson on the Italian artist Renato Guttoso, whose recent paintings and drawings can be seen at the McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, 34 Curzon Street, London, W.1.
Harold Cohen discusses the development of his work over the past five years with Andrew Forge, on the occasion of an exhibition of his Paintings 1960-65 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
A report by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
In conversation with some leading physicists, a layman seeks understanding of recent research into the structure of matter. In the past twenty years a great international effort using all the resources of modern technology has opened up a strange new world of sub-atomic particles.
The physicists interviewed were:
PROFESSOR C. F. POWELL , F.R.S. (Bristol)
PROFESSOR C. C. BUTLER , F.R.S. (London)
PROFESSOR R. H. DALITZ (Oxford) Professor A. W. MERRISON (Liverpool)
PROFESSOR P. T. MATTHEWS , F.R.S. (London)
PROFESSOR A. SALAM , F.R.S. (Trieste)
To be repeated on June 11
See also 9.25 p.m.
Sonata No. 1, In G major played by HERBERT SUMSION on the organ of Gloucester Cathedral on a gramophone record
A discussion chaired by JOHN MADDOX
What are the immediate problems facing sub-atomic physics? How can they be tackled? What kind of solutions seem possible? How can the research expenditure be justified?
These and other questions are discussed by: JOHN CHARAP ,
Imperial College, London R J. EDEN,
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
PROFESSOR Denys WILKINSON. F.R.S.
Clarendon Laboratory. Oxford
A solo cantata and a song cycle sung by MARGARET PRICE (soprano) with Joy HALL (cello continuo) JAMES LOCKHART
(piano and harpsichord)
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden followed by an interlude at 10.5S
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