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Introduced by JOHN LADE
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, in B flat major, by TREVOR HARVEY
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0 Opera in two acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE
Sung in Italian gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS OF THE
VIENNA STATE OPERA
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEF KRIPS
The action takes place In and around Seville
ACT 1
Scene 1 The garden of the Commendatore's house
Scene 2 A dark street
Scene 3 The countryside near
Don Giovanni 's villa
Scene 4 The garden of Don Gio vanni's villa. changing to the ballroom In the bouse
10.36* ACT 2
Scene 1The street outside
Donna Elvira 's house
Scene 2 The courtyard of Donna Anna 's house
Scenes 3 and 4 A churchyard, changing to Donna Anna 's house
Scene 5 The dining room of Don Giovanni 's house
Fifth In a series of weekly programmes devoted to Mozart's last eight full-length operas
Introduced by Steve Race.
Directed by Geoff Dobson
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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1.0 PLAIN SAILING
News and views about boats, under ' sail' or ' power ', whether for work or play, both in-land and offshore.
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Tony Preston
From the BBC's North of England studios
First broadcast on July 3
CRICKET
1.40; 2.10; 3.20; 3.45
England XI v.
Rest of the World XI
Commentary by BRIAN JOHNSTON From Lord's
See page 2
Gillette Cup Winners v. Pakistan
Commentary by NEIL DURDEN -SMITH
BOWLS
1.35; 3.15
The British Isles Championships CEDRIC SMITH reports
From the Belmont Bowling Club. Belfast
GOLF
2.0 ' News of the World ' Matchplay Championship
A report on this morning's play
3.10; 3.55
Up to the minute news of this afternoon's quarter-final matches by TOM SCOTT
From Walton Heath Golf Club
ROWING
2.5 European Rowing Championships
DESMOND HILL reports
From Vichy, France
Broadcast by arrangement with the French Radio
RACING
2.55 The Maybanks Handicap Stakes
For three-year-olds only run over one mile and a quarter
3.25 Withyham Stakes
For three and four-year-olds. maidens at starting, run over two miles
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH-SMITH with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Lingfield Park
4.54* Racing Results
SWIMMING
3.40; 4.45
The Six Nations Contest
Commentary and reports by ALUN WILLIAMS
From Dortmund
Broadcasting by arrangement with the West German Radio
MOTOR RACING
3.50 Italian Grand Prix
ROBIN RICHARDS previews tomorrow's race
From Monza
Broadcast by arrangement with the Italian Radio
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and PETER JONES on the second half of one of today's English League matches
4.42* In a Flash
The latest news from our commentators and the Sports Room
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY including further news of the cricket, bowls, and rowing
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50
played by VINKO GLOBOKAR with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Recording made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio
Last of five studies in styles and stylists in pulpit oratory from the Reformation to the nineteenth century by John Chandos
5: The Nineteenth Century
Readers, HUGH DICKSON
HARVEY HALL , PATRICK MAGEE Produced by George MacBeth
Second broadcast
An opera in four acts
Music by Haydn
Libretto by CARLO FRANCESCO BADINI
sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing:
Scottish OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Arthur Oldham SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Sam Bor
Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Produced by RUDOLF HARTMANN
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Act 1
Scene 1 A rocky beach by a forest Scene 2 A room in Creonte's palace
Act 2
Scene 1 A garden near the palace bcene 2 A room in the palace
Euridice, daughter to Creonte - JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano)
Orfco, a Thracian bard - NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
Creonte, King of Thebes - SPIRO MALAS (bass)
Attendant, serving Creonte - MALCOLM KING (tenor)
Captain, serving Arideo - JOHN GRAHAM (bass)
Genius - MARY O'BRIEN (soprano)
Plutone, God of the Underworld - SIMON GILBERT (bass)
by THEO CROSBY
Architect and Designer of the Industrial Section of the British Pavilion at Montreal
Expo 67, Theo Crosby argues, is the kind of gesture, the kind of ' irrational' event, that provides the stimulus to development in design, display, and in the growth of cities that any amount of careful planning doesn'seem to do.
ACT 3
Scene 1 At Euridice's tomb Scene 2 A rocky cleft
ACT 4
Scene 1 The banks of the River
Lethe
Scene 2 A sea-coast
Gluck's ' Orfeo ed Euridice/ from Sadler's Wells: October 6
A group of talks about the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East
1: Is there any middle ground?
PROFESSOR WILLIAM POLK
Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Chicago University speaks as an American whose close studies of all aspects of the contemporary Middle East enable him to survey the possibilities for reducing tension in the search for a realistic settlement
Professor Polk recorded his talk during a visit to London last week Next talk: Where Israel stands, by Brigadier-General Chaim Herzog : Sept. 18
Tragic Overture
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL
Piano Concerto No. 2. in B flat major
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
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