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A weekly programme of recent records
Overture: Iphigenia in Aulis (Gluck)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bohumir Liska
8.17 The evening; I wonder; Morning reflections (sung in Swedish) (Adolf Lindblad )
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) Jan Eyron (piano)
8.26 Incidental music: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
Rae Woodland (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto)
Netherlands Radio Choir
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
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played by THE AMADEUS QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in B flat major (K.589)
Ninth of ten weekly programmes
A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Sicilian Vespers ' (Verdi)
PHILHARMONIAORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
9.40* Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat major (Emperor) (Beethoven)
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER
10.20* Ballet Suite: The Seasons
(Glazunov)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE Orchestra Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Smetana's The Bartered Bride
(produced May 30, 1866) by MARK LUBBOCK
The Water and the Fire by ANTHONY MILNER
Dads and The Difficulty of Being: book review by NOEL GOODWIN
Walking Encyclopedia by SIDNEY HARRISON
A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Chorus of Yeomen of the Guard. Gentlemen, Citizens, etc.
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT Orchestra Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
† Produced by MICHAEL Moores and PETER BRYANT
Scene: Tower Green; Date. the sixteenth century
Alan Dudley is in ' Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric Theatre. London; Jean Allister broadcasts by permission of Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Janice Chapman by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera June 12: The Gondoliers
Sonatas:
B minor (L.347)
G major (L.349)
A minor <L.S.32)
C major (L.255)
E flat major (L.115)
LUCIANO SGRIZZI (harpsichord) on a gramophone record
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Gina Bachauer (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Associate Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
From the Colston Hall , Bristol
As part of the Bristol Theatre Royal Bicentenary Festival
† VIVIAN OGILVIE talks about the oldest working theatre in the country, now the home of the Bristol Old Vic, which was opened two hundred years ago.
Part 2
played by LEONARD ROSE (cello) and SAMUEL SANDERS (piano)
1622-1695
Read by MARIUS GORING and ALLAN MCCLELLAND
Selected and introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON
Second broadcast
Romantic opera in two acts Libretto by FELICE ROMANI
Music by Vincenzo Bellini first broadcast in this country
Chorus of pirates, fisherfolk, courtiers, soldiers, etc.
Turin CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master,
Ruggero Magnini
Conducted by Mario Rossi
The action takes place in Sicily during the thirteenth century
ACT 1
Scene 1 A sea shore on the coast of Sicily
Scene 2 Outside the Palace of Caldora
7: International relations and decision theory by ANATOL RAPOPORT
Professor of Mathematical Biology Mental Health Research Institute University of Michigan
The idea that the conduct of international relations can be suided by scientific principles is an Intriguing one. Professor Rapoport suggests that the new techniques of decision theory can help in introducing rationality into decision-making at the international level-an application of these techniques which was not envisaged when they were originally conceived
ACT 2
Scene 1 A room in the Palace of Caldora
Scene 2 A terrace in the Palace
Scene 3 A subterranean passage in the Palace
Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio
2: Woodrow Wilson and Peace Moves
† by PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. LINK
Edwards Professor of American History,
Princeton University, U.S.A.
In the second of this series of talks Professor Arthur S. Link , the leading authority on the life and policies of Woodrow Wilson , describes the numerous attempts made by the American President to bring the war to a compromise solution. By a tragic irony his sincere and often statesmanlike initiatives ended, as all the world knows, in Wilson leading the American people for the first time in history into a major European conflict
General editor of the series. ROBERT BLAKE of Christ Church, Oxford
by Giles Cooper with Max Adrian
A small group of speculators are buying up strips of the Spanish coast for development. In a remote bay is a village that has not changed its way of life for a thousand years.
With Emilio Reyes , Hector Ross Basil Jones , Mary Wimbush and Elizabeth Proud
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Third broadcast
Records of music by Schmeizer and Muffat