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A weekly programme of recent records
Overture: If I were king (Adam)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Paray
8.11 Double-bass Concerto in E major (Dittersdorf)
Georg Hortnagel with the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jorg Faerber
8.27 Symphony No. 3, in E flat major (Rhenish) (Schumann)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos
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BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by GRAHAM TREACHER
Symphony No. 17, in F major
9.18* Symphony No. 52, in C minor
A request programme of gramophone records
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 3
No. 2 (Gemmiani)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS
Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
9.55* Requiem (Maurice Duruflé) HELENE BOUVIER (mezzo-soprano) XAVIER DUPRAZ (bass)
MARIE-MADELEINE DURUFLE-CHEVAUER (organ)
THE PHILIPPE CAILLARD and the STEPHANE CAILLAT CHOIRS and the LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.38* Symphony No. 7, in C major
(Sibelius)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Sutermeister's Die schwarze Spinne by RENÉ ELVIN
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (founded 1816) by CHARLES CUDWORTH
Musical Profile: Joseph Rou leau by CHARLES OSBORNE
Rachmaninov: A Lifetime In Music: book review by STEPHEN DODGSON
Comic opera in two acts
Words by LUIGI BALOCCHI
Music by Valentino Fioravanti
Cast in order of singing:
MILAN CHORUS and ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio
Conducted by ALFREDO SIMONETTO
Narration by Julian Budden
Act 1
A forest in Campania
ACT 2
An inn at a small town near Foggia
Recording made available by courtesy of the Italian Radio
Symphonic Fragments: Le mar-tyre de Saint Sebastien (Debussy)
London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
' Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
1.43* Slnfonia da requiem (Britten)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER on gramophone records
Peter Guth (violin)
Heidi Litschauer (cello)
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
CHARLES ROSEN (piano) plays concertos by Chopin and Liszt
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Part 1
CHARLES ROSEN talks to
ERIC ROSEBERRY and gives his reasons for choosing these concertos
Concertos
Part 2
Second of eight weekly programmes
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Repeated on Tuesday
ALARIUS ENSEMBLE OF BRUSSELS Sigiswald Kuyken (violin, treble viol, and bass viol) Janine Rubinlicht (violin)
Wieland Kuyken (bass viol)
Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
Part of a concert given In Dorchester Abbey. Oxfordshire, last June during the 1965 Dorchester Abbey Festival
A.D. 1605-2005 by R. V. JONES , F.R.s.
Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen
Last year Professor Jones gave three Joseph Payne Memorial Lectures to the College of Preceptors in London. This is a shortened version
Last of three lectures
Second broadcast
Also an interview with WIELAND WAGNER
Readers, Cécile Chevreau Valentine Dyall , and Roy Spencer
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES Valentine Dyall Is appearing In
Son of Oblomov at the Comedy
Theatre. London
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.50
Joseph Segal (violin)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
BBC Northern Singers
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Leader, Joseph Segal
Conducted by Michael Hall
From Rutherford Technical College, Newcastle
Part I
by SIMON MITCHELL
Simon Mitchell is a post-graduate student in social anthropology in the University of London, who recently began two years' field work in the fishing villages of north-east Brazil. Before he went out he recorded some personal reflections on what led him to this kind of study in this particular area.
Part 2
Lesley Rooke (soprano)
Caroline Foster (contralto)
Jolyon Dodgson (bass-baritone)
by Adrian Mitchell with Leo Maguire
Christopher Bidmead and Eileen Atkins
Bruce says: ' I was a professional poet. For three weeks '-but once he starts laughing he can'stop. This is no good when he wants a lob.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Eileen Atkins is appearing In ' The Killing of Sister George ' at the Duke of York's Theatre. London: Christopher Bidmead is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Second broadcast
(piano)
Romance in F sharp major
Op. 28 No. (Schumann)
Pictures from an Exhibition
(Mussorgsky) on gramophone records