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Overture: Alzira (VerdO
PHILHARMONIA PROMENADE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
7.10* Flute Concerto In G major.
Op. 10 No. 4 (Vivaldi)
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL Louis DE Froment Chamber
ENSEMBLE
7.18* Cello Concerto in B flat major (Boccherini)
PIERRE FOURNIER LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS
Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER (violin)
7.40* Suite: The Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by NELLO SANTI on gramophone records

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A request programme of gramophone records
Fantasia in F minor (Schubert)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA and JÖRG Demus (piano duet)
8.23' Neue Liebeslieder Walzer
(Brahms)
SARAMAE ENDICH (soprano)
FLORENCE KOPLEFF (contralto) SETH McCoy (tenor)
THEODOR UPPMAN (baritone) ROBERT SHAW CHORALE CLAUDE FRANK and LILLIAN KALLIR (piano duet)
8.46' Petite Suite (Debussy)
ROBERT and GABY CASADESUS (piano duet)

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Schumann
Romances Nos. 1 and 3, In A minor, Op. 94, for oboe and piano
9.13* Piano Quartet in C minor
(1829) transcribed and completed by Hans Redlich and Wolfgang Bötticher
TESS MILLER (oboe) JILL SEVERS (piano)
ST. CECILIA PIANO QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Dorothy Hemming (viola) Norman Jones (cello) Harold Lester (piano)
Second broadcasts

ST. CLEMENT DANES Chorale
Conductor, MARTINDALE SIDWELL
From St. Clement Danes Church.
London

SYLVIA ROSENBERG (violin)
BBC Scottish ORCHESTRA Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM
Mozart
Serenade No. 6, in D major
(K.239) (Serenata notturna)
10.22' Violin Concerto No. In
A major (K.219)

Trio-Sonata in G minor (L'astree)
(Couperin)
11.10* Le Parnasse, ou I'apothéose de Corelli (Couperin)
11.25* String Quintet in E major.
Op. 13 No. 5 (Boccherini)
11.49* Pieces de clavecin en concert, Nos. 1 and 5 (Rameau)
Ars REDIVIVA ENSEMBLE, PRAGUE
ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER (Violin) FELIXGALIMIR (violin) Michael TREE (viola) DAVID SOYER(cello) LYNN HARRELL (cello) on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

Overture: Esmont (Beethoven)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
12.24* Symphony No. 3. in F major (Brahms)
CLEVELAND Orchestra
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

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Fritz SPIEGL looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next seven days

Part 2
Sea Pictures (Eloor)
JANET BAKER (contralto)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
1.39* Symphony No. 3 (Rob Harris ) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by VILEM TAUSICY

CAROLE ROSEN (mezzo-soprano)
ERIC STANNARD (bass) Viola TUNNARD (piano)
Bass
Eric Stannard broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

This week: Phyllis Tate introduces a programme of her music
Scherzo and Finale (Sonata for clarinet and cello)
GERVASE de PEYER WILLIAMPLEETH
The Virgin and Child
ELIZABETHAN SINGERS
Conductor, Louis HALSEY
Ballad of the Red-Headed Man
(words by Patricia Beer)
PATRICIA KERN (mezzo-soprano) DESMOND DUPRE (guitar) on gramophone records
Lines written in Kensington Gardens; A Memory Picture (A Victorian Garland)
BENVENUTO Duo
Claire Walmesley (soprano) Laura Sarti (contralto)
IFOR JAMES (horn)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Second broadcast

Introduced by ERIC ROSEBERRY
ELISABETH ROBINSON (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ

tBBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Colin Staveley
Conducted by MYER FREDMAN
Symphony No. in C major

The best of present-day jazz on records
Introduced by CHARLES Fox

Britain's Last Colonies
2: Barbados
Speaker, WILLIAM KIRKMAN
Produced by Christopher Cuthbertson

A course of twenty lessons in spoken Russian for near-beginners
Lesson 2 written by Vaughan James. University of Sussex given by VAUGHAN JAMES MARINA RYAN and VICTOR GREGORIY ,
Language consultant, Lyubov Volossevich
Repeated: Saturday 11 JO a.m. (Home)
First broadcast on March 8
A booklet Is available

Fourteen illustrated talks by ROGER FISKE
2: The Orchestra before 1600
What is an orchestra? Before about 1600 it might consist of any combination of instruments that happened to be available, but composers at this time were beginning to specify the forces required for any particular piece; were beginning, in fact. to ' orchestrate ' their music.
†Produced by Peter Dodd

Second of two programmes Fugue (A Musical Offering)
(transc. Webern)
UTAHSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL
Chorale Variations: Vom Himmel hoch (transc. Stravinsky)
CHOIR OF UTAH UNIVERSITY
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL on gramophone records

4: The Spy Scare by ALISTAIR COOKE
This programme examines the cause: and implications of the trial of Alger Hiss in 1949-50 on a charge of perjury. The case is seen in relation to the larger question of national security in the Nuclear Age.
The Senator from Wisconsin, by Emile de Antonio : Oct. 17

Three Burlesques, Op. 8c
8.27* Trio-Sonata in G major
(Bach) transcribed for piano
8.40' Four Dialogues (Nine
Little Pieces)
8.47* Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs played by GYORGY SANDOR who was a pupil of the composer in the 1930s
Second broadcast

A Romance in Commonplace by Louis MacNeice
Michael Aldridge
Mary Wimbush , Harold Lang and Christine Finn in the recorded production of 1961 Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by Louis MACNEICE
Sixth broadcast

PARRENIN STRING Quartet
Jacques Parrenin (violin)
Marcel Charpentier (violin) Denes Marton (viola)
Pierre Penassou (cello) followed by an interlude at 10.