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Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581)
Melos Ensemble: Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Serenade for tenor, horn, and string orchestra
Peter Pears (tenor)
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Strings of the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by the Composer
(gramophone records)
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Berlioz
Vous soupirez, madame? (Beatrice and Benedict)
April Cantelo (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto)
London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Colin Davis
(gramophone record)
Sinfonia Concertante In E flat major, for violin, viola and orchestra (K.364)
Sydney Humphreys (violin), Margaret Major (viola)
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, John Carewe
Ballet: Pulcinella
Irene Jordan (soprano) George Shirley (tenor) Donald Gramm (bass)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by the Composer
(gramophone record)
Clarinet Concerto in A major (K.622)
GERVASE DE PEYER LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Peter MAAG gramophone records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
by Stephen Dodgson
Recent records of opera: reviewed by Cedric Wallis
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Introduced by Michael de Morgan
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
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Sports Parade
1.0 Prize Quiz
An opportunity for listeners to win premium bonds for answering a few simple sporting questions
1.10 Talking Sport
An informal conversation between those two great sportsmen from Yorkshire -
Freddie Trueman and Harvey Smith
Previously broadcast In the North of England Home Service
Racing
1.40 The Spring Handicap Hurdle Race
For four-year-olds and upwards run over two miles
2.10 The Fairmile Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run ever 3 miles and about 118 yards
2.45 The Stones Ginger Wine Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over two miles, four furlongs and about 68 yards
Commentary by Peter Bromley with summaries by Roger Mortimer
From Sandown Park
4.54* Racing Results
1.55 Boxing
Simon Smith previews the main bouts of Harry Levene's promotion at Belle Vue, Manchester, next Monday
3.5 Rugby Union
Ireland v. England
Commentary by Sammy Walker and Alan Gibson with summaries by Harry Fry
From Lansdowne Road, Dublin
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4.25 Association Football
Commentary by Alan Clarke on part of the second half of one of today's English League games
4.40* Football Results as they come in direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0 Sports Report
Produced by Angus Mackay
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50
played by members of the Melos Ensemble: Peter Graeme (oboe) Gervase de Pever (clarinet) William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) Adrian Beers (double-bass)
(Second broadcast)
1759-1808
Portrait of a scholar and an eccentric by Terence Tiller
(Second broadcast)
Cherevichki
A comic-fantastic opera in four acts
Libretto by YAKOV POLONSKY after Gogol's story Christmas Eve
Music by Tchaikovsky
English version by ARTHUR JACOBS
First performance in this country
Cast in order of singing:
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Trevor Connah
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Produced by LIONEL SALTER
ACT 1
Solokha, a witch - ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE (mezzo-soprano)
The Devil - FREDERICK WESTCOTT (baritone)
Two villagers: Chub - RICHARD GOLDING (bass)
Panas - LESLIE FRY (tenor)
Oxana. Chub's daughter - JACQUELINE DELMAN (soprano)
Vakula, Solokha's son, a black smith - ALEXANBER YOUNG (tenor)
The Mayor - JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
The village schoolmaster - GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
A woodsprite. - RAYMOND HAYTER ( baritone)
An old Zaporogian Cossack - JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
A gentleman-in-waiting at the Imperial Court - LESLIE FRY (tenor)
Master of Ceremonies at the Imperial Court - RAYMOND HAYTER (baritone)
Prince Potemkin. chief minister to Catherine the Great - BRYAN DRAKE (baritone)
A series of eight broadcasts
A talk by William Pickles Reader in Political Science, University of London, at the London School of Economics
If Britain decides to join the European Economic Community, it will be necessary to sign an instrument of accession to the Treaty of Rome and. just as important, the subsequent agreements. Mr. Pickles considers the changes that have taken place in the working of the Treaty since 1962. and. in the light of these, the possible future development of the EEC.
Introduced by Uwe Kitzinger
(Tuesday: interview with the Foreign Secretary)
Act 2
A talk by Laurence Kitchin on the role of the miner in 20th-century English fiction
Mr. Kitchin relates the work of D.H. Lawrence in Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover to the new provincial novels of the 1950s. He indicates the significance of Lawrence's own remark that Sons and Lovers was, among other things, a 'colliery novel.'
(Second broadcast)
Acts 3 and 4
(Elizabeth Bainbridge broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
