Listings
: NEWS SUMMARY
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Divertimento in B flat major(K.270)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS
Directed by JACK BRYMER
7.15* Serenade in D major (K.320)
(Posthorn)
BAVARIAN STATE RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FERDINAND LEITNEN on gramophone records
Contributors
Directed By:
Jack
Brymer
Conducted By:
Ferdinand
Leitnen
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Suite: The Golden CockerelLAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
8.30* Musical Picture: Sadko
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.41* Capriccio espagnole
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE on gramophone records
Contributors
Conducted By:
Igor
Markevitch
Conducted By:
Ernest
Ansermet
Conducted By:
Georges
Pretre
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: THIS WEEK'S COMPOSER
PurcellExcerpts from The Tempest, and Act 3 of Dido and Aeneas on gramophone records
: MUSIC MAKING
First of a new weekly series of Haydn string quartetsEach of the first two programmes will include one of the late set Op 76
JUNE CLARK and JOAN RYALI. (two pianos) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin , Siegmund Nissel
Peter Schidlof , Martin Lovett
Next Friday: ' Emperor ' Quartet (Op. 76 No. 3): Aeolian Quartet
Contributors
Unknown:
Joan
Ryali.
Unknown:
Norbert
Brainin
Unknown:
Siegmund
Nissel
Unknown:
Peter
Schidlof
Unknown:
Martin
Lovett
: REGINE CRESPIN
with ALBERT LANCE (tenor) and JACQUES MARS (bass) singing excerpts from operas by Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Massenet on gramophone recordsRégine Crespin, one of France's leading sopranos, was born in 1927. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire she made her debut in 1950 in the role of Elsa. Since then she has built up a comprehensive repertoire including Leonora (Il Trovatore), Desdemona, and the Marschaltin in Der Rosenkavalier, which she has sung both at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden.
Contributors
Tenor:
Albert
Lance
: STUDIO PORTRAIT
Musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the musicThis week:
VIVIAN JOSEPH introduces
† THE DUMKA TRIO
Suzanne Rozsa (violin) Vivian Joseph (cello) Liza Fuchsova (piano) who play
Trio in G minor, Op. 26.Dvorak
Contributors
Introduces:
Vivian
Joseph
Violin:
Suzanne
Rozsa
Cello:
Vivian
Joseph
Piano:
Liza
Fuchsova
: MIDDAY PROM
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald SteadConductor, GEORGE HURST
Part 1
Contributors
Leader:
Reginald
Stead
: CONCERT CALENDAR
† CHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some non-broadcast musical events in London and the South-East during the coming weekContributors
Unknown:
Christopher
Grier
: THE NEWS
: MIDDAY PROM
Part 2Given before an Invited audience in the Town Hall. Huddersfield
Contributors
Unknown:
Town Hall.
Huddersfield
: THE STRINGS OF THE LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS
Leader, Reginald LeopoldConducted by MICHAEL KREIN
2.13* Adagio; Allegro giocoso (Serenade in E flat major. Op. 6). Suk
Contributors
Leader:
Reginald
Leopold
Conducted By:
Michael
Krein
: GRANADOS AND TURINA
Andaluza; Oriental; Rondalla aragonesa (Spanish Dances) (Granados)PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ENRIQUE JORDA
2.44* Danzas fantasticas (Turina)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records
Contributors
Conducted By:
Enrique
Jorda
Conducted By:
Ernest
Ansermet
: GEORG KULENKAMPFF
(violin) with GEORG SOLTI (piano)Sonata in G major, Op. 78
(Brahms) on a gramophone record
Contributors
Piano:
Georg
Solti
: MUSIC IN OUR TIME
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel HurwitzConducted by EDWARD DOWNES
, and works by Alun Hoddinott and Thca Musgrave
Contributors
Leader:
Emanuel
Hurwitz
Conducted By:
Edward
Downes
Unknown:
Alun
Hoddinott
Unknown:
Thca
Musgrave
: WEBER, MOZART AND SCHUMANN
Introduced by BERNARD KEEFFEBBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
The Music to Remember ' broadcast on April 20 in the Home
Service
Contributors
Introduced By:
Bernard
Keeffe
Conducted By:
Maurice
Handford
: THE YOUNG IDEA
A choice of records for the under-twentiesIntroduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme Includes Elgar's Cello Concerto and music by Offenbach and Rimsky-Korsakov
Contributors
Introduced By:
Derek
Parker
: READING AND RE-READING
A series in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning toPROFESSOR RICHARD HOGGART on The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler with readings by JOHN PULLEN
First broadcast March 12
Contributors
Unknown:
Professor Richard
Hoggart
Unknown:
Samuel
Butler
Unknown:
John
Pullen
: AFTER-SCHOOL ENGLISH
The third of a series of nineteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. ' O ' Level examination in English Language and Literature planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter, EMMELINE GARNETT
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Repeated on Saturday at 11.0 a.m. in the Home Service
The first four programmes will be broadcast weekly at this time. and a further series of fifteen between March and June 1966.
