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ESTHER FISHER (piano)
TILFORD FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Kelly Isaacs
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Mary Ryan (flute)
Mary Murdoch toboe) Kelly Isaacs (violin) Olga Hegedus (cello)
Broadcast on May S. 1966

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Michael KREIN ORCHESTRA Conductor, MICHAEL KREIN
Broadcast on September 23. 1965

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0 Faure and Roussel gramophone records

This week:
Robert Easton (bass) with Rex STEPHENS (piano)

Overture: Street Corner
PRO ARTE Orchestra
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.17* String Quartet No.
ALBERNI Quartet
Dennis Simon (violin) Howard Davis (violin) John White (viola)
Gregory Baron (cello)
10.35* Piano Concerto No. I
MOURA LYMPANY
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT MENGES gramophone records
Third of four programmes

Haydn
Piano Sonata in D major (Haydn
Society No. 51)
String Quartet in E flat major.
Op. 76 No.
11.23* Beethoven
Piano Sonata in F sharp major.
Op. 78
String Quartet in E flat major.
Op. 74
JOHN HIGHAM (piano)
DANISH STRING QUARTET

JOSEF SUK (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Part 1

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Part 2
From the New Theatre. Oxford
Broadcast on January 31. 1965

conducts the London Light Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz in a programme of Austrian music

DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
JOHN AI.LDIS CHOIR
Conductor, JOHN ALLDIS

BBC WELSH Orchestra Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor. John Carewe

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by MEIRION BOWEN
This week: Three Places in New England. The Fourth of July, and Decoration Day, by Ives; and Arcana and Deserts by Varese

Young Marriage
Introducing highlights from an important new series starting in Study Session on October 13

A series of programmes for parents and school leavers with 0- and A-level qualifications on the choice of careers and the different forms of training available.
The Merchant Navy
Introduced by Michael SMEE
Produced by Peter Jarvis
Second broadcast

A series of programmes in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning to
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF on Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell with readings by DOUGLAS HANKIN
Produced by Peggy Bacon
First broadcast on May 12

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FELIX WEINGARTNER
Recorded in 1936

by Dr. Anne Ross
Over the last two years a large number of strange stone heads has been found in the Bradford district. Many of them are now displayed in Bradford's Cartwright Hall Museum. Anne Ross, author of the recently published Pagan Celtic Religion, describes some of them and attempts to put them into their prehistoric or historic setting.

A comedy by Anton Chekhov
The English translation by RONALD HINGLEY adapted for broadcasting by JOE BURROUGHS
The scenes set by HAROLD KASKET
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Second broadcast
The Wood Demon was first produced at a private theatre in Moscow on December 27, 1889. It was not well received and Chekhov opposed all further attempts to stage or publish it during his lifetime. The play is a kind of first version of Uncle Vanua first produced in 1897. While there is no doubt which is the greater. The Wood Demon is a good play in its own right, and contemporary critics were ill-advised to dismiss it as a mechanical reproduction of ordinary everyday life and lacking any sense of stage-craft.

Laborintus II
Text by Edoardo Sanguineti
Music by Luciano Berio
Edoardo Sanguineti (narrator) Members of the Swingle Singers and an Instrumental Ensemble
Conducted by The Composer
(first broadcast in this country)
Recording made available by courtesy of French Radio

A Dante Miscellany
Though officially domiciled in Milan, Luciano Berio is usually found somewhere else. Early in 1966 he came to London from the U.S.A. to introduce a new major work of his, talk about it and about other aspects of our day's music. His appearance was expected with tremendous interest: the Italian Institute was filled to capacity, and the audience included all measures of brow - Paul McCartney of the Beatles came too to talk to this extremely professional musician. It was on this occasion that London obtained a first taste of the work now to be broadcast, Homage to Dante, which was originally commissioned by the French Radio for their Dante Commemoration in 1965.
A monumental work, it lasts forty minutes and is entitled Laborintus II after the book of poems Laborintus (1956) by Edoardo Sanguineti, a noted Dante scholar and avant garde poet. He supplied the libretto which is made up from excerpts of this volume and passages from other sources including Ezra Pound, Eliot, and others. In this performance Sanguineti himself is heard as Narrator. This non-opera, which Berio prefers to call 'musico-dramatic happening' since it is for the theatre, mobilises a large assortment of performers - instrumentalists, vocalists, and mechanics (to do the electronic sound). From its variegated contents a number of passages stand out. passages of surprising beauty, which show a Mozartian sense for sweet euphony and delicate, swift statements.
(John S. Weissman)
(An earlier work by Berio, Allelujah II, was played in the Third Programme on Wednesday at 9.55 p.m.)