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VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER

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0 Opera in four acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE after Beaumarchais
Sung in Italian gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
PHILHARMONIA
Chorus AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
The action takes place In Count Almaviva's castle near Seville
ACT 1
The half-furnished room allotted to Figaro and Susanna
9.48* ACT 2
The Countess's apartments

Suite: Ma mere l'oye
WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (piano duet) gramophone record
Third of five programmes

ACT 3
A large ball In the castle
11.29* ACT 4
The castle gardens

Introduced by Steve Race

Directed by Geoff Dobson
Timings may be altered by events
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CRICKET
1.0 : 1.45 : 2.55 : 3.50 : 4.45
Final of the Gillette Cup Knock-out Competition
Kent v. Somerset
Commentaries by ROBERT HUDSON and BRIAN JOHNSTON
From Lord's
T. N. Pearce 's XI v. Pakistan
Reports by NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
From Scarborough
CYCLING
1.35 : 2.35 : 3.40 : 4.42
World Cycling Championships
JOHN BURNS keeps you up to date with the Men's Amateur Road Race which is over some 111 miles of the Heerlen Circuit
Broadcast by arrangement with the Netherlands Radio Union
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RACING
2.40 The Matthelm Gold Cup
Nursery Handicap Stakes
For two-year-olds only run over one mile
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH -SMITH
From Sandown Park
4.54* Racing Results
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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
3.45 : 4.0
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and BRIAN MOORE on the second half of one of today's English League matches
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5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Including further news of the Gillette Cup Final and the World Cycling Championships
Classified Football results at 5.0 and 5.50

played by the † AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Norbert Brainin ,
Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof Martin Lovett
Haydn, Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5; Schubert, Quartet in G major (DMT): Amadeus Quartet: September 12

John Haddox formerly a theoretical physicist, then Science Correspondent of The Guardian. Co-ordinator of the Nuffield Science Teaching Project. now Editor of Nature broadcasts the first of his four commentaries in this fortnightly current affairs series

Theme and variations
THE composer (piano)
0 gramophone record

by Samuel Beckett with Billie Whitelaw Pauline Jameson and Robert Stephens
1 Silence and darkness were all I craved Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one. Perhaps it is more wickedness to pray for more.'
Technical direction by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by BENNETT MAXWELL
Third broadcast

Yvonne Minton (contralto) Gunther Reich (baritone)
John Alldis Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Trevor Williams
Conducted by Pierre Boulez
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Stravinsky
Part 1
Le chant du rossignol
8.25* Requiem Canticles first European performance
8.42' Symphonies of wind instruments

This was a fellow-Venetian's disparaging reference to Carlo Goldoni 's restless youth.
APRIL FITZLYON shows Goldoni's adventurous experiences as the background to his triumph as the playwright who turned eighteenth - century Italian comedy inside out

Stravinsky
Part 2
Le sacre du printemps

† by GERALD ABRAHAM
What are the factors that play a part in the foundation of musical tradition? In this talk, based on a paper read to the Royal Society of Arts earlier this Year, Gerald Abraham examines the relation between the musician and the society in which he lives and considers why various countries have developed dissimilar musical traditions.

played by RAFAEL PUYANA
Recording from the Wuppertal Bach Festival 1967 made available by courtesy of West German Radio