Debussy, orch Büsser Petite Suite: JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA. conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILI.ARD
8.18* Granados Asturiana in c: Tonadilla in ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
8.27* Pierne Cydalise et le Chevre-pied: Suite No 1: FRENCH RADIO AND TELEVISION ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Brahms's German Requiem, by STEPHEN WALSH
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by NOEL GOODWIN

A programme of new records
Mozart Concert Rondo in D (K 382): DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano), directing the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
10.23* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in E minor
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Parry Part Songs and English Lyrics: CAROLINE FRIEND (sop) STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC SINGERS accompanist Michael LLOYD conductor RICHARD LATHAM
Vaughan Williams Four Hymns, for tenor, string quartet and piano: IAN PARTRIDGE
NONA LIDDELL , MARILYN TAYLOR
JEAN STEWART. BERNARD RICHARDS BERNARD ROBERTS
Introduced by Sir Keith Falkner

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
12.32' Schubert Symphony No 3

Part 2 Strauss Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme

Sir John Wolfenden , Director of the British Museum, with a personal choice of records

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Ireland. Sullivan, Arnold, Vilem Tausky. Vaughan Williams and Bryan Kelly

Introduced by PETER CLAYTEN ,

On 1 December Sir William Glock retires as the BBC s Controller of Music
Today he talks to JOHN amis and others about his 13 years in the job and discusses and plays Haydn Piano Trios with ION BROWN and JOAN ÐICKSON Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Ripon Cathedral
RONALD PERRIN discusses the Cathedral organ, and also his records, including music by Vivaldi, Widor, Peelers, Howells and Charpentier Producer JOHN LADE

EDWARD DOWNES. the conductor of tonight's relay from Covent Garden, describes the historical events and real people on whose story the opera is based. followed by an interlude

The first of two talks by Richard Clutterbuck
Retired two days ago from the Army. where he was Engineer-in-Chief 1968-70. and latterly Chief Army Instructor at the Royal College of Defence Studies. Major-General Clutterbuck is now a lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter.

Opera in five acts
Libretto by VLADIMIR STASSOV and the composer
Music by Mussorgsky arranged and orchestrated by Shostakovich
(sung in Russian) direct from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Set in the years immediately before Tsar Peter the Great assumed full control in 1694, Mussorgsky's' opera is a vivid portrayal of a nation torn apart by religious and political strife, held together only by military force.
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON
BOYS CHORUS FROM ST CLEMENT DANE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Acts 1 and 2 8.30* Khovanshchina
GERALD ABRAHAM discusses its historical background and how Mussorgsky set about its composition.
8.45* Khovanshchina Act 3 and Act 4 Sc 1

CHRISTOPHER PILLING introduces a sequence of short poems. As he says ' birds are realities to the naked eye and ear. They can also be emblems, figure-heads. characters of fables.' Reader PAMELA ZINNEMAN

Act 4 Sc 2 and Act 5

DEBEN BHATTACHARYA Visited India and Bangia Desh last year. and he introduces two programmes of the folk music that he recorded there. 1: Music from the River Country

for cello and piano played by CHRISTOPHER BUNTING and ERNEST LUSH
Prokofiev, transc Grunei
Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet
Debussy Sonata In D minor