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A weekly programme cf recent records
Four Country Dances (K.101)
(Mozart)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE
Conducted by WILLY Boskowsky
8.12* Symphony No.6. 6, in D major
(Dvorak)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 10

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Cantata No. 127: Herr Jesu Christ. wahr r Mensch und Gott
HERRAD WEHRUNG (soprano) GEORG JELDEN (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
SOUTH GERMAN MADRIGAL CHOIR SOUTH-WEST GERMAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by WOLFGANG GÖNNENWEIN
9.27* Cantata No. 53: Schlage doch, gewünschte
Stunde HELEN WATTS (contralto) PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON Directed by THURSTON DART (harpsichord)
9.37* Cantata No. 45: Es ist dir gesagt. Mensch. was gut ist
HERTHA TÖPPER (contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) KIETH ENGEN (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR
SOLOISTSENSEMBLE OF THE ANSBACII BACH WEEK
Conducted by KARE RICHTER on gramophone records
Cantata No. 21
Stereophonic broadcast: see p. 10

A request programme of gramophone records
Symphony No. 83, in G minor
(Haydn)
LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON Conducted by LESLIE JONES
10.19* Oboe Concerto In C minor iCimurosa, arr. Benjamin)
EVELYN ROTIIWELL
Pro ARTE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir JOHN BARBIROLLI
10.31* Cantata misericordium
(Britten)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIEKAU (baritone) LONDON SYMPHONY
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.53* Idyll: The Banks of Green
Willow (ButterwortM
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

A weekly review edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Gervase Elwcs (1866-1921) by Sir STEUART WILSON
Musical Profile: Francis Jack son, by FELIX APRAHAMIAN
John Curwen (1816-1810) and Tonic Sol-fa, by HENRY RAYNOR La Divlna and Operamania: book review by HAROLD ROSENTHAL

La cambiale di matrimonio
An opera in one act by Rossini
Libretto by GAETANO Rossi English translation by ELIZABETH PARRY
Narrator, GEORGE HAGAN
Harpsichord continuo Peter Smith
Cello continuo
Kenneth Jepson
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Produced by GEOFFREY DUNN
Eric Shilling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

(piano)
Second broadcast

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Repeated on Tuesday at 4.58.
Next Sunday's programme: 4.30

with Ida Haendel (violin)
Leader, Gerald Jarvis
Conductor,
Constantin Silvestri
From The Dome, Brighton
Part 1
3.30 The Concert Interval
Robert Simpson talks about
Bruckner's fifth symphony

Weber Abu Hasan Overture

Sibelius Violin Concerto Ida Haendel (violin)

Bruckner Symphony No 5

Part 2

PIERRE FROIDEBISE (organ)
THE ROGER BLANCHARD ENSEMBLE
Conducted by ROGER BLANCHARD
Magnificat septimi toni tMorales)
Variations sur le chant du
Chevalier (Cabezon)
Ave Maria (Morales)
5.16* Pavane (Cabez6n)
Missus est Gabriel (Morales) Trois chants spirituels
(Mudarra)
5.35* Lamentabatur Jacob
(Morales)
D'ou vient cela (Cabezon) Factatus sum (Victoria) on a gramophone record

by A. P. Ryan
The first volume of Sir Harold Nicolsons Diaries and Letters. edited by his son Nigel Nicolson. covers the period 1930-1939.
Second broadcast

Twenty-four preludes. Op. 37 played by TREVOR BARNARD (piano)

12: The Birth of Pop by Ralph J. Gleaso
The mid-fifties witnessed a popular-music revolution in America. The generation which emerged after the war in Korea demanded rhythms which were drawn equally from jazz, the blues, folk music, country and Western music. The result was a new sound in America -which the juke box was soon to spread all round the world,
Produced by D. G. BRIDSON
Blacklisting on Trial, by John Henry Faulk : Wednesday at
7.30 p.m.

English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim who is also the soloist in the concerto

A new translation from Euripides by Daryl Hine
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast
William Squire is in ' The Prtme of Miss Jean Brodie ' at Wyndbam's Theatre. London
Alcestis was first performed In Athens in 438 B.C. As the fourth of a cycle of four plays, it took the place of a ' satyr-play,' which could mingle tragic diction with colloquialisms. employ riotous characters like the drunken Heracles, and have a happy ending.

Le marteau sans mattrt
Texts by RENÉ CHAR
ROSEMARY PHILLIPS (contralto)
New MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Rainer Schuelein (alto-flute) David Johnson (xylophone) Eric Allen (vibraphone)
Terry Emery (percussion) Isabel Smith (guitar) Paul Collins (viola)
Conductor, John CAREWE
Third broadcast