0 A weekly programme of recent records

Das wohltemperierte Clavier
Book 1, Nos. 8-12
The second of eight programmes in which the forty-eight Preludes and Fugues are played by EDITH PiCHT-AXENFELD
(chamber organ, harpsichord, and clavichord)
June 2

A request programme of gramophone records
Beethoven
Overture: Fidelio
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRITZ REINER
9.43* Symphony No. 9, in D minor (Choral)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
ELISABETH HÖNGEN (contralto) HANS HOPF (tenor)
OTTO EDELMANN (bass)
1951 BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WlLHELM FURTW ÃNGLER

Mariano Stabile (1888-1968) by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Musical Profile: Jascha Horen stein by HENRY RAYNOR
Verdi's First Success by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Music in our Century: book review by ROBERT HENDERSON
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

gramophone records

A comic opera in one act
Libretto by URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS based on the novel Le sofa by Crebillon (fils)
Music by Elizabeth Maconchy
IRWELL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader. Suzanne Rozsa
Conducted by Joseph Horovitz The scene Is set in the Prince's residence in Paris, c. 1860
A recording of the 1967 Camden
Festival production; broadcast on October 1. 1967

Italian duets:
Conservate, raddoppiate
Troppo cruda, troppo Bera
2.28* Harpsichord Suite in E major
2.43* Italian duets:
Langue, geme
Tanti strali al sen mi scocchl
PATRICIA CLARK (soprano) JOHANNA PETERS (contralto)
BERNARD RICHARDS (cello continuo)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
0 Twentieth in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music
A concerto grosso, an organ concerto, 0 Chandos anthem, and Coronation anthem: June 3

Kathleen Jones
Winner of the 1968 Mozart Piano Concerto Competition
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE \
DURING THE INTERVAL (at 3.53*)
KATHLEEN JONES talks to Gerald McDonald

A study by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE of Italian music in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and the emergence of Claudio Monteverdi as the pioneer of modern opera. The illustrations are mostly taken from L'incoronazione di Poppea
Narration by GABRIEL WOOLF with RAYMOND HAYTER (baritone) and DESMOND DUPRÉ (lute) and illustrations from gramophone records
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
* Second broadcast

0 EVA ZURBRUGG (violin) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)

by BRIAN PRIESTLEY
Midland Correspondent of The Times
Birmingham, centre of expanding industry, home of successful industry. heart of the wealthy Midlands, is also a textbook case of the failure of long-range planning to provide a decent environment for a fast-growing population.

0 A new play by Harold Pinter
' Shadow is deprivation of light. The shape of the shadow is determined by that of the object. But not always. Sometimes the cause of the shadow cannot be found.'
Peggy Ashcroft as Beth Eric Porter as Duff
Produced by GUY VAESEN
Second broadcast
Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Symphony No. 6. in A minor played by the FINNISH RADIO Symphony ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN Recording made available by courtesy of Finnish Radio

by DESMOND KING-HELE , F.R.S
An analysis of some of the ' scenarios of the future ' put forward in their recent book The Year 2000 by Herman Kahn and Anthony Wiener of the Hudson Institute.

First of three weekly programmes following the careers of composers who studied with Schoenberg in the 1920s
Roberto Gerhard
Seven Haiku. for tenor, woodwind quartet, and piano (1923)
10.12* Wind Quintet (1928)
10.30* Capriccio for flute (1949)
10.38* Nonet, for eight wind instruments and accordion (1956)
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
LEONARDO ENSEMBLE , with IVOR BEYNON (accordion) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Nonet conducted by JOHN CAREWE
Broadcast on April 13. 1966
Skatkottas: May 19