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Divertimento in F major (K.138) (Mozart)
Lucerne Festival Strings
Directed by Rudolf Baumgartner
8.15 Cello Concerto in B minor (Dvorak)
Leonard Rose with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
8.55 Circus Polka (Stravinsky)
CBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by the Composer
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tBBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by HARRY NEWSTONE
Symphony No. 13, in D major
9.22* Symphony No. 95, in minor
A request programme of gramophone records Overture: Leonora No. 1
(Beethoven)
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
9.56* Concerto in E flat major, for two horns and orchestra (Rössler-Rosetti)
MIROSLAV STEFEK and VLADIMIR KUBAT with the PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
10.16* Symphonic poem: Ein
Heldenleben (Strauss)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM with STEVEN STARYK (violin)
A new series devoted to the complete Mozart piano concertos
Concerto No. 10, in E flat major. for two pianos and orchestra (K.365)
CLARA HASKlL and GEZA ANDA (pianos)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA on a gramophone record
11.24* Concerto No. 24, in C minor
(K.491)
ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
† Broadcast on September 10, 1963.
In the Third Programme
See also Wednesday at 3.30
by Nicolai
A radio adaptation
English translation by FRANCIS DALVIN
Narrator. DAVID FRANKLIN
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by PETER RORKE
Denis Dowling and Eric Shillino broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Forbes Robinson by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
played by the BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
ALEC ROBERTSON discusses a work or theme of current interest
conducts
Verdi's Requiem with Mary Wells (soprano) Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)
Ronald Dowd (tenor)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
King's Lynn
Festival Chorus
Chorus-Master, Eric Chadwick Ambrosian Singers
Conductor. John McCarthy Hallé Orchestra
Leader. Martin Milner
Conductor,
Sir John Barbirolli
Requiem and Kyrie; Dies trae; Domine Jesu ; Sanctus; Agnus Dei ; Lux aeterna; Libera me
† Performance given in St. Nicholas'
Chapel, King's Lynn, last Friday as part of the King's Lynn Festival
† played by JOHN BECKETT (harpsichord) A major (L.41) F minor (L.382) D major (L.s.25)
E flat major (L.142) E major (L.257) E minor (L.275) E major (L.65) C major (L.s.3) F minor (L.281) E major (L.373)
by JOHN LEVY
The rather isolated province of Kalch lies just to the south of Pakistan on the west coast of India. It has given its name to a form of song called Katchi Kafl , which is unique in having a shawm in addition to the usual accompaniment. In this programme John Levy introduces recordings he has made in Katch, including an example of Naubat drumming.
Second broadcast
An opera by Handel
Cast in order of singing:
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
LEO WURMSER
(harpsichord continuo)
Conducted by ARNOLD GOLDSBROUGH
ACT 1
Scene 1 The mountains Scene 2 The countryside
by MICHAEL SULLIVAN
Lecturer in Asian Art
In the University of London
In spite of the English tradition of nature poetry and landscape painting, Chinese landscape painting, which expresses ideas in many ways close to our own. has remained rather remote to Enghsh taste. Michael Sullivan considers changing attitudes to Chinese painting in the light of the current Arts Council Exhibition in London, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the collection of John M. Crawford Jr.
Second broadcast
ACT 2
Scene I A wood
Scene 2 Countryside near the sea
† by PHILIP DREW
Mr. Drew examines the novels of Herman Melville in the light of his view that they develop a deliberate strategy of ambiguity. He sees Melville as locating his story at a point where the general morality is not simply vague but in fact contrives to support simultaneously two incompatible doctrines.'
ACT 3
A grove of palma
† Previously broadcast on February
23. 1963
by Aeschylus
A new translation by David Rudkin
with Donald Wolfit, Mary Morris, Patrick Wymark, Maurice Denham and John Justin
(Patrick Wymark is appearing at the Mermaid Theatre; John Justin is in "As You Like It" at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London)
Piano Trio in A minor played by the TRIO DI TRIESTE
Renato Zanettovich (violin) Libero Lana (viola)
Dario de Rosa (piano) on a gramophone record