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A weekly programme of recent records
Concerto in D major, Op. 11 No. 8 (Bonporti)
Benedetto Marcello Ensemble

8.17 Four Sacred Pieces (Verdi)
Emma Bruno De Sanctis (soprano) and the Florence Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Ettore Gracis

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BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by HARRY NEWSTONE
Symphony No. 33, in C major
9.22* Symphony No. 73, in D major (La Chasse)

A request programme of gramophone records
The Ball Scene and the Elopement
(Love in Bath) (Handel, arr. Beecham)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM with Ilse HOLLWEG (soprano)
10.9* Old American Songs (Copland) WILLIAM WARFIELD (baritone) witn the COLUMBIA Symphony ORCHESTRA Conducted by the composer
10.23* Pastoral Symphony
(Vauahan Williams)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT with MARGARET RITCHIE (soprano)

Concerto No. 18, in B flat major
(K.456)
PETER WALIFISCH (piano)
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS
Conductor. HARRY BLECH
Second broadcast
11.31* Concerto No. 19, in F major
(K.459)
INGRID HAEBLER (piano)
LONDON Symphony ORCHESTRA
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS on a gramophone record

by Bizet
An operetta in one act Libretto by LEON BATTU and Ludovic HALEVY
English translation by DAVID HARRIS
Mayor JOHN HEDDLE NASH (baritone)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by PETER RORKE and VIVIAN A. DANIELS

MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin)
ARTUR BALSAM (piano)

ALEC ROBERTSON discusses a work or theme of current interest

APRIL CANTELO (soprano) PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
KEITH HARVEY (cello)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD who also plays the harpsichord continuo in the Handel works
Part 1

H. C. ROBBINS LANDON talks about the two Haydn works in this concert

Part 2

played by Edith Picht-Axenfeld
(harpsichord)
F sharp minor (L.32) A maior (L.391)
E major (L.23)
D minor (L.366) D minor (L.413)
G minor (L.38)
B flat major (L.39)
G minor (L.386)

BARBARA ELSY (soprano)
MELOS ENSEMBLE

The new chance by GRAEME SHANKLAND
The last of a group of talks on town planning and regionalism The proposal to set up a Land Commission: the forthcoming recommendations of the Planning Advisory Group to the Ministry of Housing: the recently published R.I.B.A. report on the shortage of qualified planners : these are all attempts, from different angles, to grapple with the new situation in town planning—a situation both critical and hopeful. Graeme Shankland. Planning Consultant to Liverpool and to Bolton Corporations. suggests what miyht be done about it. :.nd how it could be done.
Second broadcast

An anthology of poems by DANNIE ABSE , A. ALVAREZ KAREN GERSHON
Michael HAMBURGER Philip HOBSBAUM MICHAEL HOROVITZ
ARTHUR JACOBS. Rosemary Joseph Bernard Kops , LAURENCE LERNER JON SILKIN , and NATHANIEL TARN
Introduced by JOHN KERSHAW
Read by the authors themselves
Produced by GEORGE MACBETH

Centenary Concert
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Akeo Watanabe
Introduced by ROBERT SIMPSON part 1

by MARGARET CLARKE
The theory of modern empiricism came to birth in medieval Oxford and Paris but it was in the Italian cities that it reached maturity. Dr. Clarke illustrates the influence of their social and civic needs on the development of science.

Part 2
The seventh of nine orchestral and choral programmes
Next concert, containing Origin of Fire and Kullervo by Sibelius, and the Violin Concerto by Nielsen: September 19
A booklet is available

by Francis Watson with Felix Aylmer and Duncan Mclntyre
The year 1857 (noted for nine months of uninterrupted tine weather) marked not only the Relief of Lucknow but Lord Campbell's Bill for the Prevention of Obscene Publications. This measure. denounced by Monckton Milnes as totally alien to the habits of this country,' still has significance today.
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast

(violin)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)