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First of eight weekly piano recitals each to include a Mozart sonata
Sonata in D major (K. 284).Mozart
9.30. Three pieces (D.946).Schubert played by ROSEMARIE WRIGHT

A request programme of records
Symphon
LEONID HAMBRO (piano)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by Dmitri MITROPOULOS

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced, this week, by JOHN LADE
Verdi's Den Carlos (produced March 11, 1867) by ANDREW Porter
Britten and Rostropovich, by DONALD MITCHELL
Dame Eva Turner : A birthday greeting by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Two books from the mid-1930s reviewed by DERYCK COOKE
Walking Encyclopedia, by SIDNEY HARRISON

from the 1966 Ascona Festival
Weber
Scnata No. 3, in D minor
12.45. Brahms
Capriccio in C major, Op. 76 No.
Intermezzo in E minor, Op. 116
No. 5
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118 No.
Rhapsody in E fiat major, Op.
119 No. 4
1.0* Prokofiev
Sonata No. 6, Op. 82
Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio

Opera in three acts
Music by Handel libretto adapted by PAOLO ROLLI from the original of Nicolo Minato
Sung in Italian: gramophone records
VIENNA ACADEMY CHAMBER Choir
Vienna RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
MARTIN Isepp (harpsichord)
Conducted by BRIAN Priestman
The action takes place in Persia, In ancient times
ACT 1
Scene 1 A garden near Ariodate's house
Scene 2 A courtyard of the house
2M* Act 2 scene 1 A public square by the sea-front
Scene 2 Serse's camp, near the bridge of boats across the Hellespont
Scene 3 A retreat near the city

ANTONY Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest
Repeated: Tuesday, 4.46* p.m.
Next Sunday's programme 2.30 .m.

ACT 3
Scene 1 A gallery In the palace
Scene 2 A large hall in the palace
Third in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music, and in particular his operas and oratorios
March 19: Alexander's Feast

An opera by Karl Amadeus Hartmann after the novel by Grimmelshausen
Sung In German
First broadcast in this country
Cast:
SPEECH CHOIR, MEN'S Chorus and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTH GERMAN RADIO
Conducted by WOLFGANG RENNERT
The action takes place in German; during the Thirty Years War
Recording made available by courtesy of North German Radio

6: Stephen Crane by Tony TANNER
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
The last of a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the American novel.
Mr. Tanner is the author of a study of American literature, The Reign of Wonder, and a monograph on Saul Bellow.

ANDRt .Tchaikowsky (piano)
Mozart
Fantasy In C minor (K.396)
Sonata-movement in G minor
(K.312)
Minuet in D major (K.355)
Gigue in G major (K.574)
7.24* Debussy Six Preludes
Brouillards.; Bruyères: La danse de Puck; Des pas sur la neige; La serenade interrompue; La puerta del vino

1905-1951
The portrait of a passionate man: composer, conductor, writer, and conversationalist drawn from the recorded recollections of those who knew him by MICHAEL AYRTON and MAURICE BROWN
Those takino part:
DENIS APIVOR , MALCOLM ARNOLD
SIR FREDERICK ASHTON
LESLIE AYRE , DERYCK Cooke
WILLIAM CHAPPELL , Tom Driberg , m.p.
DUKE ELLINGTON, ALAN FRANK
GAVIN GORDON , PATRICK HADLEY
ROBERT HELPMANN , SPIKE HUGHES
CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT
ELISABETH LUTYENS , ANGUS MORRISON
PETER QUENNELL
ALAN and ISABEL RAWSTHORNE
HUMPHREY SEARLE
SIR WILLIAM WALTON and DAME Ninette DE VALOIS
Introduced by MICHAEL AYRTON
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Third broadcast

Concerto in B flat major, for four violins and string orchestra
I SOLISTI VENETI gramophone record

A discussion in which the speakers pursue their arguments without the inhibitions imposed by a fixed time limit
Britain and the Common Market
LEN BEATON
Editor, Round Table
THE RT. HON. AUBREY JONES Chairman. National Board for Prices and Incomes
RICHARD MAYNE
Formerly Staff of the European Communities
K. W. WEDDERBURN
Professor of Commercial Law. University of London, at the London School of Economics and Political Science under the chairmanship of UWE KITZINGER
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford The last of eight broadcasts about Britain and the Common Market
Arranged by Anthony Moncriefl

The discussion continued