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Music to start the day
Symphony No. 8, in D minor
(Boyce)
NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ROGER DESORMIERE
7.14' Piano Concerto in F major
(Boieldieu)
MARTIN GALLING with the INNSBRUCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROBERT WAGNER
7..M* Symphonic Interlude: Redemption (Franck)
BELGlAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
7.48* Capriccio (Ibert)
WlNTERTHUR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by HENRY SWOBODA on gramophone records
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Leader, Winifred Roberts with GARETH MORRIS (flute)
Alan Harverson
(harpsichord continuo)
Conductor, GERAINT JONES
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The Spaniards: Victoria to Falla
Records of guitar and harpsichord music and of Arriaga's String Quartet No. 1
Prelude: Penelope (Faurff) Suisse ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
11.8' Récit. et air de Lia: L'année en vain chasse l'année (L'enfant prodigue) (Debussy)
Victoria DE LOS ANGELES (soprano) Paris CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
11.13* Suite No. 2, Daphnis and Chloe (Ravel)
BERUN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover. Kent. To hear the programme In stereophony a special receiver, or an adapter for use with an existing receiver, is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.
Erich Cruenberg (violin)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music in weekly recitals
In his third programme ERICH GRUENBERG plays
Next month's Artist of the Month (June 3): John Shirley -Quirk (baritone)
L'Espagnole
La Piémontoise La Francaise (Les Nations)
STUTTGART Baroque Ensemble
Conducted by MARCEL COURAUD on a gramophone record
from Guildhall
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conductor. VILEM TAUSKY with MARISA ROBLES (harp) Part 1
† BERNARD KEEFFE looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in Northern Ireland. Wales, and the West during the next seven days and are not being broadcast
A lunch-time concert given in Guildhall in the City of London by the BBC and the Corporation of London on May 6.
played by the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM on gramophone records
(piano)
Sonata in E flat major (Haydn
Society No. 52) (Haydn)
3.15* Sonata in B flat major.
Op. 22 (Beethoven)
3.36* Romanze in F major, Op.
118 No. 5; Intermezzo In minor. Op. 118 No. 4 (Brahms)
3.43* Rondo capricctoso
(Mendelssohn) on gramophone records
Opera in three acts
Music by Smetana
Words by KAREL SABINA
Sung in the German translation by Max Kalbeck
BERLIN RADIO CHAMBER Choir
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE on gramophone records
Kruschina, a peasant - MARCEL CORDES (baritone)
Kathinka, his wife - NADA PUTTAR (mezzo-soprano)
Marie (Marenka) their daughter - PILAR LORENCAR (soprano)
Micha, a landlord - IVAN SARDI (boss)
Agnes, his wife - SIEGLINDE WAGNER (contralto)
Wenzel (Vasek) their son - KARL-ERNST MERCKER (tenor)
Hans (Jenik), Micha's son by a first marriage - FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor)
Kezal, a marriage-broker - GOTTLOB FRICK (bass)
Springer, manager of a troupe of circus artists - ERNST KRUKOWSKI (baritone)
Esmeralda, a circus dancer - GERTRUD FREEDMANN (soprano)
Muff, a comedian - WALTER STOLL (baritone)
by ROBERT JOYCE
From Llandaff Cathedral
Illustrated explanations of some standard musical terms)
6: Obbligato by ROGER NORTH
Lesson 33
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO Soto Script by Anthony Watson and George Walton Scott
Broadcast on May 11, 1964
Repeated on Saturday at 11.0 a.m. (Home Service)
A booklet and records are available
9: Trends in current English by SIMEON POTTER
Baines Professor of English Language, University of Liverpool
9: Creative language
The last of a group of three talks on the changing language of literature by GILBERT PHELPS
Supplementary Series
The theme for this year's series is Art in Britain
5: Eighteenth-century furniture
The Interior Decorators
Speaker, DELVES
MOLESWORTH Keeper , Department of Woodwork, Victoria and Albert Museum , London
Produced by George Walton Scott
These broadcasts are part of scheme for subscribers who receive coloured prints of all the main paintings and black and white illustrations of all the other works discussed, 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 35s... and should be sent to BBC Publications (AE 68). P.O. Box 123. London. W.l.
CHARLES Fox discusses and illustrates with records the post-war developments in Duke Ellington's work, including those compositions written in collaboration with Billy Stray -horn
Last of three programmes
Jean Racine's tragedy in a new translation by JOHN CAIRNCROSS with Sheila Allen
Marius Coring and Alec McCowen
Characters in order of speaking:
The actton takes place at Buthrotum. capital of Epirus. some time after the end of the Trojan War
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
Andromaque. first performed tn 1667 when Ractne was twenty-eight. was his first great success
Second broadcast
Acts 3 and 4 of the play in French, on gramophone records: May 22
Marion Mosler (oboe)
Werner Herbers (oboe) Frank Ell (clarinet)
Hans Mossel (clarinet) Joep Terwey (bassoon) John Miller (bassoon) Jaap Verhaar (horn)
Rudy Van Velsen (horn)
Conductor, THOM DE CLERC
Two talks by WALTER ULLMANN
Reader in Medieval History in the University of Cambridge 1: How the West began
The Papacy started from the Bible and used Roman Law. The imperial East started from the Roman Empire and used the Bible.
The maker of the West. the ' Father of Europe,' was Pope Gregory the Great. He achieved this by turning to the countries where the imperial government was ineffective.
Second broadcast
How the Division grew: May 28 followed by an interlude at 10.55
Today's overseas commodity and financial news. London Stock Market closing report
