A programme of recent records
Variations on a Minuet by Duport

Cantata No. 170: Vergniigte Ruh '. beliebte Seelenlust
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
PHILIP LEDGER (organ)
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN'IN'THE-FIELDS Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
9.30* Prelude and Fugue in A minor (S.543)
HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
9.42* Cantata No. 189:
Meine Seele rühmt und preist RAIMUND Gilvan (tenor)
Members of the HEIDELBERG CHAMBER Orchestra Conducted by HEINZ MARKUS GÖTTSCHE gramophone records

A record request programme

Record Review
Contributed by STEPHEN DODGSON
EDWARD GREENFIELD
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage

AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Quartet broadcast on August 25.
1968; Sextet on August 21. 1968

WALTER KLIEN (piano)
NEW Philharmonia Orchestra
Led by Ernest Scott
Conducted by HAROLD FARBERMAN
Part 1

Remembered by CLARA STEUERMANN , FELIX GREISSLE , and EGON WELLESZ
From the BBC Sound Archives

Part 2: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5, in E minor

Music by Schubert
A romantic opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANZ VON SCHOBER sung in German
First broadcast in this country
Recorded from a public concert tn the Usher Hall at the Edinburgh International Festival 1968 Cast:
Villagers, huntsmen, servants. soldiers
Scottish OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Arthur Oldham
Scottish NATIONAL Orchestra Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor, ALEXANDER GUSOH
See page 37 Act 1
Scene 1 A secluded valley near the borders of Leon
Scene 2 A hall in the royal palace at Ovldeo, capital of Leon
4.20- Interval
4.40. Act 2
Scene 1 As Act 1. Scene 1
Scene 2 An underground vault In
Ovldeo
Scene 3 A hall in the royal palace
5.35* Act 3
As for Act 1. Scene 1
4.20* During the Interval
MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH
INDIA
A series of illustrated talks by Nazir ALl JAIRAZBHOY
2: Bombay-ii
Produced by Madeau Stewart
BBC Sound Archive recording

Education for a profession An enquiry compiled and introduced by MALCOLM MACEWAN
What sort of men and women should tomorrow's architects be— designers, scientists, project managers, co-ordinators, researchers, specialists?-and how should they be educated to do their job and to fit into the design and building teams of the future?
Malcolm MacEwan discusses these questions with architects, students, and teachers
Speakers include:
JANE ABERCROMBIE. REYNER BANHAM
GEOFFREY BROADBENT , PETER COOK
ROGER GILL , DAVID OAKLEY
NICHOLAS HARE , DENYS HINTON
ELIZABETH LAYTON , ALAN LIPMANN
LORD LLEWELLYN-DAVIES
JACK NAPPER , ALEX REID
KEN THORPE :, SIR FREDERICK WARNER
TOM WOOLLEY
Produced by Leonie Cohn
Second broadcast

by Francis King
Professor Kuroda is a Japanese Anglophile — but he has never visited the United Kingdom. The opportunity now presents itself. Yet he hesitates about accepting for fear that the England of reality will destroy his illusions about the England of Literature.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.55

Norma Burrowes (soprano)
Oriel Sutherland (contralto)
Stephen Adams (tenor)
Charles Corp (tenor)
Brian Rayner Cook (bass)
Tilford Festival Choir
Continuo:
Derek Stevens (harpsichord) Anna Shuttleworth (cello)
Keith Marjoram (double-bass)
Tilford Festival Orchestra
Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, Denys Darlow From Cheltenham Town Hall
Part 1
first performance: commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival
For John Metcalf 's Chorales and Variants ' the orchestra divides into two parts, roughly speaking high and low,' writes the composer: ' the first includes flutes, clarinets, horns. violins, and violas; the second, oboes, bas- soons, heavy brass, cellos, basses, and drums.' John Metcalf comes from Swansea, was educated at Cheltenham, and is now at Cardiff with Alun Hoddinott researching the development of percussion in twentieth-century music.

by ANDREW HALE
A series of monthly commentaries on Italy today, recorded in Rome where Mr. Hale lives and works

A miscellany of readings and reviews
This edition includes:
GAVIN EWART discussing Louis Zukofsky 's translation of Catullus, with poems read in English and Latin by Harvey Hall ; JOHN Smith reviewing new collections of poems by Robert Conquest and David Wright ; and new poems by D. M. Thomas and Brian Peters
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

Sonatina in G major, Op. 100 played by JOSEF SUK (violin)
JAN PANENKA (piano)
Broadcast on October 8. 1967