A programme of recent records ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRAConducted by Johan HYE-KNUDSEN Artur Rubinstein (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY U.S.S.R. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Konstantin IVANOV David Clatworthy (baritone) Boston SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF

Cantata No. 101: Nimm von uns,
Herr, du treuer
Gott Barbara ELSY (soprano)
SYLVIA ROWLANDS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN Shirley-Quirk (baritone) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
Continuo:
John Constable (organ)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
Obbligati:
Richard Adeney (flute)
Peter Graeme , Edward Selwyn (oboes and oboes d'amore) Neil Black (cor anglais) Denis Clift (trumpet)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by PAUL Steinitz
Broadcast on March 18. 1967
9.37* Suite No. 4, in D major
MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records

introduces records of his own choice

AMADEUS String QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No.
12.20' Quartet in D minor. Op. 76
No.
Broadcast on July 1

CITY OF Birmingham SYMPHONY Orchestra Leader, Felix Kok
Conducted by STANISLAW Skhowaczewski
Part 1

A talk by Dame ETHEL SMYTH
From the BBC Sound Archives

Part 2
From Birmingham Town Hall

An opera in three acts
Libretto by CEDRIC Cliffs based on the novel by Joseph Conrad
Music by John Joubert
First broadcast performance The New Opera Company production from the 1969 Camden Festival Cast in order of singing:
Members of the FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSIC GROUP
NEW OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, Lionel Bentley
Conductor. LEON Lovett
The action takes place In St. Petersburg and Geneva about 1912 ACT I
Scene 1. Student lodgings in St.
Petersburg
Scene 2. The same
ACT 2
Scene 1. A park In Geneva
Scene 2. Lasparov's flat in Geneva

Razumov, a student - Nigel DOUGLAS (tenor)
Volodya, a student - NEILSON TAYLOR (baritone)
Haldin, a student - WILLIAM McALPINE (tenor)
First policeman - Charles KERRY (bass)
Second policeman - JACK DONERT (boss-baritone)
General Mikulin, Chief of police - Robert LLOYD (bass)
Waiter. - RICARDO Gonzales (baritone)
A Swiss husband - CHARLES KERRY (bass)
A Swiss wife - Charlotte MORGAN (mezzo-soprano)
Madame Haldin - NOREEN BERRY (mezzo-soprano)
Natalia Haldin - Margaret Gale (soprano)
A schoolteacher (spoken role) - MOIRA Riley
Nikolai Lasparov - DAVID LENNOX (tenor)
Tekla, his daughter - NOELLE BARKER (soprano)
Sophia Kilurian - CLARE WALMESLEY (soprano)
Grisha - ERIC GARRETT (bass-baritone)
Sasha Petrov - HUGH SHEEHAN (baritone)
Irina Andreyev - MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
Dmitri Andreyev, her husband - JOHN HAUXVELL (baritone)

A series of illustrated talks by NAZIR Ali JAIRAZBHOY
4: Southern Maliarashtra
Produced by Madeau Stewart
From the BBC Sound Archives

Act 3
Scene 1. A park In Geneva
Scene 2. Lasparov's flat

H. C. ROBBINS LANDON stakes a claim for the recognition of Haydn's younger brother and talks in particular about some of the concertos and the choral music
Recorded in collaboration with Italian Radio: broadcast in 1966

Symphony No. 6
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KyrilKonuhashin gramophone record

or Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw with Margaret Wolfit , Lewis Fiander and Nigel Anthony
Borrowing the style-and occasionally a line-from earlier sources, the author relates, in Elizabethan blank verse, the passionate love story of a handsome young prizefighter and a beautiful heiress. with Peter Baldwin. David Brierley Peter Tuddenham , Garard Green
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.50

Hazel Holt (soprano) Gydrgy Pauk (violin)
BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Erich Schmid
Part 1
See page 46

Ernest Hemingway died In 1961 and for the past seven years Professor Carlos Baker of Prince-ton University has been working on the official biography Ernest Hemingway : a Lite Story with unprecedented access to letters and personal papers.
MALCOLM BRADBURY , head of the Department of American Studies, University of East Anglia, explains why, despite the fact that Professor Baker has ' collected the facts beautifully,' he finds the book fundamentally unsatisfactory.

Part 2: Brahms
Symphony No. 4, in E minor
From the Royal Hall, Harrogate Presented by the BBC tn association with the Harrogate Festival of Arts and Sciences

tA A programme of sijo translated and introduced by GRAEME Wilson , and read by the translator and FRANCES HOOKER
Mr. Wilson traces the history, and illustrates the variety, of what has been the characteristic form of Korean poetry from the eleventh century until the present day.

BARRY McDANIEL (baritone) Aribert Reimann (piano)
Broadcast on November 4. 1966