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.
Contributors
Scriptwriter:
Emmeline
Garnett
Produced By:
Peggy
Bacon
: CELLO AND PIANO
MAURICE GENDRON (cello)HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
Contributors
Cello:
Maurice
Gendron
: Widowers' Houses
A play by Bernard ShawCharacters in order of speaking:
The action is set in Germany and London
(To be repeated on October 10)
Shaw's First Play
In 1885 Shaw began to write a play, to be called Rhinegold, in collaboration with his friend William Archer who supplied a three-act plot constructed to a well-tried formula. Shaw was to supply the dialogue. Half way through the second act Shaw reported that he had used up all the plot. Archer declined to supply more. Whereupon Shaw completed the second act and read the play as it stood to Archer who failed to recognise any significant trace of his plot in it and the partnership was dissolved. Seven years later Shaw added a third act, called the play Widowers' Houses, and it was produced in December 1892.
Most critics, confronted with 'a propagandist play, a didactic play, a play with a purpose' instead of a conventional 'romantic drama,' gave it almost as hostile a reception as they had recently given Ibsen whose disciple they held Shaw to be. (In fact he wrote the first two acts of Widowers' Houses before he had heard of Ibsen.) Shaw was unabashed. 'Almost without exception,' he wrote, 'the men who find my sociology wrong are also the men who find my dramatic workmanship bad and vice versa. The effect on me, of course, is to reassure me completely as to my own competence as a play-wright. The very success with which I have brought all the Philistines and sentimental idealists down upon me proves the velocity and penetration with which my realism got across the footlights.' Shaw's account of slum-landlordism in late Victorian London and society's ignorance or complacent acceptance of it remains disturbingly cogent.
You may judge who came nearer the truth: those critics who dismissed the play as a pamphlet in dialogue, or Shaw who claimed that in intention his play was 'a work of art, as much as any comedy of Moliere's is a work of art; a good, practical play which, if adequately acted, will hold its proper audience and drive its story home to
the last word.' (Joe Burroughs)
Contributors
Author:
Bernard
Shaw
Producer:
Joe
Burroughs
William de Burgh Cokane:
Geoffrey
Wincott
Waiter:
Wilfrid
Carter
Harry Trench:
Frank
Duncan
Sartorius:
John
Phillips
Blanche, his daughter:
Margaret
Wolfit
Parlourmaid:
Patricia
Leventon
Lickcheese, a rent collector:
Patrick
Troughton
Narrator:
Eric
Anderson
: NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ITALY
in the fifteenth centuryThe seventh of a series of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
HANS GEHL (harpsichord)
MUSICA MENSURABILIS ENSEMBLE Director. WOLFGANG NITSCHKE
Introduced by MICHAEL HOWARD Script based on material -by Wolfgang Nitschke
Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Bremen
Paris and Northern France, 1400-1430: September 29 followed by an interlude at 10.50
Contributors
Director:
Wolfgang
Nitschke
Introduced By:
Michael
Howard
Unknown:
Wolfgang
Nitschke
: THE NEWS
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