Today's time: GTS 8.0 am

Artur Rodzinski
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Death and Transfiguration PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
8.29* Berg Violin Concerto LOUIS KRASNER
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
8.53* Wagner Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde): LONDON PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

gramophone records

Mozart Piano Concerto No 11, in F major (K 413)
ALEXANDER JENNER SALZBURG CAMERATA ACADEMICA conducted by BERNHARD PAUMGARTNER

9.27* Stravinsky Les noces (sung in Russian): Fragment (1914-16): Fragment (1919); Complete work (1923) (first performance of the fragments)
CATHERINE GAYER (soprano), KERSTIN MEYER (mezzo-soprano), HELMUT KREBS (tenor), ANTON DIAKOV (bass), RIAS CHAMBER CHORUS, DEREK BELL, JOHN LEACH (cimbaloms, in the fragments), LOTHAR BRODDAK, HORST GOEBEL, ROLF KUHNERT, FELIX SCHRODER (pianos, in the complete work) with members of the BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT CRAFT

10.51 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor: ANDREAS ROHN
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO EDOARDO PRATAS

10.35* Stravinsky: Ballet Suite: Pulcinella 0 BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT CRAFT
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio and RIAS, Berlin)

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major (D 664), by DOMINIC GILL
Recent records of orchestral music reviewed by RONALD CRICHTON

Introduced by STEVE RACE

Introduced by PETER JONES Produced by GEOFF DOBSON and Angus MACKAY
Timings may be altered by events
12.30
Sports Parade
Including your afternoon's weather and previews of the day's racing and football
1.0 News Summary
1.2
Sports Forum
A pane! of journalists, sportsmen and commentators discuss questions put by an invited audience. This week the panel includes
J. L. MANNING of the Evening Standard
MAURICE EDELSTON , BBC commentator. and WALLEY BARNES. former captain of Arsenal and Wales Chairman PETER WEST
From Stoke Mandeville Hospital: produced by GEOFF DOBSON
1.30
Behind the Sporting Scenes
This year the Open Golf Championship is being played at St Andrews which is the home of the Royal and Ancient Club - the governing body in golf.
PETER DOBEREINER Visits the grey old town and talks to some of the people involved in this game which has been played in Scotland since the 15th century.
Produced by JOHN FENTON
1.55; 2.25
Racing from
Kempton Park
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY on the 2.0 Hampton Handicap Steeple Chase, over two miles and 170 yards: and the 2.30 Lonsdale Handicap Hurdle Race. over two miles
3.50; 4.55 Racing results
2.10
Meet Sugar Ray Robinson LIAM NOLAN talks to the man considered to be the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in boxing history, who not only won the world welterweight title but went on to win the middleweight championship five times between 1951 and 1958 2.40
You've Asked For It
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces commentaries on past sporting events requested by listeners Compiled by JOHN FENTON
2.55; 4.50
Rugby Union: Barbarians v
South African Tourists
Commentary on the first half of this afternoon's traditional end-of-the-tour match from PETER WEST and KIM SHIPPEY , with summaries and comments from PETER CRANMER : from Twickenham
4.50 A summary of the second half from Twickenham
3.45
Association Football
Commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and BRYON BUTLER on the second half of one of today's English League matches, followed by the day's results as they come in 5.0
Sports Report
Including classified football results, reports on selected soccer matches, a preview of the second Test Match between South Africa and Australia and further news of the rest of the afternoon's sport

Sonata in b flat major (D 617) Fantasia in F minor (D 940)
EDEN AND TAMIR (piano duet)

A. P. RYAN has been examining the unpublished letters of Thomas Creevey , the Member of Parliament and diarist, which amount to vastly more than those so far published.
From them and the published letters he reconsiders Creevey's reputation and asks: was he really just a ubiquitous little chatterbox or something much more considerable?
Other parts PETER TUDDENHAM PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Produced by ROBERT CRADOCK

BRONISLAV GIMPEL (violin) BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON From the Town Hall, Leeds Part l
Paul Patterson Symphonic Study II (first performance)
This new work by the 23-year-old Derbyshire composer is based on Dante's Inferno. It is in three parts - a jagged opening, leading to a movement of mystical tranquillity, returning to the opening theme.
Paul Patterson studied composition at the Royal Academy with Richard Stoker and afterwards with Richard Rodney Bennett. On Wednesday a new work by Richard Stoker is to have its first broadcast performance in this country - his Violin Sonata, Op 15, at 1.4 in the Music Programme.

H. G. Nicholas , Rhodes Professor of American History and Institutions in the University of Oxford, gives the last of four fortnightly talks.

Part 2
Prokofiev Symphony No 5, in B flat major
(Presented by the BBC in association with the City of Leeds Amenities Committee)

The second of four talks
DENIS MATTHEWS talks about the sketchbooks with particular reference to the symphonies to be heard in tomorrow's concert (Third Programme, 8.15).

Missa dum complerentur
REGENSBURG CATHEDRAL CHOIR conducted by HANS SCHREMS gramophone record