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Overture: The fair Meluslne
(Mendelssohn)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.15* Mephisto Waltz (Liszt)
MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
7.25* Piano Concerto No. 2, in G minor (Saint-Saens)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
SYMPHONY OF THE AIR
Conducted by ALFRED WALLENSTEIN
7.50* Marche slave (Tchaikovsky) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Piano:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
Artur Rubinstein
Conducted By:
Alfred Wallenstein
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

A request programme of gramophone records
Concertante in B flat major, for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon, and orchestra (Haudn)
GEORGE HENDEL, BETTY HINDRICHS HELMUT WINSCHERMANN JACQUES HAULTIER
SAAR CHAMBER Orchestra
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART
8.26* Motet: Ave verum corpus
(Mozart)
BERLIN HANDEL Choir
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by GUNTHER ARNDT
8.30* Ballet: Les forains (Sauguet) LAMOUREUX Concerts ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER on gramophone records
ⓢSteretyphonic broadcast: see p. 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Hindrichs
Unknown:
Helmut Winschermann
Unknown:
Jacques Haultier
Conducted By:
Karl Ristenpart
Conducted By:
Gunther Arndt

Vaughan Williams
String Quartet in A minor
9.27* Phantasy Quintet
† English STRING QUARTET
Nona Liddell (violin)
Marilyn Taylor (violin)
Mariorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello) with John Dyer (viola)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Violin:
Nona Liddell
Violin:
Marilyn Taylor
Viola:
Mariorie Lempfert
Viola:
John Dyer

Tenor and lute
Sorrow stay; If my complaints could passions move; What if I never speed? (Dowland)
11.10* Guitar
Suite in D minor (de Visiel
Passacaille in D major: Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy (Weiss)
11.33* Tenor and lute
Thyrsis and Milia; I saw my lady weeping; With love my life was nestled; What if my mistress now (Morley)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
JULIAN BREAM (lute and guitar) on gramophone records
ⓢ Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

† LONDON LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader. Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Ashley Lawrence broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Conducted By:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Ashley Lawrence

This week
Graham Whettam talks about his music
Scherzo (Symphony No. 2—1952) NETHERLANDS RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by HUGO RIGNOLD
Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio
Finale (Sonata for violin-1957) played by TESSA ROBBINS
Scherzo (Prelude, Scherzo, and Elegy-1964) played by IAN LAKE (piano)
A setting of Dylan Thomas 's Do not go gentle into that good night (1965)
PRIORY SINGERS
Conductor, GORDON PULLIN
† Finale (Clarinet Sonatina—1965)
JACK BRYMER (clarinet) IAN LAKE (piano)

Contributors

Talks:
Graham Whettam
Conducted By:
Hugo Rignold
Played By:
Tessa Robbins
Played By:
Ian Lake
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Clarinet:
Jack Brymer

Lesson 3
Written by Vaughan James. University of Sussex given by VAUGHAN JAMES
MARINA RYAN and VICTOR GREGORIY
Produced by Richard Hooper
A booklet Is available
Broadcast on March 15
Repeated: Saturday, 11.10 a.m. (Home)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James.
Unknown:
Vaughan James
Unknown:
Marina Ryan
Produced By:
Richard Hooper

Fourteen talks by ROGER FISKE
3: Monteverdi and the rise of the violin
The invention of opera early in the 17th century gave a tremendous impetus to the development of the orchestra, both in the employment of instruments for dramatic or colourful effects and in the suddenly increased use of the continuo, which remained as a harmonic foundation to the orchestra for at least a century and a half.
Produced by Peter Dodd

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Produced By:
Peter Dodd

sung by † ROBERT TEAR (tenor) with DESMOND DUPRt (lute)
Luis Milan
Al amor quiero Durandarte
Toda la vida
Enriquez de Valderrabano
Senõra si te olvidare
De donde
Luis Milan
Fantasia ,
Miguel de Fuenllana
Paseabase el Rey
Duelete
De los alamos
De antequera
Esteban Daza
Dame ocogida

Contributors

Unknown:
Luis Milan
Unknown:
Esteban Daza

First of two talks by Alan Pryce-Jones
At the time of the Hungarian uprising ten years ago, Mr. Pryce-Jones was in Vienna. He had known Hungary well since his marriage in 1934 to a member of an Austrian family who had property in Hungary.
This summer he visited Hungary to pick up the threads of a broken acquaintance with the country and its people.
Second talk: October 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Pryce-Jones

A reconstruction of George Ill's illness based on the research of Dr. Ida Macalpine and Dr. Richard Hunter the two psychiatrists whose recent work exploded the myth of the King's ' madness ' and finally led them to the correct diagnosis with readings from contemporary diaries, letters, reports, and his physicians' journals
Readers:
BETH BOYD , NIGEL GRAHAM
GARARD GREEN, MURRAY KASH
ALLAN MCCLELLAND , GARY WATSON GEOFFREY WINCOTT
Narrator, DR. RICHARD HUNTER
Produced by Robin Hughes
To be repeated on November 7

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Ida MacAlpine
Unknown:
Dr. Richard Hunter
Readers:
Beth Boyd
Readers:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Murray Kash
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Narrator:
Geoffrey Wincott
Narrator:
Dr. Richard Hunter
Produced By:
Robin Hughes

A miscellany of readings, reviews, and interviews including
David Wevill reading and talking about some of the poems in his forthcoming collection A Christ of the Ice-Floes
Vernon Scannell reviewing Keith Harrison's Points in a Journey and Norman MacCaig's Surroundings
New poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Edward Lucie-Smith, Peter Porter, and D. M. Thomas read by the authors themselves
Introduced by George Macbeth

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wevill
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Keith Harrison
Unknown:
Norman MacCaig
Unknown:
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
D. M. Thomas
Introduced By:
George MacBeth

Network Three

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