! A programme of recent records

ALISON HARGAN (soprano)
Barbara ROBOTHAM (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) -
JOLYON DODGSON (bass-baritone)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Obbliaati:
Jennifer Paull (oboe d'amore) Glenva Wates (cor anglais) Ifor James (horn)
Continuo:
Keith Elcombe (chamber organ) Arthur Thornton (bassoon) Kenneth Jepson (cello)
Jeffrey Box (double-bass)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
Orchestra, led by James Davis
Directed by STEPHEN WILKINSON (harpsichord)
No. 186: Arg're dich, 0 Seele, nicht
No. 136: Erforsche mich, Gott
Broadcast on August 4. 1968

AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) gramophone records

Henryk Szeryng introduces records of his own choice

ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
Hugh Maguire , David Roth
Patrick Ireland. Bruno Schrecker

IGOR OISTRAKH (violin)
HUNGARIAN STATE SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by MIKLOS ERDELY 1
Part 1

A talk by REGINALD JACQUES
From the BBC Sound Archives

Concert: Part 2
A public concert given In the Royal Festival Hall. London, on March 5

The Sleeping Beauty
A musical fable in three acts
Words by GIAN BISTOLFI
Music by Ottorino Respighi sung in Italian: first broadcast performance in this country
Frogs, fairies, birds, flowers, courtiers
CHORUS OF ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master, Ruggero Maghinl TURIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARTURO BASILE
The action takes place in Fairyland ACT 1 (1620)
Scene 1 The forest
Scene 2 A hall in the king's palace ACT 2 (1640)
Scene 1 A room high up In the palace
Scene 2 A hall In the palace
ACT 3 (The present day) Scene 1 The forest
Scene 2 The royal palace
Recording made available by cour* tesy of Italian Radio
See page 37

Schubert: The Solitary
HUGUES CUÉNOD (tenor) Martin ISEPP (piano)
CELIA ARIELI (piano)
Broadcast on October 20. 1968 followed by an interlude

North Indian classical music, increasingly familiar in the West, is basically the art music of the cities. NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY talks about the other music to be heard on the Indian scene.
Broadcast on January 4

AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
Broadcast on February 10. 1967

Quintet in D major (K.593). - Mozart
6.17* Quartet in F major, Op. 135 - Beethoven

by Jonathan Power
This year is the centenary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi , the greatest apostle of the theory and practice of non-violence. The voices of GANDHI and MARTIN LUTHER KING are heard in this programme, for which special interviews have been made with, among others: JAMES BALDWIN , LORD CHALFONT BERNADETTE DEVLIN , M.P. THE REV. JAMES LAWSON SIR BASIL LIDDELL HART
LORD MOUNTBATTEN,ADAM ROBERTS ROBERT SCHEAR , BOBBY SEALE GENE SHARP, KAMIL WINTER
Produced by Daniel Snowman
Second broadcast

Conductor, MICHAEL HOWARD RALPH DOWNES (organ)
From Ealing Abbey
Part 1

by MONROE ENGEL
A number of young American men manage to avoid the draft by going to live, as legal immigrants, in Canada. What sort of people are they, and what kind of life do they live north of the border?

Part 2

by teonard Barras
' think with more felicity of Daniel Danvers as Shortie in Ibsen's Ghosts by S. K. Wibstaff, but I'll grant that he brought to Tom the Foot a new breadth, or width, or longitude. I see him now ... stepping down from his mother's bicycle ... to brief the assembled cast.' HUBERT MERRIFIELD the Wallsend poet
Melodeon player, TREVOR HOLROYD
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Symphony No. 1, In D major LONDON Symphony ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORG SOLTI gramophone record