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Part 1
MOZART
String Quartets played by The AMADEUS QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in A major (K.464)
The fifth of ten weekly programmes
† Second broadcast
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Part 2
BACH (continued)
Cantata No. 59: Wer mich liebet, der wlrd mein Wort halten
9.17* Cantata No. 175: Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen
BASIL LAM SONATA Ensemble
Patrick Halling (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin) Peter Halling (cello)
- Basil Lam (harpsichord)
Oedipus Rex
An opera oratorio in two acts Sung in French and Latin
Words by JEAN Cocteau
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE WASHINGTON OPERA Society
Conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, in B flat major, by JOSEPH COOPER
Recent Orchestral Records reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
Introduced by NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast from the London Weather Centre
CRICKET
12.33: 2.10: 3.25: 3.55: 5.0: 5.45
Derbyshire v. West Indies
Commentary by ALAN GIBSON and Roy LAWRENCE
From Derby
Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Commentary by ROBERT HUDSON
From Headingley
Leicestershire v. Northamptonshire
Commentary by PETER CRANMER
From Leicester
Somerset v. Gloucestershire
Commentary by JOHN ARLOTT
From Bath
1.50 Lunchtime Scoreboard
RUGBY UNION
1.30 Australia v. The British Isles
An illustrated report on today's first test match
From Sydney
Broadcast by arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission
See below
RACING
1.55 Down the Card by JULIAN WILSON
4.25 The Frank Butters Handicap
For three-year-old fillies only over one mile
Commentary by JULIAN WILSON
Summary by ROGER MORTIMER
From Newmarket
4.55 Racing Results
5.15 Racing Review by JULIAN WILSON
ATHLETICS
The British Games Organised by the B.A.A.B. and the 'News of the World'
2.0 Preview
2.50: 5.20
Commentaries and reports by NORMAN CUDDEFORD and HAROLD ABRAHAMS
From the White City Stadium
LAWN TENNIS
2.40: 3.40: 4.15: 4.40: 5.35
The French Championships
Commentary by MAX ROBERTSON and FRED PERRY
From the Stade Roland Garros
Broadcast by arrangement with the French Broadcasting Service
SHOW JUMPING
3.20: 5.10
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Reports by RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
From Home Park, Windsor Castle
CYCLING
4.50 Tour of Britain
Sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board
Today the 1,500-mile Tour starts from Blackpool. JOHN BURNS reports at the end of the first stage
From New Brighton. Cheshire
Handel
Harpsichord suites:
No. 2, in F major; No. 10. In D minor; No. 5, in E major
WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord) Recorded in 1935
† by PETER BURKE
Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex
Can we point to any particular social or economic reasons for the remarkable flowering of music in Venice during the century and a half from Willaert to Cavalli? Peter Burke considers some of the special features of Venetian musical patronage, and gives an exuberant example of the way in which the setting could Influence the composition.
This talk is one of several devised to accompany the current series of programmes of music in Venice
Last talk: Michael Levey , June 4
played by the DANISH STRING QUARTET
Second broadcast
by JASPER RIDLEY
A personal portrait of Sir Thomas More compiled from the anecdotes. letters, and reminiscences of the men who knew him. among them his son-in-law William Roper , Nicholas Harpsfield , Erasmus. John Foxe , and Thomas Stapleton.
Produced by Nesta Pain
Second broadcast
Heather Harper (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Antal Dorati
Part I
Song-cycle: Nuits d'été
Urs Schwarz former Foreign Editor, Neue Ziircher Zeitung broadcasts the last commentary by different speakers from cities abroad in this fortnightly current affairs series
Professor Max Beloff : June 11
Part 2
Symphonic fantastique
Recorded before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Val *
An illustrated talk by EDWARD LOCKSPEISER in which he takes stock of some of the new material on Ravel that has come to light in recent years and argues that a reassessment of his achievement Is overdue
Second broadcast
