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Prelude: Werther (Massenet)
Orchestra OF the PARIS OPERA-COMIQUE
Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
7.9* Violin Sonata No. 2, in A major (Brahms)
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (violin) CARL SEEMANN (piano)
7.2S* Symphony No. 8. in B minor
(The Unfinished) (Schubert)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ on gramophone records
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Leader. LIONEL BENTLEY who also plays the solo violin in the Six Humoresques
Conductor. TREVOR HARVEY
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Notturni for voices and woodwind:
Mi lagnero tacendo (K.437)
Due pupllle amabili (K.439)
Se lontan. ben mio. tu set (K.438)
Luci care (K.346)
Ecco quet fiero tstante (K.436)
Piu non si trovano (K.549)
Emerentia Scheepers (soprano) Monica Sinclair (mezzo-soprano) Geraint Evans (baritone)
With Members of the London Baroque Ensemble
Conductor, Karl Haas
9.16* Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) (of the Melos Ensemble)
(on gramophone records)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Overture: Othello
19.1* Romance for violin and orchestra
JOSEF SUK (violin)
Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
10.15* Symphonic Poem:
The Golden Spinning Wheel
Conducted by Zelenek CHALABALA 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 usuar.
William Pleeth (cello)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In his second programme
† William PLEETH accompanied by WILFRID PARRY (piano) plays
Songs:
The sixth of fifteen programmes including the whole of dementi's Gradus ad Parnassum
ESTHER FISHER (piano)
BBC WELSH Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by ALBERTO Bolet
Part 1
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† THEA MUSGRAVE looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Northern Ireland, Wales, and the West during the next seven days.
Part 2
Given before an Invited audience at the Assembly Rooms. City Hall. Cardiff
BBC Concert ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by MYERS FOGGIN
(piano)
Chopin Ballade No. 3, in A flat major
3.7* Ballade No. 4, in F minor
3.17* Scherzo No. 4, in E major
3.27* Nocturne No. 18, in E major,
Op. 62 No.2 on a gramophone record
Opera in two acts
Music by Mozart
Words by LORENZO DA Ponte Sung in Italian on gramophone records
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL BÖHM
The action takes place in Naples session
6: Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
Script and narration by PETER PORTER
Poem read by BASIL JONES
A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of Spanish
Lesson 18
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of Pablo Soto
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Produced by George Walton Scott
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 am in the Home Service
A booklet is available
Nine programmes about government, society, and ideas in early Stuart England 4: The growth of London
One of the main features of early seventeenth-century English society was the growth of London.
F. J. FISHER , Professor of Economic History in the London School of Economics, considers the reasons for the growth of the metropolis; and discusses the relationship between the importance of London and the political conflicts of the time.
With readings from contemporary sources by John Glen and Denis Goacher
Produced by Adrian Johnson
Peter Laslett on Thomas Hoboes , the intellectual in a time of crisis: Tuesday at 7.0 p.m.
1907-1%3
Two programmes arranged and produced by TERENCE TILLER
2: People, Dreams, and Places
Readers, MARY WIMBUSH
DENYS HAWTHORNE
ALLAN MCCLELLAND
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) London Symphony Orchestra Leader, John Geordiadis
Conductor, Istvan Kertesz
From the Royal Festival Hall. London
Part 1
Prospects for Parole
† by RICHARD SPARKS , Lecturer In
Criminal Law and Criminology, Birmingham University
The recent White Paper on The Adult Offender suggests that prisoners might, at the discretion of the Home Secretary, be released on parole after serving one-third of their sentence. Mr. Sparks discusses this idea in the light of American experience and concludes that it may well create more problems than it solves.
Part 2
Pictures from an Exhibition
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel
† Dika NEWLIN , author of Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg discusses with HANS KELLER and DERYCK COOKE the musical aspects of twelve-tone technique followed by an interlude at 10.50