A weekly programme of recent records

Bach
ILSE WOLF (soprano)
ROSANNE CREFFIELD (contralto) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
Christopher KEYTE (baritone)
THAMES CHAMBER Choir
HAROLD LESTER (organ continuo)
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Marjorie Lavers
Conducted by MICHAEL DOBSON
Part of a concert recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London

A request programme of gramophone records

Sir Adrian Boult : an 80th birthday greeting by MICHAEL KENNEDY
Messiaen and the Orchestra by ROGER SMALLEY
Messager and ' Monsieur Beau caire ' by MARK LUBBOCK Jazz Composition
Book review by STEVE Race Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

La rencontre imprévue
A comic opera in three acts by Gluck
Libretto by L. H. DANCOURT
English translation by GEOFFREY DUNN
GEORGE HAGAN (narrator)
KEITH ELCOMBE
(harpsichord continue)
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by ANTONIO de ALMEIDA
Produced by Julian Budden
ACT 1
A public place In Cairo
12.27* ACT 2
A pavilion furnished in the Indian style
1.0* ACT 3
A Caravanserai
Broadcast on February 8, 1968
Derek Hammond-Stroud broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Leader, Brendan O'Brien
Conducted by GEORGE HURST with JOHN BROWNING (piano)

for British and Commonwealth Duos and Trios
Prizewinners' Concert
The first prizewinners In each category play their selected Beethoven works.
The prizes are presented by the BBC's Controller of Music, William dock
During the Interval
Competitors and members of the adjudicating panel talk to the panel's Chairman, JOHN MANDUELL
From the Great Hall.
Darlington College of Arts

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared tPAUL HAMBURGER discusses some of Fauré's songs including Clair de lune; Le soir; Après un rêve sung by VICTORIA DE los ANGELES Pierre BERNAC , CHARLES PANZERA GÉRARD SOUZAY, and ttthers
Second broadcast

String Quintet in F major
DIE KAMMERMUSIKER
Brenton Langbein (violin) Florenza Goilav (violin) Ottavio Corti (viola)
Angelo Maccabiani (viola) Alexandre Stein (cello)
Broadcast on October 10, 1968

A conversation piece by John O'Hare with Patience Collier as Lady Wilde
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
See page 40 followed by an interlude at 7.25

from the Royal Albert Hall , London Stefania Woytowicz (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Hans Wilbrink (baritone)
Melos Ensemble
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
Wandsworth School
Boys' Choir
Director of Music, Russell Burgess
New Philharmonia Chorus Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
New Philharmonia
Orchestra
Leader, Carlos Villa
Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

In conversation with DAVID SYLVESTER
2: Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns , bom in 1930, first became famous in 1957 through his paintings of targets and the American flag. This conversation was recorded in his house at Edisto Beach, South Carolina.
Third broadcast
Claes Oldenberg : April 15

But, you may ask, how are the dead raisedt In what kind of body! (1 Corinthians 15, v. 35) tAn Easter Meditation by THE REV. DAVID JENKINS
Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford

Second of three recitals by EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBB of some of the music for piano duet
Sonata in C major (D.812)
(Grand Duo)
Broadcast on April 4, 1967