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Piccolo Concerto In C major
<R. Op. 44 No. 9) (Vivaldi)
ROGER BOURDIN
SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RISTEMPART
7J4* Symphony No. 21, in A major (Haydn)
7.27* Symphony in D minor (W.
F. Bach )
SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART
7.38* Concertante in B flat major
(Haydn)
GEORG-FRIEDRICH HENDEL (violin) BETTY HINDHICHS (cello)
HELMUT WINSCHERMANN (oboe) Jacques HAULTIER (bassoon)
SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART on gramophone records

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Symphony No. 4, in A (Italian)
(Mendelssohn)
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.29* March in B flat major
(Beethoven)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS
Directed by JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
Piano Concerto in A minor
( Hummel)
MARTIN GALLING
STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by ALEXANDER PAULM ÜLLER on gramophone records

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The Russian ' Five '
Overture: May Night
(Rimsky-Korsakov)
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
9.13* Songs (Mussorgsky)
Night: Ragamuffin; On the Dnieper
GAUNA VISIINEVSKAYA (soprano)
RUSSIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by IGOR MARKEVrrCH
9.24* Tati-Tati (Symphonic Paraphrases on Chopsticks) (Borodin, Cut, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by WERNER JANSSEN on gramophone records

Gramophone records of excerpts from Verdi's opera, with CARLO BERGONZI, ANTONIETTA STELLA FlORENZA COSSOTTO ETTORE BASTIANINI
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA of LA SCALA, MILAN conducted bv TULLIO SERAFIN
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 14

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
Raymond Cohen (violin) with ANTHYA RAEL (piano) plays

Friday Mozart series
MARY THOMAS (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Richards PIANO QUARTET

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1

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WILLIAM MANN looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week

Part 2
Before an invited audience in the King George's Hall. Blackburn followed by an interlude

A romantic musical play
Book and lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II,
FRANK MANDEL , LAURENCE SCHWAB
Music by Sigmund Romberg
RITA Williams SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS DODS
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Moores
Monday's broadcast (Home. not
Scottish)

Second of three programmes to include some of Schoenberg's major chamber works and works contemporary with them by Bartok and Hindemith
GABRIELI ENSEMBLE
Third broadcast of the Schoenberg

with JANET BAKER (contralto)
Conducted by GARY BERTINI

A series of twelve programmes
No. 5: The year 1817 (i)
La pastorella
MATTIWILDA DOBBS (soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
Ertafsee
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) KARL ENGEL (piano)
Der Schiffer (D.536)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) GERALD MOORE (piano)
0Fahrt zum Hades
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) JOERG DEMUS (piano)
Gretchen's Bitte
IRMGARD SEEFRIED (soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Auf der Donau
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) KARL ENGEL (piano)
Der Strom
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) GERALD MOORE (piano)
Ganymed
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) JOERG DEMUS (piano) on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 14

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by ALAN HOWLETT
This week's programme includes Janacek's Taras Bulba. and Nielsen's Sixth Symphony.

1: Lee Kuan Yew by Richard HARRIS
Asian Specialist of The Times
Singapore has been a self-governing state since 1960, and'separated from Malaysia since August 1965. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, her Prime Minister, has been acknowledged as one of the shrewdest Commonwealth leaders, and the small island state which he rules occupies a vital corner of South-East Asia.
Produced by Adrian Johnson

The theme for this year's series Is Dutch Painting from the seventeenth century to the present day
10: THE INTERIOR OF THE GROTE KERK AT HAARLEMpainted c. 1636 by Pieter Saenredam National Gallery, London
Speaker: EVELYN KING
Lecturer in the History of Art, University of London and the National Gallery
Produced by George Walton Scott
Repeated on Saturday at 10.30 a.m. (Home)
An art book entitled ' Dutch Painting ' has been issued with colour reproductions of the main paintings, black and white illustrations of the other works discussed, together with notes, tables, and an introduction. This can be ordered by writing to [address removed]. price 35s. plus 3s. postage, or it may be obtained through your bookseller.

A beginners' course planned jointly by the BBC and the University of Essex primarily for use in evening classes throughout the country

Given by L. M. O'TOOLE, LYUBOV VOLOSSEVICH, VICTOR GREGORIY and ALEXEI JAWDOKIMOV
Produced by Richard Hooper
Last Monday's broadcast
A booklet is available

The first of two programme* <
Two Chorale Preludes (transc.
Schoenberg)
Schmiicke dich. o liebe Seele
Komm, Gott, Schopfer, Heiliger Geist
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (St. Anne) (transc. Schoenberg)
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL on gramophone records 1

by Tobias Smollett
adapted for radio and produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
with Norman Shelley, John Graham and Peter Claughton
with music taken from a record of the eight Symphonies of William Boyce played by I SOLISTI DI ZAGREB To be repeated on October 23
DURING THE INTERVAL (8.55'-9.5*) I A record of Leclair's Trio- I Sonata in D major played by Maxence Larrieu (flute). Bernard Fonteny (cello), and Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (harpsichord)

North Britain and nearly the whole of the Scottish section will not, I hope, be missed. Then the freedom of radio allows one greatly to heighten the irony of the letter form by rapid cross-cutting, while the splendid prose and gorgeous music-hall jokes, shaped as they are to each of the writers in turn, acquire a new dimension from being spoken in character.
Finally the sense of communication with the ' age of reason,' with its coarseness, humanity, and unexpected prejudices (animadversions on York Minster for instance), becomes, 1 hope, a direct and enriching experience rather than an academic exercise.
HALLAM TENNYSON
HUMPHRY CLINKER
Humphry Clinker was written in 1770 when Smollett was dying in Italy: no writer ever left a more genial testament nor showed such an extraordinary fecundity of wit and wisdom in the face of death. The novel far surpasses his previous work: even the conventional form of 'epistolary' fiction and the unoriginal plot of a journey round Britain are both used with a new skill. Th

(piano) ]
Second broadcast of the Scariatti: third broadcast of the Beethoven

by DR. PETER MURRAY
Piero della Francesca is usually admired for his calm classicism, the spacing and proportions of his figures and his pale, cool colours. The strong symbolic meaning which his pictures had for his contemporaries is often overlooked. Dr. Murray, Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London. suggests a new interpretation of his Frescoes in Arezzo. depicting the Legend of the Cross, and the , Flagellation in the Ducal Palace at Urbino
† Second broadcast