Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am

A weekly programme of recent records
Grieg Holberg Suite
LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON conducted by LESLIE JONES
8.25. Mahler Trost im Ungluck; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Rheinlegendchen; Revelge; Verlor'ne Muh (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) WALTER BERRY (baritone)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.43* Florent Schmitt Symphony for string orchestra (Janiana)
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD

No 213: Die Wahl des Herkules
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) HERTHA TOPPER (contralto) THEO ALTMEYER (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass) MOTET CHOIR OF THE
STUTTGART MEMORIAL CHURCH STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING gramophone record

A request programme of gramophone records
Schumann Symphony No 4, In D minor
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG solti
10.31* Honegger Concertino for piano and orchestra
WALTER KLIEN VIENNA PRO MUSICA ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINRICH HOLLREISER
19.44* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegel
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Shostakovich's wartime symphonies, by DERYCK COOKE
Musical Profile: Mirella Freni, by CHARLES OSBORNE
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770). by CHARLES CUDWORTH
Berlioz and the Romantic Century: book review by JOHN WARRACK
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) with JOHN STREETS (piano)
Debussy String Quartet in G minor
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor

Opera in three act* Music by MASCAGNI
Libretto by p. SUARDON, after the novel by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian Sung in Italian gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
The action takes place in Alsace Act 1 The dining room of Fritz's town house
1.29* Act 2 The courtyard of Fritz's farm at Melanges
2.10* during the interval
Bach Sonata in B minor (s 1014) ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) EGIDA GIORDANI SARTORI (harpsichord) gramophone record
2.25* L'Amico Fritz 0 Act 3 The dining-room of Fritz's town house

JOHN LILL (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
From the City Hall, Glasgow Part 1
Hoddinott Fioriture
3.20* Beethoven Piano Concert* No 2, in B flat major
3.55* during the interval Beethoven and Music Today
MAURICE LINDSAY looks at Beethoven's work in its contemporary setting, and discusses music today with ALUN HODDINOTT
4.15* Concert Part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 5, in D minor
(The second in a series of six monthly concerts featuring concertos by Beethoven. Next concert: 22 March)

by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(written between 1382 and 1387) The seventh of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Marius Goring as Chaucer ALEXANDER JOHN as Troilus ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIEL WOOLF as Pandarus HOWIESON CULFF as Calkas JOHN BENTLEY as Hector
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES

LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS conductor CHRISTOPHER BISHOP
MUNROW RECORDER CONSORT
JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS
The composers:
Weelkes. Farnaby, Morley. Ward. Byrd, Gibbons, Arcadelt. Vecchi. Greaves, Wilbye, and Marenzio.
English madrigals are normally sung unaccompanied today. They are here performed in various groupings of voices and instruments, discussed by CHRISTOPHER BISHOP who introduces the music,

A Strange Truth written by John Ford (first printed 1634) arranged for radio by Raymond Raikes

The scene: Partly in England, Partly in Scotland: 1495-1499.

(Barrie Ingham is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
(Second broadcast)
('The Broken Heart': 15 March)

THE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN and is also the soloist In the concerto which is conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Tcherepnin Piano Concerto No 2
8.351 Tchaikovsky Symphonic Poem: Fate
8.52* TcherepmnSymphonyNol (Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale. London. The works by Tcherepnin are first performances in this country)

by IAN WATT, Professor of English at Stanford University, California
Since 1948, when F. R. Leavis called The Secret Agent ' one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces,' this hitherto neglected novel has attracted much critical attention. Professor Watt. author of The Rise o/ the Novel, examines this body of often sharply conflicting criticism and explains why he regards the book as a peculiarly contemporary work and a precursor of modern black humour.

Couperin ⓢ Ordre No 13, in b minor Ordre No 11, in c minor
RAFAEL PUYANA (harpsichord)
10.32*
Ratiel Le tombeau de Couperin LAURENCE ALLIX (piano)