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Overture: La scala di seta
(Rossini)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.11* Concertante for violin, cello oboe. bassoon, and orchestra (Haudn)
SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER (Violin) PETER SCHWARZL (cello)
WINFRIED LlKBERMANN (oboe) and HANS BARR (bassoon) with the BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.33* Symphony No. In F major
(Beethoven)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL on gramophone records
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Petite suite (Debussy)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.18' Piano Concerto No. 2, in G minor (Saint-Saëns)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN with the SYMPHONY OF THE AIR
Conducted by ALFRED WALLENSTEIN
8.43* Valses nobles et sentimentales (Ravel)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS on gramophone records
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Ives and Gershwin
Cuban Overture (Gershwin)
CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA Conducted by Louis LANE
9.13* Promenades (Gershwin)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRE KOSTELANETZ
RIALTO RIPPLES (Gershwin)
GEORGE BASSMAN AND HIS Orchestra
Washington's Birthday (Ives)
TOKYO IMPERIAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILLIAM STRICKLAND
9.28* Three Outdoor Scenes (lees)
OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILLIAM STRICKLAND on gramophone records
(soprano) sings arias from operas by CUea, Mascagni, Ponchielli, Puccini, and Verdi on gramophone records
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
Joan Davies (piano) introduces and plays
Haydn Quartet series
First of three programmes in which his Op. 71 quartets are played by the Macgibbon String Quartet
MARLENE FLEET (piano)
MACGIBBON STRING QUARTET
Margot Macwibbon (violin) Lorraine du Val (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conductor. GEORGE HURST
Part 1
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NEVILLE GARDEN looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East next week
Part 2
Symphony No. 1, In C minor
Brahms
Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation
HAROLD RICH (piano)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader. James Hutcheon
with Richard TUCKER (tenor)
Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT von KARAJAN
2.39* Recitative and Aria: Ma se m'e forza perdetti (Act 3, Un ballo in maschera) (Verdi)
RICHARD TUCKER (tenor) with the VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by NELLO SANTI
2.46* Bacchanale (Act 3. Samson et Dalilai (Samt-Saens)
PARIS OPERA Orchestra
Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
2.53* Polonaise (Act 3,
Eugene Onegin ) (Tchaikovsky)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY 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 unexisting receiver, is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monuphonically as usual.
A programme of recently released records
Norwegian Dance No. 3, in G major (Grieg)
WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (piano duet)
3.3* Violin Sonata in G minor
(D. 408) (Schubert)
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (violin) and WALTER KLIEN (piano)
3.18* Three Legends (Dvorak)
WALTER AND BEATRICE KUEN (piano duet)
MARY THOMAS (soprano)
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet)
ANTHONY JENNINGS (bass-clarinet) HUGH MAGUIRE (violin) KENNETH HEATH (cello)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
MALCOLM BINNS (piano) Members of the PHILIP JONES ENSEMBLE
Conducted by John CAREWE
Liverpool
Introduced by JOHN BETJEMAN
Choir OF LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL Choirmaster. RONALD WOAN NOEL RAWSTHORNE (organ)
Choir: Organ: Choir: Organ:
Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme Includes some Mozart arias sung by TERESA BERGANZA and Mahler's Fourth Symphony Conducted by GEORG SOLTI
100-140 w.p.m.
Compiled by JOYCE HARBISON
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
50-80 w.p.m.: Monday at 6.30 p.m.
A booklet is available
The theme for this year's series Is Dutch Painting from the seventeenth century to the present day
2: VIEW DOWN A CORRIDOR pumted 1662 by Samuel van Hoogstraten
(Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire)
Speaker, David PIPER
Director, National Portrait Gallery, London
Produced by George Walton Scott
Repeated on Saturday at 10.30 a.m. in the Home Service
A book is available
Script by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by Pietro Giorgetti and Ariella Reggio
(Tuesday's broadcast)
A booklet and records are available
A romantic opera in three acts by Wagner
From the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Sung in German
The action takes place on the Norwegian coast.
See below
Act 1: A steep, rocky coast
A discussion in the BBC's New York studio on recent developments In British and American sculpture between
Max KOZLOFF
Art Editor of The Nation
ANNETTE MICHELSON Paris Correspondent for Art
International and Art Forum and DAVID SYLVESTER
ACT 2: A room in Daland's house
ACT 3: A creek with a rocky shore, near Daland's house
John Knight
JOHN KNIGHT introduces a selection of his poems
Read by GARY WATSON
Produced by Dorothy Baker followed by an interlude at 10.50
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