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VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano)
TOULOUSE CHAMBER Orchestra
Conducted by Luis AURIACOMBE
Concert en sextuor No. 6, in G major (Rameau)
7.17* Le tombeau de Couperin
(Ravel)
7.42* L'apothéose de Corelli
(Couperin) on gramophone records

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BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER
Overture: Leonora No. 2
(Beethoven)
8.20* Suite No. 3, in D major
(Bach)
8.41' Grosse Fuge , Op. 133
(Beethoven) on gramophone records

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Liszt
Liebestraum No.
9.9* Concert Study: Gnomenreigen
9.13* Sonata in B minor
CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) on a gramophone record

A programme of recently released records
Including some of Bach's organ music played by Lionel Rogg
Ballet Suite No. 1
(Gluck, arr. Mottl)
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON
Conducted by ROBERT IRVING
10.4* Fugue in G major (S.577);
Fantasia in C minor (S.562) (Bach)
LIONEL ROGG (organ)
10.13' Ballet: The Fairy's Kiss
(Stravinsky)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER

Vorisek, Dussek, and Spohr
MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
LONDON OCTET
Felix Kok (violin)
Jeffrey Wakefield (violin) Harry Danks (viola)
Alexander Kok (cello) Ysobel Danks (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) John Coulling (viola) Denis Vigay (cello)
Second broadcasts

JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Led by Tom Rowlette
Conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
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 and next week

Part 2 followed by an interlude

ALEXANDRU NICOLAS (flute)
ION DANIE (oboe)
CONSTANTIN UNGURESCU (clarinet)
OCTAV POPA (clarinet)
EMIL BIOLEA (bassoon)
GHEORGHE POPA (bassoon)
Ion VLAD (horn)
ION BADANOIU (horn) and ROYAL MILITARY BAND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Directed by LIEUT. A. POSTHUMUS
Recordings made available by courtesy of Rumanian Radio and Radio Nederland

(soprano)
Records of arrangements and settings by Ravel, Falla, and Rodrigo of traditional Greek and Spanish songs
A stereophonic broadcast: see page 2

by JAMES DALTON
From the Queen's College. Oxford
Second broadcast

Bach
Christmas Oratorio
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ALAN HARVERSON (organ) COLIN TILNEY (organ)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS

50-80 w.p.m. t- Compiled by JOYCE HARBISON
80-100 w.p.m.: Wed., 6.30 p.m.
A booklet is available

A series of twenty programmes intended for listeners who already have some knowledge of French.
18: Ronchamp
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
A booklet is available

6: Exploring the Indian Ocean by A. S. LAUGHTON.
National Institute of Oceanography
Deputy Senior Scientist on R.R.S. Discovery during the International Indian Ocean Expedition who explains what undersea studies of the earth's crust are revealing about the evolution of oceans and continents
Produced by Rosemary Jellis

The last of five talks
5: System and Freedom fby MARY DOUGLAS
Reader in Social Anthropology, University College, London
' We all do this-create systems on flimsy evidence and apply the basic assumptions so confidently that we literally do not perceive contradictory events. We are largely unconscious of how much active interpreting we ourselves contribute to what we see and hear.' The ' law and order ' of our mental and social systems plays a vital part in enabling us to live. But what are we to do about the elements which the systems exclude?

by Robert Ashto ::
Professor of English History in the University of East Anglia A portrait of James I as a man compiled from the anecdotes. letters, and reminiscences of the men who knew him, among them
SIR ANTHONY WELDON
SIR JOHN OGLANDER
SIR FRANCIS OSBORNE and Bishop GODFREY GOODMAN
Produced by Nesta Pain
Third broadcast

Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Gerald English (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Geraint Jones Singers
Obbligati:
RICHARD COLE (recorder)
EDWARD SELWYN, NEIL BLACK (oboe and cor anglais) Continuo:
ALAN HARVERSON
(organ and harpsichord)
MICHAEL WHEWELL (bassoon) AMBROSE GAUNTLETT (cello) Geraint Jones Orchestra Leader, Winifred Roberts
Conductor, Geraint Jones
Cantata No. 119: Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn
9.3' Cantata No. 194: Hochsterwiinschtes Freudenfest

by SETON LLOYD
Professor of Western Asiatic ' Archaeology, London University Professor Seton Lloyd , who for twenty years worked as an archaeologist in Mesopotamia and helped to organise the Iraqi Antiquities Department, talks about some aspects of Assyrian civilisation, in the light of the recent publication of M. E. L. Mallowan's monumental work Nimrud and its Remains. This is a record of Professor Mallowan's fifteen years' Assyrian excavations, reflecting in its title Layard's well-known Nineveh and its Remains of more than a hundred years ago.

played by the Czech violinist JOSEF SUK and ALASDAIR GRAHAM (piano)
Second broadcast

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