A weekly programme of recent records

Quartet in F minor. Op. 55
No.
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
Broadcast on February 23
9.31* Symphony No. 101, in D major (The Clock)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone record

A request programme of gramophone records MARIA STADER (soprano) MARIANNA RADEV (contralto)
ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) KIM BORG (bass)
CHOIR OF ST. HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL, BERLIN
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY

played by the AMADRUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin iviolin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in E flat major, Op. 74
Broadcast on March 3

ROBERT CASADESUS (piano) CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF THE
NATIONAL VAUDOISE CHURCH SUISSE ROMANDE
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio

played by the † TEL Aviv STRING Quartet
Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benvamini (viola) Uzi Wiesel (cello)

The Silken Ladder
Farsa in one act
Libretto by GIUSEPPE FOPPA Music by Rossini sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing:
MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor, GÜNTER KEHR
The action takes place in Dormont's country home near Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century Recording made available by courtesy of South German Radio, as one of the European Broadcasting Union programmes marking the centenary of Rossini's death

played by the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Neville Taweel
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Another performance of Elgar's Second Symphony: Tuesday, October 1

RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON (piano duet)
EDMUND RUBBRA (piano)
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON (organ)
Piano duets:
Part of a concert given at the 1967 Cheltenham Festival in association with the Composers' Guild of Great Britain

MICHAEL WOOD talks about
Jorge Luis Borges 's short story Pierre Menard , Author of the Quixote, and suggests some of the implications of this complex and comic work

SCUOLA DI CHIESA
Conductor, JOHN HOBAN
Missa Simile est regnum coelorum preceded by the Guerrero Motet on which it is based
Part of a public concert recorded on February 6 in Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square. London

A play for radio written in Finnish by Kirsti Hakkarainen and translated into English by AARON BELL
Kirsti Hakkarainen was born In 1927 on the Karelian isthmus. At the age of twelve, with 300.000 other Karelian Finns, she was evacuated to Central Finland in the face of the Soviet invasion. Kirsti and Laura, the young heroines of her play. are also Karelian evacuees. with Michael Deacon , Royce Mills
Adapted and produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Second broadcast

Nathan Milstein (violin)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
From the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1: Wagner and Beethoven

by JOHN DUNN , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Political revolution has been a vitally important expression of human hopes and drives in the modern world. But its results do not match its aspirations. What sort of revolutions may we need to have in the very idea of revolution?

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Introduced by ROBIN SKELTON
Readers: FRANK DUNCAN
DENIS GOACHER , JAN EDWARDS
A selection of David Gascoyne 's early translations of the French Surrealist poets, with a critical assessment.
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

1968 is the tercentenary of the birth of Couperin, and during the coming weeks a number of programmes devoted to his music will be broadcast in the Third Programme.
Byway of introduction,
ANTOINE GEOFFROY-DECHAUNLE stakes a claim for Couperin as a composer of the first rank and talks in particular about his keyboard music and its interpretation
Thurston Dart (harpsichord): Monday at 10.30 p.m. followed by an interlude at 10.50