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gramophone records
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Liszt
Symphonic Poem: Hunnenschlacht
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.30* Valse oubliée No. 2. in A flat major
SVLATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
9.27* Piano Concerto No. 1, in E flat major
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN gramophone records
soprano
Ⓢsings arias from operas by Bellini,
Bizet. Delibes. Donizetti, Massenet, Puccini, and Verdi, on a gramorhone record
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week
Gervase de Peyer ( clarinet) with WILFRID PARRY (piano) olays
Friday Mozart series: last programme British folk arrangements, for voices and piano trio...Beethoven When mortals all to rest retire: The cottage maid: Duet: I dreamed I lay where flowers were springing
MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano)
MARJORIE BIGGAR (mezzo-soprano) NONA LIDDELL (violin) ALEXANDER KOK (cello) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH STRING Quartet , AND the PORTIA Ensemble with MAURICE COLE (piano)
JtNNiFER WARD CLARKE (cello)
1 Third broadcast of the Mozart and the Schmidt
Margaret Neville broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.
NICHOLA GEBOLYS (piano)
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1
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FRITZ SPIEGL looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming midweek
Part 2: Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, in A major
Given before an invited audience in the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford
Leader, David Adams
† Conductor. TERENCE LOVETT
Elizabeth Maconchy: Sonatina for harpsichord
(first broadcast performance)
3.4* String Quartet No. 5
3.25* Henze: Six Absences, for harpsichord
3.35* Bartok: Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
Valda Aveling (harpsichord)
English String Quartet
Gyorgy Pauk (violin) Peter Frankl (piano)
(Second broadcast of the Bartok)
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by JENNIFER PURVIS including Britten's Winter Words and the String Quartet in D minor by Sibelius
6: Mao Tse-tung , his supporters and opponents by RICHARD HARRIS
Asian specialist of The Times
Since the Cultural Revolution began in the autumn of 1965. the majority of the leaders of the Chinese Communist party have turned against Mao Tse-tung . Obviously Mao's personality is a vital factor in understanding what is going on in China, and the same may be said of some of those around him. Mr. Harris considers Mao's personality and contrasts it with those of some of the other leaders.
Produced by Adrian Johnson
The theme for this year's series Is French Impressionists
3: THE BEACH AT TROUVILLE painted 1870 by Claude Monet
1140-1926
National Gallery, London
Speaker. ANDREW FORGE Artist, critic, and Head of Painting Department. Goldsmith's College, London
Produced by George Walton Scott
An art book entitled ' French Impressionists ' has been Issued with colour reproductions of the main paintings, black and white Illustrations of the other works discussed, together with notes, tables, and an introduction. This can be ordered by writing to BBC Publica. tions (E.41), P.O. Box 1AR, London. W.I, price 35s. plus 4s. 6d. postage, or it ' may be obtained thiough any bookseller
A beginners' course planned primarily for use in evening classes throughout the country
Lesson 18
Monday's broadcast
A booklet is available
An appraisal by The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Ronald Knox
1888-1957
A recording first broadcast in 1948
Chamber
Concert presented by the BBC in association with the Greater London Council
Herbert Handt (tenor)
Pierre Fournier (cello)
Andr6 Tchaikowsky (piano)
A Chamber Ensemble of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Douglas Whittaker (flute) Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Alan Civil (horn)
Ian Mackintosh (trumpet) Richard Walton (trumpet)
Alfred Flaszynski (trombone) John Iveson (trombone) Hugh Maguire (violin) Denis Vigay (cello)
Gerald Brinnen (double-bass) Sidonie Goossens (harp)
Patricia Brady (percussion) with CYRIL GELL (celesta)
0 Part I
BBC Commission: first performance
REYNER BANHAM on the newly opened Queen Elizabeth and Purcell Halls, London'
The completion of the concert-hall complex on the South Bank reveals the fourth monument in a national Valhalla of architectural styles, aspirations, and reputations: County Hall, the Shell Building, and the Royal Festival Hall being the first three, and the National Theatre presumably-the fifth.
Ⓢ Part 2
An unfinished ' poem-to-be ' by Dylan Thomas
In Country Heaven
Eight stanzas
Read by Hugh Griffith
Variants read by BASIL JONES
Introduced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Over Sir John's Hill
In Country Sleep and In the White Giant's Thigh
Read. with an introduction, by Dylan Thomas
The original recording made in 1950 Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
† Second broadcast
Symphony No. 39, In E flat major (K.543)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by KARL BÖHM
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