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A weekly programme of recent records
Trio Concertante in G major, for flute, bassoon, and piano (Beethoven)
JEAN-PIERRE RAMFAL PAUL HONGNE
ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX
8.26* Nocturnes (Chopin)
F sharp major. Op. 15 No. 2 B major. Op. 9 No.
TAMAS VASARY (piano)
8.36* String Quartet in F major.
Op. 41 No. 2 (Schumann)
DROLC QUARTET
Eduard Drolc (violin)
Walter Peschke (violin)
Stefano Passaggio (viola) Georg Donderer (cello)

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Cantata No. 100: Was Gott tut. das 1st wohlgetan
LISA SCHWARZWELLER (soprano)
Lotte WOLF-MATTHAUS (contralto) HANS JOACHIM ROTZSCII (tenor) CARL-HEINZ MÜLLER (bass)
ST. JAMES'S SINGERS, HAMBURG HAMBURG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HEINZ WUNDERLICH
9.30* Cantata No. 200: Bekennen will ich seinen Namen
HELEN WATTS (contralto) PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON Directed by THURSTON DART (harpsichord)
9.3.5* Cantata No. 32:
Liebster Jesu. mein Verlangen
EDITH MATHIS (soprano) FRANZ CRASS (bass)
SOUTH GERMAN MADRIGAL CHOIR CONSORTIUM MUSICUM Conducted by WOLFGANG GÖNNENWEIN gramophone records

A request programme of gramophone records
Prelude, Act 1 (La Traviata)
(Verdi)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
20.5* Aria: Ou va la jeune Indoue
(Lakme) (Dclibes)
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA. COVENT GARDEN Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
10.14* Piano Concerto No. 26, In
D major (K.537) (Mozart)
GEZA ANDA directing the CAMERATA ACADEMICA OF THE SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
10.44* Suite in F major (RousseD LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Berlioz and The Trojans by JOHN WARRACK
Henry Cowell (1897-1965) by PETER DICKINSON
Musical Profile: Christoph von Dohnanyi, by BARRIE HALL
For the Christmas Stocking: some books about music reviewed by CEDRIC WALLIS

Opera in two acts
Music by Boieldieu Libretto by CHARLES DE LONGCHAMP S
An abbreviated version sung in French gramophone record
FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by MARCEL COURAUD

Max Rostal (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Associate leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Send requests for tickets for future concerts to [address removed]. enclosing stamped addressed envelope

Jean KNIBBS (soprano) LESLEY REID (contralto) EDGAR THOMAS (tenor) GORDON FARRALL (bass)
BBC CHORUS
Conducted by JOHN ALLDIS

Joaquin Achucarro (piano)
Part 1

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Part 2
From Dynevor Castle
Presented by the Music Programme in association with Dynevor Centre.

† by Edith Picht-Axenfeld
Part 1

The second of two talks by PAUL MAYERSBERG
The Romance of Failure
Mr. Mayersberg discusses the concept of Hollywood as a haunted house filled with ' the ghosts of the desert.' He focuses on one such typical ghost-the Hollywood writer striving to maintain, and dramatise, his crumbling identity as the man who can see both sides of the coin.

Part 2

1559-1634
Chapman, immortalised by Keats, was certainly an imperfect poet, but his energy end eccentric daring sometimes overcame his technical roughness
Read by ROBERT HARRIS
Introduced by R. D. SMITH

Elgar
Overture: Cockaigne
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7.14* Serenade in E minor, for string orchestra
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
7.27* Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
ROYAL ALBERT HALL ORCHESTRA gramophone record

Three talks by JOHN HOLLOWAY
1: The Dickensian environment In his first talk on the state of the national culture Dr. Holloway discusses the strengths and weaknesses of our sense of continuity and stress on traditionalism. In particular he contrasts the responses of British and Continental writers to the impact of the second world war.
Reflections on English Intellectual Culture: Dec. 23

by Henrik Ibsen
The translation by Edmund Gosse and William Archer
Adapted and produced by Charles Lefeaux
with Fenella Fielding, Michael Gwynn, Ian McKellen
The action: in the Tesmans' villa in Christiania in 1890
To be repeated on January 5
(Fenella Fielding is appearing In "Let's Get a Divorce" at the Comedy Theatre, London)
During the interval (9.35'-9.45*) A record of piano music by Grieg played by Walter Gieseking

by the American soprano Bethany Beardslee with STEPHEN PRUSLIN (piano)
Second broadcast