Programme 14
Ariadne auf Naxos
An illustrated study in the origins of Richard Strauss 's opera by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE
Readers, VALENTINE DYALL and NORMAN SHELLEY
Narration by JOHN GLEN
Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES Second broadcast
' Ariadne auf Naxos ' on records: Monday at 8.0 p.m.

MARGARET KITCHIN (piano)

First of two talks by ANDREW SHONFIELD
He considers the problems of devising and maintaining public supervision of planning in a capitalist society-in this talk with special reference to the French experience.
Second talk: December 16

tTOSSY SPIVAKOVSKY (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Gibbs
Conducted by Jacques Louis MONOD
Roger Sessions , composer and music educator, was born in Brooklyn in 1896. Since 1945 he has been professor of music, first at Berkeley, California, and later at Princeton. His orchestral works include four symphonies, the latest of which is to have its first broadcast performance here on December 17. The Violin Concerto (1935) has four movements; it is scored for large orchestra which includes triple wood-wind and basset-horn but no violins.

by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
with Nicolette Bernard, William Eedle, Margaret Gordon, Anthony Jacobs, Ralph Truman

Music by Anthony Bernard, played by the London Chamber Orchestra, Leader, Lionel Bentley, conducted by the composer

The play adapted for radio and produced by R.D. Smith
[BBC recording] (Second broadcast)

During the Interval 9.20-9.30* Gluck: Chaconne - played by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Karl Munchinger
(on a gramophone record)

Quartet in B flat major (K.58S) played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) Second broadcast