A weekly programme of recent records
MEMBERS OF the BERLIN PHILHARMONICOctet Gerd Seifert (horn)
Manfred Klier (horn)
Alfred Malecek (violin)
Rudolf Hartmann (violin) Kunio Tsuchiya (viola)
Heinrich Majowski (cello)
Rainer Zepperitz (double-bass)

Cantata No. 177: Ich ruf zu dir,
Herr Jesu Christ
9.41* Cantata No. 24: Ein ungefarbt Gemiite
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) NIGEL WICKENS (bass)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL Choir
Continuo:
BARBARA HILL (harpsichord)
ANDREW DAVIS (chamber organ)
LONDON BACH ORCHESTRA Led by Nona Liddell
Conductor. MARTINDALE SIDWELL

A request programme of gramophone records

The 29th Cheltenham Festival with contributions by ALUN HODDI-NOTT, FRANK HOWES. and John MANDUELL
Monteverdi's Motets by Alec ROBERTSON
Three books about Wagner reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE
Edited by Anna instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

A series of programmes including one quartet each week
NORMA FISHER (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violinO Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with John Gray (double-bass)
Haydn broadcast November 10.1968.
January 1968. and Dvorak February 25. 1969

WOMEN'S VOICES OF SCHOLA CANTORUM of OXFORD
Conductor, LASZLO HELTAY
FRENCH Radio PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES BKUCZ
Debussy
Part 1
Images
Bondes de printemps GIGUES Iberia

Ma chere petite Melisando
Reminiscences of Debussy by MARY GARDEN
From the BBC Sound Archive*

Part 2
Nocturnes
Nuages Fetes
Sirenes
Three Symphonic Sketches: La mer
Dp l'aube à midi sur )a mer Jeux de vagues
Dialogues du vent et de la mer
Given in Oxford Town Hall as part of the 1968 English Bach Festival

Final Concert
PURCELL
The Fairy Queen
A concert version devised by PETER PEARS. edited by Benjamin BRITTEN and IMOGEN HOLST
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) MARY WELLS (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor)
GEOFFREY MITCHELL (counter-tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS
Continuo:
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord) BERNARD Richards (cello)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
From Blylhburgh Church
Part I
Oberon's Birthday
3.30* Night and silence

A series of illustrated talks by NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY
1: Bombay—1
Produced by Madeau Stewart
From the BBC Sound Archives

Part 2
The sweet passion
4.45* Evitbatamium

Four talks by EDWARD LOCKSPEISER
3: Gide on Chopin Edward Lockspeiser discusses some views on the sensibility of Andre Gide , his ideas on the interpretation of Chopin and also on some of the musicians of his time, among them Debussy, Strauss, and Stravinsky.
Broadcast on August 8. 1965
Gide, Louys, and their circle: July 6

VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano)
Ballade in A flat major
5.52* Mazurkas
A flat major. Op. 24 No. 3: B flat minor. Op. 24 No. 4: B minor. Op. 30 No. 2; C sharp minor. Op. 30 No. 4; B minor. Op. 33 No. 4; C sharp minor. Op. 41 No 1: E minor. Op. 41 No. 2: G major. Op. 50 No. 1; C sharp minor. Op. 50 No. 3
Broadcast on August 8, 1967

or The Spanish Bawd
Being the Tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea by Fernando de Rojas
Translated by JAMES MABBE adapted for radio by PETER DUVAL SMITH with Nicolette Bernard
Patricia Gallimore , Robert Rletty
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
A new production of the version heard in 1954: second broadcast followed by an interlude at 8.25

B minor Mass
From the Peterskirche, Heidelberg Ursula Buckel
(soprano)
Ortrun Wenkel (contralto) Theo Altmeyer (tenor) Jakob Stampfli (bass)
Heidelberg Bach Choir German Bach Soloists
Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Erich Hübner

A short story by the Neapolitan writer GIUSEPPE MAROTTA translated for the Third
Programme by Guido Waldman Donna Sofia lost the ring her husband, the pizza-vendor, gave her. It may have fallen into the dough she was kneading: at least, that was her explanation.
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Second broadcast