Overture: Fingal's Cave
(Mendelssohn)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Otto KLEMPERER
7.15*Cello Concerto No. 1, in A minor (Samt-Saens)
ZARA NELSOVA LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN Boult
7..M* Suite: The Snow Maiden
(Rimsky-Korsakov)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EFREM Kurtz
7.47* Overture: Maritana
(Wallace)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE on gramophone records
English CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Symphony No. 4, in F major
(Bouce)
Conducted by EMANUEL HURWITZ
8.10' Cello Concerto In C major
(Haydn)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRrrrEN
8.38* Divertimento in D major
(K.251) (Mozart)
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS on gramophone records
Dvorak and Janacek
Overture: Othello (Dvorak)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
9.19' Capriccio for piano (left hand) and wind ensemble (Janacek)
OTAKAR HOLLMANN (piano) FRANTISEK CECH (flute) RUDOLF Lisy (trumpet) Jiki HORAK (trumpet)
MIROSLAV STINDL (trombone) ANTONIN KETTNER (trombone) JOSEF URBAN (trombone) JOSEF SLADEK (tuba)
Conducted by JARMIL BURGHAUSER on gramophone records
A song recital showing to what extent their music sounded similar when they began composing, and how far apart their later careers took them
JANET BAKER (contralto)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Michael LANGDON (bass) EDWARD DOWNES (piano)
Third broadcast
Michael Langdon and Edward Downes broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Two series featuring music by these composers will begin next
Thursday
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
George Malcolm
In his last programme GEORGE MALCOLM plays on the organ on gramophone records
JOHN ANTONIADIS (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Another in the weekly series tn which the Aeolian String Quartet plays all Beethoven's late quartets
BBC Scottish ORCHESTRA Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss
Part 1
Bliss
A Colour Symphony
12.48* Hymn to Apollo
JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the West. Wales, and Scotland in the next seven days
Part 2
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER
PHILHARMONIA PROMENADE ORCHESTRA Conducted by HENRY Krips
Overture: Die Fledermaus
2.39* Quadrille (on themes from
Verdi's Un ballo in maschera)
2.46* Emperor Waltz
2.56* Thunder and Lightning Polka on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12
DAVID OISTRAKH (violin) LEV OBORIN (piano)
Sonata in D major, Op. 12 No. I
Sonata in E flat major, Op. 12
No 3
Sonata in G major. Op. 30 No. 3 on gramophone records
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12
Wedding in Istria Lyric drama in three acts
Libretto by Luigi ILLICA
Music by Antonio Smareglia sung in Italian
First broadcast in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Peasants, labourers
MILAN CHORUS and ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO Chorus-Master, Giulio Bertola
Conducted by PIETRO ARGENTO
The action takes place in Vodnjan, Northern Croatia, at the beginning of the present century
Act 1. A crossroads in the centre of Vodnjan
Act 2. Inside Bara Menfco 's house Act 3. Marussa's bedroom
Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio
by Milan SLECHTA
From St. Thomas the Martyr.
Newcastle upon Tyne
A series of six short talks by GILBERT PHELPS
4: Dialect and Standard English
A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including readings from the Penguin book of Italian Short Stories and The Penguin Book of Italian Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of Italian
Programme 4
Lorenzo de Medici : Canzona di Bacco Pesci grossi. pesci piccoli—4
Brindisi (La Traviata) (Verdi)
Quand'eropaggio (Falstaff) (Verdi)
Introduced by ARIELLA REGGIO
Speakers. LEONORA FABBRI. MANRICO MELCHIORRE
Produced by Elsie Ferguson
Six programmes about social work in Britain today
4: Work with the Handicapped
with DR. G. W. H. TOWNSEND, County Medical Officer of Health, Buckinghamshire
JACQUELINE KNIGHT, Welfare Adviser. British Red Cross National Headquarters
ROGER SYDENHAM, Administrative Secretary, Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Introduced by David HOBMAN
Produced by Dennis Simmons
A Radiophonic Poem for voices and orchestra by David Gascoyne with music by Humphrey Searle
Alas! our generation walks in night, dwells as in Hades, without the divine HOLDERLIN SINFONIA OF LONDON
Conducted by THE COMPOSER with JAMES BLADES (percussion)
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
(A new production of the programme first broadcast on December 7, 1955)
(Second broadcast)
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12
played by ERIC HEIDSIECK (piano)
who earlier this year completed fifty years of music criticism, talks to Robert Layton about English musical life at the beginning of his career
CATHEDRAL CHOIRS OF WINCHESTER, SALISBURY and CHICHESTER
Conductors, ALWYN SURPLICE, CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY, JOHN BIRCH
LONDON GABRIELI BRASS ENSEMBLE
Conducted by Alwyn Surplice
(Recorded in Chichester Cathedral on July 30, 1965)
Read by John Neville
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, was John Donne 's literary executor, a prelate who refused to trim, and a writer of some of our best elegies.
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