A weekly programme of recent records DANIEL SHAFRAN (cello)LYDIA PECHERSKAYA (piano) NOEL LEE (piano) JACQUELINE DU PRÉ (cello)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)

Quartet in D minor, Op. 9 No. 4
HEUTLING STRING QUARTET Werner Heutling (violin)
Oswald Gattermann (violin) Erich Bohlscheid (viola) Konrad Hasler (cello)
Broadcast on Sept. 29. 1967
9.24* Content; The Sailor's Song
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) gramophone record
9.32* Quartet in D minor, Op.
76 No. 2
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) gramophone record

A request programme of gramophone records
Festival Overture. Shostakovich
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON VERA SOUKUPOVA (contralto) CZECH PHILHARMONIC '
Chorus AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KAREL ANCERL C.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER

Record Review
Contributed by NOEL GOODWIN TREVOR HARVEY
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Acts 2 and 3 From the music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL The Wieland Wagner production
Tho action takes place In legendary times
Act 2
A wild, rocky place
1.30* Interval
1.50* Act 3
The top of a rocky mountain
Recording of a performance at tho 1968 Bayreuth Festival, made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
DURING THE INTERVAL (1.30'-1.50*)
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) gramophone record

Ida Haendel (violin)
BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra Leader. Tom Rowlette
Conductor, James Loughran
From The Music Hall
Part 1
: commissioned by the BBC Music Programme

by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH , Chairman of the Scottish branch of the Composers' Guild

Part 2: Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major See also Monday, 4.0 p.m.

Quintet in E minor, Op. 50 played by JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) with members of the Music GROUP OF LONDON
The last programme In the Boccherini series

7: Microbes and Molecules by DR. D. J. COVE
University of Cambridge
Our understanding of the way hereditary information is used has increased through work on microorganisms. That these insights will be of use to man in breeding animals and plants is distinctly feasible-they may even, some day, show the way to correct hereditary abnormalities in man. Second broadcast Final talk in the series, by Professor T. M. Sonncbom: December 1

NEW YORK CHAMBER SOLOISTS
The tenth of twelve programmes including music by Couperin

by Jan Carew with Paul Whitsun-Jones and Belle Gonzalez
'A rivernian's the man for me Follows the river to the sea
Woh-lay, Woh-la, Wok-lav, Woh-la '
Singer, BELLE GONZALEZ
The action takes place on and near the Canje river in Guyana.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast

Romantically ramshackle Mother India was an image needed by the British imagination: still by that of some Indians. Does it really do India justice or do things look different if you are directly involved. on the spot, in her social and economic progress?
RANJIT PAL
Director of Agriculture Marketing and Rural Finance, Maharashtra State talks to MICHAEL LIPTON
Fellow in Economics at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and author of Assessing Economic Performance

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
STEPHEN DODGSON talks about Beethoven's Quartet in F minor. Op. 95 as performed by the AMADEUS, BUPAPEST, BUSCH, JUILLIARD, HUN-GAKIAN. LENER, ROTH, and other quartets

by ALAN PRYCE-JONES
A monthly commentary in which Mr. Prvce-Jones talks about the arts and the social Scene is and around New York

Part 1
See facing page and page 45

Recent and unpublished verse selected by TERENCE TILLER
Readers, CHRYS SALT
Denis GOACHER , PETER MARINKER including poems by: Jennifer Hales , Elizabeth Jennings , Chrys Salt, John Fairfax. Zulfikar Ghose,
Denis Goacher , Frederick Grubb , John Knight , David Tribe. Peter Williamson