(piano)
Sonata No. 2 (Ned Rorem ) on gramophone records

A comedy by Dryden (1690)
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Watts
Music arranged and conducted by Dennis Arundeld from themes of Purcell

Singers: Marion Lowe, Gerald Davies and Roderick Jones
(The music is recorded)

Moliere's Amphitryon (1668), translated by John Ozell, is to be broadcast on Tuesday at 9.45; and Amphitryon 38 by S.N. Behrman, from the French of Jean Giraudoux (1929), on Saturday at 6.0.

A lyric comedy in three acts Libretto by Giuseppe Adami Music by Puccini
(deitails overleaf) La Rondine, the immediate successor to The Girl of the Golden West, was first produced in 1917, performances being given at Monte Carlo, Bologna, and Milan. It had a curious history, being first undertaken at the request of a Viennese publisher who was anxious for Puccini to write musical comedy. After some hesitation Puccini, having fallen out for .the time being with his own publishers, agreed to write -an operetta on what wa« originally a book for a musical comedy. When war broke out in 1914 the original contract was cancelled, the book was altered, and the finished opera was sold to an Italian firm. The story begins in Paris during the Second Empire, where the heroine, a derni-mondame, is living under the protection of a rich banker. In the second aot there is a quartet which the composer believed would rival that at the end of the third act of La Boheme.
('The Swallow')
A lyric comedy in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami
Musdc by Puccini
(sung in Italian) students, artists, men about town, grisettes, dancers, waiters
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italians, Turin
(Chorus-Master. Ruggiéro Maghini)
CONDUCTOR, NINO SANZOGNO
The action takes place in Paris at the time of the Second Empire
Act 1
An degant apartment in Magda's house
Act 2
Chez Bullier: the baHroom
Act 3
A cottage on a hill overlooking the Côte d'Azur

Robert Donington talks about Thurston Dart's book which deals in particular with medieval. Renaissance, and Baroque music

Recordings made during the course of an expedition by Francis MaZiere , Dominique Darbois , and Wladimir Iwanow up the Maroni to the Tumuc Humac nidge and the head-waters of the Jar)- in Brazil
Introduction and commentary" by Dominique Darbois
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Antonio Jandgro (cello)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Part l

Ronald Bottrall analyses the influence that sojourns in different parts of the world have had on the complex imagery of his poetry

Part 2

Four programmes read in the original and translation: edited and produced by George Hills
2-The Golden Age
Readers:
Joseph O'Conor , Denis McCarthy
Emilio Garcia Monton , Jose Rivarola

Wilfred Brown (tenor)
The Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble with Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Trio in E minor, for flute, oboe, and continuo
Concerto for four violins
Cantata: Die Landlust, for tenor and obbligato flute
Quartet in G, for flute, oboe, violin, and continuo

Talk by Gilbert Murray , o.M.
In the first of three talks to mark the centenary of the birth of the author oi The Golden Bough Dr. Murray speaks in particular about Sir James Frazer 's contribution to classical studies.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 1)

Suite for wind quintet
Overture; Air; Jig;
Interlude; Theme and Variations played by the Marsyas Wind Quintet:
Clifford Seville (flute)
John Barnett (oboe)
Basil Tschaikov (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon)
Ian Beers (horn)
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 10