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Overture: A Life for the Tsar
(Glinka)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.14' Romance for violin and orchestra (Dvorak)
JOSEF SUK
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
7.27* Pictures from an Exhibition
(Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel)
PIIILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records
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Symphony in C major (Bizet)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.32* Ballade for piano and orchestra (Faure)
KATHLEEN LONG LONDONPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.46* La valse (Ravel)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX gramophone records
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Britten and Purcell
Prelude and Fugue for elghteenpart string orchestra (Britten)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
9.14' Suite: The Indian Queen
(Purcell)
JOAN CARLYLE (soprano)
BATH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
9.26* Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell (Britten)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
Sonata in D major, for trumpet and orchestra (Torelli)
EDWARD TARR
CONSORTIUM MUSICUM
Conducted by FRrrz LEHAN
9.54* Motet: Plaude, laetare gallia
(Lulifr)
ROGER BLANCHARD VOCAL ENSEMBLE
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ROGER BLANCHARD
10.7* Piano Concerto No. 2. in F minor (Chopin)
CHARLES ROSEN
PRILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
10.40* Statements for orchestra
(Copland)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
One of eight programmes containing items from previous broadcasts in this series
Music of the English Renaissance
Harpsichord:
COLIN TILNEY (harpsichord)
PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES
ELIZABETHAN CONSORT
Second broadcast
RAYMOND COHEN (violin)
Scottish NATIONAL Orchestra Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor, ALEXANDER GIBSON
Part 1
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NEVILLE GARDEN looks at some non-broadcast musical events talking place in London and the South-East during the coming weekend
Part 2
Lichfield
Introduced by JOHN BETJEMAN
Choir OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Choristers RICHARD GREENING
ROBERT GREEN (assistant organist)
Choir:
First of eleven programmes
Second broadcast
Tuesday: St. Albans Cathedral
by NICHOLAS DANBY
Guy Weitz has been organist at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street. London, for the past fifty years
From Exeter Cathedral
The second of six programmes in which all the Op. 18 Quartets by Beethoven and the six Quartets by Bartok are being played by the FINE ARTS QUARTET
Leonard Sorkin (violin) Abram Loft (violin)
Gerald Stanick (viola) George Sopkin (cello)
Recording
Second in a series of ten programmes including all Bruckner's symphonies
Symphony No. 2, in C minor played by the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leader, Raymond Cohen
Conducted by LEo WURMSER
Second broadcast
There are two versions of Bruckner's Second Symphony, the original score and a revision made by Bruckner himself with the help of the conductor Herbeck. This performance is based mainly on the latter.
by MARILYN HOORNE (soprano) with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Recorded at a public concert in the Theatre at Rosehill. Cumberland
Second broadcast
60-80 w.p.m.
Some of the material is taken from Shorthand Dictation Practice: Book 2
80-100 w.p.m.: Tuesday, 6.30 p.m.
First of four programmes of words and music for listeners with an elementary knowledge of Russian
A series of eight broadcasts
5: Communism and economic growth
This programme examines how the communists have attempted to force the industrialisation of an underdeveloped area through strict centralised planning, and how this has subsequently had to give way to greater flexibility.
Introduced by GEORGE SCHÖPFLIN of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
With ALEXANDER NOVE
Bonar Professor of Economics in the University of Glasgow
Produced by Adrian Johnson
A booklet is available
The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
Professor of Economics at Harvard University 5: The Bearing on Socialist Development tSunday's broadcast in the Home Service
Last programme, The Cultural Impact: Dec. 18 (Home); Dec. 19 (Third)
These lectures are being printed in The Listener'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1: Dvorak and Berg
by GEOFFREY STERN
Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics
A survey and analysis, with excerpts from recordings provided by the BBC Monitoring Service, of one week's output from the foreign language section of Radio Peking
Geoffrey Stern comments on how these programmes illuminate our understanding of the mind of contemporary China.
Part 2: Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony soprano. VALERIE HILL
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London.
by HUGH MACDONALD
Mr. Macdonald is the general editor of the new complete edition of Berlioz's works. In this talk he discusses the way in which theatrical conditions in Paris affected Berlioz's original intentions both in the case of The Trojans and Benvenuto CeUini. He argues that The Trojans is a unity rather than two operas.
The Trojans: Part 1, Tues., 8.0 p.m. Part 2, Fri., 7.30 p.m.
Revolt on the Campus tby
Ralph J. Gleas
The Subculture of Secession, by Kenneth Rexroth : Tuesday at 7.30 p.m.
Eight variations on a Greek folk tune
ROBERT MASTERS (violin) DEREK SIMPSON (cello)
MARCEL GAZELLE (piano) gramophone record
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