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gramophone records

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Monteverdi
A gramophone record of Acts 3 and 4 of Orfeo, with HELMUT KREBS. MARGOT GUILLEAUME
HORST GÜNTER, HANNI MACK-COSACK
JEANNE DEROUBAIX HAMBURG STATE
Music SCHOOL CHOIR and the HITZACKER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER gramophone records

Ballet: Daphnis and Chlofi
CHORUS OF the ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
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Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In his first programme
BARRY TUCKWELL with MARGARET KITCHIN (piano) plays

NORMA FISHER (piano)

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1

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Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall. Stockport

Leader. James Hutcheon Conductor. GILBERT VINTER

with the MADRID CONCERTS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ROLER MACHADO gramophone record

Charles Ives and some of his American contemporaries
Piano: L'union (Paraphrase de concert). .Louis Moreau Gottschalk
AMICI STRING QUARTET

Opera in three acts
Music by Verdi
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE after Dumas
Sung in Italian: Records
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE MAGGIO Musicals FIORENTINO
Conducted by John PRITCHARD
Act 1. 4-35* Act 2. 5.44* Act 3

A series of five talks by SIMEON POTTER
Baines Professor Emeritus University of Liverpool
4: Acronyms: words from initials
Second broadcast

A series of fifteen maeazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French Nineteenth-Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French
Programme 7
Verlaine: Nevermore
Les bottes de sept lieues (7) Poste restante Ma romance
Speakers. PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BI. ONCOURT. Paul COUSTER
Script by Odile Castro and Winifred Saunders
Produced by Elsie Ferguson

Series B
Nine lectures for first year students at universities and technical colleges and those with an equivalent knowledge of physics
1: The concepts of physics
An introductory lecture by R. PEIERLS , C.B.E., F.R.S. Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
Produced by Rosemary Jellis
Second broadcast
Next Monday (Series A): High-Energy Research by Dr. J. G. Rushbrooke ; Next Thursday (Series B): The so-called fundamental particles by Professor P. T. Matthews
A booklet is available

Four documentary programmes by GERALD LEACH
2: Impact on Man
When technology impacts on nature, unexpected things can happen. Last week's programme talked about the surprises the environment has produced-but man also reacts strangely. For example, no one could have foreseen the quite serious physiological upsets that follow if you jet too far too fast.
Prepared from conversations recorded with DR. DONALD BROADBENT
DR. ALEX COMFORT
PROFESSOR J. N. MORRIS
PROFESSOR JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
PROFESSOR W. H. THORPE , F.R.S
Produced by Mick Rhodes
Second broadcast

Music written for outstanding performers
' I am very glad that. for you. Frau Milder is irreplaceable ... She sings more beautifully than anybody ... ' (Schubert)
Second broadcast

by John O'Hare
Scenes from the life of Edgar Allan Poe remembered as he lay dying
with Denys Hawthorne as Edgar Allan Poe and Chrys Salt as Virginia Poe

0 played by a section of the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR

TOM CROWE reads some recollections by Friedrich Klose of his first meeting with Bruckner at Bayreuth. which have been translated bv Geoffrey Skelton
Second broadcast