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0 A programme of recent records

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A piano recital by ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY
Broadcast on March 19. 1867

A request programme of records

A weekly review
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE John Field and the Piano by FRANK MERRICK
Musical Profile: Kartheinz Stockhausen , by ROGER SMALLEY Two Books about Bach reviewed by STANLEY SADIE
Walking Encyclopaedia by SIDNEY HARRISON

gramophone records

Played by FRANK MERRICK (piano)
Nocturne No 4. in A major Sonata in C minor, Op. 1 No. Nocturne No. 10. in E minor
Nocturne No. 18, in E major (Le midi)

Opera in a prologue and two acts
Libretto after Voltaire by SALVATORE CAMMARANO Music by Verdi sung in Italian
First broadcast in this country
Cast m order of singing:
Spanish officers and soldiers. Inca tribesmen
CHORUS AND Orchestra
OF THE ROME OPERA HOUSE
Chorus-Master, Gianni Lazzart
Conducted by FRANCO CAPUANA
Introduced by JULIAN BUDDEN
The action takes place in Peru during the sixteenth century
1 20 Prologue. A vast plain. by the banks of the Rimae river
1.42* Act 1
Scene 1 The main square in Lima Scene 2 The governor's palace
2.24* Act 2
' Scene 1 Inside the fortifications of Lima
Scene 2 A lonely cavern
Scene 3 A hall in the governor s palace
Recording, from the Rome Opera Season 1966-7, made available by courtesy of Italian Radio

Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
From the Civic Hall, Barnsley
Part 1

JOHN Amis talks to GYÖRGY PAUK

Part 2
Presented by the BBC in association with Barnsley Corporation

GERARD R. SCHWARZ (trumpet) JOHN W. ECKERT (trumpet)
EDWARD R. BIRDWELL (horn) ARNOLD FROMME (trombone) ROBERT E. BEDDLECOME (trombone)
Broadcast on November 11, 1967

Two talks on decision making in the world of poverty by MICHAEL LIPTON
Fellow in Economics at the Institute of Development Studies. University of Sussex, and Fellow of All Souls
1: Theories of Peasant Decision Making
The models planners use in underdeveloped areas derive from advanced economies and plentiful data. What sort of gap separates them from peasant life, and how can it be bridged?

0 Introduced by THE COMPOSER
Piano Piece X
6.15* Mikrophonie I, for tam-tam. two microphones, filters, and volume-controls
ALOYS KONTARSKY
(piano and tam-tam)
JOHANNES FRITSCH (tam-tam) ALFRED ALINGS (tam-tam) HARALD BOJÉ (tam-tam) ROLF GEHLHAAR and KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
(filters and volume-controls)
Broadcast on September 8. 1967

A recollection spoken by Sir Geoffrey Keynes
With some letters of Henry James and Rupert Brooke read by CARLETON HOBBS and BRIAN HEWLETT
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
A new production of the programme first broadcast in the Third Programme in 1958

New Philharmonia
Chorus and Orchestra
Leader, Carlos Villa Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
From the Royal Festival Hall. London
0 Part 1: Beethoven
Symphony No. 6, in F major
(Pastoral)

by M.I.FINLEY ,Reader in Ancient Social and Economic History in the University of Cambridge
Mr. Finley considers some of the differences in attitude between the ancient world and our own in Questions of race, religion, and class. His talk is occasioned by the recent publication of Racial Prejudices in Imperial Rome by A. N. Sherwin-White .

Part 2: Cherubini
Requiem Mass in C minor

by Abram Tertz
Paul Daneman as the novelist Peter Woodthorpe as the poet
The story translated from the Russian and dramatised for radio by NICHOLAS BETHELL
This ' fantastic-realistic ' story, one of the five in The Icicle, figured in the trial of its author, Andrey Sinyavsky , sentenced to corrective Jabour for allowing his allegedly anti-Soviet writings to be pseudonymously published abroad. It was termed autobiographical by the sole defence witness who tried to use it in mitigating evidence : Sinyavsky once said to me that it is impossible to draw the line between a writer and a graphomaniac. Evidently his ...' At that point the witness was silenced by the judge.
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Second broadcast

played by EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin)
TERENCE WEIL (cello continuo) CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
First of two programmes of sonatas for violin and keyboard by Bach and Handel