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Overture: Fierrabras (Schubert)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.13* Violin Concerto No. In D major (K.218) (Mozart)
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Colin DAVIS
7.36* Symphony No. 6, in C major
(Schubert)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL on gramophone records
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Leader. Max Salpeter
Conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
Piano, Wilfrid Parry
Overture: Oedipus at Colonus - Sacchint
8.19* Symphony No. 21, in A major (K.134) - Mozart
8.27* Suite: Le bourgeois Kentilhomme - Strauss
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Ives and Gershwin
Symphony No. 2 (Ives)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN on a gramophone record
with CHRISTIAN FERRAS (violin)
Overture: The Ruler of the Spirits (Weber)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.51' Violin Concerto in E minor
(Mendelssohn)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
10.20' Theme and Variations
(Suite No. 3) (Tchaikovsky)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE 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.
William Pleeth (cello)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In his first programme
WILLIAM PJ.EETH accompanied by WILFRID PARRY (piano) plays
HAROLD CLARKE (flute)
HUBERT DAWKES (piano)
TESSA ROBBINS (violin)
NORMA FISHER (piano)
The fifth of fifteen programmes Including the whole of Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum
MARGARET KITCHIN (piano)
BBC Scottish ORCHESTRA Leader. Trevor Williams
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
Part I
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NEVILLE GARDEN looks at some
Lon-broadcast musical events taking place in Scotland, Wales, and the West during the next seven days
Part 2
Given before an invited audience in Studio One. Glasgow. Tickets may be obtained on application to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
The programme Includes
Beethoven Sonata in A major. Op. 2 No. 2
3.22- Sonata in E flat major, Op.
81a (Les Adieux) on gramophone records
Opera in three acts and an epilogue
Music by Stravinsky
Words by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Sung in English on gramophone records
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by The Composer
given by LUCIAN NETHSINGHA
From St. Michael's College
Tenbury Wells
5: Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
Script and narration by PETER PORTER
Poem read by BASIL JONES
Lesson 17
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of Pablo Soto
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Produced by George Walton Scott
Nine programmes about government, society, and ideas in early Stuart England
When the Civil War broke out in 1642. both the King and Parliament were faced with the problem of governing those parts of the country under their control.
Donald Pennington, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, describes how they adapted what was left of the traditional machinery to the business of fighting a war.
With readings from contemporary sources by Gary Watson and John Glen.
(Peter Lastett on The Justification of Obedience: Tuesday at 7.0 p.m.)
Purgatory
An old man, an old house, and an old tale of violence. with Cyril Cusack as the Old Man
Nigel Anthony as the Boy with an introduction by R. D. SMITH
Fifth broadcast
In a house once lived In by Swifts Stella , a medium is possessed by its past. with Mary O'Farrell
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Third broadcast
in the sixteeoth and seventeenth centuries
Francisco Guerrero
Mass: Puer qui natus est CANTORES IN ECCLESIA
Conductor, MICHAEL HOWARD MICHAEL WALTON (recorder)
CHRISTOPHER HYDE-SMITH (flute) JAMES McGILIVRAY (hcckelphone)
ARCHIE CAMDEN (bassoon)
Introduced by MICHAEL HOWARD
From St. George the Martyr.
Queen Square. London
The fifth of a series of music of the Spanish Renaissance
February 11: Victoria's Motet and Mass: 0 quam gloriosum
by FRANK FIELD
Lecturer in History at the University of Keele
The Viennese satirist Karl Kraus once described the old Austria as a ' research laboratory for world destruction.' Frank Field takes his closet drama The Last Days of Mankind as focusing concentrically the destructive forces of 1914; in Viennese culture, in Vienna, in the Austrian Empire. in Europe.
by MARTHA ARGERICH (piano)
talking in French to David Sylvester whose introduction and brief summaries are in English
This conversation was recorded to coincide with the exhibition at the Tate Gallery last summer of Giacomettis sculpture and painting.
Giacometti, who died three weeks ago. is widely considered to be the greatest of contemporary sculptors. In the early 1930s he was a leading surrealist, then stopped exhibiting for fourteen years, emerging as creator of figures and heads notorious for their attenuated proportions.
Third broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.50