Five programmes arranged and introduced by H. C. Robbins Landon
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Ann Dowdall (soprano)
Josephine Veasey
(mezzo-soprano)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Dermot Troy (tenor)
Owen Brannigan (bass-baritone)
BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate
A section of the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Hugh Maguire )
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
1—Opera
Part 1
Overture: Lo spezlale
(1768; first modern performance)
Aria dl Lindora: Son pletosa
(probably written for
Clmarosa's Circe' 1789-90)
Finale Act 2, II mondo della Luna
(1777)
Cantata (Scena): Mlserl no!
(written in London; first modern performance)

by A. J. Cain D.Phil. ,
Dr. Cain, who is curator of the zoological collection at University Museum, Oxford, considers, in the light of P. J. Darlington's recently published Zoogeography, some of the problems involved in attempting to explain the distribution of the world's animals.

Part 2
Act 4: L'anima del ftlosofo
(Orfeo, London, 1791)
First of five programmes