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Rameau and Scarlatti NIGEL WICKENS (baritone) Kenneth SILLlTO (violin)
DENNIS NESBITT (viola da gamba) CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) LUIGI TAGLIAVINI (organ)
Organ Sonatas broadcast on December 7. 1967

Contributors

Baritone:
Scarlatti Nigel Wickens
Violin:
Kenneth Silllto
Viola:
Dennis Nesbitt
Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks

Music drama by Wagner
Sung in German gramophone records
Cast in order of singing
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE GEHMAN STATE OPERA, BERLIN
Conducted by FRANZ KONWITSCHNY
The action of the opera, which is continuous, takes place in Norway tn the eighteenth century
ACT 1 A rocky cove on the Norwegian coast
ACT 2 A room in Daland's house
Act 3 A bay near Daland's home

Contributors

Unknown:
Wagner
Conducted By:
Franz Konwitschny

by Leszek Kolakowski
Translated from the Polish and adapted by NICHOLAS BETHELL
The play is based on an argument in a dentist's waiting-room between a priest and a sceptic. It is as much a satire on dogmatic Communism as on dogmatic Christianity.
Produced by NICHOLAS BETHELL Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Leszek Kolakowski
Adapted By:
Nicholas Bethell
Produced By:
Nicholas Bethell
Doctor:
Wilfred Babbage
Old Woman:
Anna Burden
Gentleman:
Victor Lucas
Receptionist:
Hilda Schroder
Priest:
Aubrey Woods
Eva:
Gudrun Ure
Andrew:
John Hollis

Margaret Price (soprano) Paul Esswood
(counter-tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Neil Howlett (baritone) London Bach Society
Obblioati Neil Black
(oboe and oboe d'amore) James Brown (oboe) Ifor James (horn)
Richard Merewether (horn) Colin Horton (horn) Maurice Meek (viola)
Continuo:
John Constable
'chamber organ)
Martin Gatt (bassoon)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) John Gray (double-bass)
Thames Chamber Orchestra Leader, Robert Masters
Conducted by Paul Steinitz
ⓢ Part I
Bach
Cantata No. 143: Lobe den
Herrn, meine Seele
Cantata No. 199: Mein Herz schwimmt im Blut

Contributors

Soprano:
Paul Esswood
Baritone:
Neil Howlett
Oboe:
Obblioati Neil Black
Oboe:
James Brown
Horn:
Ifor James
Horn:
Richard Merewether
Horn:
Colin Horton
Viola:
Maurice Meek
Bassoon:
Martin Gatt
Cello:
Bruno Schrecker
Double-Bass:
John Gray
Conducted By:
Paul Steinitz

† DENYS LASDUN architect for the projected
- National Theatre building on London's South Bank talks to J. M. Richards architectural critic
The first public exhibition of the architects' models, photographs. and drawings is on view until January 24 at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Portland Place. London. W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denys Lasdun
Unknown:
J. M. Richards

A miscellany of readings and reviews This edition includes
PHILIP HOBSBAUM reviewing Galway Kinnell's Poems of Night and Howard Nemerov 's The Winter Lightning and new poems by TANER BAYBARS , ALAN BROWNJOHN ANTHONY HOWELL
LAURENCE LERNER
ALASTAIR MACLEAN and D. M. THOMAS read by the authors and HUGH DICKSON Introduced by GEORGE MACBETB

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Hobsbaum
Unknown:
Howard Nemerov
Unknown:
Taner Baybars
Unknown:
Alan Brownjohn
Unknown:
Anthony Howell
Unknown:
Laurence Lerner
Unknown:
Alastair MacLean
Unknown:
D. M. Thomas
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Introduced By:
George MacBetb

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