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Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute: Suite No 3:
8.27* Cimarosa, arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto In c HEINZ HOLLIGER BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG
8.39' Mozart Suite in G In the style of Handel (K 399) WALTER KLIEN (ptanO)
8.50' Warlock Capriol Suite ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES gramophone records

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Edited and introduced by Jehn Lade
Building a Library: Elgar's Symphony No 1, in A flat, by ROBERT PHILIP
Limited editions and special offers: EDWARD GREENFIELD is your guide

Records from some of the new boxed sets discussed in this morning's Record Review, including music by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Kodaly.

Returns and Ritornelli CHRISTOPHERBOGWOOD begins a new series of music requested by the under-20s with Haydn The Return of Tobias
Monteverdi II ritorno d'Ulisse Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6
Sibelius The Return of Lemminkainen and Beethoven's Piano Sonata In E flat, Op 81a, played by JÕRG DEMUS on Beethoven's own Broadwood of 1817 gramophone records
Requests, on a postcard please. to The Young Idea, BBC, London WIA 4WW

DANIEL ADNI (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGHBRADLEY conducted by GAETANO DELOGU Part 1 Chopin
Piano Concerto No 1, In E minor

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A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news.
Compiled and Introduced by Donald Milner

Part 2 Prokofiev
Symphony No 5. in is fiat major

Michael Marland , educational author and Headmaster of Woodberry Down Comprehen sive School, presents his personal choice of records which reflects his growing involvement with music and his admiration for Britten, both as a composer and an interpreter of his own and other people's works. He also includes works by Beethoven, Bach, Scarlatti and Haydn.

BBC SINGERS (MEN'S VOICES) ROGER HEATH (baritone) conductor JOHN POOLE arr Hoist The song of the blacksmith arr Vaughan Williams Bushes and briars; Down among the dead men; Fain would I change that note; An acre of land; The farmer's boy; The turtle dove; Ward, the pirate

PROMENADE ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL HUPPERTS with cor DE GROOT (piano)
RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANCIS TRAVIS Chabrier Rhapsody : Espana
Arensky Fantasy on themes of I. T. Rjabinin , Op 148
Myaskovsky Serenata, Op 32 No 1, in E flat major
Wolf, arr Reger Italian Seren. ade
Turlna Rapsodia Sinfonica
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)

Introduced by Peter ClaytOB followed by an interlude

Music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German) direct from the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden
Wotan hopes to found a race of heroes through the union of his own offspring Siegmund and Sieglinde. Forced to withdraw his protection from Siegmund, he punishes the Valkyrie Brunnhilde for disobeying him and puts her to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. But Sieglinde will bear a son .
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by COLIN DAVIS Producer GÖTZ FRIEDRICH Act 1
6.35* Thomas Mann on Wagner DAVID MARCH reads Richard Wagner and The Ring, the lecture Thomas Mann gave in Zurich in 1937 Translated by H. T. LOWE-PORTER
7.5* Die Walkiire, Act 2

GEORGE STEINER examines the relation between music and literature. Music plays an increasing role in many people's lives today, while there is a disillusion with language and literature, a retreat from the word. But is music grasping the opportunities offered to it?

Act 3

This week:
John Spurling (in the chair) talks with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
ROGER MANVELL , GILLIAN TINDALL Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude

Goethe Briefe
ANDRZEJ HIOLSKI (baritone)
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHAMBER CHOIR
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAN KRENZ (Austrian Radio recording)

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