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Bath FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Directed by YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin)
PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6
No. (Corelli)
7.16- Piano Quartet in G minor
(K.478) (Mozart)
7.40* Suite No. 3, in D major
(Bach) on gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Yehudi Menuhin
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Lamar Crowson

Suite: RodriMO (Handel) PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON
Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
8.24* Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, for piano and string orchestra (Schubert)
ADOLF DRESCHNER HAMBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WALTER MARTIN
8.39* Symphony No. 40, in G minor (K.550) (Mozart)
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF BARSHAI on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Anthony Lewis
Conducted By:
Walter Martin
Conducted By:
Rudolf Barshai

Vaughan Williams
Five variants on Dives and Lazarus, for string orchestra
Halle ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
9.17* Mass in G minor
Michael WELLS (boy treble)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) GERALD English (tenor) MAURICE BEVAN (bass) CHORISTERS OF
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL RENAISSANCE SINGERS
Conducted by SYDNEY CAMPBELL on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Unknown:
John Whitworth
Bass:
Maurice Bevan
Conducted By:
Sydney Campbell

George Malcolm
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In his third programme GEORGE MALCOLM Plays on the piano
Mozart
Theme and Variations in F major (K.46)
Sonata in C major (K.545)
Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte
No. 2. in A minor
No 18. In A flat major
No. 45. In C major

Contributors

Pianist:
George Malcolm

DOROTHEA BRAUS (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Another in the weekly series In which the Aeolian String Quartet is playing all Beethoven's late quartets

Contributors

Piano:
Dorothea Braus
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson

Overture: The Barber of Seville
(Rossini)
Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
2.38* Rondo in B flat major, for piano and orchestra (Beethoven) with JULIUS KATCHEN
Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
2.48* Scherzo capriccioso (Dvorak)
Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba
Unknown:
Julius Katchen
Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

An opera in a prologue and two acts
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by MYFANWY PIPER after a story by Henry James on gramophone records
English OPERA GROUP ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
The action takes place in and around Bly. a country house in the East of England, in the middle of the last century
4.55* ACT 2
See previous page

Contributors

Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Story By:
Henry James

A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including readings from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories and The Penguin Book of Italian Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of Italian
Programme 3 Petrarca: Gli occhi di ch'io parlai
Pesci grossi, pesci piccoli—3
Son fili d'oro
Deh vieni alia finestra (Don Giovanni) (Mozart)
Introduced by ARIELLA REGGIO
Speakers:
LEONORA FABBRI, ALDO BEVACQUA
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Repeated: Saturday, 11.35 a.m. (Home)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

Six programmes about social work in Britain today
3: Work with children with DR. M. L. KELLMER PRINGLE ,
Director. National Bureau for Co-operation in Child Care
Miss HELEN SEED,
Deputy Children's Officer. Hampshire
A. A. JACKA,
Education Secretary,
National Children's Home
MRS. JILL WILTSHIRE,
London Council of Social Service Playground Organiser
Introduced by David HOBMAN
Produced by Dennis Simmons
Repeated on November 11 (Home)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. M. L. Kellmer Pringle
Introduced By:
David Hobman
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

6: The
Investigator by Reuben Ship
A satirical extravaganza from the days of McCarthyism with John Orainie as The Investigator
' There's no one so high or so low, as to make him immune to investigation where there is the slightest trace of evidence that his actions or beliefs are detrimental to the interests of this country.'
TilE INVESTIGATOR
Music by Lucio AGOSTINI
Produced for the CBC in 1954 by ANDREW ALLAN on a gramophone record
To be repeated on November 8
The Folk Song Army, by Alan Lomax : October 22

Contributors

Unknown:
Reuben Ship
Unknown:
John Orainie
Music By:
Lucio Agostini
Unknown:
Andrew Allan
Unknown:
Alan Lomax

A talk on the relationship between sport and drama by LAURENCE KITCHIN
Mr. Kitchin examines the cases of tennis, cricket, and soccer to explore the common ground between the theatre and the sports field. He hints at some tessons on the significance of ritual in games for disciples of Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin

Part 2
Berceuse elggiaque
9.30* Nocturne symphonique
9.41' Concertino in B flat major, for clarinet and orchestra
9.53* Suite from the Bridal
Quest (Die Brautwahl)
First of three concerts conducted by Jascha Horenstein , in which the programmes are the same as in a cycle given by Busoni himself in Berlin in 1921. Horenstein, who knew Busoni very well, was present at all these concerts including rehearsals.
Next concert: October 22

Contributors

Conducted By:
Jascha Horenstein

by GEORGE RYLANDS
In the first of his illustrated talks. Twopence Coloured, George Rylands distinguished certain preferential qualities in English verse In that talk he spoke of the ornate in poetry. In Pennu Plain he illustrates the effect of plain and simple language.
Produced by John Tydeman

Contributors

Unknown:
George Rylands
Unknown:
George Rylands
Produced By:
John Tydeman

Network Three

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