A programme of recent records Debussy, arr Ravel Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR (piano duet)
8.14. Brahms Part Songs: Spatherbst; Abendlied GREGG SMITH SINGERS MYRON FINK (piano)
8.19* Grieg Holberg Suite WALTER KLIEN (piano)
8.39* Schoenberg Der Mai trltt ein mit Freuden; Mein Herz in steten
Treuen GREGG SMITH SINGERS
8.47* Ravel La valse PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)

In the third programme of the new weekly series, his youthful Fifth Symphony
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by SZYMON GOLDBERG
9.39* a piano duet work of his maturity, the Variations in A flat EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBS

A record request programme Brixi Organ Concerto in F FRANZ LEHRNDORFER who also directs the STUTTGART SOLOISTS
Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Noonday Witch
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Poulenc Concerto in G minor, for organ, string orchestra and timpani
MAURICE DURUFLE
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE

Record Review
Contributed by DOMINIC GILL, EDWARD GREENFIELD , JEREMY NOBLE Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE

Bach Goldberg Variations played by George Malcolm (harpsichord) direct from Christ Church, Cheltenham Part 1
Aria and Variations 1-15
12.55* Talk: John Beckett on the Goldberg Variations
1.11* Cheltenham Festival Bach: Part 2
Variations 16-38

Opera in two acts
Music by Beethoven
Libretto by JOSEF SONNLEITHNER and GEORG FRIEDRICH TREITSCHKE (sung in German)
(gramophone records)
Cast in order of singing:
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by otto KLEMPERER
The action takes place in a state prison near Seville, during the 18th century
Act 1 The prison courtyard
3.20* Talk: Robert Simpson on the key system of Fidelio and its dramatic significance.
3.40* Fidelio
Act 2 A dungeon in the prison, changing to the prison gates

by MIKKO DORNER
Bach Suite No 6, in D major
Hindemith Sonata, Op 25 No 3 Hcnze Serenade

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared.
CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON discusses Ravel's G major Piano Concerto as recorded by MAR GUERITE LONG with RAVEL himself conducting, PERLEMUTER and HORENSTEIN, MICHELANGELI and ETTORE GRACIS , SAMSON FRANÇOIS and ANDRE CLUYTENS , BERNSTEIN playing and conducting, KATCHEN and KERTESZ, ARGERICH and ABBADO. MONIQtJE HAAS, WERNER HAAS , and others. followed by an interlude

CHRISTOPHER WHELEN talks about his dual role as composer and librettist and describes how, after working with Vernon Scannell , the poet, on his radio opera The Cancelling Dark, he moved on with the next Incident at Owl Creek, to adapting Ambrose Bierce 's story himself. He then discusses why, in The Findings his latest radio opera, he started with an original idea, created his own characters and used speech and music himself In attempting a more personal form of total musical theatre.
(The Findings can be heard at 9.0 pm)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Bruckner, arr Keller/Seaman
Adagio from String Quintet in r major
7.2* Bruckner Symphony No 3. in D minor (first definitive version)
HANS KELLER writes:
The slow movement is the only gs?at piece in the Bruckner Quintet - a supreme inspiration on the same level as his symphonic adagios, and much of it orchestrally ' heard.'
Christopher Seaman and I have tried to be true to both its chamber-musical character, and its orchestral implications.

by BILL MORRISON with Sian Phillips and Nigel Stock and MALCOLM TERRIS
' My week? What week? Which week would you like? I have always a tale to tell, of this committee, or that accident ... the breaking of a cup ... or the succumbing to a stranger ... no word of that in my week ... until now ... '
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

A new opera for radio Music and libretto by Christopher Whelen with Thomas Hemsley
Professor Raum, an archaeologist, has been excavating an Etruscan tomb, and is about to make the first descent into it. spoken by EDWARD KELSEY
Actors in the Prologue and Epilogue:
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
(cello JOHN MCNULTY ) conducted by LEON LOVETT Repetiteur MARY NASH
Music adviser COLIN RATCLIFFE Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX followed by an interlude

Fifteenth of 17 piano recitals by VLADO PERLEMUTEB Etudes, Op 25

TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR ALAN HARVERSON (Organ) conductor DENYS DARLOW
Venite exsultemus Domino Ecce, prandium Gaudete omnes Echo Fantasia
Pourquoy tournez vous Ell'est A vous
Bouche de corail
Erbarm' dich meln, o Herre Gott (Variations 5 and 6) Or soit loue I'Eternal (a 8) Onse Vader in hemelrijch
Ons is gheboren een Kindekljn Magnificat