String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 gramophone records
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY Orchestra Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
Victoria and Lassus gramophone records
Stephen Preston (flute) Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Broadcast on April 27
by ROBERT JOYCE
From Llandaff Cathedral
Violin Concerto No. 2, in G minor JASCHA HEIFETZ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone record
England v. New Zealand at Trent Bridge, Nottingham Fourth Day
Ball-by-ball commentaries by: JOHN ARLOTT, BRIAN JOHNSTON ALAN Gibson with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and W E. MERRITT
Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
11.25 a.m.-1.35* p.m. including lunchtime summary
2.10*-4.20* p.m.
Including teatime summary
4.30*-6.37 p.m. including close-of-play summary
When a Test Match is being played the normal Music Programme operates on days when it is known at close of play the day before that there will be no play. On days when play finishes early or is abandoned at any time after it has begun, the Music Programme will resume approximately one hour after play has ceased.
See page 32
Sir John Gielgud talks to MICHAEL ELLIOTT
John Gtelgud is in ' Forty Years On ' at the Apollo Theatre. London See page 30
The trilogy by Robert Lowell
2: My Kinsman, Major Molineux based on the story by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE toith
Robert Beatty , David Bauer Heron Carvic , Robert Howay
Boston. 1770: just before the Revolution. The American states are already seething with the ferment of revolt and their Rattle-snake banner flaunts its warning challenge 'Don'tread on me! ' before the hated symbol of oppression—the Union Flag of Britain.
Cttixeos and others:
Peter Baldwin , Godfrey Kenton
Peter Tuddenham , Margaret Wolfit Joan Miller
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
Repetiteur, Arthur Tatler
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Second broadcast
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
William Bennett (flute): Michael Dobson (oboe); Thea King (clarinet); Roger Birn stingl (bassoon); Ronald Harris (horn); Arthur Wilson (trombone): John Tunnell (violin): Charles Tunnell (cello); Susan Bradshaw (piano); Tristan Fry (percussion) with Philip Jones (trumpet) John Fletcher (tuba)
Ivor Beynon (accordion) Part 1
Seven Haiku, for tenor, wood-wind quartet, and piano
Guitar Fantasia
Cello Sonata
See page 31
Talk by ROBERTO GERHARD from a BBC Sound Archives recording
Part 2: directed by ELGAR HOWARTH
Libra, for guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, percussion, and piano
Nonet, for eight wind instruments and accordion
Recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London