and Weather Forecast
Arturo Toscanini born March 25, 1867
N.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Part 1
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4, in B flat major
8-35* DEBUSSY
Three symphonic sketches: La mer gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
Part 2
WAGHER
Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine
(Gotterdammerung)
9.35* VERDI
Requiem Mass
HERVA NELLI (soprano)
FEDORA BARBIERI (mezzo-soprano)
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO (tenor)
CESARE Siepi (bass)
ROBERT SHAW Chorale gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, In C major, by TREVOR HARVET
Some recent bargains: reviewed by NOËL GooDWIN
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
12.30* Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by SPORTS PARADE
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1.5 ROWING
The Boat Race
See below and page 2
RACING
1.55 The First Apprentice Handicap
For four and five-year-olds only. run over one mile
2.25 The Ranskill 2-year-olds Selling Stakes
For two-year-olds only. run over five furlongs
2.55 The Stirling Handicap
For three-year-olds and upwards. run over six furlongs
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by TONY PRESTON
From Doncaster
4.54* Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
Cardiff v. Barbarians
2.40 Preview
3.10 Commentary on part of this afternoon's match by PETER YARRANTON and G. V. WYNNE-JONES
From Cardiff Arms Park
3.55 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and PETER JONES on the second half of one of today's English League Games
4.40* Football Results
M 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
by DENIS MATTHEWS
Today is the hundredth anniversary of Toscanini's birth. To mark the occasion Denis Matthews talks about the great conductor's unique qualities and relates his achievement to his recorded legacy.
played by WOLFGANG MARSCHNER (violin) and MARGARET KITCHIN (piano)
Second broadcast
A symposium
Eleven years after the death of Michael Ventris. Leonard Cottrell has interviewed internationally known archaeologists, philologists, and historians, and invited them to comment not only on Linear B but on the progress made in our overall understanding of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations.
Recorded contributions by DR. JOHN BOARDMAN
DR. EMMETT L. BENNETT JR .
DR. JOHN CHADWICK
VINCENT DESBOROUGH
SINCLAIR Hood
PROFESSOR SPYRIDON MARINATOS
PROFESSOR LEONARD PALMER
PROFESSOR DENYS PAGE
DR. FRANK STUBBINGS
Produced by LEONARD COTTRELL
Third broadcast
MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) IFOR JAMES (horn)
LONDON STRING QUARTET Carl Pini , John Tunnell
Keith Cumminns , Douglas Cameron
Gwynne Edwards (viola) Terence Weil (cello) EDEN and TAMIR
(two pianos and piano duet)
Part 1
by ROGER MANVELL
The casting of Elen Terry as Lady Macbeth in Henry Irving's lavish production of 1888 proved revolutionary In the course of writing her biography Roger Manvell has studied some unpublished notes Ellen Terry made on the play and on Sarah Siddons's performance. The notes reveal a new interpreta. tion which was to break a theatrical tradition of two centuries
Second broadcast
Part 2
Brahms
Variations in E flat major on a theme of Schumann, Op. 23 for piano duet
9.53* Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op.
52 for four voices and piano duet
Margaret Neville broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
An Easter story by SID CHAPLIN
Read by JOHN NEVILLE
Broadcast on April 10. 1968. in the North of England Home Service
e Director,
NOAH GREENBERG
Fresco baldi
Canzonetta detta La Superba Canzona quinto
Turini
Trio- Sonata gramophone record