French Church Music Francois Couperin
Offertoire (Messe pour les couvents)
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (organ) Premier leçon de ténèbres
JEANNINE COLLARD (contralto) MARIE-ANN MOCQUOT (viola da gamba) noelie pierront (organ) Trio-Sonata: L'Astree
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute)
HUGUETTE FERNANDEZ (violin) ETIENNE PASQUIER (cello)
LAURENCE BOULAY (harpsichord) Troisième leçon de ténèbres (njono): HUGUES cuenod (tenor) GINO SINIMBERGHI (tenor) RICHARD HARAND (cello)
FRANZ HOLETSCHEK (harpsichord) gramophone records

Humphrey Burton presents listeners' record requests, and discusses with them, by telephone, some of the ideas behind their choice.
This week's guest is
Colin Davis , who at 10.0* will introduce excerpts from Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni , including the second act sextet. Listeners can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with their request, at any time today from 8.0 am until the end of the programme, or by sending details on a postcard, with their name and telephone number, to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

A magazine programme of news and views presented by Dominic Gill
Time Off? Not a ghost of a chance for ELISABETH LUTYENS , well on the way towards her opus 100. Music Weekly talks to the composer and attends rehearsals for her two operas which are produced and broadcast this week.
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR discusses Parsifal and its early interpreters from Hermann Winkel mann and Marianne Brandt to Karl Muck.
... and SIR BERNARD MILES reports by outside broadcast from Valhalla.
Editor KEITH HORNER

leader ELI GOREN conducted by SERGE BAUDO
Jean-Joseph Mouret Sym phonies de chasse
Schumann Symphony No 2
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (revised version 1919)

Marghanita Laskl reflects on the things we say and write.

Young Performer Recital
MARIOS PAPADOPOULOS (piano) Haydn Sonata in c (H xvi 48)
1.29* Tippett Sonata No 1
1.53* Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6, in D flat major

La Juive
An opera in five acts
Libretto by EUGENE scribe Music by Jacques Fromental Halévy
(first broadcast performance in this country)
The tragedy of Eliazar, torn between love for his adopted daughter and hatred of her people as the persecutors of his race. Cast:
Courtiers, soldiers, people of Constance
AMBROSIAN SINGERS chorus-master JOHN MCCARTHY NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by ANTON GUADAGNO
The scene is laid In the town of Constance in Switzerland in 1414. Act 1 A crossroads in Constance Act 2 A room in Eléazar's house
3.35* The Eighth Wonder of the World
A talk by MARTIN COOPER
3.50* La Juive
Act 3 The garden of the Emperor's Palace
Act 4 A gothic apartment adjoining the Council Chamber
Act 5 A hill overlooking Constance

Leonard Rossiter in a monologue adapted from the journals Of BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON by ERIC EWENS
Narrator WILFRID CARTER
Haydon, once hailed as a painter of genius, ended his life by his own hand on 22 June 1846, after years of bitterness and neglect. His journals are unparalleled in the whole of English literature for their agonised frankness.
'Merciful God, that thou should'st permit a being with thought and feeling to be so racked. The melancholy demon has grappled my heart and crushed its turbulent beatings in his clammy, clenching fingers.'
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Producer HALLAM TENNYSON

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.

Trio in A minor, Op 114 played by MEMBVft$ OF THE
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Bernard Walton (clarinet) Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)

by Racine
Translated by Samuel Solomon, who introduces this English premiere
[Starring] Marius Goring and Geraldine McEwan

The place: Nymphaeum, a port on the Black Sea. The period: some 70 years B.C.
News has been brought to Nymphaeum of Mithridates' death in battle.

(Joan Haythorne is in "Crown Matrimonial" at the Haymarket Theatre, London) followed by an interlude

with PAUL ESSWOOD
JAMES GRIFFETT , BRIAN ETHERIDGE BRUNO TURNER introduces a setting of the Passion according to St Luke by an anonymous composer.

leader ROBERT MASTERS conducted by HARRY BLECH and GERARD SCHURMANN with FOU TS'ONG (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 16, in D major (K 451)
141.19. SchUrmann Variants (conducted by the composer)
10.40. Haydn Symphony No 89, in F major

NELL GOTKOVSKY (violin)
Sonata in G minor (bwv 1001) Partita in 8 minor (bwv 1002) The first of three programmes

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