Listings
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: OVERTURE
Overture: Tancredi (Rossini) PHILIHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI7.14* Rondo brillant in E flat major
(Mendelssohn)
Peter KATIN (piano) with the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTINON
7.24' Dream Pantomime (Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by Otto KLEMPERER
7.33* Symphony No. In B flat major (Schubert)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM on gramophone records
Contributors
Conducted By:
Carlo Maria
Giulini
Piano:
Peter
Katin
Conducted By:
Jean
Martinon
Conducted By:
Otto
Klemperer
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas
Beecham
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: ANTONIO JANIGRO
Conductor and cellistDivertimento in D major (K.136)
(Mozart)
ZAGREB SOLOISTS
8.16' Trio No. 2, in G minor
(Dvorak) with JEAN FOURNIER (violin) and PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano)
8.42' Symphony No. 46, in B major (Haudn)
ZAGRER RADIO Symphony ORCHESTRA on gramophone records
Contributors
Violin:
Jean
Fournier
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: THIS WEEK'S COMPOSER
ChopinTwenty-four Preludes, Op. 28
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45 played by VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano) on gramophone records
Contributors
Piano:
Vlado
Perlemuter
: VERDI
Gramophone records of choruse! from Aida, Attila, La Battaglia di Leonano, I Lombardi, Nabucco,Otelio, and II Trovatore
: STUDIO PORTRAIT
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the musicThis week
NEVILLE MARRINER introduces the Virtuoso String Trio
Neville Marriner (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola)
Francisco Gabarro (cello) who play
Contributors
Introduces:
Neville
Marriner
Violin:
Neville
Marriner
Viola:
Stephen
Shingles
Cello:
Francisco
Gabarro
: MUSIC MAKING
Haydn Quartet series continuedANN SCHEIN (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
Contributors
Violin:
Colin
Sauer
Violin:
Peter
Carter
Viola:
Keith
Lovell
Cello:
Michael
Evans
: MIDDAY PROM
MAUREEN SMITH (violin)BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Part I
Contributors
Violin:
Maureen
Smith
Leader:
Reginald
Stead
Conductor:
George
Hurst
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: Concert Calendar
Christopher Grier looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming mid-week.News of Music Making
Concert Calendar recently celebrated its first birthday. One thing people do in a concert inter val is discuss what forthcoming concerts they are going to, and this is exactly what we do in Concert Calendar. It advertises non-broadcast musical events throughout the country.
We have a fairly regular team of musicians to introduce the programme and we also try to include interesting interpolations - in recent weeks we have heard Ursula Vaughan Williams, Alan Rawsthorne, Richard Rodney Bennett, and Anarzej Panufnik.
In Concert Calendar we cover certain regions on certain days (London and the South-East on Mondays and Fridays, the North on Tuesdays, the Midlands and East Anglia on Wednesdays and Northern Ireland or Scotland, and Wales and the West on Thursdays), but the whole country can listen to the Music Programme, and it's interesting for everyone to know what music goes on up and down this very musical country of ours.
I am continually being asked how I obtain my information about concerts. Well, I rely on our listeners. I believe that any good music given with good intent deserves an audience so all you amateur choral societies and orchestras please send me details of your performances. The address is: Concert Calendar, Broadcasting House, London, W1 - but please include all details and make sure they reach me at least three weeks before your performance. I cannot promise to mention everything, but I can promise to consider it
(Donald James)
Contributors
Presenter:
Christopher
Grier
: MIDDAY PROM
Part 2Given before an invited audience in the Town Hall. Manchester, by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation
: GILBERT VINTER CONDUCTS
the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRALeader, James Hutcheon
Contributors
Leader:
James
Hutcheon
: MIRELLA FRENI
(soprano) with the ROME OPERA ORCHESTRAOverture: Semiramide (Rossini) Conducted by Tullio SERAFIN
2.43* Aria: Depuis le jour (Act 3.
Louise) (Charpentier)
Conducted by FRANCO FERRARIS
2.50* Recitative and Aria: Ah fors'e lui: Follie! Follie! (Act 1 La Traviata) (Verdi)
Conducted by FRANCO FERRARIS on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham And Dover. Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a special receiver. cr an adapter for use with an existing receiver, is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF re-
Iceivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.
