Today's 8.0 am

A weekly programme of recent records
Btirpmiiller Ballet Music: La péri (Act 2)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.35* Mascagni Recit: Ah! il suo nome!; Aria: Flammen, perdonami! (Lodoletta) MIRELLA FRENI (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN conducted by ANTONIO votto
8.41* Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH

No 51: Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen
9.25* No 138: Warum betrubst du dich, mein
Herz HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) NIGEL WICKENS (bass)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR Continuo:
Barbara hill (harpsichord)
ANDREW DAVIS (chamber organ) LONDON BACH ORCHESTRA leader ALAN loveday conductor MARTINDALE SIDWELL

The Paris Orchestra
Dukas Scherzo: The Sorcerer's Apprentice conducted by JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT
10.12* Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
NICOLE HENRIOT-SCHWEITZER conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
10.36 Honegger Symphony No 2 conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records

Bernard Haitink introduces records of his own choice

Haydn Quartet in B flat major, Op 103
12.12* Haydn Quartet In G major, Op 77 No 1
12.31* Mozart Quartet in C major (K 465)
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Hugh Maguire (violin) David Roth (violin)
Patrick Ireland (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)

ORREA PERNEL (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by BRYAN balkwill Part 1
Dvorak Overture: In the countryside
1.21* Bartok Rhapsody No 1 for violin and orchestra
1.33* Haydn Symphony No 22, In E flat major (The Philosopher)

Waiting by the Sea

Part 2
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1, in D minor

The Bat
A three-act operetta, set in Austria in the 1870s, Die Fledermaus is a tale of flirtation, intrigue, and an elaborate practical joke among the champagne and chandeliers of Imperial Vienna music by JOHANN STRAUSS libretto by CARLHAFFNERand RICHARD GENEB , after Meilhac and Halevy English version: lyrics by CHRISTOPHER HASSALL dialogue by EDMUND TRACEY Cast in order of singing:
Alfred, a singer, in love with Rosalinde
JOHN BRECKNOCK (tenor)
Adele, Rosalinde's maid
MARGARET GALE (SOpranO)
Rosalinde, Eisenstein's wife
CATHERINE WILSON (soprano)
Gabriel von Eisenstein
EMILE BELCOURT (tenor)
Dr Blind, a solicitor
JOHN FRYATT (tenor)
Dr Falke, a notary
JOHN KITCHINER (baritone) Colonel Frank, the prison governor
DENIS DOWLING (baritone)
Ida, Adele's sister
DOROTHY NASH (soprano)
Prince Orlofsky, a rich Russian
SHIRLEY CHAPMAN (mezzo-soprano)
Ivan, his butler
ADAM SARGENT-THOMAS (spoken role)
Frosch, a prison warder
FRANCIS EGERTON (spoken role)
Guests, waiters, footmen
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA leader BARRY COLLINS conducted by JOHN matheson
Act 1 The living-room of Eisenstein's apartments

Musical Journey through India The eighth in a series of illustrated talks by NAZIR ali JAIRAZBHOY Orissa (2)
Produced by MADEAU STEWART
(from the BBC Sound Archives)

Act 2 The ballroom of the Villa Orlofsky
(Act 3 at 5.25: Third)

PROFESSOR PHILIP COLLINS discusses the career of Charles Dickens as a public performer of his own works. He quotes from letters and provides statistics to show the variety and development of the novelist's repertoire

Act 3 The prison governor's office

In this programme comparing different interpretations on gramophone records, ROGER fiske discusses with KATHLEEN DALE , JAMES GIBB , and PAUL HAMBURGER some of the interpretative problems that arise in Schubert's Impromptus and Moments Musicaux. He withholds the identity of the performers until their discussion of each example is complete

by RICHARD HEY
I haven'written a radio Play, not this time, but I have brought with me the materials out of which I want you to put one together, here, as you listen with Carleton Hobbs as the Author and ANTHONY JACOBS , RALPH TRUMAN JOHN BENTLEY , ROSALIND SHANKS
KERRY FRANCIS , FREDERICK TREVES Translated from the German and produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME

MONTEVERDI CHOIR Continuo:
ANDREW DAVIS
(harpsichord. organ)
JOY HALL (cello)
DESMOND DUPRE (lute) MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Part 1: Purcell
Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day); Lord, how long wilt thou be angry; Save me, 0 God; Pavan of four parts; Chaconne in G minor; My heart is inditing

IAN RODGER discusses recent research - notably that by the American astronomer and mathematician Lyle Borst - into the apparently stellar alignment of certain English churches. This seems to show, he argues, that «arly Christian shrines may be located on the sites of megalithic sacred places, which were determined by the celestial observations of a precocious north-west Euro, pean culture which anticipated the mathematics of the Middle East

Part 2: Monteverdi
Hor che'I ciel e la terra; Ballo (II ballo dell'ingrate): Nisi Dominus (1651 second setting); Laudate Dominum (1640 first setting)
Ballo: Tirsi e Clorl

A reassessment of the writings Of RAYMOND WILLIAMS , particularly on drama, by ALBERT HUNT , Senior Lecturer in Complementary Studies at the Regional College of Art, Bedford Raymond Williams's Modern Tragedy was published in 1967 by Chatto and Windus. More recently the same publishers have brought out a greatly extended version of an earlier book, now entitled Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, and Watts have reissued his revised Drama in Performance

Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD STRAUSS