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A record request programme Part 1
Offenbach Overture: The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
7.13* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2, in D minor
JOHN OGDON LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALDO CECCATO
7.40* Milhaud Ballet: Le boeuf sur le toit
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI

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Part 2
Parry English Suite
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.27* Barber Adagio for strings BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.38* Copland Ballet: Billy the Kid
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

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Symphony No 3, in A minor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone record

from Birmingham
TOM BROMLEY (piano)
Bach French Suite No 6, in E
Mendelssohn Six Christmas Pieces, Op 72
Christopher Edmunds Aria Variata
Bax Sonata No 4

BBC Concert Orchestra leader Arthur Leavins conductor Ashley Lawrence plays music by Beethoven, Delius, Mozart and Sibelius suggested by the poems of Stephen Spender, James Kirkup, W.H. Auden and others which are read by John Westbrook
Programme devised and produced by Alan Owen

IVOR KEYS at the organ of Birmingham Cathedral
Bach Fantasia in G (bwv 572) Brahms Chorale Prelude on Schmiicke dich, o liebe Seele Brahms Fugue in A flat minor
Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH

SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) MEMBERS OF THE
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO MUTI Part 1
Rossini Overture: Semiramide Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

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Part 2 Cherubini
Requiem Mass No 2, in D minor
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

'Never in my life have I penned an impartial criticism and I hope I never may ...' Cyril Cusack reads from the London music criticisms of George Bernard Shaw (with records) and peppery comments on that sentimental voluptuary Brahms, Dvorak's musical mortuary decorations, a sackful of opera singers and a dead bird in the crimson Covent Garden pigeon-house; a chat with Bob Schumann , sham religious works called oratorios, and a few seasonal comments on Christmas, that atrocious institution with its round of slaughtering, gorging and drinking.
Compiled and produced by KEITH HORNER

concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by EDGAR COSMA Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1
3.16* Roussel The Spider's Banquet
3.34* Haydn Symphony No 95, in c minor

from Bradford Cathedral
Introit: There is no Rose (Joubert)
Responses (Rose)
Psalms 126-131 (Garrett, Goss, Cook and Goodenough)
Lessons: Isaiah 6, vv 1-8; 1 John 5, vv 1-12
Canticles (Sumsion in A)
Anthem: Wassail Carol (William Mathias)
Carol: Ding Dong! merrily on high (arr Willcocks)
Organist and Master of Choristers KEITH RHODES
Assistant organist BRIAN TETLEY

Can it be true?
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony? Albinoni's Adagio? Is Rossini's Mass Small and Solemn? Can the Minute Waltz be played in a minute?
These and other questions are included in today's programme of requests by the under-20s, and are explained by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD gramophone records

Trends in pop music introduced by Derek Jewell gramophone records
6.0 Stock Market Report

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played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY with artists on records

6.30 Music Questions
Have producers taken over the opera house from conductors? How difficult is it to sing con-tempo'rary music?
DENIS ARNOLD , JANE MANNING and TOM SUTCLIFFE answer these and other points raised in listeners' letters
7.10 Regency People
IAN GRIMBLE explores the meaning of the Regency Age through studies of people who lived in it
Maria Fitzherbert
Producer PEGGY BACON (Book £2.30: see page 114)

BBC CHORUS conductor PETER GELLHORN
GEORGE THALBEN-BALL (organ)
Jubilate Deo (1972), for mixed voices and organ (first broadcast performance)
Missa Brevis, for mixed voices and organ
A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears, for mixed voices
Put off the serpent's girdle (1967), for women's voices (first broadcast performance)
The Twelve, for mixed voices and organ
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, for mixed voices
Three Pieces for Organ (Richard in): March; Elegy; Scherzetto Where does the uttered music go?, for mixed voices
(Given before an invited audience in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios on 26 October)

Introduced by NICHOLAS TOMALIN Cambridge Union Society 9 November 1972 President
CHRIS SMITH (Pembroke)
The Great Artist is the Enemy of Society
Proposed by LESLIE GRAHAM (King's) with JOHN ARDEN , ALAN BOLD Opposed by COLIN FARRINGTON (Christ's) with ROBERT BOLT , CBE
YEHUDI MENUHIN , KBE

A fortnightly series
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) c minor (Kk 115); c minor (Kk 116); B flat major (Kk 66): D minor/major (Kk 176); G major (Kk 146): D major (Kk 400); D major (Kk 401)

Political figures as remote from each other as Enoch Powell and Henry Kissinger. Harold Mac millan and Harold Wilson , are among the personalities who come under the discerning eye of journalist and author Nora Beloff.
She examines the transit of Britain from its status as a-senior partner in the Grand Alliance against Hitler, to its partnership in the European Community: not a decline and fall, but a peaceful adjustment to the world we have to live in.

Suite in G minor
WILLIAM LINCOLN CHRISTIE (harpsichord) gramophone record

Kingsley Amis finds himself in a pub which bears a remarkable resemblance to the setting for one of his own novels. Are the events which follow fact or fiction? You must judge for yourselves!

Albert Sammons plays Elgar's Violin Concerto with the NEW QUEEN'S S HALL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR HENRY WOOD

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