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Overture: Semiramide (RossJnC
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EDUARD VAN BEINUM
7.17* Four Norwegian Dances, Op.
35 (Grieo)
WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (piano duet)
7.32* The Wand of Youth, Suite
No. 2 (Elflar)
London PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EDUARD VAN BEINUM
7.47* Scherzo capriccioso (Dvorak)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK on gramophone records
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with MYRA HESS (piano)
Symphony No. 20. In D major
(K.133) (Mozart)
MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by GÜNTER KEHR
8.22* Piano Concerto in A minor
(Schumann)
MYRA HESS with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
8.55* Overture: Susanna's Secret
(Wolf-Ferrari)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE Orchestra Conducted by NELLO SANTI on gramophone records
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Lambert and Walton
Johannesburg Festival Overture
(Walton)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.12* The Rio Grande (Lambert)
GLADYS RIPLEY (contralto) KYLA GREENBAUM (piano) with CHORUS and PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER f.27* Movements from Facade
(Walton)
Royal OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI on gramophone records
Second of a series of programmes of recently released records which each week include some of Bach's organ music played by Lionel Rose on the organ of the Grossmunster. Zurich
Sonata pian' e forte
(Gioi'annt Gabrieli)
LONDON GABRIELI BRASS ENSEMBLE
9.50* Toccata. Adagio, and Fugue ir C major (Bach)
LIONEL ROGG (organ)
10.6* Lincoln Portrait (Copland)
ADLAI STEVENSON (narrator) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
10.22* Symphony No. in C major (Schumann)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
GERALD English (tenor)
RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) BERNARD RICHARDS (cello)
I SOLOSTI VENETI
Leader, Piero Toso
Conductor. CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Recorded at concerts at Levens
Hall. Westmorland
Part 1
Poème danse : La péri (Dukas)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
12.37* Piano Concerto in G major
(Ravel)
SAMSON FRANCOIS (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS on gramophone records
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GRAHAM MELVILLE-MASON looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming weekend
Part 2
Poème dansé: Jeux (Debussy)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST-ANSERMET
1.33* Symphony No. 3, in,C minor
(Roussel)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS on gramophone records
Conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND with Wim HESTERMAN (flute)
Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union
Danse sacrée et danse profane, for harp and string orchestra (Debussy)
2.41* Impromptu for harp
(Fauré)
2.50* Sinfonietta for string orchestra (Roussel)
ANNIE CHALLAN (harp)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS 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.
Dvorak Stabat Mater
RAE WOODLAND (soprano)
PAMELA BOWDEN (contralto) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL CHOIR
BOURNEMOUTH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Gerald Jarvis
Conductor,
CONSTANTIN SlLVESTRI
by Robert Munns
From Westminster Cathedral, London
(Second broadcast)
Died 30 years ago today
La sensitiva, for voice and orchestra (1918) first performance in this country
5.31* Concerto gregoriano for violin and orchestra (1921)
6.2. Metamorphoseon: Theme and variations for orchestra (1930)
First performance in this country
JANET BAKER (contralto)
UTO UGHI (violin)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by SERGIU COMISSIONA
50-80 w.p.m.
Compiled by JOYCE HARDISON
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system.
80-100 w.p.m.: Wed., 6.30 p.m.
A booklet is available
9: Albi
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
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of Emile Harven
Script by Odile Castro and Elsie Ferguson
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Language consultant, Paul Couster
Repeated: Thursday, 7.4 p.m.
A booklet is available
The second group of programmes in this series is concerned with the treatment of the young offender in England and Wales
9: Detention Centre
' It's supposed to be so rough,' said an ex-inmate, ' like an army training camp really, in and out of boots all day, double-marching, drilling, it's supposed to be so rough that it jerks you on to the straight and narrow.'
DR. ALAN LITTLE of the London School of Economics talks to
The Warden of Blantyre House Detention Centre which is set amidst some of the most beautiful Kent countryside
Produced by Richard Hooper
2: Anglo-American Dialogue
Louis BLOM-COOPER introduces selections he has made from famous judgments to illustrate his belief that while American judges openly admire our judges the English lawyer is looking across the Atlantic with increasing admiration.
Readings by WILL LEIGHTON JOHN GLEN , ANTHONY JACOBS and TOM WATSON
Produced by Anthony Moncrieff
Literature at Court: Thursday at 7.30 p.m.
Fifth of a series of six public concerts presented by the Third Programme in the Royal Festival Hall
Margaret Price (soprano) Manoug Parikian (violin)
Richard Rodney Bennett and James Lockhart (piano duet) Delme String Quartet
Granville Jones (violin) Jürgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Part 1
1: The Unknown Gods of the English by DAVID MARTIN
Lecturer in Sociology,
London School of Economics
Sociologists tend to study the abnormal features of society. As a result, they have largely neglected our major religious institutions. And yet there are many puzzles here, waiting to be solved.
Radio version of a paper delivered at the 1965 Meeting of the British Association
Two Contemporary Cults, by John Jackson : April 27
Part 2
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
ALEC McCowen gives the last of three readings from a collection of Biblical stories retold by Leszek Kolakowski in an English version by Nicholas Bethell
Salome, or All Men are Human
(piano)
Music by French composers on a gramophone record