Otello
An illustrated study in the origins of Verdi's opera by HANNSHAMMELMANN andMICHAEL ROSE
Readings by Betty Hardy , Neville Hartley
Jane Jordan Rogers , John Sharp Martin Starkie , Geoffrey Wincott Narration by John Glen
The musical illustrations from gramophone records include extracts from Macbeth conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Simon Boccanesra conducted by Gabriele Santini , Rossini's Otello conducted by Walter Susskind , and voice and piano records by Victor Maurel and Francesco Tamagno.
The main illustrations are from gramophone records of Otello conducted by Arturo Toscanini , with Ramon Vinay as Othello, Giuseppe Valdengo as lago, Herva Nelli as Desdemona, and the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
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' Otello ' on gramophone records: Monday at 8.0

Netherlands String Quartet Nap de Klijn (violin) Jaap Schroder (violin) Paul Godwin (viola)
Caret Boomkamp (cello)
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Twelve programmesof verse translationsfrom Homer specially made by contemporary poets
9: Odysseus at his Palace and Irus
Books xvii and xvm
Translated by Terence Tiller
Read by Denis McCarthy
Petnelope
BOOK XVIII
Translated by Rex Warner
Read by Gary Watson
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
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Eurycleui (Books XIX and XX) and Preliminariesto Battle and The Bow (Books XX and XXI): June 4 followed by an interlude at 7.55

from the Prague Festival
David Oistrakh (violin)
Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello)
Lev Oborin (piano)
State Symphony Orchestra of the U.S.S.R.
Conducted by Konstantin Ivanov
At the time of going to press the full programme is not settled. It will include
Beethoven's Triple Concerto and a Symphony by the young Soviet composer Espa] From the Smetana Hall, Prague Broadcast by courtesy of GeskoslovenskyRozhlas
DURING THE CONCERT INTERVAL of fifteen minutes
COMPOSERS OR
COMPUTERS by Philip Laird
In this talk Philip Laird examines the general direction in which the avantgarde are moving the art of composition. He argues that their techniques have brought music closer to science and that the more that music is conceived pre-compositionally the easier it is to produce on a computer.
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by Anton Ehrenzweig
The speaker discusses the pathological and mystic elements in modern art in the light of the recently published book by Adrian Stokes Three Essays on the Painting of Our Time.

by Eric Heideieck
No. 1, in E flat minor No. 5, in B flat
No. 12, in E minor