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Overture: Fingal's Cave (Mendelssohn)
BERLlN PIIILIIARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.14* Piano Concerto No. 3, in D minor (Rachmaninov)
MAI.CUZYNSKI (piano) with the WARSAW NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
7.51* Waltz of the Flowers (The
Nutcracker) (Tchaikovsky)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Witold Rowicki
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

composer, pianist, conductor with MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
Prelude and Fugue for eighteen-part string orchestra (Britten)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
9.54* Five Pieces in folk style
(Schumann)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICII (cello) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
10.13* Cello Concerto In C major
(Haudn)
(cadenzas by Benjamin Britten )
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH with the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN 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

Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten

MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) JANET CRAXTON (oboe)
PRO ARTE STRING Trio Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) with IVEY DICKSON (piano)
Ninth of fifteen programmes Including the whole of Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum.

Contributors

Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Oboe:
Janet Craxton
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Ivey Dickson

Music from opera and ballet with the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY and the JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
Introduced by ANDREW GEMMILL
Produced by Alan Abbott
The programme includes excerpts from
First broadcast on Sept. 11, 1965

Contributors

Singers:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
Andrew Gemmill
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

A dramatic opera
Music by Purcell
Words by Dryden
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
ELSIE MORISON (soprano)
MARY THOMAS (soprano)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor)
WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
DAVID CALLIVER (tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone)
HERVEY ALAN (bass)
TREVOR ANTHONY (bass)
St. ANTHONY SINGERS AND THE PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON
Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS on gramophone records
A Place of Heathen Worship
The Britons express their joy for the Victory
A Marshy Land near the Battlefield
A Pastoral Masque
A Prospect of Winter in Frozen
Countries
An Enchanted Wood
A Masque of Britain's Renown

Contributors

Unknown:
Dryden
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Soprano:
Mary Thomas
Soprano:
John Whitworth
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Tenor:
David Calliver
Baritone:
John Cameron
Bass:
Hervey Alan
Bass:
Trevor Anthony
Conducted By:
Anthony Lewis

The first of the main series of fifteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. ' 'O' Level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with a National Extension College Correspondence Course
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter, Emmeline Garnett
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 a.m. in the Home Service
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge.

Contributors

Unknown:
Emmeline Garnett
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A series of twenty programmes intended for listeners who already have some knowledge of French. An imaginary roving reporter. Gilles Leroy , records his impressions of the different places he visits each week
1: Paris: la Maison de l'O.R.T.F, et la Loterie Nationale
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of Emile Harven
Written and produced by Elsie Ferguson
Language consultant, Paul Couster
Monday's broadcast
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilles Leroy
Introduced By:
Katia Ellis
Unknown:
Emile Harven
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson
Unknown:
Paul Couster

A study of the circumstances in which John Keats began the composition of the projected epic poem Hyperion, abandoned his first attempt, recast it as The Full of Hyperion and subsequently abandoned his second version.
Written and narrated by Robert Gittings
The extracts from poems and letters by Keats read by PETER MARINKER
Others taking part: PRESTON LOCKWOOD and ALLAN MCCLELLAND
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
To be repeated on March 23

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keats
Unknown:
Robert Gittings
Read By:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Preston Lockwood
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs

Opera in three acts
Music by Spontini
Libretto by ETIENNE DE JOUY
Sung in the Italian translation by Giovanni Schmidt on gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF RADIO ITALIANA
Conducted by FERNANDO PREVITALI
The action takes place in Ancient Rome
ACT 1:
The Forum

Contributors

Unknown:
Etienne de Jouy
Translation By:
Giovanni Schmidt
Conducted By:
Fernando Previtali

by NIKOLAUS PEVSNER Diocletian's palace at Spalato. now Split. in Yugoslavia, is one of the greatest monuments of Roman antiquity. Professor Pevsner, who has recently visited it for the first time, talks about the restoration of the palace and the planning problems of the little town which has grown up inside it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Pevsner

Network Three

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