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Mussorgsky, orch Shostakovich Prelude: Khovanshchina
BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
7.12* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 3, in E flat GARY GRAFFMAN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.28* Rimsky-Korsakor Symphony No 1, in E minor
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN gramophone records

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Handel Overture: Teseo
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.11*MendelssohnSonatain■ flat, Op 45
JOSEPH SCHUSTER (cello) ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
8.31* Mozart Divertimento No 11, in D (K 251)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records

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Bizet Jeux d'enfants
WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (piano duet)
L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

from Belfast
BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) IAN URWIN (tenor)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano) LAWRENCE GLOVER (piano) arr Canteloube Malurous qu'o unofenno; Bailero; Chut, chut; Brezairola (Chants d'Auvergne)
9.56* Ravel Une barque sur l'océan; Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
10.4* Britten Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
10.20* Chopin Nocturne in D flat. Op 27 No 2; Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op 23 No 3

Overture and Suite in D (Tafetmusik, Part 2): AD MATER (oboe) MAURICE ANDRE ́ (trumpet) CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by FRANS BRUGGEN gramophone records

ENLOC wu (piano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT Part 1
Elgar Concert Overture: Frolssart
Frank Bridge Tone Poem: Summer
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15, in B flat (K 450)

A talk by Sir Bruce Fraser

Part 2 Wilfred Josephs Pastoral Symphony

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gives a guitar recital, including music by Weiss, Scarlatti and Stephen Dodgson.

Opera in four acts

Music by Puccini
Libretto based on the novel by Abbe Prevost
(sung in Italian: records)

Nine years after the appearance of Massenet's opera, Puccini's Manon Lescaut received its first performance in 1893. He too used Prevost's story as the source of his inspiration, but only in the first act do the two versions coincide in their accounts of the tale.

AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI

Acts 1 and 2

3.10* Edward Greenfield talks about the formation of Puccini's style,

3.25* Manon Lescaut Acts 3 and 4

A weekly series featuring records made in the 1930s, 400 and 50s of great pianists Liszt Sonata in B minor
4.43* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
With the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI

Cantata on old English texts MARY Thomas (soprano) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR JUDITH PEARCE (flute) ANTHEA COX (flute) TESS MILLER (oboe)
CELIA NICKLIN (oboe and cor anglais)
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello) conducted by ANDREW DAVIS

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(continued)

6.30 Community Care: Centres for Special Care
Five documentary programmes for nurses in training
4: Teaching and Learning
6.50 Music in Java and Ball 3: Ancient and Modern ALLAN THOMAS examines the tmportance of traditional game-Ian music nowadays. He disi cusses with NEIL SORRELL more recent styles and talks to composer PETER SCULTHORPE.
Series producer DAVID EPPS

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Ida Haendel (violin)

'One of my first musical memories is of hearing Ida Haendel, then a child, playing the Brahms concerto at a wartime Prom. I listened on the radio, which of course was strictly forbidden in occupied Holland. I was very moved by this great artist.' (Bernard Haitink)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Alan Traverse, conductor Sir Charles Groves

Handel Concerto Grosso No 5, in G (Op 3 No 3)

Brahms Violin Concerto in D

RONALD FLETCHER , formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of York, reflects on the decline of a form of behaviour which he sees as central to all societies.
'Courtesy and propriety are usually thought of in terms of social manners, not morality; as though they are only habits of good breeding.... But I want to argue that courtesy is central to morality.

Schubert Symphony No 9, In C

The young Lord Byron self-portrayed in his letters 1807-1812 Compiled and produced, with a commentary, by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
This self-portrait is based on the first two volumes of Professor Leslie Marchand's forthcoming complete edition of Byron's Letters and Journals. A number of letters are hitherto unpublished; others have been printed in an expurgated form. The letters recall Byron's years at Harrow and Cam-bridge, his two-year sojourn in Greece and Turkey and his overnight rise to fame with the publication of Childe Harold 's Pilgrimage. followed by an interlude

given by RONALD LUMSDEN Copland Variations
11.5* Webern Variations, Op 27
11.12* Schoenberg Six Little Pieces. Op 19
11.20* Stockhausen Piano Piece v
11.27* Bartok Suite: Out of doors
(A public concert given at Leeds University in Feb 1972)

Cantata No 4: Meinem Jesum lass' ich nicht
LEENA KIILUNEN (soprano) MARTEN LINDBLOM (tenor) SEPPO TUKIAINEN (Violin)
MAURI PIETIKÄINEN (viola) TAUNO AIKÄÄ (organ)
FINNISH RADIO CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by HARALD ANDERSÉN (Finnish Radio recording)

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