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Cantata No 129: Gelobet sel der Herr, mein
Gott URSULA BUCKEL (soprano)
MARGRIT CONRAD (contralto) CARL-HEINZ MOLLER (bass)
MAINZ BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by DIETHARD HELLMANN
(gramophone record)
Cantata No 93: Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten
INGEBORG REICHELT (soprano) BARBARA SCHERLER (Contralto) ROLAND BUFKENS (tenor) ERNST OLSCHOFKA (bass) STUTTGART HYMNUS BOYS' CHOIR
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GERHARD WIIHELM
(Recording from this year's Schwetzingen Festival made available by courtesy of South German Radio)

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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Smetana's Ma vlast, by IAN HORSBRUGH
Book Review: Artur Rubin stein's Autobiography, by MARTIN COOPER
Mainly Piano: a review by MICHAEL OLIVER

Some of the piano records from this morning's Record Review, including JOHN MCCABE playing Haydn's Sonata in E flat (H xvi 52), and CLAUDIO ARRAU as the soloist in Chopin's Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante

FRANKL-PAUK-KIRSHBAUM TRIO Peter Frankl (piano) Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Nocturne in E flat major 897) Trio in B flat major (D 898)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Part 1
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
12.29* Brahms Serenade No 2. in A major

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A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Gerry Monte

Part 2 Elgar
Symphonic Study: Falstaff

Franco Zeffirelli , director of film, opera and theatre, devotes his personal choice of records wholly to opera.
The excerpts he has chosen range from L'Orfeo by Monteverdi, by way of Mozart's Don Giovanni , Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Bellini's Norma, to Verdi's Falstaff.
Franco Zeffirelli is taking part in Them and Us tonight, 8.30 BBC2. ' I am tough ... I use cross words ': page IS

FINNISH RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted bv
FAAVO BERGLUND , ULF SODERBLOM and OKKO KAMU, plays music by Frederik Pacius , Sibelius, Armas Jarnefelt and Uuno Klami
(Finnish Radio recordings)

Introduced by PETER CLAYTON

Introduced by John Amis including ROBERT IRVINGof the New York City Ballet, and JOSEF KRIPS on Vienna in the 40s.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN

A series of five weekly programmes designed to show the inspiring influence Bridge had on the young Britten and to rectify the neglect suffered by some of Bridge's chamber works.
Bridge Idylls Nos 3 and 2, for string quartet MFMBERS OF THE
VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER (gramophone record) Series devised by ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE

Opera in three acts by Wagner A story about the clash between youth and experience. The action takes place about the middle of the 16th century. Young Walther seeks admission to an ancient guild of musicians, but first he must compose a piece of music. Cast:
Citizens, ladies of the guilds, journeymen, apprentices.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL conducted by SILVIO VARVISO
(Recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)
Act 1 The interior of St Catherine's church

Reflections on current affairs. John Vaizey. Professor of Economics at Brunei University, gives the third of tour fortnightly talks.

Act 2 A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs
9.35* Reading
9.45* Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg
Act 3 Sc 1: The workshop of Hans Sachs ; Sc 2: An open meadow on the River Pegnitz

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