and Weather Forecast
play some unfamiliar romantic music
Andante and Variations, in B flat major (Schumann)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY and MALCOLM FRAGER (two pianos) BARRY TUCKWELL (horn) AMARYLLIS FLEMING and TERENCE WEIL (cellos)
7.23* Grand Duo concertant, Op. 48
(Weber)
GERVASE de PEYER (clarinet) CYRIL PREEDY (piano)
7.40* Bagatelles, Op. 47 (Dvorak) JOSEF VLACH and VACLAV SNITIL (violins) VIKTOR MOUCKA (cello)
MIROSLAV KAMPELSHEIMER (harmonium) on gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
with DENNIS BRAIN (horn)
Overture: The siege of Corinth
(Rossini)
NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
8.14* Horn Concerto No. 4, in E flat major (K.495) (Mozart)
DENNIS BRAIN with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
831* Symphony No. 4, in C minor (Tragic) (Schubert)
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA Conducted by EDUARD VAN BEINUM on gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
Britten
A Hymn to the Virgin
CHOIR OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE
Directed by GEORGE GUEST
9.8* Cello Symphony, Op. 68
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) with the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE composer on gramophone records
Haydn String Quartets
The Friday series continues with works from each of the great earlier sets, Op. 20 and Op. 33
MAURICE COLE (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keeniyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Scenes and arias from operas by Borodin. Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky on gramophone records
This week,
Gerald English (tenor) accompanied by FREDERICK STONE (piano) sings
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1
STEPHENDODGSON looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week
and Weather Forecast followed by an interlude
Part 2
Given before an invtted audience
In the Civic Hall, Ellesmere Port
played by the Promenade ORCHESTRA from Hilversum
Conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND and HAMBURG RADIO Orchestra AND Choir Conducted by Richard MÜLLER-LAMPERTZ
Recordings made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union and the North German Broadcasting Service
Overture: Cox and Box (Sullivan)
NEW Symphony Orchestra OF LONDON
Conducted by ISIDORE GODFREY
2.33* Finale. Act 1 (The Gondoliers) (Sullivan)
ELSIE Mouison , MARJORIE THOMAS Richard LEWIS , JOHN CAMERON and OWEN BRANNIGAN with the GLYNDEBOURNEFESTIVAL CHORUS and the Pro ARTEOrchestra
Conducted by Sir MALCOLM SARGENT
2.50* Three Dances (Nell Gwyn)
(German)
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHK 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.
Sonata in A major. Op. 69. for cello and piano (Beethoven) on a gramophone record
Introduced by ERIC ROSEBERRY
Charles Ives : Tone Roads No. 3; Scherzo; The Unanswered Question
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WEST GERMAN RADIO
Conducted by BRUNO MADERNA
Recording made available by courtesy of West German Radio
3.44* Janacek
Four National Choruses
MALE VOICES OF THE JOHN ALLlDIS Choir
Conductor, JOHN ALLDtS
3.54* Luigi Nono
Y su sangre y viene cantando, for flute and chamber orchestra
SEVERlNO GAZZELLONI (flute) SYMPHONY Orchestra OF WEST GERMAN RADIO
Conducted by BRUNO MADERNA
Recording made available by courtesy of West German Radio
4.7* Schoenberg: Choruses, Op. 35
MALE VOICES OF THE JOHN ALLDtS Choir
Conductor, John ALLDIS
4.17* Boulez: Doubles
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF BELGIAN Radio
Conducted by PIERRE Boulez
Recording made available by courtesy of Belgian Radio
The second of five programmes of recently released records including the Piano Concertos by Beethoven
Sonata in F major (Hora Decima
No 2) (Johann Petzold )
The BRASS Ensemble
Directed by ROGER VOISIN
4.34* Piano Concerto No. In B flat major (Beethoven)
CLAUDIO ARRAU with the CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
5.5* Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel (Brahms, orch. Rubbra)
PHILADEIPHIAORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
A choice of records for the under-twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme includes Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto and music by Glazunov and Janacek
Andreas Papandreou by THE HON.
C. M. WOODHOUSE , M.P.
Supplementary Series
The theme for this years series is Art in Britain
10: Twentieth-century sculpture
Christ in Majesty (1953-54) by Epstein
(Llandaff Cathedral, Wales)
Speaker, David THOMPSON sculptor and critic
Produced by George Walton Scott
A subscription scheme is available
2: AW agenzia di viaggi
Tuesday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available
Lesson 2
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Produced by George Walton Scott
A booklet is available
The Marxist Mood by J. M. CAMERON
Professor of Philosophy in the University of Leeds
' I am speaking of a world, an intellectual mood. as remote as the world and mood of the Utilitarians. It came into existence with the great depression and the rise of Hitler and collapsed on the morning in 1939 when we opened our newspapers and. saw that most memorable of all photographs: a smiling group in the Kremlin. Stalin. Ribbentrop. Molotov.....'
The Poetry of W. H. Auden : October 18
who for more than seven years lived and had ado with the Devil
Translated from the Middle Dutch by HARRY MORGAN AYRES
with Donald Wolfit and Olive Gregg
The music specially composed by ANTHONY MILNER and the orchestra conducted by the composer
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
ALARIUS ENSEMBLE OF BRUSSELS
Sigiswald Kuvken
(violin and bass viol)
Janine Rubinlicht (violin) Wieland Kuyken (viola da gamba) Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
Dixieme Concert
9.40* Treizieme Concert, for two bass viols
9.48* Concert Royal No. 4, for violin and continuo
10.2* Suite No. 2, for bass viol and continuo
10.17* L'Apotheose de Corelli, for two violins and continuo
by GENE BARO
In this talk an American poet and critic discusses the parallel development of American literature and criticism in relation to the culture of which they are a part. and comments on two recent critical works-Waiting for the End by Leslie Fiedler and Doings and Undoings by Norman Podhoretz.
Second broadcast