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Symphony No. 95, in C minor
BBC Scottish SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Symphonic Study: Falstaff
HALLE ORCHESTRA
Conductor, SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone record
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BEETHOVEN
Sonata in F minor, Op. 57
(Appassionata)
9.26* Sonata in C minor, Op. Ill
WILHELM BACKHAUS (piano)
Recording from the Salzburg Festival. 1966. made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
King David
SUZANNE Danco (soprano) Marie-Lise DE MONTMOLLIN (mezzo-soprano)
PAULINE MARTIN (mezzo-soprano) MICHEL HAMEL (tenor)
STEPHANE ANDEL (narrator)
CIIOEUR DES .lEUNES DE
L'EGLISE NATIONALE VAUDOISE
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2. in C minor, by JOSEPH COOPER
Recent records of choral music: reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Introduced by Brian Johnston
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
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followed by Sports Parade
1.0 Sporting Chance
The Resident Team: Maurice Edelston, Norman Cuddeford, Liam Nolan
v. Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree
Question Master, Alun Williams
Produced by Geoff Dobson
From Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, Hertfordshire
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Light)
Racing
1.55 The Garforth Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over two miles and about 50 yards
2.25 The Thorner Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over three miles and about 100 yards
2.55 The Harewood 4-year-olds Hurdle Race (Div. 1)
For four-year-olds only run over two miles
Commentary by Peter Bromley with summaries by Tony Preston
From Wetherby
4.54* Racing Results
3.10 Rugby Union: Wales v. Ireland
Commentary by G.V. Wynne-Jones and Sammy Walker, with summaries and comments by W.E.N. Davis
From Cardiff Arms Park
3.55 Association Football
Commentary by Alan Clarke and Brian Moore on the second half of one of today's Fifth Round F.A. Cup ties
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
Six Minuets (K.164)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE Conducted by WILLY BOSKOWSKY
Piano Concerto No. 14, in E flat major (K.449)
RUDOLF SERKIN
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER gramophone records
El Coloquio de los Perros
Abridged from the last of The Cautionary Tales (Novelas Ejemplares) by Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616 and translated by J. M. COHEN
Two dogs, discovering one night that they have been granted the power of speech, discuss with each other the follies and absurdities of man, outlining a by no means flattering picture of the Spain of Cervantes' day.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Second broadcast
See also Monday at 9.40 p.m. followed by an interlude at 7.25
A comic opera in three acts
Libretto by KAREL SABINA
English translation by JOAN CROSS and ERIC CROZIER
Music by Smetana
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Villagers, actors and children
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by JAROSHV KROMBHOLC
Produced by Hanus Thein
The action takes place In a Bohemian village on the afternoon and evening of the Patron Saint's day. The time ts the first half of the nineteenth century.
ACT 1
The village green
by NIKOLAUS PEVSNER architectural historian and author of Buildings of England
For thirty years Professor Pevsner had hoped that one day he would see the ruins of the early Christian churches in Anatolia. Last summer he got his chance. What he saw provided him with the answer to a question which had exercised the minds of scholars for a long time: what happened, between
Constantine and Justinian, to the planning and vaulting of churches? r Second broadcast
ⓢ Act 2
The village inn
MARIUS GORING reads j Shakespeare's Sonnets XXVI to XXXII and MARY WIMBUSH roads Sonnets CLIII and CLIV Introduced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Weary with toil. I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins 'a journey in my head ro work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts-from far where I abide-
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee.
First broadcast in 1959 as one of a series of twelve programmes In which all Shakespeare's Sonnets were read
ⓢ Act 3
The village green
by HUGH OTTAWAY
An assessment of the Soviet composer's achievement, both as symphonist and in the field of chamber music.
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55