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Handel Concerto Grosso No 29, in f, for double orchestra ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD J. C. F. Bach Sonata in c
IRMGARD LECHNER (harpsichord) KARL-HEINZ ZOLLER (flute) LOTHAR KOCH (oboe)
Haydn Symphony No 41, in c PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller is Derek Hammond-Stroud , who at 10.0* introduces records of his former teacher, the distinguished baritone GERHARD HUSCH
You can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or by sending details on a postcard, with your name, tele-phone number, and reason for choice, to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Presented by Alan Blyth
Reginald Goodall in profile. From early days at Sadler's Wells and the debut of Peter Grimes ("The audience seemed tremendously enthusiastic") to performances of "The Ring" at the Coliseum ("Are you conscious of your performances getting slower?" "I get slower, do I?").
Andrew Porter talks about his translation of "The Ring" and discusses advantages and disadvantages of opera in English with Deryck Cooke and Derek Hammond-Stroud.
(Music Weekly returns on 23 September)

CHRISTIANE EDINGER (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by BRUNO MADERNA
Maderna Music of Gaity (first broadcast performance in this country)
Schumann Violin Concerto Schubert Symphony No 2

A talk by Professor Randolph Quirk (Repeated: Wed. 11.40 am)

Great Britain Rounds: Programme 5 Youth Class :
KEVOCK CHOIR conductor ALEX ELRICK
ORPINGT9N JUNIOR SINGERS conductor JANE ATTFIELD Equal Voice Class:
FELLING MALE VOICE CHOIR conductor NORMAN Williams
OLIVE QUANTRILL SINGERS conductor olive QUANTRILL Adjudicators JOHN ALLDIS
DAVID LUMSDEN , ALLEN PERCIVAL Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT

played by ZOLTAN KOCSIS
Gybrgy Kurtig Eight Pieces, Op 3
Bartok Sonata; Six Dances in Bulgarian rhythm (Mikrokosmos)

Lakme
Opera in three acts
Libretto by EDMOND GONDINET and PHILIPPE GILLE Music by Delibes (sung in French)
(gramophone records)
First produced in 1883. Lakmt Is set in India in the middle years of the 19th century, and contains what Ernest Newman described as ' some pleasing pictures of the English as seen through French eyes.'
Cast in order of singing: MONTE CARLO OPERA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Act 1 The garden surrounding Nilakantha's temple
3.0* Desmond Shawe-Taylor talks about Lakmi and its interpreters,
3.15* The French Opera: Lakmt Act 2 The market place
4.10' Reading
4.15* The French Opera: Lakme Act 3 A hut in the forest

Based on his Memoirs and Letters by NESTA PAIN with John Gielgud
Lord Hervey was Vice-Chamberlain at the Court of George II. He became a close friend of Queen Caroline and left an intimate record of the sayings and doings of this unusual family.
Producer NESTA PAIN

(harpsichord) Part 1
Bach Partita No 2, in c minor Purcell Nine Pieces
Rameau Suite in E minor

A selection of his poemi, chosen and produced by TERENCE TILLER Readers:
GRETTA GOURIET , DAVID DAVIS and DAVID LLOYD JAMES
(Shortened version of the programme broadcast on 3 June)

Part 2
Haydn Sonata in c (Haydn Society No 35)
Searlatti Three Sonatas: Kk 17, in F; Kk 159, in c; Kk 523. in G Bach Concerto in the Italian style
(Given before an invited audience in the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, last Dec)

Blood of the Lamb by LION WHITESON with Alan Dobie as Albert Sean Barrett as Alec Borrega
Martin Jarvis as Theo Percival ALBERT: One thing is true; the immutability of the Basic Law. That the universe needs blood. a cosmic thirst, to coax a violent and capricious sun. No sunrise is a free gift to the world. It takes blood!
ALEC: it can'be so cruel.
ALBERT: What of Abraham and Isaac! Jesus? How the world has fed upon that man!
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN followed by an interlude

leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Part I
Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra

Tonight Thomas S. Szasz. Professor of Psychiatry at the Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in Syracuse, explains why mental illness is a metaphor: in his various books, The Myth of Mental Illness, Ideology and Insanity, and The Manufacture of Madness he has challenged some basic concepts of modern psychiatry.

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

A package tour of Europe with the 18th-century author of the first English handbook to the Continent. Andrew Boorde.
Readings and narrative compiled and presented by JOHN BOWIE With NIGEL GRAHAM Music improvised by BARRY GUY (double-bass)
... the commentary it provided was agile, witty and disrespectful (THE TIMES) Producer ROLAND CHALLIS followed by an interlude

Settings of Goethe
Wer sich der Einsamkeit er-' gibt: An die Tiiren will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass (Harfenspieler Lieder): Cophtisches Lied I: 'Lasset Gelehrte sich zanken und streiten: Cophtisches Lied II:. Cch! gehorche meinen Winken: Grenzen der Menschheit;
Prometheus THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)

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