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Divertimento in D major (K.136)
(Mozart)
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
7.15* Scottish Fantasia, for violin and orchestra (Bruch)
ALFREDO CAMPOLI LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.41* English Dances (Arnold)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT on gramophone records

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Overture: The Devil's Pleasure
Palace (Schubert)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.13* Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra (Debussy)
ROBERT GUGHOLZ
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.20* Piano Concerto No. 5, in F major (Saint-Saensi
JEANNE-MARIE DARRE
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by Louis FOURESTIER
8.48* Overture di ballo (Sulliuan)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT on gramophone records

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Brahms
Part sones:
Pleasure in May
An my heart's thoughts
LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY Choir Conducted by FRIEDRICH RABANSCHLAG
9.9* Symphony No. 3, in F major
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 10

A gramophone record of excerpts from Mozart's opera with FRITZ WUNDERLICH , EVELYN LEAR DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU ROBERTA PETERS , Lisa OTTO and FRANZ CRASS with the BERLIN RADIO CHAMBER CHORUS and the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KARL Bohm

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
†Joan Carlyle (soprano)
*ith
JAMES LOCKHART (piano) sings
Joan Carlyle and James Lockhart broadcast by permission of the General Admintstrator. Royal Opera House. Covent Garden

Friday Mozart series
KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) IFOR JAMES (horn)
WILFRD PARRY (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with GWYNNE EDWARDS (viola)
Second broadcast of the Schubert

ALAN CIVIL (horn)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by HERBERT MENGES
Part 1

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† BRIAN TROWELL looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week.

Part 2
Given before an Invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester, by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation

A romantic opera in three acts founded on Booth Tarkington's story
Book by FREDERICK LONSDALE
Lyrics by ADRIAN Ross
Music by Andr6 Messager
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Moores
Monday's broadcast (Home. not
Midland. Welsh, or Scottish)

TILFORD FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Leader, Kelly Isaacs
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW

†Conducted by GARY BERTINI

10: The years 1823-1825
Lachen und Weinen
ELISABETH SCHUMANN (soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
Du bist die Ruh'
ELISABETH SCHUMANN (soprano) KARL ALWIN (piano)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
ELISABETH SCHUMANN (soprano) ELISABETH COLEMAN (piano)
Nacht und Traume
ELISABETH SCHUMANN (soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
.Wehmut (D.772)
Auflosung
DIETRICH FISCHER-DlESKAU (baritone) GERALD MOORE (piano)
Abendstern
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) KARL ENGEL (piano)
Die Allmacht
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
A series of twelve programmes on gramophone records

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by ROBERT HENDERSON
This week's programme includes
Ravel's
Valses nobles et sentimentales and Berlioz's Lélio

80-100 w.p.m.
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
Shorthand Dictation Book 2 accompanies this series
110-143 w.p.m.; Saturday, 1020 a.m. (Home)

A series of monthly programmes in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning to
PAUL JENNINGS on Hilaire Belloc 's The Path to Rome
Reader, GARY WATSON
Produced by Peggy Bacon

A beginner's course planned jointly I y the BBC and the University of Essex primarily for use in evening classes throughout the country

Written by L. M. O'Toole, P. T. Culhane. and P. S. Mirsky of the University of Essex
Given by L. M. O'TOOLE, VICTOR GREGORIY, MARINA RYAN, INA DE LA HAYE, and ALEXEI JAWDOKIMOV
Produced by Richard Hooper
Last Monday's broadcast
A booklet is available

played by SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano)

A parable play by Louis MacNeice with incidental music by Benjamin Britten

The music played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conducted by Alan Rawsthorne
Solo violin: James Hutcheon
Solo trumpet: John Lamb
Percussion: Norman Parker

A new production by Joe Burroughs of the programme originally produced by the author on January 21st 1946 in the Home Service

(To be repeated on December 1)

The Dark Tower

Joe Burroughs writes:
I have looked up what radio critics wrote of the first broadcast of The Dark Tower in January 1946, and I have also looked up what listeners thought of it. Both critics and listeners were sharply divided. They either liked it very much or disliked it even more. Nobody seemed indifferent then, and nobody has seemed indifferent to subsequent broadcasts. At the least it has made people think, at the best it has stimulated both emotion and imagination.
Louis MacNeice described The Dark Tower as a parable play belonging to the class of writings which includes Everyman, The Faerie Queen, and The Pilgrim's Progress. It is ageless and timeless. It has the topicality of dreams. Indeed it was suggested by Browning's poem Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, which Browning said came upon him 'as a kind of dream.' In MacNeice's play the manner of presentation is that of a dream-but a dream, the author said, ' which is full of meaning.' Some have found no meaning in The Dark Tower. Many more have found a meaning; although the author might no more have agreed with them than Browning did with those who tried to tell him what his poem meant.
'Belief,' said Louis MacNeice. 'remains a sine qua non of the creative writer. I have my beliefs and they permeate The Dark Tower. But do not ask me what Ism it illustrates or what Solution it offers.' The play imposes nothing on the listener, who is free to take from it what he can or will. It remains one of the finest examples of the use of radio as an extension of the language of the creative writer; and no note on it should omit reference to Benjamin Britten's incidental music which in MacNeice's opinion 'added a dimension to The Dark Tower.'

String Quartet No. 1, in E minor (From My Life) played by the VLACH STRING QUARTET
Josef Vlach , Vaclav Snitll
Josef Kodousek , Viktor Moucka
Third broadcast

Second of two programmes The Loves of Krishna
A Kathak dance from North India, recorded and introduced by DEBEN BHATTACHARYA

Symphony No. 4, In F major Symphony No. 8, in D minor LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER (violin) on a gramophone record
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 10