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A programme of recent records

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JOHN BETJEMAN introduces the first in a new series of weekly programmes Magdalen College, Oxford
Choir Of MAGDALEN COLLEGE
Organist and Master of the Choristers, BERNARD ROSE
Organ Scholar, Peter DENNISON
Cantor, THE REV. JOHN SANDERSON

A request programme of records

played by Louis KENTNER
Scherzo in B flat minor
Mazurkas (Op. 67)
No. 1, in G major No. 2, in G minor
Three Nocturnes, Op. 15
Barcarolle
Four Mazurkas, Op. 68
Nocturne in E minor. Op. 72
Impromptu in G flat major
Polonaise in A flat major
Fifth in a weekly series
Next iwek: Peter Katin

gramophone records

Opera in three acts
Music by Handel
Libretto by ANTONIO SALVI adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym sung in Italian: on records
MARTIN ISEPP (harpsichord)
VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
The action takes place In and around Milan
ACT 1
Scene 1 Rodelinda's apartments in the royal palace
Scene 2 A cypress forest containing the tombs of the Lombard Kings

played by VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Part 1
Sonata (1924)

ACT 2
Scene 1 A room In the palace
Scene 2 A deserted place in the countryside
Scene 3 A gallery In Rodelinda's apartments

Part 2
Serenade in A
Part of the Stravinsky concert given during the Aldeburgh Festival on June 17 in association with the BBC Music Programme

ACT 3
Scene 1 A gallery in the palace
Scene 2 A prison cell
Scene 3 The royal gardens
Ninth In an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music
Next programme, harpsichord music and Italian duets: Sept. 17

Fourth of six piano recitals by Vlado Perlemuter including all Chopin's Mazurkas
Ballade in F minor
Mazurkas
B major, Op. 56 No. 1 C major, Op. 56 No.2 C minor, Op. 56 No. 3 A minor, Op. 59 No. 1
A flat major, Op. 59 No.
F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3 B major, Op. 63 No. 1
C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 F minor, Op. 68 No. 4
August 29: to include a performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie

by Anton Chekhov
English version by JOHN GlELGUD based on a translation by Ariadne Nicolaeff
Alec McCowen , Judi Dench and Maxine Audley with Maurice Denham
David March , Jean Anderson
Denys Hawthorne , John Castle Cast in order of .speaking:
A district in central Russia in the late nineteenth century
Adapted and produced by RONALD MASON
Second broadcast
John Castle is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by an interlude at 7.50

Cleveland Orchestra
Conducted by George Szell
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Part 1

by ROBERT BURNS
Read by IAN GILMOUR
Introduced by GEORGE BRUCE
Second broadcast

Part 2

DENIS ARNOLD , Senior Lecturer in Music in the University of Hull, is the author of a recent Master Musicians study of Monteverdi. He examines the madrigal and its development in Monteverdi's hands
Second broadcast

Concerto in A major, for double orchestra (R. Op 64 No. 1)
FRANCO FANTINI (violin)
KAMIEL D'HOOGHE (organ) I SOLISTI DI MILANO
LES SOLISTES DE LIÉGE
Conducted by ANGELO EPHRIKIAN gramophone record