and Weather Forecast
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
and Weather Forecast
Leader, Carl Pint
Conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
and Weather Forecast
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
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.
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
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
TREVOR WILLIAMS (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Led by Granville Casey
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
Part 1
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JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Scotland, Wales and the West during the next seven days
Part 2
Before an invited audtence in Studto One, Glasgow. Tickets may be obtained on application to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Suite Pastorale
2.26* Rhapsody: Espafla
2.33* Joyeuse Marche
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records
Leader, David Adams
† Conductor. TERENCE LOVETT
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
A series of six short talks by GILBERT PHELPS
3: Is there glamour in grammarf
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
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
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
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)
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.
Concerto for harpsichord, piano, and two chamber orchestras
RALPH KIRKPATRICK (harpsichord)
CHARLES ROSEN (piano) CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS
Conducted by GUSTAV MEIER on a gramophone record