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Concerto Grosso No. 12, in G major (Op. 6 No. 1) (Handel)
BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Directed by YEBUDI MENUBIN
7.19* Concerto in G major, for two flutes and orchestra (Cimarosa)
AURELE NICOLET and Fritz DEMMLER with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
7.36* Symphony No. 93. in D major
(Haydn)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM on gramophone records

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Ballet in G major (Rosamunde.
Act 4) (Schubert)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.11* Rondo brillant in E flat major
(Mendelssohn)
PETER KATIN (piano) with the LONDON PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.21* Suite No. 3. in G major
(Tchaikovsky)
Paris CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT on gramophone records

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Schumann Fantasiestiicke , Op. 73
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) with HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
9.16* Piano Quartet in E flat major WALTER BARYLLI (violin) RUDOLF STRENG (viola) EMANUEL BRABEC (cello) JOERG DEMUS (piano) on gramophone records

Gramophone records highlighting musical anniversaries occurring this week

by PETER FRANKL

Early Victorian Songs
WILFRED BROWN (tenor) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
ENGLISH STRING QUARTET
Nona Liddell , Marilyn Taylor Marjorie Lempfert , Helen Just
DE PEYER TRIO
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Amaryllis Fleming (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano)

Part 1
Overture: Leonora No. 3
(Beethoven)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
12.30* Cello Concerto (Shostakovich) MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello) with the PHILADELPHIA Orchestra Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY on gramophone records

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JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the North during the next seven days ,

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Legend: The Swan of Tuonela
(Sibelius)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by HANS ROSEAUD
1.24* Symphony No. 8. in G major
(Dvorak)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ on gramophone records

LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Leopold
Conducted by RAYMOND AGOULT
RON GAMACK (baritone) with his own lute accompaniment

conducts with Clifford Curzon (piano)

Oriental Suite: Beni-Mora (Holst) BBC Symphony Orchestra

3.14* Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rawsthorne)
CLIFFORD CURZON LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
on gramophone records

A series of concerts given before invited audiences all over the country
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone)
OLIVER BROOKES (viola da gamba) NORMAN DYSON (harpsichord) CLIFTON HELLIWELL (piano)
AD SOLEM Ensemble James Davis (violin) Paul Cropper (viola) Charles Meert (cello) Maurice Aitchison (piano)
Part 1

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Sunday's broadcast

Part 2
Recorded in the Violet Markham School. Chesterfield
Next week's Musicale comes from the Technical College. Thurso, in collaborationwithThursoLive Music Association; The Lyra String Quartet; Peter Element, piano

BAND OF the ScoTs GUARDS
Conducted by CAPTAIN J. H. Howe
Director of Music

Parliament
3: Committees of the Commons by PROFESSOR J. P. MACKINTOSH of the University of Strathclyde

16: Arrive dt Paolo
Script by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
First broadcast on January 19. 1965
A booklet and records are available

Social Connict in early Stuart England
Eight lectures given by PETER LASLETT , Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge at the University of Warwick
2: Family and Community
Early Stuart England was a patriarchal society, whose only significant members were mature male heads of households; and its economic activities were based on the household. In his second lecture Mr. Laslett describes the fundamental characteristics of this society, and asks what sort of conflict was likely in it.
Alan Everitt on the County Community in the early seventeenth century: Thursday, 7.0 p.m.

An opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
See below
Act 1: A wood outside Athens

Third Programme at 7.30

Libretto after William Shakespeare by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten

A special performance for Youth and Music and the Friends of Covent Garden from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is no newcomer to Covent Garden, but the current revival of the opera there does present one entirely new feature, the impersonation of Oberon by the talented mezzo-soprano Josephine Veasey.

The role of the King of the Fairies was originally conceived for male counter-tenor, a brilliant use by the composer of a singular timbre to delineate an altogether singular character in terms of relatively unfamiliar vocal sound. But Britten also allowed for an alternative casting, and there is perhaps something to be said for exploring this alternative in an opera house of the formidable size of Covent Garden.

As for the rest, I have no doubt that this extraordinarily beautiful and subtle opera will continue to exert its magic influence. Magic has long been associated with music, and, for me, one of the most remarkable aspects of the opera has been the capacity of the music to project the 'reality' - if that's the right word - of the fairy world, to make us realise just how powerful is the magic by which Shakespeare's mortals are bewilderingly ensnared. I predict that mortal listeners, no less, will succumb to the spells of Britten-Oberoni

(Donald Mitchell)

Nine programmes on continuity and change in modern society
4: A Sense of Place and Time by DENYS LASDUN , F.R.I.B.A.
The notion of deliberately preserving things of the past is not more than 250 years old. Architects must build in terms of today's ethos, but they cannot escape the environmental conditions that the past has created. Mr. Lasdun considers some of the problems raised by the presence of the past.
Mr. Lasdun is Architect of the Royal College of Physicians In Regent's Park. London. of a block of flats facing on to St. James's Park. London, and designer of the proposed building for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors tn Parliament Square.
January 31: R. P. Dorc , Professor of Sociology (Far East), London School of Economics These talks are being printed in ' The Listener '

ACT 2: The wood

The first of two illustrated talks written by KEITH HARRISON and WILLIAM DAVID SHERMAN and read by KEITH HARRISON
1: The Man in the Poem
Since Pound and Williams, there has been a revolution in American poetry, the writers of tonight's programme argue, in favour of the speaking voice. They illustrate the nature of this revolution, as they see it, with quotations in verse and prose from Pound, Williams, and Charles Olsen , among other writers.
Readers, MARVIN KANE
WILLIAM DAVID SHERMAN
Produced by George MacBeth

ACT 3: The wood. early next morning, and (later) Theseus' palace
Bryan Balkwill broadcasts by arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company

A short story by FRANK TUOHY Read by GARY WATSON
Frank Tuohy is a winner of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize and has been awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best novel of 1964 Second broadcast

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