Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am

A weekly programme of recent records
Schubert Sonata in B flat (d 28) YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) MAURICE GENDHON (Cello)
HEPHZIBAH MENUHlN (piano)
8.12* Cui Le desir; Balakirev 7th November: Mussorgsky Night; Rimxky-Korsakov Quiet is the sea
BORIS CHRISTOFF (bass) with piano
8.24* Chausson Quartet in A major, Op 30
RICHARDS PIANO QUARTET

No 182: Himmelskonig, sei willkommen
JULIA FALK (contralto)
BERT VAN T'HOFF (tenor) JACQUES VILI. ISECH (bass)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR LEONHARDT CONSORT conducted by JÜRGEN JÙRGENS
9.36* No 1: Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records

A record request programme
Praetorius La Bourrée; Ballet; Volte (Terpsichore)
COLLEGIUM TERPSICHORE
10.13* Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466) DANIKL BARENBOIM (piano) who also directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
18.46* Folia The Three-cornered Hat: Suite No 2
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Bach's Sf Matthew Passion by ALEC ROBERTSON
Musical Profile: Geoffrey Bush by ROBERT ANDERSON
Purcell's The Indian Queen by DENNIS ARUNDELL
Wagner on Music and Drama: book review by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN herbage

Mozart Sonata in B fiat major (K 454)
Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78 GYÖRGY PAUK (violin)
PETER FRANKL (piano)

Libretto by GHERALDO BEVILACQUA ALDOBRANDINI
Music by ROSSINI (sung in Italian)
First broadcast in this country
Cast:
Slaves and gardeners
MEN'S CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OP ITALIAN SWISS RADIO conducted by BRUNO RIGACCI
The action takes place in Baghdad in the gardens of the harem
(Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Swiss Radio)

EMANDEL HURWITZ (violin) NONA L1DDEI.L (violin) CHARLES SPINKS
(harpsichord continuo)
TERENCE WEIL (cello continuo)
Handel Trio-Sonata in A major, Op 5 No 1
LegrenziTrio-Sonata in D minor (La brembata); Trio-Sonata in G minor (La secca soarda); Trio-Sonata in D major (La benaglia)
Handel Trio-Sonata in 0 major, Op 5 No 2

RADU LUPU (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN Part 1
Thea Musgrave Memento Vitae: Concerto in Homage to Beethoven
(Commissioned jointly by the National Broadcasting Council for Scotland and the Saltire Society. First performance)
3.22* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor

Beethoven and Music Today
MAURICE LINDSAY looks at Beethoven's work in its contemporary setting, and discusses music today with THEA musGRAVE

Part 2
Tchaikovsky Svmphonv No 4
(From the City Hall, Glasgow. Third of six monthly concerts featuring Beethoven concertos)

by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(written between 1382 and 1387) The eleventh of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL with Marius Goring as Chaucer ALEXANDER JOHN as Troilus ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIEL WOOLF as Pandarus and MARTIN JARVIS as Diomede
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES

Berio Circles
CATHY BERBERIAN (soprano) FRANCIS PIERRE (harp) JEAN-PIERRE DROUET
JEAN-CLAUDE CASADESUS (percussion)
6.0* Henzc Being beauteous EDDA MOSER (soprano) FRITZ HELMIS (harp)
EBEHIIARD FINKE (cello)
WOLFGANG BOTTCHER (Cello) PETER STEINER I cello)
HEINRICH MAJOWSKI (cello) gramophone record

CHRISTOPHER PALMER examines the nature of Housman's appeal to English composers in the first two decades of the present century He discusses and contrasts settings of Housman by Vaughan Williams , Butterworth, Ireland, C. W. Orr , and others.
Some of the illustrations are specially recorded by IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)

A tragedy by JOHN FORD (first printed 1633) with David Weston , Elizabeth Proud Patrick Mower. Clive Merrison We'll make a murder The scene: Parma
Produced by John TYDEMAN
(Lila Kaye is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Heinz REHFUSS (baritone) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Schubert Die abgebliihte Linde: Memnon; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Freiwilliges Versinken Schoenberg Hochzeitslied : Erwartung (Aus dem meergriinen Teiche); Alles; Der Wanderer

Speaker Sir Alister Hardy
The fourth in a group of programmes on the prospects for homo religiosus.
Sir Alister Hardy , Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Oxford, has had a long and distinguished career as a scientist. He is now Director of the Religious Experience Research Unit at Manchester College, Oxford. He is the author of two series of Gifford Lectures: The Living Stream and The Divine Flame.
(Ronald Laing : Friday, 10.5 pm)

Ins stille Land: Rastiose Liebe Drei Gesange des Harfners
Der blinde Knabe: Greisengesang; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt ; Die junge Nonne
10.50 Interlude