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Overture: Les francs-juges (Berlioz) PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
7.17* Piano Concerto in A minor
(Schumann)
SOLOMON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT MENGES
7.47* Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. in C sharp minor (Liszt, arch. Müller and Berghaus)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

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Symphony No. 4, in F major
(Bonce)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EMANUEL HuRwrrz
8.10* Cello Concerto in C major
(Haydn)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.36* Divertimento in D major
(K.251) (Mozart)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS gramophone records

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Handel
Overture: Alexander's Feast BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROLF REINHARDT
9.10* Return, 0 God of Hosts
(Samson)
KATHLEEN FERRIER (contralto)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.14* Excerpts from Israel In
Egypt: part I
MONICA SINCLAIR (contralto) RICHARD Lewis (tenor)
HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir MALCOLM SARGENT gramophone records

Gramophone records highlighting musical anniversaries occurring this week

by SUSAN MCGAW
10.51* Reflets dans 1'eau (Images.
Series 1); Les tierces alternées (Preludes, Book 2) Debussy

First in a series of programmes tn which all the chamber music works by Mendelssohn will be played
GUARNERI STRING QUARTET
Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)
STANISLAV HELLER (harpsichord)

Part 1: Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No.
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of LONDON
Conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
12.28* Spanish Rhapsody JOHN OGDON (piano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
12.43* Symphonic Poem: Mazeppa BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

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JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the North during the next seven days

Part 2
JeuK (Debussy)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHRSTRA Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
1.34* Symphony No. 3
(Hans Werner Henze )
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
Henze's Symphony No. 4: Jan. 9

Second of four programmes
Scherzo-valse (Pieces pittoresQues)
(chabrier)
Intermezzo No. 2, In D flat major: intermezzo in A flat major (1944): Mouvements perpetuels (Poulenc)
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
Air vif (Airs chantes); Priez pour paix (Poulenc)
L'absent: Serenade (Gounod) Arpège (Fauré)
GERARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
Nocturne No. 3, in A flat major
(Fauré)
La vallée des cloches (Mtroirs):
Valses nobles et sentimentales (Ffai'i'D
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) gramophone records

conducts
Symphony No. 2. in E flat major
(Elgar) played by the HALLE ORCHESTRA gramophone record

A series of concerts uiven before invited audiences all over the country
This week: from the Theatre Royal
Bury St. Edmunds
JOSEF SUK (violin)
ERNEST Lush (piano)
THE WILBYE CONSORT
Christina Clarke (soprano) Ursula Connors (soprano) Noreen Willett (contralto) Nigel Rogers (tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) Geoffrey Shaw (bass'
Director, LOUIS HALSEY
Part 1

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Sunday's broadcast

Part 2
Trink aus!
An etnen Schmetterling
Eines Narren. eines Künstlers Leben Es bleiut wohl: Frühling first broadcast performance in this country
5.34* Sonata in D minor ...Brahms
Next week from Falmouth: Thomas Hemsley. baritone. Paul Ham burger, piano; Peter- John Carter. violin. Sally Mays , piano. Beethoven. Rawsthorne, Debussy, and Schumann.

by GILLIAN WEIR
From the Church of Notre Dame de France. Leicester Square, London
Third broadcast

180-100 w.p.m.
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
Some of the material Is taken from Shorthand Dictation Practice: Book 2 60-80 w.p.m.: Monday, 6.30 p.m.

A series of twenty programmes, intended for listeners who already have some knowledge of French.
An imaginary roving reporter. Gilles Leroy , records his impressions of the different places he visits each week
3. Carnac—menhirs et dolmens
Introduced by KATIA Ellis with the help of Emile Harven
Script by Odile Castro and Elsie Ferguson
Language consultant. Paul Couster
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
†First broadcast March 14. 1966
(Home)
* booklet is available

A series of six programmes
1: The Popularity of Dickens by K. J. FIELDING
Professor of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Reader, TOM FLEMING

by DR. D. J. URQUHART
Director of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology
A radio version of a paper given at the 1966 Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
As the output of literature rises scientists will need a definite training to cope with it — libraries, information officers, and computers will not be enough.
Second broadcast

Anna Reynolds (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Chorus-Master, J. E. Wallace
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Clifford Knowles
Conductor, Charles Groves
From the Philharmonic Han. Liverpool
Part 1
Berlioz
Symphonie funtbre et triomphale for chorus and orchestra

Protection against Parliament-a case from the Commonwealth by R. W. M. DIAS
Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
No Commonwealth country has ever achieved independence without a written constitution. Yet. ironically, Britain herself has no written constitution. What we do have has simply evolved, and we are apparently content with it. But is our contentment entirety justified? A recent case from Ceylon suggests that it may not be.

Part 2
Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde for contralto, tenor, and orchestra

A short story specially written for the Third Programme by BARBARA LEVINGE
Read by NICOLETTE BERNARD

Quartet in A flat major, Op. 145
VLACH STRING QUARTET Josef Vlach (violin) Vaclav Snitil (violin)
Josef Kodousek (viola) Viktor Moucka (cello)
Second broadcast

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