A programme of recent records
METANA Quartet
Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa < viola) Antonin Kohout cello)

Trio in G minor (H.XV.19)
Oromonte Piano Trio: Perry Hart (violin) Kenneth Heath (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)
String Quartet in D minor,
Op. 42
Dartington Quartet: Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola) Michael Evans (cello)
Broadcast on September 17
9.38* Symphony No. 47, In G
Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Antonio Janigro
gramophone record

A request programme of records

Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918): a conversation with Sir Adrian Boult
A Summer Music Diary by William Mann
Musical Profile: Howard Ferguson (born October 20, 1908) by Alan Ridout
London's Noise of Music: boot review by Stanley Sadie
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage

HELEN McKINNON (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Obbligati Tess Miller (oboe) Carl Pini (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Alan Harverson (chamber organ) Colin Tilney (harpsichord) Charles Tunnell (cello)
Francis Baines (double-bass)
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON Leader, Carl Pini
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN
Cantata No. 7: Christ unser
Herr zum Jordan kam
12.28* Cantata No. 48: Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen

JIRI KRECJI (oboe)
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
The Pracoe Chamber Orchestra breadeasts by arrangement with Norman MeCann, Ltd.
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra:
Oct. 30

played by JACOB LATEINER (piano)

A fairy-tale opera in three acts
Libretto by JAROSLAV KVAPIL
English translation by Christopher Hassall Music by Dvorak cast m order of singing:
Water-nymphs, courtiers, wedding guests
BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by VlLEM TAUSKY
Repetiteurs, John Bacon and George Badacsonyi
Produced by JULIAN BUDDEN
ACT 1
A glade by a lake in the forest. before dawn
3.12 ACT 2
The gardens of the Prince's palace. dusk
4.0 ACT 3
A glade by the lake In the forest. afternoon
† Recorded before an Invited audience in the Camden Theatre. London
Joan Carlyle and Michael Langdon broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden: Ann Howard broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
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String Quintets
C minor, Op. 48 No.
5.18 D major. Op. 50 No. 2 played by the AEOLIANSTRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with BRUNO SCHRECKER (cello)
The third of seven programmes of Boccherini's chamber music.
Broadcast on May 16
Quintet in G major, Op. 60 No. played by the Cremona Quartet with Kenneth Essex: October 27

tPolyphony was thought to be a European phenomenon and not an African one. JEAN JENKINS discusses and introduces some examples of folk polyphony she encountered on a recent visit to Ethiopia.

A series of eight programmes on how the most fundamental of the biological sciences is being used in a new technology 2: Breeding Animals for Food by PROFESSOR ALAN ROBERTSON Unit of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh University
Some animals have been domesticated for at least 10.000 years Yet it is barely twenty years since there has been a good scientific theory on which to base animal breeding experiments. The application of this theory is already having its effects but even these may be superseded by such developments as sex predetermination and chromosome manipulation
Second broadcast
3: Reproduction: chance and choice, by Or. R. G. Edwards : October 27

played by CHARLES ROSEN
Third of a series of seven programmes

A True History
That Never Happened by Bernard Shaw with John Neville as Charles II and Denys Hawthorne as Isaac Newton
Other characters
In order of speaking: rhe scenes: Isaac Newton's house In Cambridge. The King's quarters at Newmarket. Time: S'ummer. 1680
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Second broadcast

Verses by Hilaire Belloc set for voice and quintet by WILFRED JOSEPHS
The poems spoken by Michael FLANDERS , With
THE NASH ENSEMBLE
Andrew McGee (violin) Brian Hawkins (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) Thomas Kelly (clarinet) Martin Jones (piano)
Directed by GRAHAM TEACHER
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
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Monteverdi Orchestra
Leader, Sylvia Cleaver
Conductor,
John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded before an Invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale