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Overture: Carnival CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL
7.23* Serenade in E major, for string orchestra
PRAGUE SOLOISTS' ORCHESTRA Conducted by VACLAV TALICH
,7.41* Three Slavonic Dances CLEVELAND Orchestra
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Vaclav Talich
Conducted By:
George Szell

The young giants
Last of three programmes Mendelssohn and Britten
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
PATRICIA CARROLL (piano)
LONDON Octet
Hugh Maguire (violin) Norman Nelson (violin)
Jeffrey Wakefield (violin) Trevor Connah (violin) Harry Danks (viola) John Coulling (viola) Alexander Kok (cello) Kenneth Heath (cello)
Second broadcast of the Octet

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Piano:
Ernest Lush
Piano:
Patricia Carroll
Violin:
Hugh Maguire
Violin:
Norman Nelson
Violin:
Jeffrey Wakefield
Violin:
Trevor Connah
Viola:
Harry Danks
Cello:
Alexander Kok
Cello:
Kenneth Heath

Overture: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO Maria GIULINI
21.8* Concierto de Aranjuez
(Rodrigo)
JULIAN BREAM (guitar) with the MELOS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS 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 programme in stereophony a special receiver. or an adapter for use with an existing receiver is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Concerto in A major, Op. 9 No. 11
(Charles Avison )
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN.THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLEE MARRINER
11.57* Sinfonia pastorale for violin and string orchestra (Tartini)
JAN Tomasow (violin) directing the CHAMBER ORCHESTRA of the VIENNA STATE OPERA on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Avison
Directed By:
Nevillee Marriner

Opera in four acts
Music by Verdi
Words by SALVATORE CAMMARANO
Sung in Italian on gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
OF THE ROME Opera HOUSE
Conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
ACT 1
Sc. 1: A hall tn the Allaferla palace
Sc. 2: The garden of the palace ACT 2
Sc. 1: The slopes of a mountain in Biscay
Sc. 2: The cloister of a convent near Castellor
ACT 3'
Sc. 1: A military camp
Sc. 2: A hall in the stronghold of Castellor
ACT 4
Sc. 1: A wing of the Allaferla palace
Sc 2: A dungeon in the palace
As a young girl, the gypsy Azucena saw her mother burned at the stake by order of the old Count di Luna. In revenge, she threw, as she thought. the Count's younger son into the flames. Now. as her own son Manrico is about to marry Leonora, the young Count. who loves Leonora himself, condemns Azucena to be burnt at the stake Manrico saves her, but is himself captured and executed. Azucena then reveals that the child she threw into the flames was her own son. and the man di Luna has just killed was his own brother.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers

A series on the ideas central to the major religions practised in the world today, and their influence on the lives of the people who profess them.
7: The first of two discussions in which
A. BASU, a Hindu
THE Ven. SAYADAW BHIKKU THITTLA, a Buddhist
A. L POLACK, a Jew
FR. MARTIN JARRETT-KERR, a Christian and ATTIA HOSAIN, a Muslim examine some ethical and spiritual problems in the light of their own faith.
Chairman, ALEC ROBERTSON
First broadcast December 31. 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Jarrett-Kerr
Unknown:
Alec Robertson

Elizabethan Culture and Ideas
Nine programmes about the attitudes and beliefs . of the Elizabethans
8: Ideas about Music
We know quite a lot both about Elizabethan ideas of music and about their relation to the Elizabethan view of the world, but little attempt has been made to listen to Elizabethan music in this context.
John STEVENS , Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, ar.d University Lecturer in English shows how the ideas of the Elizabethans are reflected in their music
Illustrated by recordings of Elizabethan music
Produced by Howard Smith
First broadcast March 4
Eight lectures by Joel Hurstfield on Elizabethan Government and Society: Tuesdays at 7.0 p.m. A paperback Is available

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stevens
Produced By:
Howard Smith
Unknown:
Joel Hurstfield

c. 1400
The sixth of a series of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Part 1
MUSICA MENSURABILIS Ensemble Director, WOLFGANG NITSCHKE
Introduced by Michael HOWARD
Script based on material by Wolfgang Nitschke
Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Bremen
Part 2: Friday at 9.40 p.m.

Contributors

Director:
Wolfgang Nitschke
Introduced By:
Michael Howard
Unknown:
Wolfgang Nitschke

A series of interviews
3: Harrison Brown
Professor of Geochemistry. California Institute of Technology talks to GERALD LEACH about international co - operation among scientists, and some of the problems and possibilities of science in the world scene
Recorded on the Caltech campus
Professor Jesse Greenstein : Oct. 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Leach
Unknown:
Professor Jesse Greenstein

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

reads his short story
Tea Party
Suspicion of the loyalty and devotion of those closest to him drives a man into bouts of psychosomatic blindness As his grasp of objective reality loosens, his confidence in all the skills and abilities he had taken for granted is destroyed
Second broadcast

Network Three

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