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Suite: The Birds (Respighi)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.24* Organ Concerto No. 13, in F major (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) (Handel)
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (organ) JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
7.38* Symphony No. 83, in G minor
(The Hen) (Haydn)
VIENNA PHII.HARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER on gramophone records

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Divertimento in B flat major
(K.E.439b, No. 3) (Mozart)
JOST MICHAELS (clarinet) HARTMUT STUTE (clarinet) ALBERT HENNIGE (bassoon)
8.27* Rondo in B flat major
(Beethoven)
Julius KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO Gamba
8.37* Ballet Suite: Nutcracker
(Tchaikovsky)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN on gramophone records

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Handel
Records of excerpts from his stage-works, including Sosarme and Alcina

A programme of recently released records
String Quartet in C major, Op. 33
No. 3 (Haydn)
WELLER QUARTET
10.4* Variations on the Romanesca
(anon.); Pavan and Galliard (Taylor)
ALAN CUCKSTON (harpsichord)
10.11* Piano Trio in D major, Op.
70 No. 1 (Beethoven)
BEAUX ARTS Trio

BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Conductor, STEPHEN WILKINSON
The first of four weekly programmes

HAZEL SCHMID (soprano)
ALBERT FERBER (piano)
WIGMORE ENSEMBLE
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Maria Korchinska (harp) Granville Jones (violin) Thomas Carter (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola) Anthony Pini (cello)
French Music
Chabrier songs:
Villanelle des petits canards Les cigales; L'ile heureuse Toutes les fleurs
11.15* Piano:
Sous bois: Danse villageoise
Improvisation (Pieces pittoresques) Bourree fantasque
11.33. Havel
Introduction and Allegro for harp, with flute, clarinet, and string quartet
11.43- Poulenc Piano:
Impromptus Nos. 4 and 2 (1920) Trois pieces (1928)
Pastorale; Toccata; Hymne
11.56* Songs:
Fiancailles pour rire:
La dame d'Andre
Dans l'herbe; II vole
Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
Violon; Fleurs
The Ravel work was first broadcast in the Third Programme on April 7

ENDRE WOLF (violin)
ANDRE NAVARRA (cello)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Led by Arthur Davison
Conductor, JOHN PRITCHARD
Part 1

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STEPHEN DODGSON looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming weekend

Part 2 broadcast on August 23. 1963 followed by an interlude

LYRIC ORCHESTRA OF BELGIAN RADIO
Conducted by FREDERIK DEVREESE
Concert given in the Kuisaal, Ostend, on August 25
The Festival was organised by Belgian Radio by whose courtesy the recordings are broadcast

Piano Concerto in G major
ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by ETTORE GRACIS
2.52* Pavane pour une infante defunte
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX 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.

This week
Peter Maxwell Davies talks to ROGER SMALLEY about his work and introduces some of his music
Three sections from Leopardi
Fragments
MARY THOMAS (soprano)
ROSEMARY PHILLIPS (contralto)
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE Conducted by JOHN CAREWE on a gramophone record
String Quartet
† ENGLISH STRING QUARTET
Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello)

ANGELA HICKEY (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
MARLENE FLEET (piano)

by GAVIN Brown
From Brighton Parish Church

Second of three programmes showing what has happened in our century to the ' national flavour ' in music. Today, Three Russians
ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)
THE BORODIN STRING QUARTET Rostislav Dubinsky (violin)
Yaroslav Alexandrov (violin) Dmitry Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
Second broadcast of the Quartet

Gramophone records of excerpts from
The chocolate Soldier and A Waltz Dream

50-80 w.p.m.
Compiled by VALENTINE McNEFF
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
80-100 w.p.m.: Wed., 6.30 p.m. A booklet is available

Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language
Lesson 8
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER with Angelika Sahla Rolf Richards
Written and produced by Edith R. Baer
First broadcast on April 13
Repeated on Saturday at 10.45 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet Is available

Users and visitors-the problems illustrated
8: Scotland and, in particular. the Highlands and Islands by F. FRASER DARLING , D.SC, LL.D., F.R.S.E. Vice President and Director of Research. Conservation Foundation
Produced by Rosemary Jellis
A booklet is available

A World of Peoples by Robert Gardiner
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
3: Contemporary Racial Moods Sunday's broadcast in the Home Service
Economic Meetings: November 28 (Home); November 29 (Third)

A miscellany of readings and reviews, including
TED HUGHES reading a new poem from his verse play about a fight with a bear
D. M. THOMAS reading a new science fiction poem The strait, based on the legend of Tristram and Yseult
FREDERICK GRUBB reviewing Harold Massingham 's Black Bull guarding apples, and Christopher Middleton 's Non-sequences and new poems by ALAN MARSHFIELD , PETER REDGROVE , TED WALKER. and IVAN WHITE, read by the authors themselves
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

Duncan Robertson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Part 1

The tax for volunteers by C. T. SANDFORD
Professor of Political Economy, Bristol College of Science and Technology
Death duties are at present liable to be so heavy on large estates that steps are often taken to avoid them. Professor Sandford examines the implications of abolishing estate duty and instead taxing beneficiaries as individuals by way of an inheritance tax.

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

EDWARD GREENFIELD talks about the musical life of Bulgaria and introduces some excerpts from the opera Ivailo by Goleminov which is to be broadcast next Saturday in the Third Programme

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