Paul Taillefer (oboe)
André Dupont (clarinet) Andre Gabry (bassoon)
Old songs and dances of the mountains and valleys
Max Meill (tenor)
John Francis (piccolo)
Dennis Brain (horn) Colin Sauer (violin)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
Talk by D. N. Chester ,
Lecturer in public administration at Oxford University
Presented and conducted by Virgilio Mortari with the Singers of the Chamber Opera Group: Rosanna Giancola (soprano)
Thea Santucci (soprano) Amedeo Berdini (tenor)
Ferdinando Li Donni (baritone) and the \ London Chamber Orchestra
' II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda'
Dramatic madrigal in one scene
Text by Torquato Tasso
Music by Monteverdi
Scenes from
' L'Olimpiade *
Text by Metastasio
Music by Vivaldi
* II Maestro di Musica '
Opera in three scenes
Music by Pergolesi
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
Octet for strings, Op. 20 played by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Paul Beard , Thomas Peatfleld
Bernard Andrews , and Denis East
(violins)
Harry Danks and Jacqueline Townshend (violas)
Peter Muscant and Frank Ford (cellos)
Peter Ustinov (actor, playwright, and film producer) has been invited to criticise, as one of the younger men of the theatre, this week's dramatic productions in the Third Programme