Time: GTS 8.0 am

Auber Overture: The Black Domino
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.13* LaloRapsodie norvegienne SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.25 Waldteu/el Waltz: Pomona PHILHARMONIA PROMENADE
ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY KRIPS
8.33* Chabrier Souvenirs de Munich
GENEVIEVE JOY and JACQUELINE ROBIN-BONNEAC (piano duet)
8.46* Pierni Concertstiick for harp and orchestra ANNIE CHALLAN
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
8.55* Poulenc Deux marches et un intermede
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE gramophone records

A series to present some of the great compositions.
This week Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet

Berlioz Overture: King Lear LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS

9.25* Berlioz Dramatic Symphony: Romeo and Juliet PATRICIA KERN (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS

(gramophone records)

by Peter Frankl from the Town Hall, Cheltenham Part 1
Haydn Sonata In E flat (Haydn Society No 49)
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat
Haydn Sonata In C (Haydn Society No 50)

ALAN WALKER talks about Liszt's B minor sonata,

Part 2 Liszt
Sonata in b minor

Mozart Violin Concerto No S, In a major (K 219)
1.33* Bach Partita in D minor, for violin (s 1004)
1.57* Ernst Krenek Elegy for string orchestra
2.10* Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
TIBOR VARGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by TIBOR VARGA (violin)
(Recording from the 1970 Tibor Varga Festival made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)

A personal choice of records presented by Jeremy Noble including at 2.32* Berlioz's Overture: The Corsair: at
2.42* Schubert's Fantasia in p minor (d 940): at 3.3* MARILYN BORNE singing Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder, with HENRY LEWIS conducting the ROYAL philHARMONIC ORCHESTRA; and at
3.51* Strauss's Symphonic domestica, with FRITZ REINER conducting the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JOHN AMIS talks to artists - composers, conductors, or performers - most closely concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music,

Introduced by STEVE rack

Music drama in three acts by WAGNER
(sung in German) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing:
Sailors, attendants to King Marke
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR Conductor GEORG SOLTI Produced by PETER HALL
The action takes place in Arthurian times.
Act 1: On board King Marke's ship returning to Cornwall
(Opera belongs to the people': page 11)

Dame Flora Robson reads extracts from the book recently published by Nadezhda Mandel stam, the widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam who died a victim of Stalin's purges in 1938. It describes their life from the poet's first arrest in 1934 to his second arrest and subsequent death in a prison camp.
Mrs Mandelstam still lives in Moscow and she wrote her book about six years ago. It has not been published in the USSR.
The extracts are introduced by KARL MILLER

Act 2: In the garden of Marke's castle in Cornwall

A talk commemorating the bicentenary of the birth of Goethe, first broadcast in the Third Programme in 1949, recorded by the German novelist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) during a short visit to London that year.

Act 3: In the courtyard of Tristan's castle in Brittany
(The Solti Era: Sunday, 8.45 BBC2: The Golden Decade, Thursday. 8.45 Radio 4)

A poem for voices by MICHAEL EDWARDS with Stephen Murray and Denys Hawthorne. David March and LESLIE HERITAGE, NIGEL LAMBERT TREVOR MARTIN , JOHN RUDDOCK DAVID VALLA
The poem is introduced by the author
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX followed by an interlude