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Music to start the day

Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

7.13* Scherzo in B flat major (Mussorgsky) - Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind

7.17* Theme and Variations (Suite No. 3, in G major) (Tchaikovsky) - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Barylli (solo viola), conducted by Rudolf Kempe

7.36* Emperor Waltz (Johann Strauss) - Philharmonia Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Henry Krips

7.46* Ballet Music: Othello (Verdi) - Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ference Fricsay

7.52* Kolo (Ero the Joker) (Gotovac) - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Kempe

(on gramophone records)

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conducts the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Menuetto. Rondo, Marcia alia francese (Divertimento in D major) (K.251J (Mozart)
8.14* Dumbarton Oaks (Stravinsky)
8.28* Concertone In C major. for two viotins, oboe. cello, and orchestra (K.l90) (Mozart)
EMANUEL HURWITZ and En GOREN (violins) Pt;TER GRAEMF. (oboe) TEIU:NCE WElL (cello) on gramophone recorda

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Debussy
Records of excerpts from his early cantata, L'enfant prodigue, and Act I of Pellias et Mélisande

Piano Sonata No.2 in A flat major...Weber
10.12* String Quartet in D minor, Op.42...Haydn
10.30* Clarinet Quintet in B flat major...Weber

Hamish Milne (piano), Amati String Quartet with Jack Brymer (clarinet)

(Next week: String Quartet in D major - Dartington Quartet)

Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by MICHAEL KREIN

Conductor. BRIAN JUDGE
Little shepherd: Ltment Ilasa the wUcb

Debussy and Rachmaninow JOAN DAVIES (piano)
Debussll Voiles ; Feux d'artifice
12.0* Rachmaninou
E fiat major, Op. 23 No. B minor, Op. 32 No. 10
D flat major, Op. 32 No. 13

Part 1
Suite: The Wand of Youth, No. 1 (Elgar) - London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Eduard van Beinum

12.35* Bassoon Concerto In B fiat major (K.191) (Mozart) - Henri Helaerts (bassoon) with the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Anthony Collins

on gramophone records

tCHRISTOPHER GRIER looks at some of the outstandir:oJ musical events that are taking place in the North during the next seven days and are not being broadcast

Part
Symphony No. (Bax) GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
1.41* Rhapsody: Brigg Fair
(Delius)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM on gramophone records

JON CURLE introduces records of music by Frank Loesser Written by BENNY GREEN

6: Feodor Chaliapin . on a gramophone record

by GILLIAN WEIR
France. Leicester Square. London

AUEGRI STRING QUARTET
Part of a concert given In January to members of the Llandudno Music Club

Symphony in A minor (Vanhat) SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Directed by KARL RISn :NPART
513* Forging Scene (Siegfried)
(Wagner)
WOl.FGANG WINDGASSEN (tenor) and GERHARD STOLZE (tenor) with the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORG SOLTI
528* Concerto for Orchestra
(Tippett)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS on gramophone records

Programmes by brass and military band.
BAND OF THE
GRENADIER GUARDS
Conductor,
CAPTAIN RODNEY BASHFORD

Love, meet me in the green glen by John Clare
Introduced and read by PATRIC DICKINSON

Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language
Lesson 10
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Also taking part:
Heidi Treutler , Gerda Koeppler David Hadda , René Halketl
Written and produced by Edith R. Baer
Repeated on Saturday, May 8, at 11.35 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet Is available

Seven programmes about the changes in economic thought and practice In the last thirty years.
2: The Conquest of Unemployment
NICHOLAS DAVENPORT describes the background to Keynes' revolutiunary ideas, bow these ideas came to be applied during the war, and how the Labour Government adapted wartime controls in their attempt to plan the post-war economy.
Illustrated by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives and by readings from contemporary sources by WILLIAM Fox
Produced by Robert Hutchison

by ALASTAIR BUCHAN
Director, Institute of Strategic Studies
Now that China has joined the nuclear club, is the Bomb vital to Indian security? Earlier this Year, Mr. Buchan travelled widely in India. In this talk he reports on the climate of opinion about nuclear weapons, and offers his own analysis of Indian defence problems and the likelihood of nuclear decision.

A performance in French of Acts 3 and of Racine's tragedy which was broadcast in English on Sunday
Characters in order fspeaking:
Produced by Georges Hacquard on gramophone records in the series
L'Encyclopédie Sonore
Pyrrhus. the son of Achilles. has returned to his kingdom of Epirus with Andromache. Hector's widow. and her little son among his cap.
Andromache. The Greeks. alarmed lest Hector's son should grow up to lead the revenge of the Trojans. have sent Orestes to urge that Pyrrhus fulfil his vow to marry Hermione. the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. and that he kill Hector's little son. Act 3 begtn:i -at the point where Pyrrhus. having failed to persuade Andromache to marry him. has at last consented to marry Hennlone who deeply loves him and In turn loved by Orestes. Orestes. who had secretly hoped mione's hand. Is deeply enraged

JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
Conductor, JOHN ALLDIS MALCOLM BINNS (piano) PORTIA WIND ENSEMBLE
Mary Rvan (flute and piccolo) Thea King (clarinet)
Daphne Down (bass clarineo Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon) with CLIFFORD HAINES (trumpet) MARIA KORCHINSKA (harp) PAUL COLLINS (viola) OLCA HEGEDUS (cello)
JOHN STEER (double-bass)
Conducted by JOHN CAREW .
French and Italian Music
Part

EAN WOOD discusses the achievement of the Goons in the context of radio comedy. and Illustrates the nature of their humour with a number of Important quotations from the show

Part 2
Before an Invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Send applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. [address removed]
Next invitation concert: March 11: music by Roberto Gerhard

4: Alien Sociology by ANTHONY MANSER
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Maryland Mr. Manser considers some of the societies of aliens which are described in science fiction-societies of amocboids, for example. or telepathic societies. He concludes that these, although ingenious. are implausible.