A weekly programme of recent records

First of twelve weekly programmes played by the Oromonte Piano Trio Perry Hart (violin)
Kenneth Heath (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)
Trio in A major (H.XV.18)
Trio in E flat minor (H.XV.31)

A request programme of gramophone records

Poulenc and the Melodie by PIERRE BERNAC
Two Purcell Discoveries by HOWARD FERGUSON
Verdi and Victor Hugo by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE Dialogues and a Diary book review by ROBERT HENDERSON
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

ANNON LEE SILVER (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone)
GERAINT JONES SINGERS
Obblioati:
Celia Nicklin
(oboe and oboe d'amore)
Susan Leadbetter (oboe d'amore) Geoffrey Gainbold (bassoon)
Continuo:
Alan Harverson (chamber organ and harpsichord)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass) GERAINT JONES ORCHESTRA Leader, Winifred Roberts
Conductor, GERAINT JONES
Cantata No. 154:
Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren
12.20* Cantata No. 155:
Mein Gott , wie lang', ach lange
12.35* Cantata No. 156:
Ich steh' mit einem Fuss im Grabe

GYÖRGY PAUK (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Jeffrey Wakefield
Conductor, COLIN DAVIS
Part 1
Overture: La clemenza di Tito
1.2* Violin Concerto No. 4. in D major (K.218)

Comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Enrico Golisciani after Moliere's comedy L'Amour Medecin
English version by Claude Avelino
Music by Wolf-Ferrari
Cast in order of singing:
Doctors:
A chorus of servants
BBC Northern Singers
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by John Matheson
Repetiteur, John Bacon
Produced by Ernest Warburton

ACT 1
The garden of Don Arnolfo's house

ACT 2
A drawing-room in Don Arnolfo's house

First broadcast performance in this country

(Eric Shilling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.)

See page 39

Symphony No. 40, In G minor
(K.550)
Given before an Invited audience In BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

L'Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles): a drama in three acts by Alphonse Daudet translated by Edward Sackville-West.
Bizet's music Is performed in accordance with the composer's directions as indicated in his original score for the first performance in Paris In 1872.
ACT 1: The courtyard of Le Castalet. a farm in Provence. May 1. 1860
ACT 2: Scene 1 Near the Pool of Vaccares, in the salt marshes of the Camargue. Towards the end of May.
Scene 2 In the kitchen of Le Castalet. A week later.
ACT 3: Scene 1 The courtyard of Le Castalet. June 21.
Scene 2 The room under the hay-loft at Le Castalet. Later that night.
First broadcast In June 1962.

† Denis ARNOLD
Professor of Music in the University of Nottingham discusses some of the problems arising out of the interpretation of the Monteverdi Vespers as recorded by ROBERT CRAFT. HANS GRISCHKAT , JÜRGEN JORGENS, ANTHONY LEWIS , DENIS STEVENS , and others
† Broadcast on June 24, 1968

by IAN WATT
Professor of English at Stanford University. California, and author of The Rise of the Novel.
I: The Roman Analogy
In the first of three talks based on his work-in-progress, Professor Watt examines the pervasive force of the cultural Ideal of the Roman Augustans upon English life and literature during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Recorded for the BBC in Palo Alto. California
' Second broadcast
2-The Georgian Background: January 16

played by JAMES GIBB (piano)
Sonata in B major (D.575)
6.33* Sonata in F sharp minor
Allegro moderato (D.571)
Untitled movement in A (D.6040 Scherzo (D.570); Allegro (D.570) it is assumed that these movements belong to a sonata in F sharp minor which Schubert Is known to have begun In 1817. The first and last are Incomplete, each lacking a recapitulation section: in this performance they have been completed by J. P. Dougherty
Second of seven programmes, to include some of the less often performed sonatas
Sonata in A minor (D.845) (Maurice Cole): January 11

Sonata in B minor played by IGOR OZIM (violin) and ERNEST Lush (piano)
Broadcast on May 22. 1963