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Music to start the day
Symphony in B flat major, Op. IS
No. 2 (J. C. Bach)
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE OF PARIS Conducted by Louis de FROMENT
7.15* Concerto in G major, for two flutes and orchestra (Cimarosa)
JEAN-PIRRE RAMPAI. and ROBERT HERICHE with the LAMOUREUX CHAMBER Orchestra Conducted by PIERRE COLOMBO
7.32* Suite: The Faithful Shepherd
(Handel, arr. Beecham)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by SIR Thomas BEECHAM on gramophone records

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with ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
Academic Festival Overture
(Brahms)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
8.15* Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (Rachmaninov)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) with the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Fritz REINER
839* Ballet music (A Life for the Tsar) (Glinka)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EFREM KURTZ on gramophone records

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The Spaniards: Victoria to Falla
Records of nineteenth and twentieth century music including Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Rubinstein as the soloist

Each Friday, some piano music by Schubert
Continued in next column
LIZA FUCHSOVA and PAUL HAMBURGER (piano duet)
OROMONTE. STRING Trio Perry Hart (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)
CELIA MICKLIN (oboe) Tess MILLER (oboe)
SUSAN LEADBETTER (cor anclats)

(mezzo-soprano) in excerpts from French and Italian operas on gramophone records

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week's programme is in by Jack Brymer (clarinet) who, accompanied by WILFRID PARRY , plays
June 4: Frank Merrick

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1

BERNARD KEEFFE 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
Before an Invited audience in the Powell Hall, Sedberzh

Records including the suite from Walton's Facade
Conducted by ROBERT IRVING

THE PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GLISBERT NlEUWLAND with ARNOLD VAN MILL (bass) and WILL VISSERS (soprano)
Recordings made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union

Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducting the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring (Delius)
3.7* Symphony No. 7, In C major
(Sibelius) on gramophone records

ELISABETH ROBINSON (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR

Introduced by DERYCK COOKE
RAE WOODLAND (soprano)
ROWLAND JONES (tenor)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, RAE JENKINS
Overture: Die Fledermaus
Duet and Czardas (Die Fledermaus)
Given before an Invited audience at the Assembly Rooms. City Hall. Cardiff
A ' Music to Remember ' Programme first broadcast on February in the Home Service

Records for the under twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme includes Malcolm Arnold 's Guitar Concerto and the Symphony No. 1. by Gerhard

Lesson 32
Une tasse de thé chez Marcel et sa famille
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of LOUIS BLONCOURT
Monday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available followed by an interlude

An opera in three acts
Text based on Pushkin's drama
Words and music by Modeste Mussorgsky
English translation by MICHAEL CALVOCORESSI with additions by David Lloyd Jones and Michael Geliot
Orchestrated by the composer
Edited by Paul Lamm
The Scottish Opera production from the King's Theatre, Glasgow
Cast in order of dtoging:
Townsfolk, boyars, soldiers, wandering mendicants, monks, etc.
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS
Chorus Master, Leon Lovett
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor, Alexander Gibson
Produced by Michael Geliot
The time: between 1598 and 1605 ACT 1 Scene 1 The courtyard of the Novodievichy Monastery in Moscow
Scene 2 A square in the Kremlin
Scene 3 A cell in the Chudov
Monastery

ACT 2 Scene 1 An inn near the Lithuanian border
Scene 2 A room in the Imperial
Palace

ACT 3 Scene 1 A square in front of the Cathedral of St. BasiL Moscow
Scene 2 The great hall In the Kremlin
Scene 3 A clearing in the forest near Kromy

Some thoughts on the problems they raise by G. WILSON KNIGHT
A high proportion of the books about Shakespeare appearing in the quatercentenary year were concerned with the problems raised by the Sonnets. In particular. Leslie Hotson 's book Mr. W.H. suggested a new identity for its subject. Wilson Knight surveys the recent literature and outlines his own view of the solution to some of the questions Involved.
Second broadcast followed by an Interlude at 10.51

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