A weekly programme of recent records
Twelve Variations in C major on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman (K.625) (Mozart)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

8.13 Romances from Die schöne Magelone (Brahms)
Keinen hat es noch gereut
Wie soll ich die Freude Ruhe, Sussliebchen, im Schatten
So tonet den, schaumende Wellen
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) with Jorg Demus (piano)

8.32 Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 (Beethoven)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

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BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by DAVID LLOYD JONES
Symphony No. 3 in G major
9.17* Symphony No. 98, in flat major

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: The siege of Corinth
(Rossini)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO GAMRA
9.56* Harpsichord Concerto in D major (Falla)
GONZALO SORIANO with members of the PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA Conducted by RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS
10.12* Symphonic fantastique
(Berlioz)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
21st Anniversary Edition
The Merry Month: An anthology of May songs by ALEC ROBERTSON
Music twenty-one years ago by WILLIAM MANN
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born May 28, 1925): by GERALD MOORE The Great Composers: book review by MARTIN COOPER

Act 2 and Closing Scene, Act 3
Music drama in three acts Words and music by Wagner
Sung in German on gramophone records
Continued in next column
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS and the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORG SOLTI
Acr 2: Gunther's castle on the Rhine
ACT 3: A wooded district by the Rhine
Siegfried has given the all-powerful Ring of the Nibelungs to his bride. Brünnhilde. The evil Hagen, plotting to steal the ring, tricks Siegfalls tn love with Gutrune. To win her hand. he captures Brünnhilde hs a bride for Gutrune's bruther. Gunther. Brünnhilde denounees Siegfried and, together with Hagen and Gunther. plans to kill him.
By the end of Act three. Brünnhilde has learnt the truth, but Sit'g-fried is dead. She orders a great funeral pyre to be erected and rides into it. Valhalla itself is in flames: the power of the gods ts ended

† played by DELME STRING QUARTET
Granville Jones (violin) Jurgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello) with KEITH CUMMINGS (viola)
DOUGLAS CAMERON (cello)

ANTONT HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current Interest

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Given before an Invited audience In BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

(piano)
Rondo in A minor (K.511) (Mozart)
4.10* Le tombeau de Couperin
(Ravel)
4.36* Etude No. 11: pour les arpèses composés (Debussy)
4.41* Don Juan Fantasy (Liszt) on gramophone records

The story of the lutenist John Dowland (1563.1626) reconstructed from his own and contemporary writings by DIANA POULTON and GEOFFREY SKELTON and MICHAEL DEACON , FRANK DUNCAN VALENTINE DYALL. FELIX FELTON DENIS GOACHER , JOAN HART DENYS HAWTHORNE
ROLF LEFEBVRE. PETER MARINKER. and ROSALIND SHANKS
DESMOND DUPRÉ (lute) DAVID CHANNON (lute)
WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) JANTINA NOORMAN (soprano) ROLAND TATNELL (alto)
THE ELIZABETHAN CONSORT
Dennis Nesbitt (treble viol)
Benjamin Kennard (treble viol) Jillian Amherst (tenor viol) Nancy Neild (bass viol)
Dietrich Kessler (bass viol)
Produced by GEOFFREY SKELTON
Second broadcast
Valentine Dyall is appearing to at
Theatre, London

NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by Benjamin Frankel
† Part 1

BENJAMIN FRANKEL who has recently completed his Third Symphony, talks to HANS KELLER about the reasons that have led him to turn to the symphony during the last few years
Second broadcast

Part 2

by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by MAX FADER with Sheila Shand Gibbs
Daphne Slater William Eedle
Pianist, CICELY HOYE
The action takes place in the Helmers' flat In Christiania during Christmas 1879.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
To be repeated on June 18
During the interval (8.35-8.45 p.m.) a record ot movements from Rangström's Divertimento Eleglaco for string orchestra. played by the Stockholm Royal Court Orchestra conducted by Stig Westerberg

† WILLEM NOSKE (violin)
PIET NIJUNO (violin)
CAREL VAN LEEUWEN BOOMKAMP (viola da gamba)
HANS SCHOUMAN (harpsichord) with Lous GOOSSENS (viola da gamba) followed by an interlude at 10.55