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Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major
(K.287)
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
7.41* Adagio in F major, for two basset horns and bassoon (K.410)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS
Directed by JACK BRYMER
7.43* Six German Dances (K.509)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE
Directed by WILLI BOSKOVSKY on gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Jack Brymer
Directed By:
Willi Boskovsky

Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
(Berlioz)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.15* Ballade for piano and orchestra (Fauré)
ROBERT CASADESUS with the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.28* Symphonic Poem: Le chasseur maudit (Franck)
8.43* Suite provençale (Milhaud)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Benvenuto Cellini
Conducted By:
Charles Munch
Unknown:
Robert Casadesus
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Charles Munch

Ravel
Symphonic Fragments: Daphnis and Chloe (second series)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
9.20* Pavane Pour une infante defunte
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
9.27* Valses nobles et sentiment-ales
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Pierre Monteux
Conducted By:
Andre Cluytens

Haydn String Quartets series continued
MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
MACGIBBON STRING QUARTET
Margot Macgibbon (violin) Lorraine du Val (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
Margaret Neville broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Neville
Violin:
Margot MacGibbon
Cello:
Margaret Neville

Musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
† MARGARET PRICE (soprano) accompanied by JAMES LOCKHART sings
James Lockhart broadcasts by per-tor. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Accompanied By:
James Lockhart
Unknown:
James Lockhart

PROMENADE ORCHESTRA Conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND
NORWEGIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by OIVIND BERGH
BAVARIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by WERNER SCHMIDT BOELCKE
Recordings made available by Union, Norwegian Radio. and Bavarian Radio

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gijsbert Nieuwland
Conducted By:
Oivind Bergh
Conducted By:
Werner Schmidt

Music by Gershwin
Cuban Overture
CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA Conducted by LOUIS LANE
2.40* I loves you, Porgy (Duet.
Act 2: Porgy and Bess)
LEONTYNE PRICE. WILLIAM WARFIELD
RCA VICTOR ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SKITCH HENDERSON
2.43* Rhapsody in Blue
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (piano) conducts the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast 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 ith an existing receiver. is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivphonically as usual.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis Lane
Unknown:
William Warfield
Conducted By:
Skitch Henderson
Piano:
Leonard Bernstein

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WEST GERMAN RADIO
Conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN , BRUNO MADERNA and KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Recording made available by courtesy of the Yugoslav Radio
Music by Ratel, Messiaen, Jolivet, and Pousseur

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Gielen
Conducted By:
Karlheinz Stockhausen

The last programme of the series
Overture: The Barber of Seville
(Rossini)
ROSSINI ORCHESTRA OF NAPLES Conducted by SILVIO VARVISO
4.37* Piano Concerto No. 5, In flat major (Emperor) (Beethoven)
CLAUDIO ARRAU with the CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAlTINK
5.17* Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine-
Journey (Göllerdämmerung) (Wagner)
BERUN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE recently released records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Silvio Varviso
Unknown:
Claudio Arrau
Conducted By:
Bernard Haltink
Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe

The theme of this year's series is Art in Britain
11: The Mud Bath
(painted 1912-1913) by Bomberg
(Tate Gallery, London) Speaker, ANDREW FORGE Artist, critic and Head of Painting Department Goldsmith's College. London
† Produced by George Walton Scott
These broadcasts arc part of a coloured prints of all the main paintings and black and white illustrations of all the other works dis. 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 Pubtications (AE68).P.O. Box 123, London, W.1.

Contributors

Produced By:
George Walton Scott

A series of twenty lessons In. tended for listeners who have already done some italian
5: Acquisto delta mobilia
Script by Pietro Glorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Tuesday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Script By:
Pietro Glorgetti
Script By:
Elsie Ferguson
Introduced By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

Text by TASSO
Music by Monteverdi with the strings of the RAI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ROME
Conducted by CARLO FRANCI
The Crusader Tancredi meets the wild heathen Clorinda. dressed as a man. in mortal combat. She is killed. but dies forgiving her adversary, who only then discovers her sex.
Recording made available by courtesy of the italian Radio

Contributors

Music By:
Monteverdi
Conducted By:
Carlo Franci
The Narrator:
Giovanna Fioroni
LUCIANA:
Ticinelli Fattori
Tancredi:
Enzo Tel (tenor)

by Henrik Ibsen
In a translation from the Norwegian by MICHAEL MEYER
The action takes place on Allmers' estate, by a fjord in Western Norway, a few miles outside town.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
To be repeated on Nou. 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Ibsen
Unknown:
Michael Meyer
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Alfred Allmers:
Marius Goring
Asta Allmers, his younger half-sister:
Prunella Scales
Rita Allmers, his wife:
Mary Wimbush
Eyolf, his son:
Nicholas Charles
Borghejm, an engineer:
John Glen
The Rat Wife:
Mary O'Farrell
Narrator:
Basil Jones

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.' Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Unknown:
D. Z. Phillips

Network Three

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