Today's time GTS 8.0 am

A weekly programme of recent records
Wolf Italian Serenade: VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTTO GERDES
8.13* Rossini Toast pour Ie nouvel an; Duetto buffo di due gatti; I gondolieri (Peches de vieillesse)
HERBERT HANDT ENSEMBLE
Margaret Baker (soprano) Margaret Lensky (mezzo-soprano)
Herbert Handt (tenor) James Loomis (bass)
Mario Caporaleni (piano)
8.25* Mendelssohn Octet in k fiat major
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Kenneth Sillito (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) lona Brown (violin)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Kenneth Essex (viola) Terence Weil (cello) Keith Harvey (cello)

No 78: Jesu, der du meine Seele URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) HERTHA TÖPPER (contralto) JOHN VAN KESTEREN (tenor) KEITH ENGEN (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR
SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE OF THE ANSBACH BACH FESTIVAL conducted by KARL RICHTER
9.31* Trio-Sonata in G major (s 1038)
HARTMUT STREBEL (flute)
WERNER KELTSCHE (violin) LISEDORE PRAETORIUS (harpsichord)
JURGEN WOLT (cello)
9.40* No 25: Es 1st nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe HERRAD WEHRUNG (soprano) RAIMUND GILVAN (tenor)
AUGUST MESSTHALER (bass) STUTTGART MOTET CHOIR
HEIDELBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTER GRAULICH gramophone records

Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat major BYRON JANIS
Conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN
10.18* Prokofiev Symphony No 5, in b flat major
Conducted by DAVID OISTRAKH gramophone records

Geza Anda introduces records of his own choice

Haydn Quartet in F major, Op 77 No 2
12.22* Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op 95
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

VLADIMIR RI.OFF (cello) EVELYN ROTHWELL (oboe) HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conductor SIR JOHN BARBIROLLl Part 1
Schubert Symphony No 5. in B flat major
1.15* Eloar Cello Concerto in g minor

Reminiscences of Elgar by ASTRA DESMOND and W. T. A. CLAUGHTON
(From BBC Sound Archives)

Part 2
Bax Oboe Quintet
(arranged for oboe and string orchestra by Barbirolli)
2.25* Sibelius Symphony No 5, in e flat major

(Paris and Helen)
Melodrama in five acts
The story concerns the wooing of Helen of Troy by Paris-his pleading and her surrender
Words by RANIERI DE' CALZABIGI Music by GLUCK sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing: A Trojan boy
LORENZA CANEPA (soprano)
Paris, a prince of Troy
LAJOS KOSMA (tenor)
A Trojan
DORO ANTONIOLI (tenor)
Eros, disguised as Erasto, confidential servant to
Helen VALERIA MARJCONDA (soprano)
Helen, Queen of Sparta
MAGDA LASZLO (soprano)
Pallas Athene
LINDA VAJNA (soprano)
Soldiers, courtiers, populace
MILAN CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO conducted by MARIO ROSSI
(Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio)
The action takes place in and near Sparta:
Act 1 The seashore
Act 2 A hall in the royal palace

Musical Journey through India The seventh in a series of ten illustrated talks by NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY Orissa (1)
Produced by MADEAU STEWART (from the BBC Sound Archives)

Act 3 A large courtyard in the royal palace
Act 4 Helen's apartment
Act 5 Scene 1 A garden; Scene 2 The seashore

Ernest Ansermet in conversation with ROBERT CHESTERMAN recalls his meetings with Debussy, and talks about him as a man as well as the interpretation of his music. He discusses Debussy's response to painting and recalls some historic performances of his music. (Recording made available by courtesy of CBC)

The first of two programmes of works heard at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Hamburg last June, introduced by David Cox
Mauricio Kagel (independent) Halleluja for voices: CHORUS OF NORTH GERMAN RADIO, conductor HELMUT FRANZ
Kazimierz Serocki (Poland) Continuum, for six percussionists: MEMBERS OF THE NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
John Tavcner (England) In alium: DOROTHY DOROW (soprano), BBC prepared tapes, NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conductor JAN KRENZ
(Recordings made available by courtesy of North German Radio: the first two works have not previously been broadcast in this country)
(Stereo)

by GEORGE BARKER
The scene is Limbo. A couple of elderly poet-professors have just arrived: they are uncertain whether they like it. They encounter ' that irascible hysteric,' the Muse herself; and later, a couple of lovers, a Victorian poet, a Georgian poet. They converse
Mr Sheets-Kelly, an elderly
Irish poet HARRY HUTCHINSON
Professor Max Welhaus , an elderly scholar-poet CARLETON HOBBS
The Muse HILDA KRISEMAN
The Lovers DENYS HAWTHORNE and ROSALIND SHANKS
A Young Man PETER MARINKER
Lord Golfather, a Victorian poet NORMAN SHELLEY
Rupert River , a Georgian poet
JOHN PULLEN
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
7.25 Interlude

Dvorak, Beethoven
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra leader BRUNO BELCIK conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER VERA SOUKUPOVA (contralto) from the Royal Albert Hall,
London: Part 1
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
7.50. Mahler Kindertotenlieder

ANDREW HALE gives one of a series of monthly commentaries on Italy today, recorded in Rome where he lives and works.

Dvorak Biblical Songs
9.0* Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A major

In an analysis of some historical antecedents for the art form of enclosure and claustrophobia known as compressionism, LAURENCE KITCHIN examines writers as .disparate as Galsworthy. R. C. Sherriff , and Dostoevsky. He concludes that if the authorities at the London School of Economics had been aware of compressionism they ' might have hesitated a good deal longer before installing iron gates'

No 37: Wer da glaubet und getauft wird
No 11: Lobet Gott In seinen
Reichen HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
MERIEL DICKINSON (meZZO-SOp) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) STAFFORD DEAN (bass)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ANDREW DAVIS
(chamber organ continue) MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
(Stafford Dean broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
10.55 Interlude