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Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld (Ollcnbach)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.14* Pavane (Faure)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.20* Clarinet Concerto No. 1, in C minor (Spohr)
GERVASE DE PEYER
LONDON Symphony ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.40- Hungarian Dances (Brahms)
No. 1. in G minor No. 3. in F major No. 10. in F major
HAMBURG RADIO
SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTED '
7.47* Academic Festival Overture
(Brahms)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Pierre MONTEUX on gramophone records

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Leader, Erich Gruenbers
† Conductor, LEONARD HIRSCH

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Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3. in C minor
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KURT SANDERLING on a gramophone record

with ISAAC STERN (violin)
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
BriKK Fair (Delius)
9.59* Violin Concerto No. 1, in D major (Prokofiev)
10.21* Three Places in New
England 9Ives) on gramophone records
A stereophonic broadcast: see p. 2

Jeannette Sinclair (soprano)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide ranKe of music
In her first programme
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) sings
The Ash Grove trad., arr. Britten

JOSEPH BANOWETZ (piano)
DEREK SIMPSON (cello)

David KELLY (bass)
BBC SCOTTISH Orchestra Led by Trevor Williams
Conducted by NORMAN DELMAR
Part 1

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† CHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Scotland, Wales, and the West over the next seven days

Part 2

BBC CONCERt ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY

(harpsichord)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
(Bach)
3.13* Six Sonatas (Scarlatti)
A major (L.495) D minor (L.413)
B flat major (L.497) F major (L.326) C major (L.457) G major (L.331)
3.30*Concerto in the Italian style
(Bach) on gramophone records

Opera in three acts
Music by Verdi
Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO after the play by Schiller
Sung in Italian on gramophone records
R.C.A. ITALIAN OPERA
CHORUS AND Orchestra
Conducted by FAUSTO CLEVA
The action takes place in a village in the Tyrol. in the early eighteenth century.
ACT 1
Scene 1 The village square
Scene 2 Count Walter's castle
Scene 3 Miller's house
4.42* ACT 2
Scene 1 Miller's house
Scene 2 A room tn the castle
Scene 3 The garden of the castle
5.22* ACT 3
Miller's house

by ALAN HARVERSON
From the Church of St John the Evangelist. Farebam
Second broadcast

Five talks on contemporary habits in speech and writing
1: Saying what you mean by David WILLIAMS
Second broadcast

A series of ten programmes for listeners who want to know more about the language and life of German-speaking countries
Programme 4
Eine Kurzgeschichte von
Max Frisch (ii)
Etwas iiber Kaffee und Kuchen Eine Arie aus der Fledermaus
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Also taking part, Wilhelm Wieben
Written and produced by Edith R. Baer

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.
19: Dans Les Vosges
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
Monday's broadcast
A booklet is available

A series of eight broadcasts
Why did Egypt seeks arms from the Soviet bloc? What were the American reasons for withdrawal from the Aswan dam project? in what ways did President Nasser benefit or suffer from the Suez crisis? Has Egyptian foreign policy changed during the past ten years?
PETER CALVOCORESSI presents the views of ROBERT BOWIE , John ERICKSON ANDRE FONTAINE , TOM LITTLE ROBERT STEPHENS , and PROFESSOR VATIKIOTIS and PRESIDENT NASSER answers questions from ERSKINE CHILDERS
Produced by Anthony Moncrieff
Israel and the Middle East: July 14

1500-1750
The Eighteenth Century
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) MARY THOMAS (soprano)
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR
JOHN MOREHEN (organ continuo)
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Robert Masters
Conducted by MARTINDALE SIDWELL
The last of a series of fourteen programmes devised by DENIS ARNOLD

A view of H. G. Wells
The centenary of whose birth falls in September
Contributed by A. J. P. TAYLOR

Helga Pilarczyk (soprano)
Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra.
Conducted by Georg Soltl
Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio

by SEAN O'FAOLAIN
Sean O'Faolain delves into the history of the Island ' to snare a symbol. grasp mythical shapes that, in my heart I knew, would at best be seen only in fleeting snatches-a man's proud stance, a woman's nose and jaw as ponderous and magnificent as a buttress ... a single word. a casual, cool look, a pregnant silence.'
Second broadcast