A weekly programme of recent records

Eileen Poulter (soprano) James Bowman (counter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) John Barrow (bass)
London Bach Society
Colin Tilney (organ continuo)
Steinitz Bach Players
Leader, Alan Loveday
Conductor, Paul Steinitz

Cantata No. 112: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt

9.27* Cantata No. 85: Ich bin ein guter Hirt

A request programme of gramophone records

Record Review
Contributed by EDWARD GREENFIELD HAROLD ROSENTHAL , STEPHEN WALSH
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGD

Opera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
New English translation by Tom Hammond
Music by Verdi The production by Sadler's Wells Opera at the London Coliseum
Producer, Colin Graham
The action takes place In Spain about the middle of the eighteenth century.
ACT 1
Outside Seville: the house of the Marquis of Calatrava
ACT 2
The village of Homachuelos, some weeks later
Scene 1. A tavern
Scene 2. Outside the monastery of the Madonna of the Angels, the same night
Scene 3. Inside the monastery church

Music Programme: The Force of Destiny
In the production by Sadler's Wells Opera at the London Coliseum
Cast in order of singing:

by JOHN OGDON
Part 1

ACT 3
The countryside near Homachuelos Scene 1. Near the Spanish camp. several weeks later
Scene 2. An .encampment, some weeks later

Part 2
3.52* Ballade in F minor Chopin
Part of a recital given In the Hall of Bromsgrove College of Further Education during the 1968 Bromsgrove Festival

ACT 4
Seven years later
Scene 1. The cloister of the monastery
Scene 2. A mountain hermitage above Homachuelos. the same night

AitTHUR HEDI.EY introduces performances of Chopin s impromptu in F sharp maiur and Waltz in A flat major. Op. 64 No. 3, and discusses these with PAUL HAMBURGER and HOWARD FERGUSON. He withholds the identity of the performers until the discussion of each interpretation is complete.
Listeners may find It helpful to have a Chopin Institute edition of these pieces for reference.
Broadcast on June 17. 1966

Piano Quartet in E flat major
(K.493) played by members of the DELME STRING QUARTET Jurgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
ANDRÉ TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)

Georg Buchner's tragedy newly translated from the German by Victor Price
Other principal characters:
Music selected from the works of C. P. E. Bach and played by Lionel Salter on a contemporary piano at the Colt Clavier Collection, Bethersden
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player)
(Second broadcast)

Danton's Death is the only one of Buchner's plays to be published in his lifetime-he wrote it in 1835 when he was twenty-two. The play is based on authentic documents and some of the speeches are taken verbatim from the records. Yet this is more than a mere history play-it is a poem on sensuality, love, and death. It was so far In advance of its time that it did not get a performance until 1913.

Musical director MAURICE CLARE

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written between 1382 and 1387 The first of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Second readina, introducing Criteude: April 26
10.15 GUILLAUME
DE MACHAUT
La messe de Nostre Dame with Gregorian Proper for the Feast of the Assumption AMBROSIAN SINGERS
VIENNA RENAISSANCE PLAYERS
Conducted by JOHN MCCARTHY gramophone record followed by an Interlude at 10.55