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Britten
Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes )
Claire WATSON (soprano) and the ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN Conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.21* Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE composer on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Grimes
Soprano:
Claire Watson

GERAINT JONES (harpsichord)
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Richard Adtney (flute)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) David Mason (trumpet)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Terence Weil (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass) Philip Ledger (piano)
Second broadcast

Contributors

Flute:
Richard Adtney
Clarinet:
Gervase de Peyer
Clarinet:
David Mason
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Cello:
Terence Weil

Overture: Manfred (Schumann) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
11.12* Hungarian Fantasia for piano and orchestra (Liszt)
JOHN OGDON with the PHILHARMONIA Orchestra
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD on gramophone records
Thts programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zcnith-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:
Rafael Kubelik
Unknown:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
John Pritchard

Sonata in E flat major. Op. 2
No. 2 (Franz Anton Rosetti )
NICANOR ZABALETA
12.0* Harp Concerto in C major
(Ernst Eichner)
ANNIE CHALLON with the ANTIQUA MUSICA ORCHESTRA OF PARIS
Conducted by MARCEL COURAUD on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Anton Rosetti
Unknown:
Annie Challon
Conducted By:
Marcel Couraud

Opera in four acts Music by Mozart
A concert performance of the production given by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
GLYNDEROURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Myer Fredman
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Leader, Raymond Cohen
Conducted by SILVIO VARVISO
Director of Musical Preparation, Jani Strasser
Producer. PETER EBERT
Act 2: 4.3*; Act 3: 4.41*; Act 4: 56*
Originally broadcast in the Henry
Wood Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall on July 22. 1963
Because of the Third Programme broadcast from Covent Garden there is no Study Session today.
THE AMERICAN VIEW can be heard in the Third Programme at 7.25*
OIGAN SEMORES can be heard in Study Session on Friday at 7.29

Contributors

Music By:
Mozart
Chorus-Master:
Myer Fredman
Leader:
Raymond Cohen
Conducted By:
Silvio Varviso
Unknown:
Jani Strasser
Producer:
Peter Ebert
Unknown:
Albert Hall

A music drama in three acts by Wagner
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor Conductor, GEORG SOLTI
Produced by Hans Hotter
The action takes place in legendary times
ACT 1
A cave in the forest

Contributors

Unknown:
Wagner
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Produced By:
Hans Hotter

The American View
Eight programmes on the American point of view about various aspects of domestic and foreign policy introduced by PROFESSOR H. C. ALLEN
Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College, London
2: The Frontier
The conquest of the frontier brought Americans wealth and self-confidence, and, with the constant need to adjust to new conditions, flexibility and competitiveness as well. Yet at the same time the frontier was a standardising force encouraging social co-operation and making for conformity.
Produced by Howard Smith
Eight programmes about the American novel: Tuesdays at
6.30 p.m.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Professor H. C. Allen
Produced By:
Howard Smith

A selection compiled and introduced by J. M. COHEN
Poems by Eusco Diego, PABLO AMMANDO FERNANDEZ , FAYAD JAMIS, JOSE LEZAMA LIMA, LUIS MARRE, HEBERTO PADILLA , and ROBERTO FERNANDEZ RETAMAR
Read in the original Spanish by the poets themselves English translations by J. M. Cohen
Read by FRANK DUNCAN and DENIS GOACHER
Produced by Terence Tiller

Contributors

Introduced By:
J. M. Cohen
Unknown:
Pablo Ammando Fernandez
Unknown:
Heberto Padilla
Unknown:
Roberto Fernandez
Unknown:
J. M. Cohen
Read By:
Frank Duncan
Read By:
Denis Goacher
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

Network Three

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