Oratorium latinum
Lisa Schwarzweller (soprano) Johannes Feyerabend (tenor)
Johannes Koch (viola da gamba)
Josef Lippert (double-bass) Claudius Lipp (harpsichord) The Norddeutscher Singkreis Conductor. Gottfried Wolters on gramophone records
Deryck Cooke writes on page 5

Newly translated by W. S. Merwin from the medieval French
Music composed by James Bernard
The singers and orchestra conducted by Christopher Whelan Production by Frederick Bradnum

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
(Also broadcast yesterday)

K. C. Wheare , Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration in the University of Oxford, talks about British Political Parties, by R. T. Mc Kenzie , a study of the distribution of power within the Conservative and Labour Parties, published this week.

Part 2 followed by an interlude at 9.36

(July 1957-December 1958)
Talk by the Astronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones , F.R.S.
Scientists are laying plans for a great experiment in international scientific co-operation involving the expenditure of many millions of pounds. Sir Harold Spencer Jones explains what the International Geophysical Year is and what it is hoped to achieve by these co-operative researches.

Das musikalische Opfer
(Regis Jussu Cantio et Reliqua
Canonica Arte Resoluta)
London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Albert Chasey (violin) Bernard Davis (viola)
John Underwood (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Derek Simpson (cello)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
(Also broadcast on January 16)

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