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I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE Rossini Serenade in E flat
7.14' Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in c (R Op 20 No 4) BONIFACIO BIANCHI
7.23* Cimarosa, arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto
PIERRE PIERLOT
7.35* Verdi Quartet in E minor gramophone records

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Scandinavian music, including songs sung bv
Kirsten Flagstad and incidental music by Sibelius gramophone records

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Richard Strauss
Songs: Das Bachlein ; Wiegenlied: Morgen: Das Rosenband ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (sop) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
9.18* Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

A fortnightly series of programmes devoted to works commissioned by the American patron of music and the Foundation that bears her name This week:
PHILIP CRALLIS (piano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE play works by Alexandre Tansman and Casella with some personal recollections by ALEXANDRE TANSMAN Series devised by GARETH WALTERS -
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

Quartet in r minor. Op 55 No 2 ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Hugh Maguire (violin) David Roth (violin)
Patrick Ireland (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)

A series of illustrated talks by NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY
10: Uttar Pradesh and Delhi Producer MADEAU STEWART
(BBC Sound Archive recording)

MILES COVERDALE (piano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by JÖRG FAERBER
Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in D major (Classical)
12.0* Mozart Piano Concerto No in f major (K 459)
12.30* Schubert Symphony No 4, in c minor (Tragic)

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David Wilde (piano)
Chopin Ballade in g minor, Op 23 Twelve etudes. Op 10
Ballade in A flat major, Op 47
(From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. The fifth in a series of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Tuesday Midday Concerts Society in association with the BBC)

Opera in three acts Music bv Purcell
Libretto by NAHUM TATE (gramophone records)
Composed in 1689 for a girls' school in Chelsea, Dido and Aeneas retells the famous love story of classical antiquity, whose emotional climax has become a classic of the stage and concert hall.
Cast in order of singing:
THE MERMAID SINGERS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by GERAINT JONES

RICHARD ADENEY (flute) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) Flute Sonata in G minor BWV 10'!0)
Flute Sonata No 6, in E major
Toccata in c minor, for harpsichord (Rwv 911)
Flute Sonata No 3, in A major Flute Sonata No 5. in e minor
(A public concert given in St John 's. Smith Square, London, on 26 October 1971)

ENGLISH STRING QUARTET
JUNE CLARK and JOAN RYALL (two pianos) play music by Pavel Vranicky , Schubert, Arthur Benjamin , Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and William Kroll

Hipymn: a new work by Paul Rutherford performed by ISKRA 1912 Introduced by IAN CARR Producer JOHN F. MUIR
(Special BBC Anniversary record release: British Jazz, in 2 volumes, REC 143 and 144M, available from record shops, price £1.49 each)

with David Munrow

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Music for the early evening

' You re a lot more interested in singers than 1 am, Bernard.' Kirsten Flagstad said on first meeting the man who persuaded her to sing Dido in his St John's Wood garden.
Sir Bernard Miles , one of the great Norwegian singer closest friends, presents a personal memoir on the tenth anniversary of her death.
He includes gramophone records, and memoirs and anecdotes specially recorded for the programme by many of her friends and colleagues:
EDWIN MCARTHUR. her American accompanist and conductor GERALD MOORE
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF
LAURITZ MELCHIOR, MAX LORENZ JOHN CULSHAW THOMAS HEMSLEY
SALLY MILES and DAME EVA TURNER Interviewer and producer KEITH HOKNER
(Sir Bernard Miles 's choice: page 5)

from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne THE FIRES OF LONDON
Mary Thomas (soprano) Judith Pearce (flutes)
Alan Hacker (clarinets) Duncan Druce (viola)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello)
Stephen Pruslin (harpsichord, piano and celesta)
Gary Kettel (percussion) directed by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Part 1
Dunstable Sub tuam proteetionem
Maxwell Davies Sub tuam protectionem; Hymn to St Magnus (first broadcast performance)

WOLE SOYINKA , the Nigerian writer, reads a chapter from his just-published book. The Man Died. This is an account of Soyinka's imprisonment by the Federal Military Government of Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian civil war in 1967.

Part 2
Bull Ut re mi fa sol la
Maxwell Davies Ut re ml; A second performance of Hymn to St Magnus
(Given before an invited audience in the University Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, 5 Nov)

'An editor must plot a strategy for his paper in conjunction with the management, or they will do it for him.'
Charles Wintour. for 13 years editor of the Evening Standard and author of the recently published Pressures on the Press, answers questions from BILL GRUNDY about ' the climate in which an editor works and makes his judgments.'
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Cantata No 62: Nun komm. der Heiden Heiland
PETRINA KRUSE (soprano)
SABINE KIRCHNER (contralto) FRIEDREICH MELZER (tenor) EDMUND ILLERHAUS (bass) MANNHEIM BACH CHOIR
HEIDELBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ MARKUS GOTTSCHE
Cantata No 36: Schwingt freudig euch empor
MARIA FRIESENHAUSEN (soprano) ANDREA VON RAMM (contralto) JOHANNES FEYERABEND (tenor) HARTMUT OCHS (bass) WESTPHALIAN CHOIR
INSTRUMENTAL GROUP conducted by WILHELM EHMANN gramophone records

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