Ruth Dyson (harpsichord)
Hugues Cuenod (tenor) Michel Roux (baritone)
Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba) Harpsichord :
Les tourbillons
Les tendres plaintes La joyeuse
Cantata: Les amants trahis Harpsichord :
Gavotte
First of four programmes
Rameau's fame as an opera composer has tended to obscure his importance as * composer of instrumental and vocal music. This aspect of his art will be shown in these four programmes, which will include cantatas for one or two voices, suites en concert, and music for solo harpsichord.

ABOUT LIFE by Bernard Bergonzi
* Life ' is one of the most potent ' complex words ' in modern criticism, Mr. Bergonzi remarks. He takes the volume of James-Wells correspondence, Published earlier this year, as a pretext for raising the question of the novelist's relation with his subject-matter, with ' reality,' or experience," or, indeed, with ' life."

Herbert Downes (viola)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Last of four programmes of works for viola and piano

A Conversation
Written by Maurice Cranston
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon