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A weekly programme of recent records
Symphony No. 29, in A major (K.201) (Mozart)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Colin Davis

8.28 Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6 No. 2 (Corelli)
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Robert Masters (violin) Derek Simpson (cello) with the Bath Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Yehudi Menuhin

8.40 Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber (Hindemith)
Cleveland Orchestra
Conducted by George Szell

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BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by ALBERTO BOLET
Symphony No. 23, in G major
9.20* Symphony No. 93, In major

A request programme of gramophone records
Serenade in D minor (Dvorak) LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Conducted by KARL HAAS
10.10* Piano Concerto No. 2, In
G major (Tchaikovsky)
SHURA CHERKASSKY with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by RICHARD KRAUS
10.46* Symphonic Poem: The
Fiddler's Child (Janacek)
BRNO STATE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by BRETISLAV BAKALA

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Harry Plunket Greene (1865-1936) by SIR STEUART WILSON
Schoenberg's ' Moses and Aaron ' by NOEL GOODWIN
Musical Profile: Gennadi Rozh destvensky by ARTHUR JACOBS
Glyndebourne: book review by HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Words and music by Wagner
Act
Sung in German on gramophone records
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGI. ER
The scene is the garden of Tristan's castle in Brittany.
Tristan, mortally wounded, Is sustained only by the memory of Isolde; Kurwenal has summoned her from Cornwall. but Tristan grows rapidly weaker and more delirious. When Isolde arrives, he collapses and dies in her arms. Another ship brings King Mark and the treacherous Melot, whom himself being slain. Mark has come to forgive the lovers, but he Is too late; Isolde, singing a last ecstatic song, falls lifeless on Tristan's body.

NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA
Leader, Joseph Segal
† Condudor,
BORIS BROTT

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

A concert of music by Monteverdi
April Cantelo (soprano) Janet Baker (conlralto) Peter Pears (tenor) Robert Tear (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Emanual Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Keith Harvey (cello) George Malcolm (harpsichord)
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Part 1

Canzonetta: Amor che deggio far?

3.7* Trio: Gira il nemico insidioso

3.15* Amor, dicea (Lamento delta ninfa)

3.21* Duet: Zefiro torna

3.29* Canzonetta: Chiome d'oro, bei tesoro

† DENIS STEVENS , Professor of Music, Columbia University in the City of New York, talks about Monteverdi as a master of vocal chamber music and aria

Part 2
L'lncoronazione di Poppea
Disprezzata rcgina (Ottavia)
Signer. le tue parole (Poppea and Nerone)
Sento un certo non so che
(Valletto)
Solitudine amato (Seneca and Liberto)
Addio Roma (Ottavia)
Idolo del cor mio (Poppea and Nerone)
4.25* Movete al mio bel suon
(Il Ballo: Volgendo il ciel)

(piano)
Schubert
Three piano pieces (D. 946) on a gramophone record

played by † RALPH KIRKPATRICK
(harpsichord)
Couperin
Ordre No. 23
L'audacieuse
Les tricoteuses L'arlequine
Les gondoles de Délos
Les satires (chèvre-pieds)
5.20* Rameau
Movements from Suite in minor:
Courante
Gigues en rondeau
La villageoise
Le rappel des oiseaux
Rigaudons
Musette en rondeau
Tambourin
Movements from Suite In A minor:
Sarabande
Gavotte et doubles

4: Liverpool-the organisation of confidence
REYNER BANHAM talks to planners and public about Liverpool on the verge of its transformation into a City of the Buchanan age.
Produced by Leonie Cohn
Second broadcast

A poem in four parts by Thorn Gunn
Argument
1: The Last Man
2: Memoirs of the World 3: Elegy on the Dust 4: The First Man
Read by ALAN DOBIE and JULIAN GLOVER
Introduced by THOM GUNN Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Second broadcast

(piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Led by Andrew McGee
Conducted by Colin Davis
From the Royal Festival Hall London
Part 1

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM renects on his first and subsequent encounters with the formidable personality of the composer
From the BBC Sound Archives
Second broadcast

Part 2
Viola, Simon Streatfeild

A portrait of the French sculptor
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska killed on the Western Front on June 5, 1915
Compiled by MERVYN LEVY from the recorded recollections of ENID BAGNOLD
ROBERT BEVAN , HORACE BRODZKY
OLIVER BROWN , 0. RAYMOND DREY MISS KATE LECHMERE
ANTHONY LOUSADA, PAUL MORAND EZRA POUND, MIss KITTY SMITH with passages from the writings of Gaudier-Brzeska and others
Henri
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast