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Divertimento in G major
(Michael Haydn )
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA Octet
7J6' Mother Goose Suite (RaveD
WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (piano duet)
7.30* The Shepherd on the rock
(Schubert)
RITA STREICH (soprano)
HEINRICH GEUSER (clarinet) ERIK WERBA (piano)
7.42* Ballet: The Good-Humoured
Ladies (Scarlatti, arr. Tommasint)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROGER DESORMIERE on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Haydn
Piano:
Beatrice Klien
Clarinet:
Heinrich Geuser
Conducted By:
Roger Desormiere

Purcell
Trumpet Sonata in D major
DENNIS EGAN with the PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON
Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
9.9' Three songs
Music for a while
Corinnar They tell us
HELEN WATTS (contralto) with THURSTON DART (harpsichord) and DESMOND DUPRE (viola da gamba)
9.17* Suite No. 5 in C major. for harpsichord
THURSTON DART
9.23* Three Secular Cantatas
Soft notes and gently raised Oh! what a scene
How pleasant is this flowery plain
SALTIRE SINGERS with FERDINAND CONRAD (recorder) HANS MARTIN LINDE (recorder and flute) OTTO KOBER (cello)
JOHANNES KOCH (bass gambit) and CARL GORVIN
(harpsichord continuo)
Conducted by HANS OPPENHEIMER on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Egan
Conducted By:
Anthony Lewis
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Contralto:
Desmond Dupre
Unknown:
Ferdinand Conrad
Unknown:
Hans Martin Linde
Bass:
Johannes Koch
Conducted By:
Hans Oppenheimer

conducts the LONDON SYMPHONY Orchestra
Mendelssohn
Overture: Fingal's Cave
9.55* You spotted snakes (A Midsummer Night's Dream) with Jennifer VYVYAN and MARION LOWE (sopranos) and the CHORUS OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
10.0* Symphony No. 3, in A minor
(Scottish) on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenlth-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

Unknown:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Sopranos:
Marion Lowe

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In her second programme
† JENNIFER VYVYAN accompanied by CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) includes

Contributors

Soprano:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Unknown:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks

ARNE SKJOLD RASMUSSEN (piano)
JACQUELINE DELMAN (soprano) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Second broadcast of the Nielsen
Chaconne

Contributors

Piano:
Arne Skjold Rasmussen
Soprano:
Jacqueline Delman
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson

Opera in three acts
Music by Strauss
Words by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Sung in German on gramophone records
PHILHARMONIA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Act 1 The Marschallin's bedroom
Act 2 Faninat's reception room Act 3 A private room at an Inn

Princess von Werdenberg (the Feldmarschallin) - ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau - OTTO EDELMANN (bass)
Octavian, a young nobleman - CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano)
Herr von Faninal. a wealthy parvenu - EBERHARD WACHTER (baritone)
Sophie, his daughter - TERESA STICH-RANDALL (soprano)
Marianne, her duenna - LJUBA WELITSCH (soprano)
Valzacchi, an intriguer - Paul KUEN (tenor)
Annina, his accomplice - KERSTIN MEYER (contralto)
Police officer - FRANZ BIERBACH (bass)
Majordomo of the Marschallin - ERICH MAJKUT (tenor)
Majordomo of Faninal - GERHARD UNGER (tenor)
An attorney - HARALD PRÖGLHÖF (baritone)
A landlord - KARL FRIEDRICH (tenor)
An Italian singer - Nicolai GEDDA (tenor)
Three noble orphans - ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF
CHRISTA LUDWIG, KERSTIN - MEYER
A milliner - ANNY FELBERMAYER (soprano)
An animal-seller - GERHARD UNGER (tenor)
The Marschallin's footmen - UNGER, MAJKUT, WACHTER, PRÖGLHÖF
Waiters - UNGER, MAJKUT,WACHTER, BIERBACH

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of Spanish
Lesson 10
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Produced by George Walton Scott
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet is available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Script By:
Maria Victoria Alvarez
Script By:
Anthony Watson
Produced By:
George Walton Scott

A series of seven programmes on regional development in the United Kingdom
2: Firms on the Move
Mobility of industry is a prime necessity if regional development policies are to work. Why do firms move? How do they choose their new location? What are the experiences of firms that have moved?
MICHAEL CHISHOLM
Lecturer in Geography at Bristol University analyses industrial mobility using recordings made specially with firms in Central Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the South-East of England
Produced by Richard Hooper

Contributors

Produced By:
Richard Hooper

Jean Racine's tragedy in a new translation by JOHN CAIRNCROSS with Sheila Allen , Marius Goring and Alec McCowen
The action takes place at Buthrotum. capital of Epirus, some time after the end of the Trojan War.
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
AnJromaque, first performed in 1667 when Racine was twenty-eight, was his first great success
Third broadcast
Acts 3 and 4 of the play in French, on gramophone records: December 11

Contributors

Translation By:
John Cairncross
Unknown:
Sheila Allen
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Unknown:
Alec McCowen
Produced By:
Martin Esslin
Orestes, Prince of Argos:
Alec McCowen
Pylades, his friend:
John Westbrook
Pyrrhus, Achilles' son King of Epirus:
Marius Goring
Phoenix, Achilles' old tutor, Pyrrhus' adviser:
Ralph Truman
Andromache, Hector's widow, captive at Pyrrhus's court:
Sheila Allen
Hermione. Princess of Sparta, betrothed to Pyrrhus:
Freda Dowii
Cleone, Hermione's friend:
Pauline Wynn
Cephisa Andromache's friend:
Betty Hardy

Most of the Schubert songs deal with states of obsession, homesickness or love; several have specific local associations.

Schubert
Auf der Riesenkoppe
Der Schiffer; Auf der Donau

9.27*
Mahler Fruhlingsmorgen Ich ging mit Lust
Schubert

9.40* Love-songs
An die Apfelbaume
Im Walde (Ich wand're uber Berg und Tal)
Der Jungling an der Quelle Lambertine

9.56* Songs of Homesickness

Kennst du das Land? Das Heimweh

HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
ERNEST Lush (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mahler Friihlingsmorgen
Unknown:
Quelle Lambertine
Unknown:
Homesicknesi Kennst
Unknown:
Das Heimweh
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk

by MICHAEL BAXANDALL
Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute,
University of London
' Music' Leonardo said, ' is the sister of painting '; but was this in fact so? Michael Baxandall asks how far one can relate the work of Renaissance painters to their intellectual environment.
One of a number of talks devised to accompany the current series of mutiic programmes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Baxandall
Unknown:
Michael Baxandall

Concerto for harpsichord, piano, and two chamber orchestras
RALPH KIRKPATRICK (harpsichord)
CHARLES ROSEN (piano) CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS
Conducted by GUSTAV MEIER on a gramophone record

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Ralph Kirkpatrick
Piano:
Charles Rosen
Conducted By:
Gustav Meier

Network Three

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