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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
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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
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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)
tBBC CHORUS
Boys OF EALING GRAMMAR SCHOOL Conductor. John Railton
MARTIN NEARY (organ)
Conducted by JOHN ALLDIS
† PETER KATIN (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra Leader. Tom Rowlette
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM
Prokofiev
Classical Symphony
10.25* Piano Concerto No. 3, in C major
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
MINDRU KATZ (piano)
PHILARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader. Hugh Bean
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Part 1: Bruckner
Symphony No. 5, in B flat major
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BERNARD KEEFFE looks at some musical events in the Midlands and East Anglia during the next week
Part 2: Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
1.24* Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat major (Emperor)
Broadcast in the Promenade Concert on September 1. 1964
† LONDON LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader. Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Ashley Lawrence broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
PATRICIA BLANS (soprano)
ROGER NORRINGTON (tenor) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
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)
BAVARIAN RADIO Symphony ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANDRZEJ MARKOWSKI
Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
tBBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Overture; Entracte in B flat major
(Rosamunde)
5.21* Symphony No. 8, in B minor
(Unfinished)
Next Wednesday: Symphony No. 9 (BBC Northern Orchestra)
The best of present-day jazz on records
Introduced by CHARLES Fox
Britain's Last Colonies
3: West Indies
Speaker, WILLIAM KIRKMAN
Produced by Christopher Cuthbertson
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)
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
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
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
Chorale Prelude: Komm. Heillger Geist, Herre Gott
Passacaglia in D minor
ROBKRT KdBLER
Organ of St. Mary's, Stralsund on a gramophone record
Q Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12
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
Three Sonatinas
G minor (D.408) D major (D.384) A minor (D 385)
NORBERT BRAININ (violin)
LILI KRAUS (piano)
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
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