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Overture: The Caliph of Bagdad
(Boïeldieu)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTlNON
7.12* Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra (Franck)
CLIFFORD CURZON with the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.28* Scherzo: The Sorcerer's
Apprentice (Dukas)
PHILARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA
7.78* Suite: Le tombeau de
Couperin (Rat,el)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records
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the COI.UMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Siegfried Idyll (Wagner)
8.22* Symphony No. 4. in B flat major (Beethoven) on gramophone records
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Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20
No. 5
DEKANY Quartet
Bela Dekany (violin)
Jacques Hartog (violin) Erwin Schiffer (viola) George Schiffer (cello)
9.26* String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 33 No. 4
WELLER Quartet
Walter Weller (violin) Alfred Staar (violin) Helmut Weis (viola) Ludwis Beinl (cello) on gramophone records
(soprano) sings arias from operas by Verdi. Wagner , and Weber on gramophone records
A programme tn which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
Marjorie Thomas (contralto) accompanied by ERNEST LusH (piano) sings
Haydn Strins Quartet series continued
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) PAUL HAMBUHGER (piano)
LONDON STRING QUARTET
Cart Pini (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
ALAN SCHILLER (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by GEORGE HURST and MALCOLM BINNEY
Part I
Conducted by Malcolm Blnney
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THEA MUSGRAVE looks at some non-broadcast musical events in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week
Part 2
Conducted by George Hurst
Given before an invited audience In the Free Trade Hall. Manchester. by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation
Excerpts from
Porgy and Bess, The Geisha and Der Waffenschmied
ELS BOLKESTEIN (soprano) MIRJAM KRIEG (soprano)
HENK SMIT (bass-baritone)
PAUL HOFSTEDE (bass-baritone)
PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND and BENEDICT SILBERMAN
Recordings made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union
Aria: Casta diva (Act 1. Norma)
(Bellini)
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano) with the CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
2.41* Symphony in D major
(Clementi)
HAIFA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SERGiu COMISSIONA 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.
Sonata in C minor, Op 30
No 2. for violin and piano (Beethoven) on a gramophone record
JOHANNA PETERS (contralto)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCEIESTRA Led by Desmond Bradley
Conducted by NORMAN DELMAR
Les symphonies de timbres
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
4.11* Symphony No. S.Charles Ives
The fifth in the series of weekly programmes
Peterborough Introduced by John Betjeman
Choir of Peterborough Cathedral
Conductor, Stanley Vann
Barry Ferguson (organ)
Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme Includes Debussy's String Quartet and music by Britten. Handel , Ives, and Vivaldi
3: Francisco Franco by C. A. M. HENNESSY
Supplementary Series
The theme for this year's series is Art in Britain
12: Twentieth-century sculpture
Frog II (1958) by Paolozzi
(Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)
Speaker.
DAVID THOMPSON critic
Produced by George Walton Scott
The theme for the 1966 series is Dutch Painting from the seventeenth century to the present day.
II: La mattrnata delta signora Maggi
Script by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by Pietro Giorgetti and Ariella Reggio
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Tuesday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available
played by JOHN CLEGG
First broadcast performance
La Guerre Civile by Henry de Montherlant
Translated by ROBERT BALDICK with Stephen Murray
Mary Morris
John Moffatt and Howard Marion-Crawford
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company The action takes place In the camps of Caesar and Pompey south of Dyrrachium (now Durazzo in Albania) on July 15. 16. and 17 In the year 48 B.C.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
tMELOS ENSEMBLE
Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Q
IMOGEN HOLST talks to JOHN WARRACK about her father as a musician and teacher
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55
Today's overseas commodity and financial news. London Stock Market closing report
