Including works by Paganini, Beethoven. Mozart and Liszt gramophone records

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos; by CHARLES CUDWORTH
Hi-Fi - What's it all about fit): by DONALD ALDOUS
Recent opera: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE

including this week Record Review's recommended version of one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and scenes from the new opera records of Verdi's I Lombardi, and Rossini's La Cenerentola

Music for one and two performers
LOUIS KENTNER 'piano) plays
Balakirev Sonata in B flat minor (1905)
11.37' Liszt Gretchen (A Faust Symphony): Ballade in a minor

Vladimir Orloff (Cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Christopher Seaman

Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 33 (K319)
12.38* Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme, for cello and orchestra

Vith JOHN AMIS

Part 2
Anatol Vieru Cello Concerto(first performance in this country)
1.47* Haydn Symphony No 99

of some composers and performers who appear prominently in the week's music broadcasting

Tippett The weeping babe; Plebs angelica: Dance. Clarion air; Lullaby: JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
BBC CHORUS, conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE [repeat]
Tippett Helen's aria: Let her rave (King Priam)
JANET BAKER, OSIAN ELLIS (harp), MARGARET KITCHIN (piano)
HARRY DANKS, JOHN COULLING, NORMAN KENT, ERIC SARGON (Violas)
(Tomorrow, 1.45: The Midsummer Marriage: Friday evening: The Vision of St Augustine)
Beethoven Variations and Fugue on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35 (Eroica Variations) CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) (gramophone record)
(Tuesday evening: Eroica Symphony: Friday evening: Clifford Curzon playing the 'Emperor' Piano Concerto)
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
FINNISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
(Recording made available by courtesy of Finnish Radio)
(Tomorrow, 5.50: Symphony No 8: Wed. 1.5: Cello Sonata)

boy HENDERSONpresents a pro. file, including many gramophone recordings, of the English singer and traces the development of her tragically short career of only 11 years.

Mozart Quartet in B flat (K 589) Shostakovich Quartet No 8, in c minor

Introduced by PETER CLAYTON

played by ILANA VERED (piano) Sonata in B minor
Nocturnes: F sharp. Op 15 No 2; c minor, Op 48 No 1; r minor, Op 55 No 1
Polonaise in F sharp minor followed by an interlude

Dramatic oratorio in three acts Libretto by CHARLES JENNENS Music by Handel
Cast in order of singing:
ROGER BULLIVANT (harpsichord) ROBERT SPENCER (lute) JOHN MARSON (harp)
KENNETH HEATH (cello)
ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader KENNETH SILLITO conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS direct from Leeds Town Hall Act 1
8.25* Handel's ' Saul ' at Music-Drama
A talk by WINTON DEAN
8.45* Saul
Acts 2 and 3

Fiction and Literary Criticism Introduced by JOHN SPURLING
The Saddest Story: Arthur Mizener 's new biography of Ford Madox Ford prompts a reassessment of this neglected writer by v. s. PRITCHETT and JULIAN MITCHELL
Bloody Murder: JULIAN SYMONS on his history From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel ' - and a discussion on some recent crime fiction Producer MIRIAM RAPP

Pierrot lunaire
MARGARET BAKER (reciter)
ENSEMBLE KONTRAPUNKTE, VIENNA conducted by PETER KEUSCHNIG
(Recording from the 1971 Brno Festival made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio)