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A programme of recent records
Symphony No. 25. in G minor
(K.183) (Mozart)
PIIILHAHMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.24* Piano Concerto No. 2, in D minor (Mendelssohn)
RUDOLF SERKIN with the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.47* Overture: Manfred
(Schumann)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET

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played by The Amadeus Quartet
Norbert Brainin (violin) Sicgmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in G major (K.387)
The first in a series of ten weekly programmes played by the Amadeus Quartet
Next Sunday: Quartet in D minor (K.421)

A request programme of records
Musical Sleighride
(Leopold Mozart)
BERLIN BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARL GORVIN
10.0 Concerto for voice and orchestra (Gliire)
VALENTINA MAKSIMOVA with the LEFUNGRAD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by EDWARD GRIKUROV
10.15* Symphony No. 1, in G minor
(Winter Daydreams) (Tchaikovsky)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
Second of two programmes

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage
Gurnemanz in Parsifal by WILLIAM MANN
Rawsthorne and the Concerto by ALUN HODDINOTT
Musical Profile: Maureen Lehane by CHARLES OSBORNE Berlioz, Letter-writer: book review by JOHN WARRACK

Opera by Smetana
A radio adaptation based on the original libretto ' by EMANUEL ZÜNGEL adapted from Les deux veuves by Felicien Mallefille
English translation by GEOFFREY DUNN
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Choros-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by PETER RORKE
First broadcast on October 17

Conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER ̈
Chaconne (Gluck)
1.25* Flute Concerto No. 1, in G major (attrib. Pergolesiy
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) on gramophone records

played by the PRAGUE STRING QUARTET
Bretislav Novotny (violin) Karel Pribyl (violin)
Jaroslav Karlovsky (viola) Zdenek Konieek (cello)

From the Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich in association with Ipswich Civic Concerts
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Antal Dorati

Prompted by thoughts about Shostakovich, ANTHONY DORRELL , painter, and ROBERT SIMPSON , composer. discuss the present-day artistic situation

Part 2
Symphony No. 10. Shostakovich Symphonies by Shostakovich on Monday: No. 6 (1.22 p.m.. Music); No. 10 (9.25 p.m.. Third)

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Repeated on Tuesday

A sacred festival drama in three acts by Wagner ung in German
Knights of the Grail, youths, boys, flower maidens
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
Conducted by Andre Cluytens
Producer, WIELAND WAGNER
Recording from the Bayreuth Festival 1965. made available by courtesy of the Bavarian Radio
The action takes place in Northern Spain during the Middle Ages
ACT 1
Scene I A glade in the woods near the Grail Castle
Scene 2 The hall of the Grail Castle

Science and Society
DR. ARCHIE CLOW has recorded recollections of the scientific thought and work of the 1930s from a number of the most distinguished scientists living in this country today. At that time, physicists were still adjusting themselves to the new quantum mechanics, the neutron was discovered and the meson predicted; biologists were seeing the vindication of Darwinism by R. A. Fisher ; chemists were involved in the beginnings of what has now become the industrial production of sulpha-drugs and plastics-and the now accepted practice of ' planned science ' was still highly controversial....
Produced by MICK RHODES
An extended version of the programme broadcast on December 10. 1965

ACT 2
Scene 1 Klingsor's magic castle
Scene 2 Klingsor's magic garden

ALEC MCCOWEN gives the first of three readings from a collection of Biblical stories retold by Leszek Kolakowski in an English version by Nicholas Bethell
God, or the Contrast between Motive and Result and Noah, or the Temptations of Solidarity
Leszek Kolakowski , the young Polish philosopher, who teaches at Warsaw University, is being recognised as one of the most significant European thinkers of today. Like Sartre, Kolakowski sometimes expresses his thought in fictional rather than abstract form. The brief retellings of stories from the Bible, collected in his volume The _Key to Heaven, highlight ancient problems of conduct in the light of twentieth-century experience

ACT 3
Scene 1 A pleasant landscape in the neighbourhood of the Grail Castle
Scene 2 The hall of the Grail Castle

In West Indian Literature by O. R. DATHORNE
In this talk a West Indian novelist who is now Lecturer in African Literature at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, discusses the developing attitude of Africa in the work of West Indian novelists and poets over the past forty years.
Second broadcast