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Faure Entr'acte; Eplthalame; Nocturne; Final (Shylock)
FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
8.21* Chausson Forlane JEAN DOYEN (piano)
8.26* Jean Rivier Concerto for trumpet and saxophone
ROGER DEI.MOTTE , DANIEL DEFFAYET FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ GIRARD
8.44* Roussel Suite en fa
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCE gramophone records

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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Mozart's Die Entfiihrung: JEREMY NOBLE Artist of the Month: Colin Davis talks to MICHAEL BERKELEY Recent orchestral records: reviewed by STEPHEN WALSH

Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
10.29* Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 (k 218): DAVID OISTRAKH who also directs the BEHI.IN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
10.56' Hindemith Concert Music, Op 50, for strings and brass BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG gramophone records

by Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39 (Twelve songs to poems by Eichendorff) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano) Frauenliebe und -leben (A woman's life and love: poems by Chamisso): VICTORIA SUMNER (soprano), ERNEST LUSH (piano)

Before part 2 ROBERT Simpson speaks about Havergal Brian , who died on 28 Nov, aged 96 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader NEVILLE TAWEEL conducted by MYER FREDMAN Part 1
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
12.16* Brian Symphony No 22 (Symphonia Brevis) (1965)
12.271 Martlnu Symphony No 5 (1946)

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Part 2 Brian
Symphony No 9 (1951)

Ian Hunter , mbe, recalls his years as director of the Edinburgh, Commonwealth Arts and Bath festivals, and some of the artists he has worked with. He includes excerpts on records from Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, Verdi's Macbeth, and music by Grétry, Berlioz and Walton

STUTTGART RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI MATTES BERLIN STUDIO ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT GAEBEL play Viennese music by Heuberger. Suppé, Johann and Josef Strauss. and Ziehrer (Austrian Radio recordings)

(piano)
Music by Soler, Albenlz, Debussy and Ravel

Introduced by PETER CLAYTON

A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create It Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT

This week Jerrold Northrop Moore plays records of three distinguished French pianists of the 19th century: Saint-Saens, Francis Plants and Raoul Pugno

by PROFESSOR PAUL EDWARDS
Wilhelm Reich : psychologist, disciple of Freud, Marxist. later opponent of Freud and anti-communist, who died in an American prison in 1957. Paul Edwards of Brooklyn College knew Reich in the 50s, and talks about his revolutionary idea that neuroses are anchored in chronic muscular rigidities.

Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra
VLADO PERLE MUTER
HUNGARIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS SCHMIDT -ISSERSTEDT

Arguments that challenge current orthodoxies
Tony Buzan , Editor of Mensa Journal, challenges the validity of iq tests as a means of determining people's functional ability and gives his views on the real function of intelligence testing.

Opera in two acts
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI Music by Bellini (sung in Italian)
Amina, betrothed to Elvino, causes a scandal by sleepwalking into the bedroom of the local Count on the eve of her wedding.
Villagers
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master RUDOLF SCHRAMEK VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
(Recording from this year's Bregenz Festival made available by Austrian Radio)
The action takes place in Switzerland at the beginning of the 19th century.
Act 1 Sc 1: The village green; Sc 2: A bedroom at the inn
9.5* It was nearly ' Ernani 11
CHARLES OSBORNE describes how Bellini nearly didn'write La Sonnambula at all, and what happened when he did.
The readings from contemporary sources are by JOHN ROWE , ROLF LEFEBVRE , KATHERINE PARR
9.25* La Sonnambula
Act 2 Sc 1: A shady valley between the village and the castle; Sc 2: The village near Teresa's mill

by GERALD ABRAHAM
In the early years of the century Scriabin was regarded as the leading modern composer of the day. Gerald Abraham. who wrote a pre-war study of the composer, takes another look at him in the light of our time.

A continuing series of choral and orchestral programmes of British music of all periods, but most of it of this century ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA leader BARRY WILDE conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Presented by ANTHONY GILBERT Anthony Gilbert Sinfonia
11.12* Robert Sherlaw Johnson Trika
11.31* Peter Maxwell Davies Sinfonia

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