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Ballet Suite: Le roi s'amuse
(Delibes)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.19* Piano Concerto No. 1, in E flat major (Liszt)
GYÖRGY CZIFFRA
PHIHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRE VANDERNOOT
7.38* Symphonic poem: Tamar
(Balakirev)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

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Symphony No. 3, in A minor (Unfinished) (Borodin, orch. Glazunov)
PHILIIARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Nicolai MALKO
8.22* Piano Concerto No. in G minor (Rachmanmov)
MICHELANGELI
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ETTORE GRACIS
8.47* El Salon Mexico (Copland) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN gramophone records

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Britten and Purcell
Folk songs (arr. Britten)
Master Kilby ; The shooting of his dear; Sailor-boy; I will give my love an apple; The soldier and the sailor
9.14' Sonata of four parts No. 6. in G minor (Chaconne) (Purcell)
9.24* Songs from the Chinese
(Britten)
9.35* Sonata of three parts No. 9. in C minor (Purcell)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
JACOBEAN ENSEMBLE gramophone records

Gramophone records of excerpts
.rom Gluck's opera with SYLVIA VERRETT
ANNA MOFFO , and JUDITH RASKIN I VIRTUOSI di ROMA
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE OF THE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM ITALICUM and the POLYPHONIC CHORUS OF ROME Conducted by RENATO FASANO

Friday Mozart series
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
John ALLDIS CHOIR
Conductor, John ALLDIS
ERNEST Lush (piano)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
Part I
Beethoven
Elegy, for tour voices and string quartet, Op 118
10.37*
Schubert Antigone and Oedipus, for soprano. baritone and piano
Serenade (Zogernd letse). for contralto. men's voices, and piano
Nachthelle, for tenor, men's voices. and piano

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week:
Celia Arieli (piano) plays

Part 2
Bruckner Motets
Virgd Jesse: Christus factus est
11.40' Mozart
String Quintet in G minor (K.516'

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Part 1

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NEVILE GARDEN 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 Free Trade Hall. Manchester by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation

A musical comedy in three acts
English book by Robert Layer-Parker and Eddie Garr
Lyrics by Arthur Stanley
Additional Lyrics by Eddie Garr
Music by Emmerich Kalman
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor. MARCUS DODS
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Moores
The Opera Bull: December 23

Australian Music
Las Alboradas, for violin, flute, horn, and piano (Richard Meale )
RONALD RYDER
PETER RICHARDSON DOUGLAS TRENGOVE NIGEL BUTTERLEY
Conducted by the COMPOSER
3.13* String Quartet No.
(Peter Sculthorpe )
AUSTRAL STRING Quartet
Donald Hazelwood (violin) Ronald Ryder (violin) Ronald Cragg (viola)
Gregory ElmaloKlou (cello)
3.29* Laudes (Nigel Butterley)
WILLIAM FRATER (flute, piccolo. and alto-flute)
ANNE MENZIES
(clarinet and bass-clarinet) JOHN ROBERTSON (trumpet) DOUGLAS TRENGOVE (horn) DONALD HAZELWOOD (violin) RONALD CRAGG (viola)
GREGORY ELMALOGLOU (cello) RICHARD MEAI. E (piano)
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
3.46* From within, looking out, for soprano, flute, viola, celesta, and vibraphone (George Dreyfus)
MARILYN RICHARDSON MARGARET CRAWFORD JOHN GLICKMAN KAY LUCAS GLEN DAVIS
Conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Conducted by JOHN HOPKINS

Last of three programmes in which younu musicians perform and discuss their work with distinguished professional colleagues
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) accompanied by JOHN WILSON sings and talks to PETER PEARS
Devised and produced by Gerald McDonald

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Jntroduced by ROBERT HENDERSON
This week's programme includes Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and music by Strauss

The second of two programmes linking the main series of twenty-two broadcasts for adults taking the G.C.E. O-Level examinations in English Language and Literature planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter. Emmeline Garnett
Produced by Peggy Bacon
First broadcast on Dec 31. 1965
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from The National Extension College. Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge

The first of four programmes oi words and music for listeners with an elementary knowledge of Russian
Last Monday's broadcast

Part 2:
The Trojans at Carthage Opera in four acts by Berlioz
English translation by EDWARD J. DENT in a concert performance from The Royal Festival Hall, London
Cast in order of singing:
L. S. 0. CHORUS
CHELSEA OPERA GROUP CHORUS Chorus-Master.
John Alldis LONDONSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
ACT 1 An open space in the gardens of Dido's palace
ACT 2
Scene I Dido's garden, by the sea

Some of Berlioz's letters concerning The Trojans
Read by DENIS GOACHER

Part 2:
The Trojans at Carthage
ACT 2
;cene 2 The Royal Hunt and Storm
ACT 3
The Trojan fleet in port
ACT 4 ocene 1 Dido's apartment
Scene 2 A terrace overlooking the sea
Presented by the L.S.O.. Ltd. in association with the London Orchestral Concert Board and the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation
Benvenuto Cellini , by Berlioz, from Covent Garden, December 31

by Ralph Bennett, Fellow and Tutor, Magdalene College, Cambridge
To select its undergraduates. Magdalene uses three things: reports from schools, a 45-minute interview, and a College examination. Of all selection systems Mr Bennett considers this to be the least faulty, because it tries to take account both of brains and of the ability to use them.
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55