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Suite: The Fair Maid of Perth
(Bizet)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.17* Eligie for cello and orchestra (Fauré)
SAMUEL MAYES with the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
7.25' Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (K.191) (Mozart)
GWYDION BROOKE with the ROYAL PHILHAITMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.44* Symphonic Poem: Till
Eulenspiegel (Strauss)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Unknown:
Samuel Mayes
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf
Unknown:
Gwydion Brooke
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Bach
Three sacred songs from the Schemelli song book:
Die bittre Leidenszelt Jesus unser Trost und Leben
Brunquell aller GUter
MARGOT GUILLEAUME (soprano) HELMUT TRAMNITZ (organ)
9.12* Three Chorale Preludes (Clavieriibung)
Kyrle. Gott helliger Geist (S.671) Dies sind die heil'gen zehn
Gebot' (S.678)
Christe aller Welt Trost (S.670)
HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
9.27* Motet: Singet dem Herrn tin neues Lied
HERTA FLEBBE and ROTHAUD PAX (sopranos)
FRAUKE HAASKMANN (contralto) WILFRIED KASTRUP (tenor)
JOHANNES KORTENDIECK (bass) with the WESTPHALIAN SINGERS
AND INSTRUMENTAIISTS
Conducted by WILHELM EHMANN on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wilhelm Ehmann

with DIETRICH FISCIIEFT-DIESKAU (baritone)
Records including
Four songs by Liszt and the Suite:
Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Strauss
This programme Is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VIIF 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.

Music from opera and ballet
BBC Concert ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
ELIZABETH FRETWELL (soprano) JANET COSTER (mezzo-soprano)
Introduced by ANDREW GEMMILL
Produced by Alan Abbott
The programme Includes excerpts from:
Originally broadcast July 31. 1965
Elizabeth Fretwell broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Soprano:
Elizabeth Fretwell
Introduced By:
Andrew Gemmill
Produced By:
Alan Abbott
Unknown:
Elizabeth Fretwell

Opera in three acts and a prologue
Music by Benjamin Britten
Words by Montagu Slater after the poem by George Crabbe
on gramophone records
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conducted by The Composer
The action takes place towards the year 1830, in the Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast
Prologue and Act 1
Ad 2: 4.43*
ACT 3: 5.35*

Contributors

Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Montagu Slater
Unknown:
George Crabbe

The fifth of the main series of fifteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. 0 ' 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. (Home)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College. Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.

Contributors

Scriptwriter:
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.
5: En Périgord
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

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

by H.S. Eveling

Contributors

Writer:
H.S. Eveling
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
William:
Bob Grant
First Observant Woman:
Barbara Greenhalgh
Second Observant Woman:
Ella Atkinson
Jennie:
Helen Fraser
Queer Young Man:
Henry Livings
Myra:
Pamela Craig
Agnes:
Eileen Derbyshire
John:
Christopher Wilkinson
First Vagrant:
Harry Markham
Second Vagrant:
Alan Knox
Defence:
Arthur Cox
Judge:
Frank Marlborough
Prosecution:
Geoffrey Banks
Miss Lisle:
Vivien Wood
Harmonica player:
Doug Forrester

by Orazio Vecchi
NORMAN PLATT (speaker) DELLER CONSORT
Honor Sheppard (soprano) Sally Le Sage (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) Max Worthley (tenor) Philip Todd (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)
HANS MARTIN LINDE (recorder) FFRDINAND CONRAD (recorder) OTTO STEINKOPF (dulcian) GUNTHER LEMMEN
(viola da braccio) HEINZ OTTO GRAF (viola da braccio) HEINRICH SPICKER (viola da braccio)
HEINRICH HAFERLAND (viola da gamba)
WALTER GERWIG (lute) WALTER BERGMANN (harpsichord)
Directed by ALFRED DELLER ACTS 1 AND 2
Recorded at a performance given in Olantigh House. Wye. Kent. during the Stour Festival 1965.

Contributors

Unknown:
Orazio Vecchi
Unknown:
Norman Platt
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Tenor:
Max Worthley
Tenor:
Philip Todd
Baritone:
Maurice Bevan
Baritone:
Hans Martin Linde
Viola:
Gunther Lemmen
Viola:
Heinrich Spicker
Viola:
Heinrich Haferland
Directed By:
Alfred Deller

by Frank Field, Lecturer in History at the University of Keele

The Viennese satirist Karl Kraus once described the old Austria as a 'research laboratory for world destruction.' Frank Field takes his closet drama The Last Days of Mankind as focusing concentrically the destructive forces of 1914; in Viennese culture, in Vienna, in the Austrian Empire, in Europe
(Second broadcast)

followed by an interlude at 10.65

Contributors

Speaker:
Frank Field

The full details of every result declared overnight will be broadcast on this Network, and it is therefore complementary to the faster but more concentrated ' flash ' service to be heard in the Home Service
Newsreaders:
DAVID BROOMFIELD
ANDREW GEMMILL
Roy WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Broomfield
Unknown:
Andrew Gemmill
Unknown:
Roy Williamson

Network Three

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