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Overture: Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.14* Scherzo (Octet in E flat major) (Mendelssohn)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
7.29* Piano Concerto No. 1. in E minor (Chopin)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN with the NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANISLAV SKROWACZEWSD on gramophone records

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Overture: Le mariage aux Ian ternes (Offenbuch)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.10* Suite pastorale (Chabrier)
SUlSSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.31* Rhapsody for clarinet ant orchestra (Debussy)
ROBERT GUGHOLZ with the SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.40* Four dances (Ballet: Rodeo.
(Copland)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIA Orchestra
Conducted by Leonard BERNSTEIN on gramophone records

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Byrd and Palestrina
Gramophone records of Byrd'! Motet Civitas sancti tui, some ol his keyboard music, and Pates trina's Musa sine nomine

(tenor) sings arias from operas by Verdi on gramophone records

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music.
This week
Katharina Wolpe (piano) plays
Capriccio in D minor, Op. 116 - Brahms
Intermezzo in B minor Op. 119 No. 1 - Brahms
Impromptu in A flat major (D 935 No. 2) - Schubert
Sonetto 194 del Petrarca (Annees de pelerinage: deuxieme annee) - Liszt
Four bagatelles Op.119 - Beethoven
No. 1 in G minor
No. 2 in C major
No. 5 in C minor
No. 11 in B flat major

Tho Haydn String Quartet series returns to the Op. 76 quartets. which are being played by the Delme String Quartet
HELEN McKINNON (contralto) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
DELME STRING Quartet Granville Jones (violin) Jürgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by GEORGE HURST and OLIVER BROOME
Part 1
Overture: Kins; Stephen.Beethoven Conducted by Oliver Broome
12.25* Symphony No. 38, in D major (Prague) (K.504) ...Mozart
Conducted by George Hurst

John GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East next week

Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Stockport

HAROLD RICH (piano)
Leader. James Hutcheon
Conductor, CILBERT VINTER

A weekly programme of recently released gramophone records
Suite No. 3, in D major (Bach)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
3.6* Italian Madrigals
The lovely birds
(Ciaches de Wert)
There were sighs
(Luzzasco Luzzaschi)
0 my beloved (Adriaan Willaert)
THE ABBEY SINGERS
3J4- Ballet Suite No. 2: Daphnis and Chloe (Ravel)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and the SCHOLA CANTORUM
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on fhe Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover. Kent.

Music from Rumania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia Recording made available by courtesy of Rumanian Radio Recording made available by courtesy of Polish Radio
DUMKA Trio
All three works are being broadcast for the first time in this country

BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Maurice Handford

Overture: Ruy Blas. ... Mendelssohn

First of fourteen programmes to include the principal Symphonies of both composers

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by STEPHEN WALSH
This week's programme includes
Martinu's Concerto for two string orchestras, piano, and timpani and Tchaikovsky's First Symphony

A series of six monthly programmes for those interested in the amateur theatre
4:Setting the Playvarious ways of staging design and lighting use of music
Speakers,
JACK MITCHLEY , DEREK BOWSKILL John WYCKHAM , ADRIAN RENDLE
Introduced by MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by Edith R. Baer
A list of suggestions for further reading and useful addresses can be obtained by writing to: Theatre Club.' F.E. Department. BroadcastIng House. London. W.I.
Next programme, Drama for Young People and All-women Groups: May 20

Eight programmes on aspects of the evolution of contemporary China
4: China's National Aims (ii) Equality with the West
Introduced by Richard HARRIS Asian specialist of The Times
To become equal with the West meant an industrialised China able to manufacture anything it wanted. But it takes a long time and considerable cost to develop modern industry in a country so vast, with such poor communications, and so reluctant to look for outside aid.
Produced by Adrian Johnson
A booklet Is available

Missa Beati loannis
BBC CHORUS
ALAN HARVERSON (organ)
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN

The unknown worlds of Jules Verne
† MICHEL Butor rediscovers his Extraordinary Voyages
See previous page

Sixieme concert en sextuor
TOULOUSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Louis AURIACOMBE on a gramophone record

by Sean O'Casey
Adapted and produced for radio by R. D. SMITH with Jim Norton
Barry Keegan
Elizabeth Morgan Brian O'Higgins Harry Webster
Cast in order of speaking:
Music specially composed and conducted by FREDERICK MARSHALL
Oboe, ALEC WHITTAKER
To be repeated on May 5

A series of weekly programmes MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) Benjamin BRITTEN (piano)
Originally broadcast from the 1965 Aldeburgh Festival
Second broadcast
Schubert love-songs, Britten Michelangelo Sonnets (Kenneth Bowen , Paul Hamburger ): April 20

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