Time: GTS 8.0 am

Offenbach, orch Rosenthal Ballet: Gafte Parisienne
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.34* Gershwin An American in Paris
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (piano) conducting the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.53* Satie, orch Milhaud Jack -in-the-Box
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL gramophone records

This week: Chopin's Twenty-four Preludes for piano, preceded by a set by Scriabin modelled on them, and by two 18th-century suites for harpsichord
Couperin Ordre No 6, in B flat major: Prélude: Les moissonneurs; Les langueurs-tendres; Le gazouillement; La Bersan; Les baricades mistérieuses; Les bergeries; La commere; Le moucheron
THURSTON DART (harpsichord)
9.28' Scriabin Twenty-four Preludes, Op 11
ALBERT FERBER (piano)
10.0* Bach French Suite No 6, in E major: Allemande; Corrente: Sarabande; Gavotte; Polonaise; Bourrée; Minuet;
Gigue TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
10.16* Chopin Twenty-four Preludes, Op 28
RAFAEL OROZCO (piano) (gramophone record)

from Leith Town Hall, Edinburgh
Pierre Fournier (cello) Jean Fonda (piano) Part 1
Debussy Sonata in D minor
11.13* Mendelssohn Variations concertantes
11.25* Martinu Sonata No 1
(In Edinburgh with Beethoven and 'Lily the Pink': pages 8-9)

PIERRE FOURNIER reflects on some of his experiences at, and memories of. the Edinburgh International Festival.

Part 2 Brahms
Sonata No 2, in F

GEORGE ZUKERMAN (bassoon)
SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER (violin) FRANZ BEYER (viola) THOMAS BLEES (cello) gramophone record

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor LOUIS FRÉMAUX †
Rossini Overture: The Journey to Rheims
Berlioz Fantastic Symphony

A personal choice of records presented by Jeremy Noble including at 2.8" Bartok's Dance Suite, with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SOLTI ; at 2.25* Folk Music from Greece and Mexico; at 2.35* Copland's Danzon cubano and Ives's Decoration Day. with the NEW YORK PHII.-HARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN ; at 3.10* ARTHUR GRUMIAUX playing Berg's Violin Concerto, with the AMSTERDAM CONCERTCEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by igor MARKEVITCH; and at 3.35' ROSA PONSELLE , GIOVANNI MARTINELLI , LIBERO DE LUCA and EZIO PINZA singing excerpts from Verdi's La forza del destino

Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126
Schubert Sonata in A minor (o 784); Three Piano Pieces (d 946)
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, on 26 April)

JOHN AMIS introduces artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music,

Introduced by STEVE RACE

NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SZYMON GOLDBERG Handel Concerto Grosso No 2, in B flat (Op 3 No 2)
Haydn Symphony No 39
Hans Kox Plays for musicians (first broadcast in this country) Berg Three movements from Lyric Suite
Haydn Symphony No 57
(Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio)

Opera in three acts
MUSIC by RICHARD STRAUSS Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL (sung in German)
(gramophone records) Cast:
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SOLTI
The action takes place in Vienna in 1860. Act 1 A salon in a hotel in Vienna

JOHN CHANDOS introduces extracts from a 17th-century controversy about freedom and authority between two Cambridge dons, ANTHONY TUCKNEY , Master of St John 's, and a former pupil of his, BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE , Provost of Trinity College and Vice-chancellor of the University. Their dialogue lays bare many of the recurring arguments in the debate between establishment ideas and the reforming intelligence. Readers: GARY WATSON and ALAN WHEATLEY

Act 2 The anteroom of a bail-room

by MICHAEL LANE
Mr Lane , sociologist and editor of Structuralism-A Reader, comments on The Raw and the Cooked by Claude Lgvi-Strauss , in which the French anthropologist analyses certain myths current among Indian tribes of Central Brazil. This is the most recent of Professor Lfivi-Strauss's work to appear in English, the first of four volumes by him eventually to be published as The Science of Mythology.
(Tomorrow evening you can hear a broadcast version of Professor Levi-Strauss's recent Sir James Frazer Lecture on Myth and Ritual introduced by Michael Lane )

Act 3 The main hall of the hotel

Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
MARCEL MOYSE (flute) ADOLF BUSCH (violin) RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
THE BUSCH CHAMBER PLAYERS
(gramophone record)
(Tomorrow evening you can hear this Concerto directed by Karl Richter)