A weekly programme of recent records

No. 182: Himmelskbnig, sei willkommen
JULIA FALK (contralto)
BERT VAN T'HOFF (tenor) JACQUES VILLlSECH (bass)
FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder) Marie LEONHARDT (violin)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR LEONHARDT CONSORT
Gustav LEONHARDT (organ)
Conducted by JORGEN JURGENS gramophone records

A request programme of gramophone records

Albert Roussel (1869-1937) by MARTIN COOPER
Musical Profile: Jaye Consort of Viols, by HENRY RAYNOR
Prokofiev's early operas by ANDREW PORTER
For Musical Box addicts book review by FRITZ SPIEGL
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

A sacred festival drama in three acts by Wagner
Sung in German
Cast:
Knights of the Grail, youths, boys. Bower maidens
CHORUS AND Orchestra OF THE BAYREUTH Festival
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pttz
Conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
The Wieland Wagner production
The action takes place in Northern Spain during the Middle Ages
ACT 1
Scene 1 A glade in the woods near the Grail Castle
Scene 2 The hall of the Grail Castle
1.45* First Interval
2.10* ACT 2
Scene 1 Klingsor's magic castle
Scene 2 Klingsor's magic garden
3.15* Second Interval
3.45* ACT 3
Scene 1 A pleasant landscape In the neighbourhood of the Grail Castle
Scene 2 The hall of the Grail Castle
Recording of a performance at the Bayreuth Festival 1968. made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
During the Intervals
BACH played by RALPH KIRKPATRICK (harpsichord) gramophone records
First interval (1.45)
Partita No. 2, in C minor
Second interval (3.15')
English Suite No. 6, in D minor

A programme In which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
PAUL HAMBURGER discusses with JAMES GIBB the interpretation of the first movement of the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven
The pianists under discussion Include ARRAU, GULDA, KEMPFF, SCHNABEL, GlLELS, BACKHAUS, SERKIN, and others
Second broadcast

A conversation between RAYMOND WILLIAMS and STUART HOOD on the work of this Russian novelist
Solzhenitsyn's two latest books, The First Circle translated by Michael Guybon and published by Collins/Harvill and Cancer Ward translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg and published in two parts by Bodley Head, have yet to be published in the Soviet Union.
Produced by Tony Gould
An excerpt from this conversation was broadcast in ' The Lively Arts' on March 12.

First of three recitals by EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBB of some of his music for piano duet
Andantino varié in B minor
(D.823 No.2) (Divertissement a la franchise)
6.39' Sonata in B fiat major
(D.617)
6.57* Fantasia in F minor
(D.940)
Broadcast on November 27. 1967

by Edward Albee
Adapted by GERRY JONES with Elizabeth Spriggs
Earl Cameron , Robert Beatty
Produced by RONALD MASON
To be repeated on April 23
Elizabeth Spriggs is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company See page 49

The Choice of Hercules
Hercules
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor)
Pleasure
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano)
Virtue....YVONNE MINTON (contralto)
An attendant....JOHN ELWES (tenor)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord and organ continuo)
ORCHESTRA
Led by Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Yvonne Minton broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Should accident cases be taken away from the courts? by HARRY STREET
Professor of English Law in the University of Manchester
Introduced by MICHAEL ZANDER Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics
Seventh of ten programmes
Second broadcast
8. could the legal system be more humane! by Professor Andrew Watson : April 7

by FR. DAMIAN WEBB , O.S.B. Fr. Webb has made recordings of children's games for many years both in this country and on the Continent He now maintains that in girls' singing games lies the last repository of English folk lore.
His talk is Illustrated by his own recordings
To be repeated on April 28

played by the SMETANA STRING QUARTET Jiri Novak violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)