Contributors
Conducted By:
Tullio
Serafin
Conducted By:
Franco
Ferraris
Conducted By:
Franco
Ferraris
: BARBER
Cello Concerto played by ZARA NELSOVA and the NEW Symphony Orchestra OF LONDONConducted by THE COMPOSER on a recently released record
Contributors
Played By:
Zara
Nelsova
: MUSIC IN OUR TIME
RALPH HOLMES (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)DERRIK OLSEN (baritone)
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) David Mason (trumpet)
Alfred Flaszynski (trombone) Neill Sanders (horn)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
James Blades (percussion) Charles Spinks (celesta) Osian Ellis (harp) Directed by John Carewe
Contributors
Violin:
Ralph
Holmes
Flute:
Richard
Adeney
Oboe:
Peter
Graeme
Clarinet:
Gervase de
Peyer
Clarinet:
David
Mason
Unknown:
Alfred
Flaszynski
Horn:
Neill
Sanders
Violin:
Emanuel
Hurwitz
Viola:
Cecil
Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence
Weil
Percussion:
James
Blades
Celesta:
Charles
Spinks
Harp:
Osian
Ellis
: BRITAIN'S CATHEDRALS AND THEIR MUSIC
York Minster introduced by JOHN BETJEMANChoir OF YORK MINSTER
Organist and Master of the Music FRANCIS JACKSON
Assistant organist, RONALD PERRIN
Choir:
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Betjeman
Music:
Francis
Jackson
Organist:
Ronald
Perrin
: THE YOUNG IDEA
Records chosen by the under-twentiesIntroduced by DEREK PARKER
This week's programme includes Borodin's String Quartet No. 2, and Beethoven's Septet
Contributors
Introduced By:
Derek
Parker
: READING AND RE-READING
A series of monthly programmes in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning toJULIAN MITCHELL on Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier with readings by ANTHONY HALL
Produced by Shirley Franklin
Contributors
Unknown:
Julian
Mitchell
Produced By:
Shirley
Franklin
: TALKING ITALIAN
14: Viaggio a TorinoScript by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLO REGGIO
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Tuesday's broadcast
A booklet and records are available
Contributors
Script By:
Pietro
Giorgetti
Script By:
Elsie
Ferguson
Introduced By:
Pietro
Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariello
Reggio
Produced By:
Elsie
Ferguson
: Back to Methuselah: Part 5: As Far as Thought Can Reach
A Metabioligical Pentateuch by Bernard ShawJune Tobin, Tim Seely, Rosalind Knight, Geoffrey Matthews
A.D. 31.920. Summer afternoon. A sunlit glade at the southern foot of a thickly wooded hill, with the steps and columned porch of a dainty little classic temple.
Music composed by JOHN LAMBERT
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
(Richard Pasco is appearing in 'Ivanov' at the Phoenix Theatre; Fay Compton is in 'A Month in the Country' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
Contributors
Unknown:
Bernard
Shaw
Unknown:
Juno
Tobin
Unknown:
Tim
Seely
Unknown:
Rosalind
Knight
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Matthews
Composed By:
John
Lambert
Produced By:
H. B.
Fortuin
Produced By:
Richard
Pasco
Unknown:
Fay
Compton
The Ghost of Adam:
Richard
Pasco
The Ghost of Eve:
Renee
Asherson
The Ghost of Cain:
Alec
McCowen
Lilith:
Beatrix
Lehmann
The She-Ancient:
Fay
Compton
The Newly Born:
Susan
Hampshire
The He-Ancient:
Denys
Blakelock
Strephon:
Tim
Seely
Chloe:
Rosalind
Knight
Acis:
Brian
Hewlett
Ecrasia:
June
Tobin
Arjillax:
Basil
Jones
Martellus:
Stephen
Jack
Pygmalion:
Geoffrey
Matthews
The Female Figure:
CÃÂécile
Cuevreau
The Male Figure:
Anthony
Jackson
The Ghost of the Serpent:
Sheila
Brennan
Youths and Maidens:
Peter
Marinker
Youths and Maidens:
Michael
McClain
Youths and Maidens:
Patricia
Gallimore
Youths and Maidens:
Patricia
Leventon
Youths and Maidens:
Miriam
Margolyes
Youths and Maidens:
Elizabeth
Proud
Narrator:
Allan
McClelland
: SONG RECITAL
† STEFANIA WOYTOWICZ(soprano) with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Contributors
Piano:
Geoffrey
Parsons
: THE ARTIST OF THE MAELSTROM
by KENNETH GRAHAM' An enthusiasm for Edgar Allan Poe,' wrote Henry James. ' is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.' In this re-examination of Poe's stories, Dr. Graham. lecturer in American Literature at the University of Southampton. argues that ' there has never been a more oppressed and restricted imagination that still produced memorable writing.'
Second broadcast
Contributors
Unknown:
Kenneth
Graham
Unknown:
Edgar
Allan
Unknown:
Henry
James.
: THE NEWS
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