A weekly programme of recent records

Quartet In C major, Op. 74
No.
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
9.28* Symphony No. 44, in E minor (Trauer)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PAUL SACHER gramophone record

A request programme of gramophone records

Gioacchino Rossini
(1792-1868)
Rossini in the Opera House by SPIKE HUGHES
Rossini in retirement by MARTIN COOPER
Some Rossini biographies reviewed by ANDREW PORTER
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Margaret Price (soprano), Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Nigel Rogers (tenor),
Christopher Keyte (baritone), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Choir of Hampstead Parish Church,
Barbara Hill (harpsichord continuo), John Morehen (organ continuo), Philomusica of London Leader, Carl Pini
Conducted by Martindale Sidwell
Cantata No. 142: Uns ist ein Kind geboren
12.17* Suite No. 2, in B minor, for flute and string orchestra
12.40* Cantata No. 52: Falsche Welt, dir trau' ich nicht

Conducted by KARL MÜNCHlNGER
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute)
Music attributed to Pergolesi
Concertino No. 3, in A major
1.11* Flute Concerto No. 2, in D major
1.21* Concertino No. 4, in F minor gramophone records

Beethoven
Der Wachtelschlag
Three Goethe Songs, Op. 83
Wonne der Wehmut Sehnsucht
Mit einem gemalten Bande
An die Hoffnung, Op. 94
1.55* Schubert
Wehmut (Wenn ich durch Wald und Fluren geh')
Auf der Reisenkoppe
An den Mond auf einer
Herbstnacht
Die Allmacht
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Broadcast on March 10

CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Rodney Friend
Conductor, `BERNARD HAITlNK
Part 1

Act 1 from the music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
The Wieland Wagner production
The action takes place in Hunding' hut. in legendary times
Recording of a performance at the 1968 Bayreuth Festival, made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
Acts 2 and 3: Next Sunday
Wagner's ' Die Mcistersinger 1: next Saturday (Third); see also Friday, 7.30 p.m. (Third)

Part 2

String Quintet in E flat major.
Op. 12 No. 2
5.20* String Quintet in A minor. Op. 47 No. 5 played by the GABRIELI QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) with Peter Willison (cello)
Sixth of seven programmes of Boccherini's chamber music.
Guitar Quintet, Op. 50 with John Williams and members of the Music Group of London: November 24

A series of eight programmes
6: Medical Genetics by DR. Anthony ALLISON
National Institute for Medical Research. Mill Hill, London
Gross chromosome abnormalities may often be linked with behaviour and physiological abnormalities. Mongolism is a well-known example Another chromosome abnormality with even more serious implications is that of an additional Y chromosome in some men which seems to predispose them to criminal behaviour.
Second broadcast
7: Microbial Genetics, by Dr. David Cove : Nov. 24

by Bertolt Brecht translated from the German by RICHARD BECKLEY
Adapted by Martin Esslin Music by MICHAEL DRESS with Kenneth Haigh
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
Set in Germany immediately after the end of the First World War Drums in the Night has the characteristic poetic sweep and bitterness of Brecht's earliest pre-Marxist period. It is this play which made Brecht famous at the age of twenty-four.
Jeffrey Dench is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Second broadcast

by J. M. NEWTON
'... though one is scanning the open, the distant, at the same time one is imaginatively attending to an interior scene, an aspect of the inner life.' ADRIAN STOKES
Mr. Newton talks about some of rhe landscapes of John Crome.
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by John Crome. 1768-1821. organised by the Arts Council, is at the Tate Gallery in London until December 1

Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Maurice Gendron (cello)
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Schubert Trio in E flat major (D.929)
8.45* Trio in B flat major
(D898)
Recorded in Guildhall on July 18

by D. G. BRIDSON
Thirty-five years ago D. G. Bridson started his career in Manchester as a writer for radio: .-He remembers the cultural scene in which he grew up and the friends with whom he shared ideas with contributions from
KENNETH ADAM , RUTH ADAM JOHN ARLOTT , ISOBEL BAILLIE
MARY CROZIER , FRANCIS DILLON GRACE WYNDHAM GOLDIE
WALTER GREENWOOD , LEONARD HIRSCH EMMANUEL LEVY , Joan LITTLEWOOD L. S. LOWRY. EDGAR LUSTGARTEN EWAN MACCOLL , GILES PLAYFAIR and ROBIN WHITWORTH
Produced by D. G. Bridson
Second broadcast

played by YVONNE LORIOD and THE COMPOSER who introduces the work
Last of seven programmes
Broadcast on September 1. 1967