Sonata for two violins, Op. 55b played by Wardy Tworek and Charles Senderovitz on gramophone records

John Heath Stubbs speaks about the view of the Italian, poet presented by Inis Onigo in the new edition, of her book Leopardi, a Study in Solitude

A survey of Spanish music prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter

An opera in three acts by Dominigo Terradellas
Text by Apostolo Zeno (Italian)
(sung in Italian)
The Welbeck Orchestra
(Led by Reginald Morley)
Conducted by Patrick Savill
Harpsichord, Basil Lam
Cello continue, George Roth
Introduced by Roberto Gerhard

Merope was first performed in Rome in 1743. To eighteenth-century opera audiences the name of Domingo Terradellas (born Barcelona 1713, died Rome 1751) was as familiar as that of Tomelli or Traetta. He belongs as much as they to the second Neapolitan school, whose characteristics are establishment of the 'solo-opera,' consisting mainly of da capo arias and recitative; overriding authority of prima donna and primo uomo (male singers were usually castrati); and the subordinate position of the composer. The best of the Neapolitans, however, pave the way for the reform-work of Gluck and foreshadow Mozart. (R.G.)

A discussion between
Mary Warnock
Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford
P. F. Stnawson
Fellow of University College, Oxford
D. F. Pears
Fellow of Corpus Chnisti College, Oxford
G. J. Warnock
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Four philosophers discuss the nature of personal identity and the criteria by which it is established.
(BBC recomdiing)

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Part 1
(Recordiinig of Monday's broadcast)

Violin Concerto in B minor played by Thomas Matthews (violin)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead. )
Conductor, John Hopkins