Today's 8.0 am

A weekly programme of recent records
Grieg Incidental Music: Peer Gynt
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLU

No 27: Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende
9.22* No 161: Komm, du siisse
Todesstunde ELAINE BLIGHTON (soprano) SYBIL MICHELOW icontralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
COLIN WHEATLEY (baritone) TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
Obbligati:
CARL DOLMETSCH (recorder)
JEANNE DOLMETSCH (recorder) MARY RYAN (flute)
RONALD GILLHAM (flute)
DIANA DEMUTH (cor anglais)
JENNIFER RYAN (viola da gamba) DESMONDDUPRÉ (viola da gambaj Continuo:
DEREK STEVENS (organ and harpsichord)
GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (bassoon) OLGA HEGEDUS ( cello)
ADRIAN CRUFT (double-bass)
TII.FORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA leader KELLY ISAACS conductor DENYS DARLOW

Czech Philharmonic conducted by KAREL ANCERL with josef SUK (violin)
Dvorak Overture: Othello
10.16* Suk Fantasy in G minor, for violin and orchestra
10,41* Martinu The Frescoes of Piero delta Francesca gramophone records

Tito Gobbi introduces records of his own choice.
Tito Gobbi first came to England with the company of La Scala, Milan, in 1950, but 1969 marks his first visit to the Edinburgh Festival. He produced Puccini's one-act masterpiece Gianni Schicchi there for the Teatro Comunale of Florence, and also appeared in the title role. This is one of his best-loved parts - the rumbustious. uninhibited rogue who manages to emerge from a miser's nest with the loot.

ANNA REYNOLDS (mezzo-soprano) CHARLES ROSEN (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conducted by GARY BERTINI
Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
12.10* Brahms Piano Concerto No 2. in B flat major

Aspects of Mahler discussed by OTTO KLEMPERER , JOHN AMtS , MARTIN COOPER , DERYCK COOKE , and SIDNEY BERNSTEIN
(From BBC Sound Archives)

Part 2
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
1.29* Weill Symphony No 2

The finalists play concertos with the ROYAL IIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES
An edited recording of a concert given yesterday evening in the Town Hall, Leeds
During the interval: public views and comments The jury's decisions announced by WILLIAM GLOCK
The finalists can be seen in Omnibus on BBC1 this evening at 10.20. and the winner gives a recital in the Third Programme on Tuesday at 10.10 Competition at Leeds: page 6

Opera in three acts music by THEA MUSGRAVE libretto by MAURICE LINDSAY
The Abbot of Drimock was written between 1954 and 1956, and this afternoon's broadcast is a recording of the first fully professional performance - supervised by the composer and the librettist and broadcast earlier this year on Radio 4: Scotland. The story bears a marked resemblance to the plot of Puccini's one-act opera Gianni Schicchi , since it is concerned with the nefarious alteration, by impersonation, of a dead man's will. The source of the Drimock storv, however, is quite independent, and it is set in Lowland Scotland in the year 1521 The Abbot of Drimock IAN WALLACE bass-baritone)
Geills, a witchwoman
JOHANXA PETERS (contralto)
Bess. wife of the Laird of Drimock MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano)
Maggie, daughter of Bess PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
Tarn DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) Doctor
DONALD FRANCKE (baritone)
Notary
RONALD MORRISON (baritone)
Section of the BBC SCOTTISE SYMIPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN Producer COLIN RATCLIFFE

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
This is the first of two talks in which ERIC sams discusses Schubert's Die schdne Mullerin as interpreted by Fischer-Dieskau, Gerhard Hiisch , Werner Krenn. Peter Pears , Aksel Schiatz. Gerard Souzay , Fritz Wunderlich , and others

Quartet in F major. Op 59 No 1 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Translated and adapted for radio by BARBARA BRAY from the novel Le Grand Meaulnes by ALAlN-FOURNIER with Timothy Bateson , Albert Finney Clare Austin, Lyndon Brook
A bewitching tale of a young man's dream of happiness: Meaulnes's night at the old chateau, his brief but fateful encounter with the lovely Yvonne during a fancy-dress party held for a vanished bride, seem to his friend Francois, the narrator, the very stuff of fantasy. Yet time is to prove it real - for Francois. the watcher over four lives - too real

Francois Seurel TIMOTHY BATESON
Mme Seurel CATHERINE SALKELD
M Seurel FREDERICK TREVES
Augustin Meaulnes ALBERT FINNEY

Mme Meaulnes MARY MORRELL
Yvonne de Galais CLARE AUSTIN
Frantz de Galais LYNDON BROOK
M de Galais DUNCAN MCINTYRE

Jasmin Delouche JONATHAN SCOTT
Desnoues, the blacksmith FRANK WINDSOR
Ganache JOHN CAZABON

Uncle Florentin FRANK WINDSOR
Firmin and Marie-Louise, cousins of Francois: DAVID SPENSER and PATRICIA LEVENTON
Great-aunt Moinel DOROTHY GREEN
A peasant HILDA SCHRODER Pupils at M Seurel's school, and other children TONY ADAMS, JEAN ENGLAND, PETER WILDE, CLIVE PARRITT

Music by ELIZABETH POSTON conducted by DOUGLAS ROBINSON
Produced by BARBARA BRAY

YVONNE MINTON (mezzo-soprano) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Part 1
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricle (1735): Act 4 Scenes 3 and 4 - The Death of Hippolytus
8.25* Charpentier Concert pour quatre parties
8.38* Handel Acis and Galatea (1718): Part 2 - Death of Acis

by ALEC NOVE , Director of the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
Progress, Peaceful Co-existence, and Intellectual Freedom was the title of a memorandum written by Andrei Sakha rov, an eminent Russian scientist, and published in the West in 1968. What is its continuing significance in the light of recent events?

Part 2: Mozart
Concert Aria: Vado. ma dove? (K 583)
9.26* Symphony No 33, in B flat major (K 319)
9.51' Graduale ad festum b.M.v.: Sancta Maria mater Dei (K 273)
S.56* Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339)

BERNARD GREENHOUSE (cello) MENAHEM PRESSLER (piano)
Bach Sonata in G minor (s 1029) Brahms Sonata in F major, Op 99
Debussy Sonata