Programme 15 Carmen
An illustrated study in the origins of Bizet's opera by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE
Readers:
Cecile Chevreau Trader Faulkner Denis Goacher Neville Hartley Anne Murray John Sharp
Roger Snowdon Geoffrey Wincott
Narration by DENIS MCCARTHY
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES Second broadcast
' Carmen ' on records: Sunday
Story by John Updike read by DAVID BAUER
The Doctor's Wife relates a disturbing incident during an American family's Caribbean vacation. Second broadcast
BENTHlEN QUARTET
DANZI WIND QUINTET with GE VAN KOTEN (cor anglais) Part 1 Recording of the Thursday Invitation Concert on March 21
E. J. B. Rose , from 1952 to
1962 the first director of the International Press Institute, Zurich, says that whatever the other faults of the popular press in this country the worst Is the way they play about with the news
' You can never be sure whether important news will be reported at all or, if it is, whether it will be given prominence or be buried away in a small paragraph.' Mr. Rose illustrates his argument with reference to the Vassall and Profumo affairs.
Part 2
† PETER WILLIAMS discusses the growth of the organ concerto in eighteenth-century London and the relationship ot Handel's organ concertos to those of his English contemporaries
Organ Concertos
No. 6, in B flat major No. 1. in G minor No. 5, in F major played by Karl RICHTER (organ) directing the KARL Richter
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA on gramophone records