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Suite: Don Qufchotte (Telemann) LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS
Directed by Rudolf Baumgartner
7J9* Clarinet Concerto in A major
(K.622) (Mozart)
Gervase de Peyer with the London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by PETER Maag
7.50* Twelve Country Dances
(Beethoven)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by Lorin Maazkl on gramophone records

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Overture: Les francs-Juges
(Berlioz)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
8.19* Nights In the Gardens of Spain (Folia)
Ahtlk Rubinstein (piano) with the SAN Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Enrique Jorda
8.42* Le tombeau de Couperin
(Ratiel)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Conducted by Andre Cluytens on gramophone records

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Handel
Records of excerpts from his opera Alcina

(ba.ss) sinss arias from operas by Borodin, Glinka. Mussorgsky, and TXXXXXchaikovsky on gramophone records

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music j This week
Jan Smeterlin (piano) plays

One of the programmes In which Haydn's Op. 76 Quartets are played by the Delme String Quartet
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
Michael Rippon (baritone)
PAUL Hamburger (piano)
Du.me STRING Quartet
Granville Jones (violin) Jiirsen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)

Maurice Murphy (trumpet)
BBC Northern ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
Parti

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BERNARD KEEFFE looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East next week

Part 2
Given before an Invited audience in the Roya! College of Advanced Technology. Salford

Leader. James Hutcheon
Conducted by Cedric Dumont

Spring (The Four Seasons)
(Glazunov)
SlNFONIA OF LONDON
Conducted by ROBERT IRVING
2.37* Les patineurs (Meyerbeer. arr. Lambert)
ISRAEL Philharmonic ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN Martinon on gramophone records
This programme Is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover. Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a special receiver, or an adapter for use with an existing receiver, is necessary. Listeners with normal VHP receivers will hear the programme monophonicaliy as usual.

A programme of recently released records
Slavonic Dances (Dvorak)
No. 14, in B flat major No 15, in C major
Minneapolis Symphony ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL Dorati
3.7* Andante and Hungarian
Rondo, for bassoon and orchestra (Weber)
George Zukerman with the WURTTEMBEHG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by Joiiu FAERBER
3.19* Hungarian Sketches (Bartofc) Chicago SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by Fritz Reiner

Rostai.-Cassado-Schroter TRIO Max Rostal (violin)
Caspar Cassado (cello) Heinz Schroter (piano)
New London Wind Ensemble David Sandeman (flute) Ian Wilson (oboe)
Keith Puddy (clarinet)
Robin Millar (cor anglais) Cecil James (bassoon)
Conducted by Marcus Dods
Noelle BARKER (soprano)
ROBERT Sherlaw JOHNSON (piano)

Lichfield
Introduced by JOHN Betjeman
Choir OF Lichfield CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Richard Greening
Robert GREEN (assistant organist)
Choir:

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by ROBERT HENDERSON
This week
Milhaud's La creation du monde Beethoven's First Symphony and Poulenc's Gloria

A series of six monthly programmes for those interested in the amateur theatre
Associated with the BBC-tv series Making a Play
3: The Actor's Task:
What is characterisation; the use of improvisation; acquiring the technical skills
Speakers,
Philip Ellis
Derkk Bowskili.
Robert Newton
GWYNNETH thurrurn
Introduced by Michael Smee
Produced by Edith R. Baer
A list of suggestions for further reading and useful addresses can be obtained by writing to: ' Theatre Club. 1 F.E. Department. BBC. Broadcasting House. W.I.

Nine programmes about government, society, and ideas in early Stuart England
9: The Putney Debates
In 1647 debates were held at Putney between the chief officers of Cromwell's New Model Army and representatives of the rank and tile on the reform of the constitution. The shorthand record of these debates is one of the most remarkable documents in English history.
BRIAN Manning
Lecturer in History in the University of Manchester examines the debates against the background of the radical and popular movements of the Civil War, and shows how they reveal some of the main issues at stake.
With readings from the debates by GARY WATSON
MICHAEL Spice. ANTHONY Hall John Justin and Kevin McHugh
Produced by Adrian JohnsoD

by Bernard Bergonzi
' Even where Ford is not ignored one has the feeling that he t» niore acknowledged than read ... On all the evidence, he seems t» have been unjustly treated.' Bernard Bergonzi suggests reason* why some of his work has Mt been appreciated here.

in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Missa: Pro Defunctis (a 4) sung by the CANTORES IN ECCI.EStA
Conductor, Michael Howaub
Introduced by Michael Howar »
From the Church of St. Georg* the Martyr, Queen Square, London
The last of a series of music of the Spanish Renaissance
First of a series of Music 1m Venice (1500-1750): April $

A small group of speculators are buying up strips of the Spanish coast for development, in a remote bay is a village that has not changed its way of life for a thousand years. with Emilio Reyes, Hector Ron Basil Jones, Mary Wimbush and Elizabeth Proud.

PETER Wallfisch (piano)
Patricia Lynden (flute) Keith Puddy (clarinet) Sydney Mann (violin)
Diana Cummings (violin) Paul Collins (violin) Harry Danks (viola)
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello* John STEER (double-bass) SUSAN Bradshaw and Susan McGAW (harmonium duet) Thomas Rajna and Michael Pilkington (piano duet) Conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod