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Offenbach Overturei Orpheus in the Underworld
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
8.16* Waldteufel Waltz: Mon reve: PHILIIARMONIA PROMENADE ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY KRIPS
8.27' Piernl Cydalise at Le chevre-pied: Suite No 1
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records

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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Debussy's Nocturnes by CHRISTOPHER PALMER.
Recent records of chamber and instrumental music: reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON.

To include music by Couperln, Reger and Grieg from the records reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON in this morning's Record Review.

Record requests by the under 20s
Sleepers wake!
Bach's treatment of the chorale Wachet auf! and the theme of Advent in Cantata No 140: the same chorale as treated by Buxtehude, Mendelssohn and Kindermann and a variety of adaptations of Bach's music for piano, synthesizer and jazi trio.
All this introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD Part 1
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute
12.29* Strauss Songs: Das Bachleln; Winterweihe; Sausle. liebe Myrte
12.40* Mozart Symphony No 34. In C major (K 338)

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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
Ravel Melodies populaires grecques
1.30* Honegger Symphony No I (Liturgique)

Michael Holroyd , biographer, has chosen records which reflect his developing interest in music and he includes movements from a quintet by Schubert and from a late quartet by Beethoven, as well as music by Prokofiev. He says the music he now listens to produces the exhilaration of sadness when combined with vitality.

Second of two programmes recorded at a public concert given in 1973 at St John's, Smith Square. London, by APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) who are also heard as readers. An anthology of words and music, some of it concerned with the pleasure gardens at Vauxhall, the rest with the short-lived pleasures of summer. One and all, all and one,
Enjoyed the mirth and music Out before the summer sun
(WILLIAM BARNES)
Devised by APRIL CANTELO

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Eric Hughes Prelude to a Festival
Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile Handel, arr Baines Water Music James Langley The Coloured Counties
Francaix Au Musée Grévin

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Richard Mayne (in the Chair) talks with JOHN GILLETT
MARINA VAIZEY , JOHN WEIGHTMAN Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Opera in five acts
Libretto, after GOETHE, by JULES BARBIER and MICHEL CARRON Music by Gounod (sung in French) direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Villagers, demons, soldiers ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by JOHN MATHESON Producer JOHN COPLEY
The action takes place in Germany in the 16th century. Acts 1 and 2

A selection of poems compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON introduced by JON CURLE and read by SAM DASTOR and PETER ORR

Act 3

Norman MacKenzie. the biographer of H. G. Wells , reflects on some of the personal and literary aspects of the relationship between Wells and Dame Rebecca West as revealed in the new book H. G. Wells and Rebecca West by GORDON RAY

Acts 4 and 5

Archie Gordon , now Marquess of Aberdeen, tells the story of some of Byron's Scottish ancestors, the Gordons of Gight. During this 150th anniversary year of Byron's death some commentators have deduced an influence on the poet from his Celtic Highland ancestry. His mother, Catherine Gordon Byron, came. however, from a Scottish family who were not Highland though they were often violent, unruly and murderous.
'This line of Aberdeenshire Gordons was both noble and royal in origin ... through 13 terrible generations their behaviour was consistently ignoble and they much annoyed successive kings.'
Readers BRYDEN MURDOCH and GERRY SLEVIN
Producer JOHN ARNOTT

Quintet in B flat major PRINCIPALS OF THE
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA with GILBERT SCHUCHTER (piano)

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