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Overture: Donna Diana (Reznicek) PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
7.10* Symphony No. 2, in B minor
(Borodin
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Nicolai MALKO
7.39* Pavatie (Faur6)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.44* Symphony No. 1, in D major
(Classical) (Prokofiev)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

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Overture: Roman Carnival (Berlioz) - London Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Colin Davis

8.13* Piano Quintet in A major (Dvorak) - Vienna Philharmonic Quartet: Willy Boskowsky (violin), Otto Strasser (violin), Rudolf Streng (viola), Robert Scheiwein (cello) with Clifford Curzon (piano)

8.50* Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

(gramophone records)

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Beethoven
Overture: Prometheus
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
9.10* Romance in F major, for violin and orchestra
YEHUDIMENUHIN
PUILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
9.19* Symphony No- 1, in C major BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

(soprano)
0 Gramophone records of arias and. scenes from Oberon (Weber)
Turandot and Götterdâmmerung (Wagner) with FRANCO CORELLI (tenor)

Friday Mozart series
First of two programmes Including music written mostly near the end of his life, and works by Bach and Handel, who greatly interested him about that time.
Part 1
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
JAMES LOCKHART (organ and piano)
MARIA DONSKA and ALAN ROWLANDS (piano duet)
Boismortier Ensemble: Tess Miller (oboe) Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) Jill Severs (harpsichord) IONA BROWN (violin)

James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical lives and introduce the music
This week:
James Blades (percussion) with Joan GOOSSENS (piano) plays works by Tausch Arthur Benjamin Poldini, Stravinsky
Tcherepnin and

Part 2

Part 1 with ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
(Berlioz)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
12.26* Piano Concerto No. 2, in F minor (Choptn)
SYMPHONY OF the Air
Conducted by ALFREDWALLENSTEIN
0 gramophone records

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Christmas music
STEPHEN DODGSON talks about
Berlioz's Childhood of Christ

Part 2
Ballet suite: Les biches (Poulenc)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHRSTRA Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
1.35* Symphony No. 2 (Henze)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER
0 gramophone records
Henze's Symphony No. 3: Tuesday, January 3

A light opera in two acts by A. P. Herbert
Music by Vivian Ellis
The RITA Williams SINGERS BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Conductor. MARCUS DODS
0 Produced by Ehzaheth Johnson and Michael Moores
Monday's broadcast (Home. not
Scottish or Welsh)
John Wakefield broadcasts by per* mission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.

WALTER TRAMPLER (viola) ROGER SMALLEY (piano)
MEMBERS OF the DENNIS BRAIN Ensemble David Sandeman (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Walters (clarinet) Cecil James .(bassoon) Wilfrid Parry (piano) with Walter Lear (clarinet)
DAUTINGTON STRING Quartet Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)

Academic Festival Overture
4.10* Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor
SHURA CUEHKASSKY (piano) HUNGARIAN NATIONAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK
From the 1966 Vienna Festival Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio

The second of two programmes
CHOIR OF SOLIHULL HIGH SCHOOL
Conductor, MARGARET WHARAM

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by ALAN Howlett
This week programme includes
Ravel's Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra and Vaughan Williams 's London Symphony

A series in which practising musicians discuss listeners' queries
MARTIN COOPER. JAMES GIBB DAVID LLOYD-JONES
Chairman. ALECROBERTSON

Third in a series of four programmes for listeners with an elementary knowledge of Russian
Петя и Волк: Prokofiev's musical fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf" told in Russian.

Piano Concerto No. 2. in D minor
RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
0 gramophone record

by William Shakespeare with Edith Evans
Stephen Murray Jill Bennett
Rachel Gurney Cyril Shaps
Jack May and Haydn Jones
Third Gentleman.ANTHONY HALL
The action takes place partly in Sicilia and partly in Bohemia Music selected and arranged by ALAN BOUSTEAD
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Third broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (9,10*.9.25*
A record of Vivaldi's
Celln Concerto in C minor played by KENNETH HEATH (cello) with the ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin) followed by an interlude at 10.55

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