Harty A John Field Suite ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
8.23* Maurice Emmanuel Ouverture pour un conte gai: MEMBERS OF THE BORDEAUX MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
8.29* Ronald Binge Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra: AAGE voss SOUTH GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conductedby THE COMPOSER
8.42* Friedman Viennese Dance No
VICTOR BORGE (piano)
8.46* Sibelius Tone Poem: Finlandia
HALLEORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: the music of John Ireland, by JONATHAN RENNERT.
Summer Retrospect (4): New opera records, reviewed by ALAN BLYTU.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Haydn Armida (Overture and Act 1)
LAUSANNE CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI : records

CENTRAL BAND
OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
(by permission of the Air Force Board of the Defence Council) conducted by WING CDR JOHN MARTINDALE Percy Grainger Shepherd's Hey; Children's march: Over the hills and far away; A Lincolnshire posy

' You're not playing very well -it shows', was Sir Henry Wood 's favourite rebuke to his orchestral Slayers, who rewarded him with standards often far above those to be found in Britain at the time. Today's programme includes records made by Wood in the 1930s.
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat: WALTER GIESEKING , LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
Bach, orch Klenovsky Toccata and Fugue in D minor (awv 565)
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
(Sir Henry Wood conducting Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music: Wednesday 11.15 pm)

First of two programmes featuring the violin sonatas of Prokofiev. CARL PINI (violin)
ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
Prokofiev Sonata No 1, In r minor
Saint-SaënsSonata in » minor, Op 75

JUDITH BLEGEN (soprano) ROSALIND ELIAS (contralto) DAVID RENDALL (tenor) ROBERT HOLL (baSS) VIENNA YOUTH CHORUS
ROMAN SUMMEREDER (Organ) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Part 1 Haydn
Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)

In view of the broadcast of Tristan und Isolde at
5.0 pm, Peter Gellhorn talks about Richard Wag ner's creative character.

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 5, in D
(Austrian Radio recording)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

(cello)
Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
Debussy Sonata in D minor, for cello and piano gramophone record

Music-drama in three acts by Wagner
(sung in German)
The Welsh National Opera production, direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff Cast in order of singing:
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
CHORALE, chorus-master JULIAN SMITH
ORCHESTRA OF THE
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA leader JOHN STEIN conducted by REGINALD GOODALL
The true Wagnerian sound veiling up from the 'depths of the subconscious ... an interpretation that is grand and solemn yet suffused ... With erotic incandescence.
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Ezra Pound has been a major presence in modern literature but this does not mean that he has been widely read or easily understood.
Denis Donoghue , Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, considers Michael Alexander 's recent book The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound and reflects on the reader's role in interpreting Pound's poetry.

Act 2

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty ' to the poet, but a biologist is bound to see it as something closer to a lie. For what possible biological advantage can have been gained from aesthetic appreciation? What possible counterpart can exist in nature for, say, an abstract painting? Dr Nick Humphrey of King's College, Cam-bridge. argues that a love of beauty has given man a unique ability to order and classify the objects around him and so better understand the world. Readers ANDREW BRANCH JOHN GABRIEL
HENRY KNOWLES
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN followed by an interlude

Act 3

given by ROSEMARIE WRIGHT Haydn Sonata in E minor (h xvi 34)
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 49 No 2
Schubert Three Impromptus (D 946)