A weekly programme of recent records
CINCINNATI Symphony ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAX RUDOLF

Trio in E flat major (H.XV. 29)
9.22* Trio in G major (H XV.25)
OROMONTE PIANO TRIO
Perry Hart (violin)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)
9 39* Quartet in G minor, Op.
74 No.
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin)
Siegmund Nissel (violin) — Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) gramophone record
The first of forty-six weekly programmes at this time of Haydn's chamber music and symphonies.

A request programme of gramophone records
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)

Record Review
Contributed by ALAN BLYTH STEPHEN DODGSON and TREVOR HARVEY
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, COLIN DAVIS

Opera in three acts
Music by Puccini
Libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI
Sung in Italian gramophone records
RCA ITALIANA OPERA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
The action takes place In Parts and on the Riviera. during the second Empire.
Act 1
A salon In Magda's Parts home
1.43* Act 2
The ballroom of the Cafe Bulller
2.13* Act 3
A villa near Nice
See page 31

PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Alan Loveday
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Part 1

Sonatas (Op. 1)
No. 4, in A minor for recorder and continuo
No. 8, in C minor for oboe and continuo
No. 12, in F major for violin and continuo
JOHN SOTHCOTT (recorder) EDWIN ROXBURGH (oboe) KENNETH SILLITO (violin) CHARLES SPINKS
(harpsichord continuo)
TERENCE WEIL (cello continuo)
Twenty-third in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music

Part 2: Robert Simpson
Symphony No. 3
† A Royal Philharmonic Society Concert given at the Royal Festival Hall. London, on January 18. 1967

From the Royal Albert Hall
London
Bach
ST. MATTHEW PASSION
Peter Schreier (tenor)
EVANGELIST
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
CHRISTUS
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Janet Baker
(mezzo-soprano)
Kieth Engen (bass)
BBC Chorus
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
Director of Music, Russell Burgess
Adam Skeaping (viola da gamba)
Continuo:
Alan Harverson (organ) Hubert Dawkes (organ)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
English Chamber Orchestra Leaders, Emanuel Hurwitz and Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by Karl Richter
Part 1

by R. A. Foakes
R. A. Foakes , Professor of English in the University of Kent. examines the central poets and the intellectual and artistic climate of the 1850s and illustrates his talk with readings from contemPorary documents.
Readers:
CARLETON HOBBS (Arnold); DIANA ROBSON (Eliza Cook): JOHN WYSE «'. B. Phippj. Edward Fitzgerald ): ANTHONY JACOBS (Tennyson); DENIS MCCARTHY (' The Times' Newspaper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge , ' The Germ' Reviewer); BASIL JONES (Henry Sidgwick , Coventry Pat-more); HENRY STAMPER (Edgar Allan Poe , Dante Gabriel Rossetu ); BRIAN HAINES (Alton Locke , Arthur Hugh ClougM ; NICOLETTE BERNARD (Elizabeth Barrett Browning ); GODFREY KENTON (Cardinal New-man); DENYS HAWTHORNE (George Meredith ); HUGH DICKSON (Robert Browning )
Produced by R. D. Smith

St. Matthew Passion
Part 2

Morals and Motives by HANS A. BETHE of the Nuclear Studies Laboratory Cornell University
In this lecture Professor Bethe. who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1967. speaks about the relationship of scientists to society and reveals his own attitudes on various scientific issues since he became Involved In the atom bomb project.
Recorded at Cornell University. U.S.A.

The second in a series of three programmes in which JOHN LEVY introduces recordings he has recently made in India
This programme features the South Indian Vina played by DORAISWAMI IYENGAR
Second broadcast