Philip Hope-Wallace reviews the new recordings of ' Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart and ' Rigoletto ' by Verdi Scott Goddard reviews string quartets by Haydn (F, Op. 3 No. 3), Mozart (No 6 in B flat, K.159), and Rubbra (No. 2 in E flat, Op. 73)
(The talks are recorded)
The Art of Fugue
Prepared for performance by Leonard Isaacs
Part 1 played by the London Harpsichord Ensemble: John Francis (flute and alto flute)
Joy Boughton (oboe and cor anglais)
Peter Newbury (oboe d'amore)
Edward Wilson (bassoon)
Peter Parry (bassoon)
Olive Zorian (violin)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Eleanor Warren (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
Part 2: Thursday at 6.0
by Edmund Spenser
12-The Mutabilitie Cantos
Produced by Louis MacNeice
Adele Leigh (soprano)
Nancy Evans (contralto)
Max Worthley (tenor)
John Cameron (baritone) Michael Langdon (bass)
Dennis Arundell (speaker)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Ralph Downes (organ)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by Anthony Bernard
Part 1
This concert, to be repeated tomorrow at
6.35, is the third of a series including litanies and vespers by Mozart. The next concert, on January 26, will include the Vcsperae de Dominica (K.321).
(Adè/e Leigh and Michael Langdon broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Some impressions of a journey through Nevada and Utah by Peter de Mendelssohn
(Concert continued)
See ' Music Diary,' page 7
Read, with a commentary, by the author
Camping Out; Legal Fiction
Aubade; Ignorance of Death; Missing Dates; Success; The Teasers; Bacchus
A Chinese Ballad
(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on Wednesday at 7.5)
The Griller String Quartet
Two Fantasias a 4 (Purcell)
String Quartet No. 2, in E flat, Op. 73
(Rubbra) on gramophone records
Mary Scrutton reviews Angus Wilson 's recently published book 'Hemlock and After'
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 6)
