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A weekly programme of recent records
Handel Overture: Solomon
VIENNA VOLKSOPER ORCHESTRA conducted by STEPHEN SIMON
8.11* Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2, in E flat major BENNY GOODMAN
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.34* Resphighi Four Symphonic Impressions: Church Windows
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY

No 49: Ich geh' und suche mit Verlangen
No 180: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele

Steinitz Bach Players
leader Alan Loveday
conductor Paul Steinitz

(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

A request programme of gramophone records
Haydn Symphony No 46, in » major
ZAGREB RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO JANIGRO
10.18* Delius Piano Concerto BETTY HUMBY BEECHAM
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
10.42* Sibelius Karelia Suite HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI

Handel's Solomon by WINTON DEAN
Musical Profile: Severino Gaz zeloni, by JEREMY BARLOW
Berg's Lulu, by HUMPHREY SEARLE The Singing Church: book review by FRANK HOWES
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN herbage

Mozart Quartet in D minor (K 421)
12.30* Debussy Quartet In G minor
BARTOK STRING QUARTET

KATHLEEN JONES (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE Part 1
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne
1.17* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c major

See-Through Music
The music of trance, communal ritual, and white magic Introduced by ANNA LOCKWOOD Produced by MADEAU STEWART
(BBC Sound Archives recordings)

Part 2
Haydn Symphony No 102, in B flat major (The Miracle)
2.25* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan

Opera in three acta Music by VERDI Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVI after Le Pasteur, ou
I'Evangile et le Foyer by EMlLE SOUVESTRE and EUGENE BOURGEOIS
For reasons to be explained by Julian Budden in his interval talk, Verdi rewrote this opera, destroying and replacing parts of his original manuscript. Fortunately somebody last year discovered a copyist's full score in the library of the Naples Conservatoire. sung in Italian (first broadcast in this country)
Stankar's guests, congregation CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO REGIO, PARMA chorus-master EDGARDO EGADDI conducted by PETER MAAG
(Recording from the Teatro Regio, Parma, made available by courtesy of Italian Radio)
Salzburg at the beginning of the nineteenth century Act 1
Scene 1 A room in the castle of Count Stankar
Scene 2 The great hall of the castle

A Verdi opera rediscovered
JULIAN BUDDEN talksabout the origin of Stiffelio. its transformation into Aroldo, and its latest revival in the form in which Verdi first conceived it

Act 2 A churchyard near Count Stankar's castle
4.45* Act 3
Scene 1 A room in the castle Scene 2 Inside the church

Roman Writers On Their History
The first of two talks by MICHAEL GRANT in which he considers the Romans' idea of themselves
Roman anti-heroes: 3 November

ANDRE NAVARRA (cello) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Saint-Saens Sonata in c minor, Op 32
613* Reger Suite in A minor, Op 131c No 3, for cello
6.30* Brahms Sonata in F major, Op 99

Mostellaria
A Roman comedy by TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS translated from the Latin by KENNETH MCLEISH
With music by STEPHEN DODGSON The scene is Rome in about 200 bc; then Athens, some years before, or since
The Author, Titus the Clown, a Graeco-Roman Orchestra conducted by ALEXANDER FARIS bouzouki player ANDREA TOUMAZI The comedy arranged and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES

LEONARDO ENSEMBLE
Douglas Whittaker (flute) Janet Craxton (oboe)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet) Douglas Moore (horn)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Hugh Maguire (violin) Trevor Connah (violin) John Coulling (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello)
John Gray (double-bass) Part
Mozart Clarinet Quintet (K 581) Richard Rodney Bennett Wind Quintet (first broadcast performance) e

ANDREW HALE gives the last in his series of six monthly commentaries on Italy today. This month he has been visiting the industrial north of Italy.

Part 2
Schubert Octet in F major

Three 18th-century ladies and their correspondents by JEAN SEZNEC , Fellow of All Souls and Marshal Foch, Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford
These letter-writers express not only their own personality but that of the eighteenth century - ' that vivaciousness which was its special grace ' 3: Madame d'Epinay and Abbé Galiani
' This little creature, born at the foot of Vesuvius, is a phenomenon: a harlequin with the head of Plato.' Madame d'Epinay consoled his exile.
10.50 Interlude

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