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A programme of recent records
Overture: Fidelio (Beethoven)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan

8.11 Piano Concerto in A minor (Schumann)
Myra Hess with the Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz

8.45 St. Paul's Suite (Holst)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by George Weldon

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Symphony No. 10. In D major BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Led by Esme Haynes
Conducted by GRAHAM TREACHER
9.18* Symphony No. 30, in C major
(Alleluia)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MICHAEL KREIN
9.30* Symphony No. 99, tn E flat major
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis
Conductor, GEORGE HURST

A request programme of records
The Song of the Earth (Mahler) MILDRED MILLER (mezzo-soprano) ERNST HAEFLlGER (tenor) and the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by BRUNO WALTER

edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Record Review
Contributed by TREVOR HARVEY
PHILIP HOPE WALLACE , JOHN WARRACK

A complete performance of the famous Savoy operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan
Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of Dragoon Guards
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC Concert ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by MICHAEL MOORES and PETER BRYANT
ACT 1 Exterior of Castle Bunthorne
ACT 2 A glade
Derek Hammond-Stroud broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co. lolanthe: March 26 followed by an interlude

Vocal and Instrumental
Chamber Music
Trio.Sonata in G minor (GHS Op. -
2 No.
2.12* Nò, di vol non vo'fidarml, for two sopranos and continuo
Giù nei Tartarei regni, for soprano, baritone, and continuo
Quel fior che all'alba ride, for two sopranos, baritone, and continuo
2.37* Trio-Sonata in G minor (GHS
Op. 2 No. 7)
HONOR SHEPPARD (soprano) SALLY LE SAGE (soprano) MAURICE BEVAN (baritone)
JENNIFER RYAN (viola da gamba) ROBERT ELLIOTT (harpsichord)
BASIL LAM SONATA ENSEMBLE Patrick Halling (violin) Marjorie Lavers (violin) Peter Hailing (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)

Henryk Szeryng (violin) plays concertos by Mozart and Beethoven and also directs the † LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Led by Andrew McGee
Part 1
Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5, In A major (K.219)

Henryk Szeryng talks to Antony Hopkins and gives his reasons for choosing these concertos

Part 2
Beethoven
Violin Concerto In D major

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Lady into Serpent
A fairy-tale opera in a prologue and three acts
Words by CESARE Vico Lodovici after Carlo Gozzi
Music by Alfredo Casella sung in Italian
First broadcast in this country Cast in order of singing:
Fairies, sprites, gnomes, soldiers, citizens, nursemaids, etc.
MILAN CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master, Giulio Bertola
Conducted by Fernando Previtall
Recording made available by courtesy of the Italian Radio
The action takes place In legendary times
Prologue
The Kingdom of the Fairies
Acr 1
Scene 1 An imaginary desert
Scene 2 The palace of Miranda

The Gold Tablets of Santa Severa
The second of two talks on the Etruscans by M. 1. FINLEY
The discovery in 1964 of three gold tablets, two in Etruscan and one in Carthaginian, at Santa Severa near Rome. is a major contribution to the lively debates now going on among archaeologists and historians about the early history of Rome. Dr. Finley examines the implications of the new evidence for Roman and more generally Mediterranean history.
Second broadcast

ACT 2
Scene 1 An imaginary desert
Scene 2 The royal palace in Tiflis

by KURT MENDELSSOHN , F.R.S.
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
Last year Dr. Mendelssohn went to the Kwame Nkrumah Univer sity of Science and Technology In Ghana as a visiting Professor. Tonight he contrasts his impressions of the African scene with those gained in earlier tours of India, China, and Japan.

ACT 3
Scene 1 In and about the royal palace in Tiflis
Scene 2 A rocky place In the heart of the Caucasus

5: Gustave Flaubert by CECIL JENKINS
Senior Lecturer in French, University of Sussex
Fifth of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the French novel.
Last talk, F. W. J. Hemming * on Emile Zola : March 20

by John Vanbrugh
Music by John Eccles adapted and arranged by LIONEL SALTER with Donald Wolfit
Geraldine McEwan
Denis Quilley
Barbara Couper
The action takes place In London In 16B7.
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) TERENCE WEIL (cello) PETER GRAEME (oboe)
LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord)
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Third broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL
(9.35*-9.50*)
A record of Handel's Organ Concerto No. 8, in A major played by MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN with the JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA