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Overture: Cockaigne (Elgar) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.20* An English Rhapsody: Brigg
Fair (Delius)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.36* Early one morning; The
Ash Grove; Sweet Polly Oliver (trad., arr. Britten)
Peter PEARS (tenor)
Benjamin BRITTEN (piano)
7.45* A Moorside Suite, for brass band (Hoist)
B.M.C. (OXFORD) BAND
Conducted by IMOGEN HOLST on gramophone records
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Concerto Grosso in F major. Op.
6 No. 2 (Corelli)
BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Directed by YEHUDI MEHUHIN
8.1S* Sonata No. 2, In E flat major, for flute and harpsichord (Bach)
KARL BOBZIEN (flute)
SEBASTIAN LADwiG (viola da gamba) MARGARETE SCHARITZER (harpsichord)
8.28* Organ Concerto No. 1. In
G minor (Handel)
KARL RICHTER (organ) directing a CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.41* Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli (Tippett)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) ROBERT MASTERS (violin) DEREK SIMPSON (cello)
BATH Festival ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE composer on gramophone records
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Byrd and Patestrina
Records of Byrd's Mass for four voices, and some of his instrumental music and solo songs
Gramophone records highlighting musical anniversaries occurring this week
by LIZA Fuchsova
Schumann chamber music series
UZI WIESEL (cello)
ERNEST LusH (piano)
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Halle Orchestra
Leader. Martin Milner
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Part 1
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JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming weekend
Part 2
LONDON STUDIO Orchestra Leader. Reginald Leopold
Conducted by VlLEM TAUSKY
PHILIP CHALLIS (piano) in a programme of light music by Eric Coates. David Lyon , Montague Phillips, Alan Langford , Dvorak, and Howard Ferguson with piano solos by Chopin, Grieg. and Debussy
born April 9, 1906
Sixtieth Birthday Concert
Madrigal Suite, for chorus and small orchestra first performance
3.22* Symphony first performance tn this country
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Antal Dorati
- Piano Sonata....... Frank Bridge played by ERIC PARKIN
First in a new series of fifteen programmes
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Sunday's broadcast
Conductor, LEONARD HIRSCH with MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
BAND or THE ROYAL Marines SCHOOL or Music (Deal)
Conducted by LIEUT. T. LAMBERT
Director of Music
Soviet Affairs.
1: Foreign Policy
(ii) Safeguarding the Building of Communism by P. H. VIGOR
7 ENOrpaΦNR NBaHa
A course of twenty lessons in spoken Russian for near-beginners
Lesson 7
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES James University of Sussex
Given by VAUGHAN JAMES MARINA RYAN. and VICTOR GREGORY
Language consultant. Lyubov Volossevich
Produced by Richard Hooper
Repeated on Saturday at 10.45 a.m. (Home)
A booklet is available
A series for parents, teachers. social workers, and everyone concerned about current values
4: Tradition or Reasont
A talk on morality and moral education by R. s. PETERS
Professor of Philosophy of Education. University of London, Institute of Education
Produced by Arthur Langford
by Sir JOHN ECCLES , F.R.S.
Professor of Physiology,
Australian National University
Brain and the Unity of Conscious Experience
Sir John delivered his lecture before an audience in Cambridge on October 15 last year. The lecture was recorded, and is here presented in a shortened form by Dr. Archie Clow
Charles Spinks (organ) Scuola Di Cuiesa
Conductor, John Hoban
From the Church of St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, London
These concerts of fourteen programmes devised by Denis Arnold
(Willaert and his circle (ii) April 22)
An illustrated programme in which SIR ADRIAN BOULT gives some personal reminiscences of Vaughan Williams and talks to ROBERT LAYTON about the interpretative problems that arise in his music
Margaret Kitchin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Erich Schmid first performance in this country
a miscellany of readings and interviews including:
ANTHONY THWAITE introducing and reading three poems from his new sequence
Letters of Synesius FLEUR ADCOCK discussing and reading two new poems about animals and new poems by STEWART CONN. GLYN HUGHES , HAROLD MASSINGHAM , and TED WALKER
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
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