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Sinfonia in D major (Tartini)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER (violin)
7.17* Cello Concerto in C major
(Haydn)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.44* Ballet Suite: The Good-humoured Ladies (Scarlatti, arr. Tommasini)
PARIS Conservatoire ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROGER DESORMIERE on gramophone records

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Overture: Preciosa (Weber)
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8. IT Concerto in G major, for two flutes and orchestra (Cimarosa)
Jean-Pierre RAMPAL ROBERT HERICHE
LAMOUREUX CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE COLOMBO
8.30* Liebeslieder Walzer , Op. 52
(Brahms)
IRMGARD SEEFRtED (soprano) RAILI KOSTIA (contralto)
WALDEMAR KMENTT (tenor)
EBERHARD WAECHTER (baritone) ERIK WERRA and GÜNTHER WEISSENBORN (piano duet)
8.54* Suite No. 2, for small orchestra (Stravinsky)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH on gramophone records

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Falla and Fauré
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
(Falla)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (Piano)
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ENRIQUE JORDA
9.27* Nocturne No. 8, in D Bat major (Faure)
KATHLEEN LONG (piano)
9.11* Ballade for piano and orchestra (Fauré)
KATHLEEN LONG (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTINON on gramophone records

Records of excerpts from Verdi's opera. with JOAN SUTHERLAND , RENATO Cioni and CORNELL MACNEIL
Stereophonic broadcast: seep. 10

Musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
Wilfrid Parry (piano) who, together with Robert Tear (tenor) and Ifor James (horn) performs
THE ELIZABETHAN SINGERS
Conducted by Louis HALSEY on a gramophone record

Delme String Quartet Granville Jones (violin) Jürgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
From the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh
There will be a short break at
12.5* following the Lyric Suite by Berg during which a gramophone record of piano music by Beet hoven will be played

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Part 1: Mendelssohn
Overture: The Fair Melusine

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Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Parr Hall. Warrington

Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor. GILBERT VINTER

A weekly programme of recently released gramophone records
Russian Easter Festival Overture
(Rimsky-Korsakov)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
2.45* Che Kelida manina (Act 1:
La Boheme) (Puccini)
MIRELLA FRENI< soprano) Nicolai GEDDA (tenor)
ROME OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
3.0* Concerto No 7. in F major. for three pianos and orchestra (K.242) (Mozart)
HEPHZIBAH, YALTAH, and JEREMY MENUHIN
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by YEHUDI MENURIN
3.23* Pacific 231 (Honegger)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Stereophonic broadcast: seep. 10

Recording made available by courtesy of West German Radio
ALOYS KONTARSKY and FRED ALINGS (tam-tams)
JOHANNES FRITSCH and BERNHARD KONTARSKY (microphones) KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
HUGH DAVIES , JAAP SPEK (filter and controls)
First broadcast in this country
Recording made available by courtesy of West German Radio

CELIA ARIELI (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by GRAHAM TREACHER

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme includes Tippetts Second String Quartet and Beethoven's Archduke Trio

A series in which practising musicians discuss listeners' queries
JAMES GIBB
TREVOR HARVEY
David WILLCOCKS
Chairman, ALEC Robertson

Nine programmes about government, society, and ideas in early Stuart England
5: Puritanism, Politics and Society
Before the Civil War. Puritanism was essentially a movement within the Church of England, and Puritans generally accepted both the existing social hierarchy and the traditional framework of monarchical authority
AUSTIN WOOLRYCH
Professor of Modern History in the University of Lancaster discusses how the events of the 1640s forced Puritans to re-think their social and political attitudes, and led to the development of more radical and popular forms of religious expression
With readings from contemporary sources by DENIS GOACHER and JOHN GLEN
Produced by Adrian Johnson tSecond broadcast
Peter Laslett on Social Conflicts In early Stuart England: Wed... 6.30 p.m.

Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Hugh Maguire (violin) Trevor Connah (violin)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Colin Davis
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
Stereophonic broadcast: lee p. 10

by BRIAN THOMAS
It is twenty years since Henry Wallace wrote a notorious ' open letter ' to President Truman setting out what he saw as the errors of American foreign policy which had caused the Cold War. Nobody paid much attention to this defeated presidential candidate at the time. Brian Thomas. Lecturer in Modern History at North-Western Polytechnic, believes the course of events since 1946 might have been different if they had.

Part 2
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 10

by Anton Chekhov
Act 4 of the Moscow Art Theatre production played in Russian on a gramophone record
The Act is played uncut, and listeners who are not familiar with the language can follow the text in any translation. In the original recording, stage directions are read in Russian. For the assistance of English listeners these have been translated by Nicholas Bethell and are read by him.
Second broadcast

ALAN JONES (baritone)ROBERT SPENCER (theorbo-lute)

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