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Overture: Pigmation (Ramenu)
LAMOUREUX CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by MARCELCOURAUD
Suite: Masques et bergamasques
(Fauri)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.21* Suite : Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss)
LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VICTOR DESARZENS on gramophone records
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Overture: Armida (Haudn)
8.9- Symphony No. 49, in F minor
(La passione) (Haydn)
LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON Conducted by LESLIE JONES
8.30* Piano Concerto No. Z, in B flat major (Beethoven)
JULIUS KATCHEN LONDON SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA on gramophone records
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Schumann
Overture: Manfred
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
9.16* Cello Concerto In A minor
MSTISLAV ROSTHOPOVICH
LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY on gramophone records stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12
Gramophone records highlighting musical anniversaries occurring this week
by JÖRG DEMUS
Franck
Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
10.35* Franz Schmidt
Weihnachtspastorale in A major
Intermezzo in F sharp minor
Romanze in A major
Toccata in D minor
Shostakovich chamber music series continued
MICHAEL BLOCK (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
JOHN MITCHINSON (tenort IFOR JAMES (horn)
ERNEST Lush (piano)
Second broadcast of the Britten
INGEBORG FELDERER (soprano)
ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (soprano) SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) WILLIAM MCALPINE (tenor) DON GARRARD (bass)
ALFONS and ALOYS KONTARSKY (pianos)
CHRISTOPH CASKEL (percussion)
BRC Chorus, BBC CHORAL SOCIETY ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Norman Nelson
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and NORMAN DEL MAR
Part 1
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FRITZ SPIEGL looks at some non-broadcast musical events in the North during the next seven days
A Promenade Concert broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall. London, on August 21, 1964.
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by BRYAN FAIRFAX
A series of programmes including all Stravinsky's ballets conducted by the cumposer.
Le pas d'acier (Prokofiev) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
3.23* Petrushka (Stravinsky)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER on uraniophone records stereophonic broadctist: see p. 12
From Crosby Hall, Chelsea
GERARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
English String Quartet
Part 1
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Sunday's broadcast
First in a series of concerts given before invited audiences throughout the country
Next week: from Armagh, Northern Ireland: Quartets by Haudn and Charles Wood (Otin String Quartet) and songs by Lasms, Gerard Victory, and Poulenc
(Radio Telefis Eireann Singers)
See page 39
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
80-100 w p.m.
Some of the material In this series is taken from Shorthand Dictation Practice: Book 2
A course of ten lessons in spoken Mandarin for complete beginners
Programme 2
Introduced by Lucia Liu with the help of TERRY CHANG
Language consultant: Mrs. Y. C. Liu
Script by David Pollard
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Repeated: Sat., 10.45 a.m. (Home)
A booklet and pronunciation record arc available
2: MICHAEL HOYLAND gives the second of two talks on the short story in Russia
Reader: BASIL JONES
Produced by George Walton Scott
The famous Indian philosopher and educator was recently in London. Although he had never before been in a broadcasting studio, he agreed to a radio interview
FRANCIS WATSON introduces him and conducts the interview
by Samuel Beckett with Billie Whitelaw
Pauline Jameson and Robert Stephens
' Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They beinv; one. Perhaps it is more wickedness to pray for more.'
Technical direction by BRIAN HODGSON of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
† Produced by BENNETT MAXWELL
Pauline Jameson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company: Robert Stephens is a National Theatre player
To be repeated on October 30
VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
Jane Manning (soprano) William Bennett (flute) Neil Black (oboe)
Thea King (clarinet) Deirdre Dundas-Grant ( bassoon)
Kenneth Sillito (violin) Brian Hawkins (viola) Charles Tunnell (cello) John Gray (double-bass) Susan Bradshaw (piano)
ALVAR LIDELL (speaker)
Part 1
Given before an invited audience In the Chemistry Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex, Brighton.
Applications for tickets should be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope
A talk by Eric ROBINSON
Senior Lecturer in Economic History in the University of Manchester about the Lunar Society and its importance in the early development of the Industrial Revolution
The Lunar Society, which first met in 1764, included among its membership scientists, progressive manufacturers and inventors such as Joseph Priestley. Erasmus Darwin , Matthew Boulton. and James Watt. Although the members were primarily interested in science and in commercial organisation, many other matters. including politics, were certainly discussed.
An exhibition representing the many activities of the Lunar Societu wiU be open at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from October 13 to November 27
Part 2: Schoenberg and Webern
Webern
Four Pieces, Op. 7, for violin and piano
Five Songs, Op. 4 (Stefan George )
EinnanK
Noch zwingt mich Treue Ja Heil und Dank dir So ich traurig bin
Ihr tratet zu dem Herde
Three little pieces, Op 11, for cello and piano
19.5* Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1, In
E major, Op. 9 arranged for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, by Webern
Two talks on English poetry by GEORGE RYLANDS
1: Twopence Coloured
' Which of two kinds of poetic diction do you favour, not from education or sense of duty but by temperament-Penny Plain or Twopence Coloured? Does the English Muse most captivate you when like Milton's Dalilah " bedeckt, ornate, and gay, with all her bravery on and streamers waving
. ." or should we. like King
Lear. learn the lesson of poor Tom: that the bare, forked animal is the thing itself, and cast away furs and rich Kowns? '
In his first talk Mr. Rylands distinguishes certain characteristics and preferences in ornate verse.
Produced by John Tydeman
Penny Plain: October 20
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