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Overture: Masaniello (Auber)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by Douglas GAMLEY
7.13* Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky (Arensky)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR JOHN BAKBIROLLI
7.29* Fantasia on themes from
Carmen, for violin and orchestra (Sarasate)
AARON ROSAND
BADEN-BADEN RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by TIBOR SZOKE
7.41* Dolly Suite (Fouré, orch.
Rabaud)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Douglas Gamley
Conducted By:
Sir John Bakbirolli
Unknown:
Aaron Rosand
Conducted By:
Tibor Szoke
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

Symphony No. 101, in D major
(The Clock) (Haydn)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
8.31* Burleske for piano and orchestra (Strauss)
BYRON JANIS CHICAGOSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Fritz REINER
8.51* Dance of the Persian Slaves
(Khovanshchina) (Mussorgsky)
SUISSK ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Monteux
Unknown:
Byron Janis
Conducted By:
Fritz Reiner
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

Britten and Purcell
Birthday Ode: Come ye sons of art. away (Purcell)
Mary THOMAS (soprano)
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) MARK DELLER (counter-tenor) MAURICE BEVAN (bass)
ORlANA CONCERT CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALFRED DELLER
9.31* Hymn to St. Cecilia (Britten) LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM gramophone records

Contributors

Soprano:
Mary Thomas
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Bass:
Maurice Bevan
Conducted By:
Alfred Deller
Conducted By:
George Malcolm

Sonata in A minor (Telemann)
Sonata in C major
(Philibert de Lavigne)
Sonata in A minor
(Jean-Baptiste Loeillet )
MICHEL PUGET (oboe)
LIONEL ROGG (harpsichord)
HANSJURG LANGE (bassoon) gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet
Oboe:
Michel Puget
Harpsichord:
Lionel Rogg
Bassoon:
Hansjurg Lange

Third of nine programmes
Nocturne in E minor
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
2.45* Mazurkas:
A minor. Op. 68 No. 2 A minor. Op. 17 No. 4 D major. Op. 33 No. 2
HALINA CZERNY-STEFANSKA (piano)
2.54* Nocturne in E major
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) gramophone records
Uext programme: Tuesday

Contributors

Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein

Opera in three acts with a prologue and epilogue
Music by Offenbach
Libretto by JULES BARRIER and MICHEL CARRÉ after E T. A. Hoffmann
Sung in French: records
RENE DUCLOS Choir and the PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
Prologue
Luther's wine cellar In Nuremberg
4.18* Act 1 Spalanzani's house
4.58* Act 2
Giulietta's palace In Venice
5.28* Act 3
Crespel's house in Munich
6.16* Epilogue
Luther's wtne cellar

Contributors

Unknown:
T. A. Hoffmann
Conducted By:
Andre Cluytens

A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including readings from the Penguin book of Italian Short Stories and The Penguin Book ol Italian Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of Italian
Programme 11
D'Annunzio: La pioggla nel plneto
Lo sgombero (3)
Introduced by ARIELLA REGGIO
Speakers:
LEONORA FABBRI, ALDO BEVACQUA
Script by Leonora Fabbri and Elsie Ferguson
Produced by Elsie Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio
Script By:
Leonora Fabbri
Script By:
Elsie Ferguson
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

† DONALD MAC KINNON
Norris-Hulse- Professor of Divinity at Cambridge talks about the new book by P. F. Strawson , entitled The Bounds of Sense: an Essay on Kant's ' Critique of Pure Reason '
The specialist activities of Kantian scholars are always with us; but the greatness of Kant's achievement resides more in the extent to which philosophers actively concerned with their own problems continually find in his arguments and insights sources of advance and enlightenment.

Contributors

Book By:
P. F. Strawson

A study of mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-Prussian-French relations by Harold Kurtz with Harius Coring as Bismarck
Readers.
Richard BEBB , ALAN WHEATLEY
Narration by Denys Hawthorne
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Kurtz
Unknown:
Harius Coring
Readers:
Richard Bebb
Readers:
Alan Wheatley
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
Christopher Sykes
Queen Victoria:
Joan Matheson
Merimée:
Denis McCarthy
Palmerston:
Leigh Crutchley
Napoleon III:
Allan McClelland
Pius IX:
Walter Fitzgerald

Vocal and instrumental
Chamber Music
Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Richard Taylor (recorder)
Christopher Taylor (recorder)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Diana Cummings (violin)
Joy Hall (cello)
Philip Ledger (harpsichord)
Purcell
Sonata No. 2, in E flat major
(Sonatas of four parts)
8.44* Duet: How pleasant is this flowery plain
Urge me no more, for soprano and continuo Handel
8.54* Sonata in A minor, Op. 1
No. 4, for recorder and continuo
9.5* Cantata for tenor and continuo: E partirei, mia vita?
9.16* Trio-Sonata in F major, for recorder, violin, and continuo (GHS Op. 2 No. 5)
The fourth of a series of six programmes
Music for viols by Purcell and Sonatas by Handel: December 22

Contributors

Soprano:
Ilse Wolf
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Richard Taylor
Unknown:
Christopher Taylor
Violin:
Neville Marriner
Violin:
Diana Cummings
Cello:
Joy Hall
Harpsichord:
Philip Ledger

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
ROGER FISKE discusses some of the interpretative problems that arise in Schubert's Impromptus and Moments Musicaux with KATHLEEN DALE , JAMES GIBB , and PAUL HAMBURGER
He withholds the identity of the performers until their discussion of each example is complete.

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Unknown:
Kathleen Dale
Unknown:
James Gibb

written over a period of some thirty years: each of. the composers has developed a personal kind of serial technique.
LEONARDO WIND QUINTET
Douglas Whittaker (flute) Janet Craxton (oboe)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Douglas Moore (horn)
Second broadcast

Contributors

Flute:
Douglas Whittaker
Oboe:
Janet Craxton
Clarinet:
Colin Bradbury
Bassoon:
Geoffrey Gambold
Horn:
Douglas Moore

Network Three

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