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gramophone records

Solomon an oratorio (1748)
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
NELLY VAN DER SPEK (soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) JOHN CAMERON (baritone)
PETER VAN DEN BERG (bass)
DUTCH HANDEL SOCIETY CHOIR
UTRECHT ORATORIUM SOCIETY CHOIR
Continuo
Leni van der Lee (harpsichord) Willem Hickmann (organ)
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JACK LOORY
Act 1

New works at Cheltenham by Gordon Crosse and Alun Hoddinott
The Italian Concerto by Stanley Sadie
Musical Profile: Friedrich Wishrer by Joan Chissell
Aspects of Wagner: book review by Harold Rosenthal
Introduced by Julian Herbage

† played by JACOB LATEINER (piano) Bagatelles, Op. 126
1.25* Sonata in C minor. Op
111

Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union
Twenty-second in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music and in particular his operas and oratorios
Solo Sonatas from Op. 1: July 21

The closing concert
UP SHE GOES
Five centuries of folk music
Peter Pears (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Ambrosian Singers
Philip Ledger (harmonium) Alf Edwards (concertina) Viola Tunnard (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Imogen Hoist
Benjamin Britten and Philip Ledger
From the Maltings, Snape 4.15 English Songs and Dances
Presented in association with the BBC Music Programme
See page 35
During the interval, 3.55-4.15
PERCY GRAINGER an illustrated conversation With JOHN Amis
Produced by Denys Gueroult

played by the Claremont String Quartet Marc Gottlieb (violin) Phillip Ruder (violin) Scott Nickrenz (viola) Irving Klein (cello)
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J.M. ZIMAN F.R.S. ,
Professor of Theoretical Physics in the University of Bristol gives his views on and reactions to the much discussed book The Double Helix. Professor Watson's book is the personal story of the part he played in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and of the social scene in Cambridge at the time. As such, it raises interesting Questions on the writing of the history of science.
Second broadcast

Part 2

Three documentary programmes by Michael Adams who has recently visited many of the Arab countries for the Third Programme 2: The Arabs and The Outside World
Produced by Robert Cradock
Second broadcast
Chaos or rebirth? : Monday, 7.30 p.m. followed by an interlude at 7.20

Mendelssohn
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See facing page and page 35

Prospect and disappointment in Jewish American fiction
† by JONATHAN RABAN
Department of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
In the Jewish American novel, America is a virgin, a dream of justice and liberty; but its heroes are doomed to disappointment; America invariably fails to keep her promises.

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by Leonard Barras Melodion player,
Trevor Holroyd produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
See page 34

0 Enactments for three pianos
Chant; Held in: Inception played by KATHARINA WOLPE JOHN MCCABE , ROGER SMALLEY
Broadcast on February 23