A programme of recent records Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.21* Popper Cello Concerto in E minor: JASCHA SILBERSTEIN SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.42* Sibelius Nocturne , Elégie, Musette (King Christian II) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FAAVO BERGLUND

Song into string quartet: another programme showing how he made one the basis of the other
Die Cotter Griechenlands ; Die Rose; Lachen und Weinen: Schwanengesang (Wie klag' ich's aus?); Des Lebens Tag String Quartet in A minor which uses a quotation from Die Cotter Griechenlands
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) MARTIN isepp (piano)
ENGLISH STRING QUARTET

A record request programme Mozart Recitative and Aria: Misero! o sogno (K 431) WERNER HOLLWEG (tenor)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER Rimsky-Korsakoy Symphonic Suite: Sheherazade
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH

ORION PIANO TRIO Part 1
Debussy Sonata for violin and piano
David Lumsdaine Caliban Impromptu (first performance)
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
12.10* Talk: Edmund Rubbra discusses Schubert's original view of form and texture as exemplified in the E flat Trio
12.25' Cheltenham Festival: pt 2 Schubert Trio in E flat (d 929)
(A concert given in the Shaftesbury Hall on 14 July)

An occasional series of talks Today: Elisabeth Lutyens

The Final
The finalists, chosen from over 90 pianists taking part, play concertos with the ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES During the interval:
Michael Roll , winner of the 1963 Competition, talks with JAMES LANGLEY about competitions from the point of view of competitors
After the concert the Chairman of the Jury, Lord Boyle of Handsworth announces the result
(A recording of the concert given yesterday evening in the Town Hall, Leeds)

An opera recorded on 7 September in the King's Theatre
Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England) Libretto by GIOVANNI SCHMIDT
Based on SOPHIA LEE 'S novel The Recess
Music by Rossini (sung in Italian)
One of the first operas to be inspired, if indirectly, by the historical romances of Sir Walter Scott. Elisabetta established Rossini as a master of the grand manner in dramatic composition.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO MASSIMO, PALERMO chorus-master MARIO TAGINI conducted by Nino Sanzogno
The action takes place in London about 1565-70. Act 1
S.0* Rossini: a Comma er an Exclamation Mark?
A talk by JULIAN BUDDEN
5.15* Elisabetta, Regina d'lnghillerra, Act 2

by JOHN BERGSAGEL
Relatively little is known about the kind of musical life that flourished in the far north during the Middle Ages, though the literary legacy both in Iceland and Scandinavia is rich enough in all conscience.
Dr Bergsagel examines some of the musical survivals that are to be found in isolated folk communities in Scandinavia and fills in the picture of both Icelandic and Scandinavian musical life before the Renaissance.

- a Chilean bandit unjustly slain in California on 23 July 1853 by PABLO NERUDA
Translated by WILLIS BARNSTONE
Music by MICHAEL DRESS
with Patrick Magee as the Voice of the Poet
Isabelle Lucas, Jane Manning Annie Ross and Mark Murphy

A second chance to hear the first production in English of one of the rare dramatic works by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

with the voices of BETTY BASKCOMB, OLWEN GRIFFITHS, DAVID TIMSON, DAVID VALLA, PETER MARINKER, DOUGLAS BLACKWELL and DAVID GOODERSON
Music played by RAINER SCHUELEIN (flute and recorder) THEA KING (clarinet) ROLAND HARKER (guitar) HEATHER CORBETT and ANNE COLLIS (percussion) conducted by MICHAEL DRESS
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN

Wind Quintet in B flat, Op 56 No 1
HAIFA WIND QUINTET gramophone record

by Peter Barnes
A contemporary playwright talks about a fellow playwright long dead.
Ben Jonson was born late In 1572 or early in 1573 so it is fitting that the 400th anniversary of his birth should be celebrated this year.
Peter Barnes. the author of the successful play The Ruling Class, has a particular fellow-feeling for Ben Jonson. His talk. which he illustrates with extracts from Ben Jonson 's lesser-known plays, is a highly personal assessment from the standpoint of a practising artist who admires a predecessor from whom he has learnt much.
The programme Is narrated by PETER BARNES with the voices of DILYS LAYE
DEREK GODFREY , PETER CRAZE
ANTHONY JACOBS and DAVID NEAL Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
followed by an interlude

A fortnightly series
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
E (Kk 46): E (Kk 380); E (Kk 3811; A (Kk 209); D (Kk 478); D (Kk 479)

The idea for his latest novel came to Alexander Solzhenit syn as long ago as 1936. ' Since then I have never stopped thinking about it. I understood it as the main task of my life.'
KONSTANTIN BAZAROV reviews August 1914, which is to be published tomorrow

Mozart's entertainment music Divertimento No 3, in E flat (K 166): NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE WAART Twelve Minuets (K 568) VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY Divertimento No 13, in F (K 253) NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE WAART gramophone records