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Overture: The Magic Flute
(Mozart)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
7.12* Dance of the Blessed Spirits
(Orfeo) (Gluck)
CLAUDE MONTEUX (flute)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
122' Feast of the Capulets;
Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet) (Berlioz)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
7.43* Ballet Suite: Les deux pigeons (Messager)
PARIS OPERA ORCHESTRA Conducted by Louis FOURESTIER on gramophone records

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Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Ϯ Conductor, MAURICE Miles with KELLY ISAACS (violin)

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Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
9.14* Danse sacrée et danse profane
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp)
STRINGS OF THE
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY
9.24' Khamma (Legende dansee)
(completed Koechlin)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records

conductor, pianist, composer
Ballet: Appalachian Spring
(Copland)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
10.10* Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
10.27* Three Dance Episodes: On the Town (Bernstein)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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 third programme
Ϯ WILLIAM PLEETH accompanied by WILFRID PARRY (piano) plays

HERBERT DOWNES (viola)
LEONARD CASSINI (piano)
The seventh of fifteen programmes including the whole of dementi's Gradus ad Parnassum

SYDNEY HUMPHREYS (violin)
BBC Scottish ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Ϯ Conducted by BeRTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT
Part 1 followed by an interlude

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Ϯ FRITZ SPIEGL looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Scotland, Wales, and tie West during the next seven days

Part 2

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conductor. VILEM TAUSKY

(piano)
Ballades, Op. 10 (Bralims)
3.21* Waltzes. Op. 39 (Brahms) on gramophone records

Opera in five acts
Music by Gounod
Words by JULES BARBIER and MICHEL CARRÉ
Sung in French on gramophone records
FRENCH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
Conducted by ANDRÉ CLUYTEN S
The action takes place in Germany in the sixteenth century
Act 2: 4.6*; ACT 3: 4.33*
ACT 4: 5.23*; ACT 5: 5.55'

by DONALD HUNT
Ϯ From Leeds Parish Church

7: The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
Script and narration by PETER PORTER
Ϯ Poem read by BASIL JONES

A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of Spanish
Lesson 19
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of Pablo Soto
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Ϯ Produced by George Walton Scott
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 a.m. m the Home Service
A booklet Is available

Nine programmes about government, society, and ideas in early Stuart England
5: Puritanism, Politics and Society
Before the Civil War, Puritanism was essentially a movement within the Church of England, and Puritans generally accepted both the existing social hierarchy and the traditional framework of monarchical authority.
AUSTIN WOOLRYCH
Professor of Modern History in the University of Lancaster discusses how the events of the sixteen-forties forced Puritans to re-think their social and political attitudes, and led to the development of more radical and popular forms of religious expression.
With readings from contemporary sources by John Glen and Denis Goacher
Ϯ Produced by Adrian Johnson
Peter Laslett on The Justification of Resistance: Tuesday at
7.0 p.m.

by Robert Greene (1560-92)
Wherein the folly of carpet-knights is deciphered
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by TERENCE TILLER
Valentine Dyall Is In ' Son of Oblomov ' at the Comedy Theatre. London
Ϯ Second broadcast

A recording of the Sixtieth Birthday Concert given at last year's
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL in association with the Macnaghten Concerts
The cantata ' Tankas of the Four Seasons,' to be heard at 9.30. was commissioned for the occasion and Is dedicated to Anne Macnaghten as a mark of gratitude for her work over many years on behalf of contemporary British composers.
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Melos Ensemble
Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Alberni String Quartet Dennis Simons (violin) Howard Davis (violin) John White (viola)
Gregory Baron (cello)
Part 1
Sonata for violin and piano played by EMANUEL HURWITZ and LAMAR CROWSON
8.48' String Quartet No. 2

7: The Bold Step Forward
Ϯ Benjamin FRANKEL examines the composer's constant need for the urgent view ahead. This does not, he argues, call for the destruction of all the bridges that lie behind; for the link backwards is the proof of music's continuing language.
Nowness and Permanence by W. H. Auden : February 24

Part 2
CANTATA:
Tankas of the Four Seasons for tenor, oboe, clarinet bassoon, violin, and cello first performance
9.40* Quintet for piano and wind
The text of the cantata Is a translation from the Catalan of Carles Riba. Tankas is an ancient classical Japanese verse-form, still used as a model today, but no attempt has been made to make the music sound either Japanese or Catalan.

in Spanish Renaissance Polyphony In this illustrated talk
JOHN HOBAN discusses performing practice in Spanish cathedrals during the Renaissance and demonstrates the use of instruments and the convention of ornamentation in vocal polyphony
See also Friday at 9.30 p.m.

Adagio for String Orchestra THE SOLOISTS OF LIÉGE conducted by Gery LEMAIRE on a gramophone record