A weekly programme of recent records

Cantata No. 75: Die Elenden sollen essen
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
SYBIL Michelow (contralto)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
NIGEL WICKENS (baritone)
Tilford BACH FESTIVAL Choir
Obbngati:
Mary RYAN (flute)
MARY Murdoch (oboe d'amore) Sarah FRANCIS (oboe d'amore) MICHAEL Laird (trumpet)
Continuo:
Derek STEVENS (chamber organ) GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (bassoon) Oi.ga HtGEims (cello)
Francis BAINES (double-bass)
TOLFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Broadcast on October 3. 1968

A request programme of gramophone records

Tosca, or Sardou seduced by PHILIP Hope-Wallace
Margaret Ritchie (1903-1969) by Anthony LEWIS
The modern Horn book review by BARRY TUCKWELL Vaughan WilliamsandThe Bible by URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage

An opera in three acts
Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Music by Puccini
Sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing
Soldiers, police agents, ladies, nobles, citizens. artisans
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson
Members of the Choir of Upton House School
Trained by.Lionel Sawkins
Members of Hammersmith County School
Trained by Jean Povey
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Edward Downes
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Broadcast on December 25, 1966
The action takes place in Rome in June 1800
ACT 1: The Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle

by AGUSTIN anievas

ACT 2: The Palazzo Fames*
ACT 3: The Castel Sant' Angelo

NORBERT BRAININ (Violin)
George MALCOLM (harpsichord)
Bach
Sonata No. In F minor. for violin and harpsichord
Partita No. in D major, for harpsichord
3.50* Interval A record of 4.10* Sonata No. 3, in C major, for violin
Sonata No. 3, in E major, for violin end harpsichord
From Blythburgh Church

In conversation with DAVID SYLVESTER
10: John Cage
American composer, friend of many New York painters and sculptors, talks to the composer ROGER Smalley and the architect JOHN WEEKS as well as to David Sylvester.
Second broadcast

Piano Quartet in G minor orchestrated by Schoenberg CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Robert Craft gramophone record

Rearranged by Bertolt Brecht
English version, Kenneth Porter
Music by Hans Heimler
Stephen Murray, Nigel Stock, Caroline Mortimer, Perlita Neilson, James Thomason

Substituting his own conviction that the fate of man is man 'for the chnsic belief that man is powerless in the face of fate,' Brecht in 1947 rearranged the 'Antigone of Sophocles' of 442 B.C. by reshaping action, motives, and comment from the early 19th-century translation by the poet Holderlin.
Prelude: Berlin, April 1945

Prologue

The Play

Adapted for radio and produced by H.B. Fortuin
(Second broadcast)

Walter Levin , Henry Meyer
Peter Kamnitzer , Jack Kerstein Part 1
Quartet in D minor, Op. 9 No. 4
Haydn
8.29' Bagatelles, Op. 9 Webern
8.34* Grosse Fuge , Op. 133
Beethoven
From a public concert given on February 23 In the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

WILFRID Mellers, Professor of Music in the University of York, offers some reflections about John Cage occasioned by the recent publication of his book A Year from Monday.

Part 2
Quartet in F major Ravel

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written between 1382 and 1387 The eighth of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Marius Goring as Chaucer Alexander JOHN as Troilus ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIEL WOOLF as Pandarus
Produced by Raymond Raikes e
Ninth reading: June 14

d'Anglebert
Suite No. 3, in D minor
Le tombeau de M. Chambonnieres Chaconne in D major
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)

by STEPHEN GARDINER
Wexham Park Hospital, a 300-bed Regional hospital, has recently opened near Slough. Mr. Gardiner, himself an architect, examines this and others of the buildings designed by the English architects Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya.
Second broadcast