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played by the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA with CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
Overture: The Italian Girl In
Algiers (Rossini)
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
7.12* Valse triste (Sibelius)
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.18* Concertstiick in F minor
(Weber)
CLAUDIO ARRAU with Orchestra
Conducted by Alceo GALLIERA
7.37* Two Elegiac Melodies (Grieg)
Conducted by GEORGE WELDON
7.48' Capriol Suite (Warlock)
Conducted by HERBERT MENGES on gramophone records

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Leader, Ivor McMahon
Conducted hy
MAURITS SILLEM

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Dvorak
Records of the Violin Sonatina and excerpts from the Biblical Songs and the Moravian Duets

Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
Melos Ensemble

Overture in C major, in the Italian style (Schubert)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
11.8* Romance No. in F major,
Op. 50 (Beethoven)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
11.17* Six German Dances (K.600)
(Mozart)
VIENNA MOZART Ensemble
Conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY on gramophone records
This programme Is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenllh-G.E. Pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham. and Dover. Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a special receiver, or an adapter for use with an existing receiver. is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.

tHeather Harper (soprano)
In this programme HEATHER HARPER accompanied by GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) sings

FERDINAND CONRAD (recorder) with Hugo RUF (harpsichord) JOHANNES KOCH
(viola da gamba)
Sonata in D minor. Op. 1 No.
1 (J. B. Loeillet )
12.0* Sonata No. 7, in C major
(Handel) on gramophone records

from Guildhall
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY with THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS

† ALAN JEFFERSON looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in Northern Ireland, Wales, and the West during the next seven days and are not being broadcast

Part 2
Recording of a lunetttime concert given in Guildhall In the City of London by the BBC and the Corporation of London on April 1

Suite: Le coq d'or (Rimsky-
Korsakov)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EFREM KURTZ
2.28* Havanaise (Saint-Saens)
RUGGIRRO Ricci with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO Gamba
2.38* Escales (ibert)
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PAUL PARAY
2.53* Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
(Debussy, arr. Ravel)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on gramophone records

(piano)
Prelude (Partita No. 3, In E major (Bach, arr. Rachmaninov)
3 4* Air with variations (Suite
No. 5, in E major) (Handel)
3.9* Impromptu in A flat major
(D.899 No. 4) (.Schubert)
3.14* Waltz in A flat major.
Op. 64 No. 3 (Chopin)
3.17* Carnaval (Schumann) on gramophone records

Music by Gounod
Words by JULES BARBIER and MICHEL CARRÉ on gramophone records Sung in French Marguerite
PARIS OPERA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
The action takes place In a medieval German town
Act 1 Faust's study
Act 2 A public square
Act 3 The garden outside Marguerite's house
Act 4 Scene 1: The interior of a church
Scene 2: The church square
Act 5 A prison
The aged Faust makes a bargain with Mephistopheles to forfeit his soul in exchange for renewed youth. He meets Marguerite. falls in Jove with her. and finally seduces her. Valentine, Marguerite's soldier brother, returns from the wars and learns of his sister's dishonour. He challenges Faust to a duel. They fight. Mephistopheles knocks up Valentine's sword and Faust mortally wounds him. Marguerite implores forgiveness, but Valentine curses her and dies. She is imprisoned for murdering her child but refuses to escape with Faust and Mephistopheles. Her soul is borne up to Heaven, while Mephistopheles drags Faust down to Hell.

JOHN BIRCH
From Chichester Cathedral

Illustrated explanations of some standard musical terms
1: Ostinato
† by ROGER NORTH

Lesson 27
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Anthony Watson and George Walton Scott
Produced by George Walton Scott
Broadcast on March 30, 1964

4: The Romance languages today
† by R. C. JOHNSTON
Professor of French Language and Literature, University of London

4: Accents and attitudes in the Commonwealth by A. C. GIMSON
Reader in Phonetics,
University College, London 1

St. John Passion
EILEEN POULTER (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR
JOHN MOREHEN (organ continuo)
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON
Conducted by MARTINDALE SIDWELL
From a public concert in St. Clement Danes, London
Part 1

A second conversation between HERBERT READ and ANDREW FORGE
After having been together to see the exhibition Art in Britain 1930-1940, the speakers re-examine some of their earlier conclusions about the British art of that period, as they were expressed in the New Comment conversation of March 17.

St. John Passion
Part 2

DERYCK COOKE examines the piano style of forty years ago as exemplified by piano-rolls of the period
The illustrations were recorded for .he reproducing piano by JOSEF LHÉVINNE
First of three talks
Second broadcast
Second talk: April 15 followed by an interlude at 10.50

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