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Divertimento in D major (K.205) (Mozart)
Members of the Vienna Octet
7.25 Andantino varié (Divertimento in E minor) (D.823) (Schubert)
Paul Badura-Skoda and Jörg Demus (piano duet)
7.33 Divertimento in D major (K.131) (Mozart)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
On gramophone records
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Overture: The Journey to Rheims
(Rossini)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
8.12- Suite No. 4 (Mozartiana)
(Tchaikovsky)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI
8.30* Légende (Wieniawski) NATHAN MILSTEIN (violin) with the CONCERT ARTS ORCHESTRA Conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
8.38* Waltz: Mein Lebenslauf ist
Lieb' und Lust (Josef Strauss )
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by CLEMENS KRAUSS
8.45* Movements from suite: Le coq d'or (Rimsky-Korsakov)
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH on gramophone records
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Sixty Years of British Music 1900-1960
The Rio Grande by Constant Lambert, and orchestral music by Walton, Butterworth, and Warlock on gramophone records
The clarinet in chamber music:
The clarinettist is Thea King
IRIS BOURNE (soprano) accompanied by Viola TUNNARD (piano)
THEA KING (clarinet)
CELIA ARIELI (piano)
DELMZ STRING QUARTET Granville Jones (violin) Jürgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
(soprano) with WOLFGANG WINDGASSEN (tenor) in scenes from operas by Beethoven, Weber, Verdi, and Wagner on gramophone records
Musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week's programme is introduced by TERENCE MACDoNAGH (oboe) who. together with WILFRID PARRY (piano) plays
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Part I
takes a look at the EDINBURGH Symphony ORCHESTRA
Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall. Todmorden
The FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
Overture: Gwendoline
(Chabrier)
2.10* Dolly Suite (Fauré, orch.
Rabaud) on a gramophone record
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by JEAN POUGNET with EDWARD RUBACH (harpsichord)
First broadcast on June 15
Violin Sonata in C minor, Op.
30 No. 2
YEHUDI and HEPHZIRAH MENUHIN on a gramophone record
OROMONTE STRING Trio Perry Hart (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)
ALFONS and ALOYS KONTARSKY (pianos)
HEINZ KÖNIG and CHRISTOPH CASKEL (percussion)
Second broadcast
Introduced by BERNARD KEEFFE
BBC SCOTTISH Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by GRAHAM TREACHER
A ' Music to Remember ' broadcast on May 11 in the Home Service
A choice of records for the under-twenties
Introduced by ANTONY BEAUMONT
This week's programme includes
Stravinsky's Concerto for piano and wind and music by Dvorak and Honegger
80-120 w.p.m.
Compiled by VALENTINE MCNEFF
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
Second broadcast
50-80 w.p.m.: Monday at 6.30 p.m.
A booklet is available
Supplementary series
The theme for this year's series is Art in Britain
8: Nineteenth-century illustrations:
TENNIEL'S illustrations to the ' Alice ' books
Speaker, BRIAN ROBB , Artist and Lecturer,
Royal College of Art, London
Produced by George Walton Scott
These broadcasts are part of a 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.1.
A series in which practising musicians discuss listeners' queries
SIDNEY HARRISON ALAN RIDOUT
BRIAN REOWELL
Chairman, CECIL COPE
Kenneth Sillito (violin) Andrew McGee (violin)
Roger Lord (oboe)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, John Georgiadis Conducted by Colin Davis
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Sympho
† by THE RT. HON.
PATRICK GORDON WALKER
Two new books—The Security of Southern Asia by D. E. Kennedy , and China and the Peace of Asia, a symposium edited by Alastair Buchan—prompt these reflections by Mr. Gordon Walker.
Part 2
Purgatory
An old man, an old house, and an old tale of violence with Cyril Cusack as the Old Man
Nigel Anthony as the Boy with an introduction by R. D. SMITH
Third broadcast
In a house once lived In by Swift's Stella, a medium is possessed by its past. with Mary O'Farrell
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Rhapsody No. 1 (Bartok)
Hungarian Wedding Dance
(Weiner)
JANOS STARKER (cello) GYÖRGY SEBÖK (piano) on a gramophone record
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