Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Frederick Stone (piano)
William Pleeth (cello)
Allegretto. Op. 34 No. 2, for clarinet and piano... Heinrich Kaspar Schmid
Selanka Pastorale , Op. 16 (1945), for clarinet and piano.... Zdenik Fibich
Sonata for clarinet and cello
Phyllis Tate
Poco lento; Vivo; Adagio; Finale (quasi variazioni)
Next June the International Society for Contemporary Music will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its foundation by holding its Festival at Salzburg, .where it began in 1922; and this week the two British works chosen for performance there are both being played in the Third Programme: Humphrey Searte 's ' Poem for twenty-two strings ' on Tuesday and Phyllis Tate 's Sonata for clarinet and cello tonight The Sonata, which was completed in October 1947, is dedicated to Frederick Thurston and William Pleeth , who performed it for the first time at a London Contemporary Music Centre concert in December of that year. H. R.

Story by Jack Seddon
Read by Martin Starkie
(The recorded broadcast of March 17)

Words by John Milton
(adapted by John Dalton )
Music by Thomas Arne
(edited by Julian Herbage )
Narrator, Alan Gordon
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
John Kentish (tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Part 1
The version of Comus for which Arne wrote the music was made by John Dalton and first presented at Drury Lane Theatre in 1748, more than a hundred years after the original production of the masque at Ludlow Castle. On the whole Dalton kept to Milton's text, though he added some scenes and lines of his own, with a view to making the masque more stageworthy; he also provided opportunity for the introduction of over twenty-five musical numbers Arne, who shortly before had been appointed composer to Drury Lane Theatre, was inspired to write some of his most charming music. The result drew the town and the piece was frequently revived. Harold Rutland

Back from North Africa by Pierre Frédérix
To be repeated on April 1

Part 2
(Postponed from Feb. 8) (John Kentish broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)

by William Shakespeare
(Continued in next column)
The action takes place in the palaces, prisons, streets, public places, and religious houses of a medieval city called Vienna
' Take, 0 take those lips away' sung by Alfred Deller accompanied by Desmond Dupr é
The play arranged for broadcasting and produced by E. A. Harding
(The recorded broadcast of June 20)

Fifteen Three-part Symphonies
(Inventions) played by Denise Lassimonne (piano)

Kathleen Bliss discusses the most recently published section of Karl Barth 's ' Dogmatik'
(Tuesday s recorded broadcast)