and Weather Forecast

A programme of recent records
Soiree de Vienne. No. 6 (Schubert, transcr. Liszt)
Charles Rosen (piano)

8.11 Songs (Schumann)
Belsatzar: Abends am Strand; Der arme Peter; Die beiden Grenadiere
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Jorg Demus (piano)

8.28 Sonata in B minor (Liszt)
Emil Gilels (piano)

(Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12)

and Weather Forecast

Cantata No. 35: Geist und Seele wird verwirret
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto) VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERMANN SHERCHEN
9.34* Cantata No. 8: Liebster Gott. wann werd' ich sterben?
URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) HERTHA TOPPER (contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) KIETH ENGEN (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR
SOLOISTS' ENSEMBLE OF ANSBACH BACH WEEK
Conducted by KARL RICHTER on gramophone records

A request programme of records
Tone Poem: En Saga (Sibelius)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
10.18* Cello Concerto in B minor
(Dvorak)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY

F sharp major, Op. 78
11.11* E minor, Op 90
11.25* C minor. Op. 111 played by HANS LEYGRAP
Last in a series of programmes In which all the sonatas have been played

Opera in one act
Music by Puccini
Libretto by GIOVACCHINO FORZANO
Sung In Italian on a gramophone record
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI
The action takes place in Florence in the ycar 1299
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 12

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by DEAN DIXON
Overture, Nocturne, Scherzo, and Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
1.32* Symphony No. 5, in D major
(Reformation)

ALAN CIVIL (horn)
SHIRLEY HOPKINS (horn)
LEONARD FRIEDMAN (violin)
ELEANOR ST. GEORGE (violin) JOHN UNDERWOOD (viola) OLGA HEGEDUS (cello)
ANNA SHUTTLEWORTH (cello) ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass)
Another programme by the International Mozart Ensemble: Nov. 6

Beethoven
EMII.IA PETRESCU (soprano)
MARTHA KESSLER (contralto)
VALENTIN TEODORIAN (tenor)
MARIUS RINTZI. ER (bass)
RUMANIAN RADIO CHORUS
RUMANIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Iosif CONTA
Recordjng made available by courtesy of Rumanian Radio

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Joseph Segal
Conductor, BORIS BROTT
Part of a concert held in York
Minster as part of thts year's York Festival

A series of eight broadcasts
6: Meanwhile in Hungary
A talk by DR. JOHN ERICKSON
Department of Government University of Manchester
Was there a link between the Hungarian and Middle East crises of 1956? Dr. Erickson has examined the available evidence and argues that the return of Russian troops to Budapest was an independent decision by the Soviet government which had little or nothing to do with the events of Suez.
Introduced by PETER CALVOCORESSI
Second broadcast
Progress at the United Nations: October 23

Gloria in excelsis
Puisque m'amour
6.18* Ave maris stella
Sanctus (Da gaudiorum premia) Regina celi letare
EILEEN POULTER (soprano)
RUSSELL OBERLIN (counter-tenor)
MICHAEL BRIMER (organ) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Conducted by DENIS STEVENS on gramophone records

by William Shakespeare with Kenneth Griffith and Deryck Guyler , Mary Wimbush
Max Adrian , Kika Markham
Music specially composed and conducted by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Principal characters:
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Second broadcast
Part 1

Sonata in B flat major (D.960) played by CLAUDE FRANK (piano)
Second broadcast

Part 2
9.35 During the Interval
A record of Handel's Sonata
No. 2, in G minor played by Ferdinand Conrad (recorder)
HUGO RUF (harpsichord)
JOHANNES Koch (viola da gamba)

Part 3 followed by an interlude at 10.55