A programme of new records
Rimsky-Korsakov Procession of the nobles (Mlada)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.10* Lehar Finale: Act 2 (The Merry Widow)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (SOp) NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
EBERHARD WACHTER (baritone) PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by LOVRO von MATACIC
8.22* Glazunov Ballet: Raymonda (Act 3)
BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV

A weekly series
Today, as last week, a group of Goethe settings and a piano sonata
Three Songs of the Old Harper PETER SCHREIER (tenor) RUDOLF DUNCKEL (piano)
(Recording made available by courtesy of East German Radio) Sonata in A major (D 959) EDITH VOGEL (piano)

A record request programme
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hunmenschlacht: LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
Berlioz Symphonic funèbre et triomphale
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by colin DAVIS gramophone records

PETER FRANKI. (piano)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA.leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 6, in D (Le matin)
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
11.45* Talk: Konstantin Bazarov on music and conceptual thought,
12.0* Orchestral Concert: Part 2
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegel

Young Performers Recital ORION PIANO TRIO
Haydn Piano Trio in e flat minor (H XV 31)
Goehr Piano Trio
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in c minor, Op 66

Opera in three acts Music by Verdi Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE, after DUMAS (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
The poignant story of a courtesan who sacrifices her only hope of happiness and a life of virtue for the sake of the man she loves. La Traviata features the most widely ranging feminine role in Italian opera.
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JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ALDO CECCATO
The action takes place in and near Paris during the middle of the 19th century.
Act 1 The drawing-room of Violetta's Paris house
2.45* A Word about the First Traviata from JULIAN BUDDEN with PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) and NINA WALKER (piano)
3.0* La Traviata
Act 2 Sc 1: A room in Violetta's country house; Sc 2: A reception room in Flora's house Act 3 Violetta's bedroom

ENGLISH STRING QUARTET Part 1
Haydn Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2
Shostakovich Quartet No 2
S.50* Talk: Stephen Plaistow discusses Debussy's unique contribution to the rather un-French medium of the string quartet.
6.5* Festival Concert: pt 2 Debussy Quartet in G minor
(Given in St Mary's Church. Marston on Dove: 9 May)

DENIS ARNOLD , HOWARD FERGUSON and STANLEY SADIE, under the chairmanship of ROGER FISKE , discuss the interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
The artists whose records they discuss include Wanda Lan dowska, George Malcolm and Sylvia Marlowe among the harpsichordists; Glenn Gould , Charles Rosen and Rosalyn Tureck among the pianists,

direct from the Round House London
In association with ICES (International Carnival of Experimental Sound)
Harpsichords: David Tudor, Richard Bernas, Cornelius Cardew, Anna Lockwood, Frederick Page, John Tilbury, Roger Woodward, directed by John Cage

John Cage/Lejaren Hiller HPSCHD (first performance in this country)

(Round House production organised by Harvey Matusow)

(This Week's Proms: page 10)

Last of 17 piano recitals by VLADO PERLEMUTER
Prelude in c sharp minor, Op 45
Twenty-four Preludes, Op 28

Symphony No 8, in F major
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
(Netherlands Radio recording)