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A weekly programme of gramophone records
Cassation in B flat major (K.99)
(Mozart)
Members of the VIENNA OCTET
8.33* Organ Concerto No... 1 in C major (Haudn)
E. PowER BIGGS with the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ZOLTAN ROZANYAI
8.52* Suite No. 2 for small orchestra (Stravinsky)
Members of the C.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER

Contributors

Unknown:
E. Power Biggs
Conducted By:
Zoltan Rozanyai

A request programme of gramophone records
Celtic Symphony for string orchestra and harps (Bantock)
LONDON PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WALTER COLLINS
10.4* Clarinet Concerto
(Copland)
BENNY GOODMAN with the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY STRINGS Conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.22* Florida Suite (Delius)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Contributors

Conducted By:
Walter Collins
Unknown:
Benny Goodman
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Verdi's ' Macbeth ': by ANDREW PORTER
Music Profile: The Aeolian String Quartet, by CEDRIC WALLIS
John Ireland's Housman settings: by GEOFFREY BUSH
Alban Berg : book review by ROBERT HENDERSON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Andrew Porter
Unknown:
Cedric Wallis
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bush
Unknown:
Alban Berg
Review By:
Robert Henderson

Excerpts from the opera by Weber
Words by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE after the poem by Wieland on a gramophone record
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILHELM SCHUCHTER Oberon. having quarrelled with Queen Titania, vows they cannot be reconciled till two lovers prove constant through all trials and temptations. Puck searches the discovers Huon, one of Charle-
Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. Their trials become increasingly difficult about to be burned on a funeral pyre, Oberon decides they have proved themselves and transports

Contributors

Unknown:
James Robinson Planche
Conducted By:
Wilhelm Schuchter OBEron.

Octet In F major
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor MacMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)

Contributors

Horn:
Neill Sanders
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Ivor MacMahon
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil

Mass in B minor
MARY WELLS (soprano) JEAN KNIBBS (soprano)
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Leader, Kelly Isaacs
DEREK STEVENS , BARRY ROSE (organ continuo)
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW From Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire
Part
Kyrie Gloria
Credo

Contributors

Contralto:
Sybil Michelow
Tenor:
John Carol Case
Bass:
Michael Rippon
Leader:
Kelly Isaacs
Leader:
Derek Stevens
Conductor:
Denys Darlow

and his Contemporaries
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) GRAYSTON BURGESS (counter-tenor)
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) EDGAR FLEET (tenor)
MICHAEL DOESON (cor anglais) MARY REMNANT
(fiddle and rebec) MARYLIN WAILES
(gothic harp and recorder) Directed and introduced by GILBERT REANEY
From St. George the Martyr. Queen
Square. London
The third of four programmes of medieval music
Guillaume de Machaut , Mass: June 18

Contributors

Unknown:
John Whitworth
Unknown:
Grayston Burgess
Tenor:
Gerald English
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Edgar Fleet
Tenor:
Michael Doeson
Unknown:
Mary Remnant
Unknown:
Marylin Wailes
Introduced By:
Gilbert Reaney
Unknown:
Guillaume de Machaut

by LIAM HUDSON of the Nuffield Research Unit on Intellectual Development, Cambridge
To what extent are the more subtle human Qualities—intelligence. for instance—determined by genetics, and how much by environment? Dr. Hudson argues that this question is essentially unanswerable-and that it isn'the important question, anyway.
' The Fourth Unculture,' by Max Hammerton : June 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Liam Hudson
Unknown:
Max Hammerton

by Bernard Shaw with Jean Plowright and Max Adrian
Carleton Hobbs
Michael Hordern
Peter Claughten
Julian Glover
Cast in order of speaking:
Music for Prelude, Entr'actes and Epilogue composed by JOHN BUCKLAND Sung by the BBC MEN'S CHORUS and the boys of EMANUEL SCHOOL CHOIR
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Second broadcast
Joan Plowright is a National Theatre Player; Charles Leno is in Hostile Witness at the Hay. market Theatre, London
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.0*-9.10*) A record of Lionel Rogg play. ing music by Bach on the organ of the Grossmünster, Zurich

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Jean Plowright
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Peter Claughten
Unknown:
Julian Glover
Composed By:
John Buckland
Conducted By:
Peter Gellhorn
Produced By:
John Gibson
Unknown:
Joan Plowright
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Unknown:
Lionel Rogg
Narrator:
Allan McClelland
Captain Robert de Baudricourt:
Ronald Baddiley
Steward:
Charles Leno
Joan:
Joan Plowright
Bertrand de Poulengey:
Gabriel Woolf
Lord Chamberlain, Monseigneur de la Tremouille:
Eric Anderson
The Archbishop of Rheims:
Austin Trevor
Page at Court:
Peter Marinker
Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard):
Frederick Treves
CaptaIn La Hire:
Bruce Beeby
Charles, the Dauphin:
Henry Woolf
Dunois:
Julian Glover
Page to Dunois:
Hilda Kriseman
Earl of Warwick:
Michael Hordern
John de Stogumber:
Peter Claughton
The Bishop of Beauvais, Mon seigneur Cauchon:
Carleton Hobbs
Page to Warwick:
Jo Manning Wilson
The Inquisitor:
Max Adrian
Canon John d'Estivet:
Rolf Lefebvre
Canon de Courcelles:
Malcolm Hayes
Brother Martin Ladvenu:
Michael Deacon
Executioner:
Garard Green
An English Soldier:
Tom Watson
An English Gentleman:
William Ingram

Network Three

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