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Music to start the day
Overture: William Tell (Rossini)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
7.17* Scherzo: Queen Mab (Romeo and Juliet) (Berlioz)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
7.25* Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (Fauré)
GRANT JOHANNESEN with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS
7.39* Suite: Lieutenant Kijé
(Prokofiev)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY on gramophone records

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Leader, Robert Masters
Conductor, HARRY BLECH with PETER FRANKL (piano)
Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music (K.477)
8.12* Piano Concerto No. 19, In F major (K.459)
8.40* Symphony No. 31, In D major
(K.297) (The Paris)

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Beethoven
Records of excerpts from Fidelio

PAMELA PETTS (soprano) VIOLA TUNNARO (piano)
† DENNIS BRAIN WIND ENSEMBLE with PATRICK PIGGOTT (piano)

Overture: The Devil's Pleasure
Castle (Schubert)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
11.9* Clarinet Concertino in C minor (Weber)
DAVID GLAZER (clarinet)
INNSBRUCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROBERT WAGNER
11.19* Symphony in D major
(Frederick the Great)
EMIL SEILER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARL GORVIN on gramophone records
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 pro-with an existing receiver, is necesmonophonically as usual.

Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music in weekly recitals.
In his first programme
† CECIL ARONOWITZ partnered by CELIA ARIELI (piano) plays
Sonata i

played by I MUSlCI
Concerto a quattro No. 2, In major (Galuppi)
11.57* Concerto a cinque, In minor (Albinoni) on gramophone records

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
† Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON with COLIN HORSLEY (piano)

CHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Northern Ireland, Wales and the West over the next two weeks

Part 2

Overture: Mazurka (Halka)
(Moniuszko)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MIECZYSLAUS MIERZEJEVSKI
2.13* Violin Concerto No.2
(Wieniawski)
JULIAN OLEVSKY with the VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JULIUS RUDEL
2.38* Overture: My Homeland
(Dvorak)
CZECH PHlLHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALOIS KLIMA
2.48* Fantasie-Polonaise (Suk)
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALOIS KLIMA on gramophone records

(piano)
Sonatas (Scarlatti)
F minor (L.171) F major (L.479) G minor (L.386) G major (L.388)
3.10* Sonata in B flat major
(D.960) (Schubert)
3.43* Scenes of childhood
(Schumann) on gramophone records

Opcra in three acts
Music by Saint-Saëns
Words by FERDINAND LEMAIRE
Sung in French on gramophone records
THE RENE DUCLOS CHOIR AND THE FRFNCH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
Samson is leading the enslaved Israelites in their struggle against the Philistine oppressors; but the secret of his phenomenal strength. He is overpowered. of his power—shaved, but as the Philistines give thanks in the one last supreme effort. Grasping the temple's supporting pillars. he brings down the entire building, destroying all within it.

by IVOR KEYS
From the Church of St. James the Greater, Leicester

Illustrated explanations of some standard musical terms -
10: Syncopation by Roger North

Lesson 39
Introduced by JACINTA CASTlLLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script bv Anthony Watson ind George Walton Scott
† Produced by George Walton Scott
First broadcast on June 22, 1964
Repeated on Saturday, July 10 at 11 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet and records are available

The last of six programmes on the characteristics of British traditional song
CHARLES PARKER , producer of the well-known radio ballads, believes that the best elements in the current folk song revival are of vital importance to the health of our culture. He discusses his views with A. L. LLOYD and STEPHEN SEDLEY
Chairman, DERYCK COOKE
Produced by Roger Owen

Opera by Schoenberg
English version by David Rudkin
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing: [see below]
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson
Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conductor, Georg Solti

Act 1

by A. C. GIBBS
Lecturer in Medieval Litera ture in the University of York
Before he achieved his romantic glory, Arthur served the medieval historian and poet as a symbol of political convictions. A. C. Gibbs discusses the significance of Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's history and in the poetry of Law-man, the Saxon monk of Worcester.

ACT 2

A script for radio by Colin Finbow with Robert Hardy and Vivien Merchant
It is a sunless Sunday before a Bank Holiday, and as his small daughter buries him in the sand, Arthur Blake examines the good things in his life . . .
This is Colin Finbow 's seventh radio play.
† Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
To be repeated on July 17
Vivien Merchant is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company