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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

Contributors

Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz
Unknown:
Arthur Grumiaux
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

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

Contributors

Leader:
Max Salpeter
Conducted By:
Bernard Keeffe
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry

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.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Constantin Silvestri
Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe

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

Contributors

Unknown:
W. H. Auden
Unknown:
Chester Kallman

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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto
Script By:
Maria Victoria Alvarez
Script By:
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.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Pennington
Reader:
Gary Watson
Reader:
John Glen
Producer:
Howard Smith

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Swifts Stella
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Dr Trench:
Robert Mooney
Miss MacKenna:
Coral Fairweather
John Corbet:
Denys Hawthorne
Abraham Johnson:
John McBride
Mrs Mallet:
Sally Travers
Cornelius Patterson:
Leo Maguire
Mrs Henderson:
Mary O'Farrell

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

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Howard
Conductor:
Michael Walton
Introduced By:
Michael Howard

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.

Contributors

Unknown:
Karl Kraus
Unknown:
Frank Field

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

Contributors

Unknown:
David Sylvester

Network Three

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