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Overture: The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti)
Pro ARTE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Charles MACKERRAS
7J2* Sonata in D major, for trumpet and two orchestras (Stradella)
ADOLF SCHERBAUM with the HAMBURG BAROQUE Ensemble
7.20- Concerto in E major, for two pianos and orchestra (Mendelssohn)
EDUARD MRAZEK with the VIENNA PRO MUSICA ORCHESTRA Conducted by HANS SWAROWSKY
7.48* Scherzo capriccioso (Dvorak)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Adolf Scherbaum
Unknown:
Eduard Mrazek
Conducted By:
Hans Swarowsky
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

Symphony No. 39, in G minor
(Haydn)
LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON Conducted by LESLIE JONES
8.19* Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for soprano and eight cellos (Vilta-Lobos)
Victoria de LOS ANGELES and members of the FRENCH National RADIO Orchestra Conducted by the COMPOSER
8.32* Pezzo capriccioso for cello and orchestra (Tchaikovsky)
MAURICE GENDRON and the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
8.42* Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky (Arensky)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leslie Jones
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

Purcell
Music for strings
Suite: The Virtuous Wife
RHENISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by GUNTER KEHR
9.17* Pavan No. 5, in G minor
Fantasia No. 8. in D minor
YEHUDI MENUHIN , ALBERTO Lysy , ROBERT MASTERS (violins) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) AMBROSE GAUNTLET (viola da uamba)
Derek SIMPSON (cello)
Roy JESSON (chamber organ)
9.27* Suite: The Gordian Knot
Untied
RHENISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by GUNTER KEHR on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gunter Kehr
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Unknown:
Alberto Lysy
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Cello:
Roy Jesson
Conducted By:
Gunter Kehr

A programme of recently released records
El Salon Mexico (Copland)
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL
9.56* Panorama and Waltz (The
Sleeping Beauty) (Tchaikovsky)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
10.4* Apollon musagete (Stravinsky)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by the COMPOSER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Maurice Abravanel
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Sonata in D minor.... John Loeillet
HAROLD GRAY (bass)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
ARIEL Trio
Wendy Berry (flute) Derek Bell (oboe)
Havelock Nelson (piano) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Loeillet
Bass:
Harold Gray
Piano:
Havelock Nelson
Flute:
Wendy Berry
Oboe:
Derek Bell
Piano:
Havelock Nelson

ROGER BOURDIN (flute)
Lyric ORCHESTRA OF BELGIAN RADIO
Conducted by FREDERIK DEVREESE and CHARLES VAN DE ZANDE
Excerpts from the North Sea Festival concerts in Ostend organised by Belgian Radio. by whose courtesy the recordings are made available

Contributors

Flute:
Roger Bourdin
Conducted By:
Frederik Devreese
Conducted By:
Charles Van

Music from the operas
Un dieu plus puissant que le tien
(Act 2, Samson et Dalila) (Saint-Saens)
SANDRA WARFIELD (mezzo-soprano) and JAMES MCCRACKEN (tenor) with the ORCHESTRA OF the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES

2.35* Dawn Music (Prologue):
Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3) (Gbtterdammerung) (Wagner)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER 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

Mezzo-Soprano:
Sandra Warfield
Tenor:
James McCracken
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

BARBARA BUDMANI (soprano)
JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
PAMELA WESTON (clarinet) FREDERICK STONE (piano)
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Soprano:
Barbara Budmani
Piano:
James Lockhart
Clarinet:
Pamela Weston

Everyday German by Radio Lesson 10, introduced by SABINE Michael and DIETER GEISSLER with Heidi Treutler , Gerda Koeppler David Hadda. René Halkett
Written and produced by Edith R. Baer
First broadcast on April 27
Repeated on Saturday at 10.45 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet Is available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler
Unknown:
Heidi Treutler
Unknown:
Gerda Koeppler
Unknown:
David Hadda.
Produced By:
Edith R. Baer

Studies in conservation-research and education
10: Field Studies Centres by Charles SINKER
Warden. Preston Montford Field Centre. Shropshire
Studies at Moor House Field Station, Cumberland by PALMER NEWBOULD. Department of Botany.
University College, London
Produced by Rosemary Jellia
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Palmer Newbould.
Produced By:
Rosemary Jellia

once a great and numerous race, spread over 1,500 miles of America and the West Indies, but now only a few Arawaks are left in remote parts of British Guiana
RICHARD HART introduces recordings of their language with an account of their history
Produced by Francis DILLON

Contributors

Introduces:
Richard Hart
Produced By:
Francis Dillon

The Criminal Company by PROFESSOR D. W. ELLIOTT
Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Newcastle
What happens if a Company breaks the Criminal Law owing to the fault of some quite junior employee? Can it be held liable and dealt with accordingly? This was the issue that arose earlier this year in John Hensall (Quarries) Ltd. v. Harvey, the case which Professor Elliott has chosen to discuss tonight.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor D. W. Elliott
Unknown:
John Hensall

An investigation of the relationship between the two poets
Written and compiled by Denis Goacher
Narrated by the author Illustrative poems and documents read by C. DAY LEWIS and HOWARD MARION-CRAWFORD
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Goacher
Read By:
C. Day Lewis
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

Network Three

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