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A weekly programme of recent records
Overture in D major (Haydn) VIENNA PHILHARMUSICA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HANS SWAROWSKY
8.8* Piano Concerto No. 2, in F minor (Chopin)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by David ZINMAN
6.40* Variations on the St. Anthony
Chorale (Brahms)
CLEVELAND Orchestra
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL
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BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by HARRY NEWSTONE
Symphony No. 46, in B major
9.25* Symphony No. 91, in B flat major
A request programme of gramophone records
Concerto Grosso in D major. Op. 1
No. 9 (Locatelli)
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.57* Missa brevis (Kodaly)
MARIA GYURKOVICS, EDIT GANCS and TIMOA CSER (sopranos) MAGDA TlSZAY (contralto) ENDRE RÖSLER (tenor)
GYŐRGY LITTASSY (bass) HUNGARIN STATE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and the BUDAPEST CHOIR
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.33* Concerto Grosso No. 1, for string orchestra and piano obbligato (Bloch)
EASTMAN- ROCHESTER
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HOWARD HANSON
PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
Pro ARTE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Concerto No. 11, in F major (K.413)
11.25* Concerto No. 25, in C major
(K.503)
These works will be repeated on Wednesday at 3.30 p.m.
Excerpts from the opera by Charpentier
Words by THE COMPOSER sung in French: on records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE OPERA-COMIQUE, PARIS
Conducted by JEAN FOURNET
Louise is torn between her love for Julien and her love for her parents, who disapprove of Julien's bohemian way of life. She goes to live with Julien, but returns home when her father falls gravely ill. However, as he recovers, Louise realises her parents expect her to stav with them. She quarrels violently with her father, and returns to Julien-and to the great city that has given her freedom. Paris.
conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Part 1
1.40 During the Interval
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI talks to
DERYCK COOKE
Part 2
Symphony No. 6 (1925)..Nielsen
BRASS Ensemble
OF THE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS
Director of Music,
CAPTAIN TREVOR L. SHARPE
Brian Chestney Peter White and Michael Davis (trumpets) Leslie Merifield Terence Hext and John Culligan (trombones)
HUNGARIAN STRING QUARTET Zoltan Szekely (violin)
Michael Kuttner (violin) Denes Koromzay (viola) Gabor Magyar (cello) From Dore Abbey, Herefordshire
piano
Chopin
Prelude in C sharp minor.
Op. 45
4.0* Sonata in B minor
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
played by SUSAN McGAW
Nine broadcasts about the theory, problems, practice, and future of Aid and development.
7: Technical Assistance: the threshold
ADRIAN MOYES of the Overseas Development Institute presents an examination of the Norwegian fishing project in Kerala in Southern India as an example of technical assistance in action
The programme includes recordings with some of the participants, made in Oslo by courtesy of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and discussion of issues raised by the project.
Comment by ANDREW SHONFIELD
Series produced by Anthony Moncrieff
Second broadcast
The recorded broadcast of May 5
Peter Williams talks about priorities of Education: Tueir day at 8.45*
A Fable by Lord Byron
Read by DENIS GOACHER
by Handel
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Ann Dowdall (soprano)
Maureen Lehane (contralto)
David Galliver (tenor)
Frederick Harvey (baritone)
The Ambrosian Singers
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra Led by Kenneth Sillito
CHARLES SPINKS (organ and harpsichord continuo)
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Part 1
L'Allegro
A discussion of the philosopher's appeal to religious language by D. Z. PHILLIPS
Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Bangor
' Philosophers, believers and non-believers alike, have appealed to actual religious usage, but have not come to any general agreement in their accounts of religious belief. I want to explain why this Is so and why I think it will always be so.'
Part 2
II Pensieroso
A recording of the Invitation Concert originally broadcast on November 15, 1962
Les Gommes by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Translated from the French and adapted for radio by BARBARA BRAY with Mary Morris
Gary Watson and Peter Pratt
All seeing time has shown thee what thou art
SOPHOCLES (Oedipus Rex)
The detective story subscribes in fact to the Socratic day-dream ' sin is ignorance '
W. H. AUDEIf
The production Is preceded by a short introduction
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Second broadcast
Sonata
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) on a gramophone record