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Massenet Ballet music: Le Cid CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
8.25* Stephen Dodgson Guitar Concerto No 1: JOHN WILLIAMS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.45* Falla The Three-cornered Hat: Suite No 2: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI gramophone records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, by JOHN WARRACK
Recent records of Instrumental music and songs: reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON

conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY JAMES GALWAY (flute)
Haydn Symphony No 22, in E flat major (The Philosopher)
10.33* Mozart Flute Concerto in D major (K 314)

Donald Milner introduces a weekly survey of the more positive trends in the world's news.

Part 2 Stamitz Flute Concerto in G major
11.29* Walton Symphony No 2

Wagner Overture: Rienzl
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
12.14* Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)
12.23* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegel
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
12.38* Ravel Bolero
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX gramophone records

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Cinderella Revealed
The most retiring member of the string family is brought forward today by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD with examples of the solo viola used by Weber, Berio and Bach, a movement of Brahms's Clarinet Sonata. Op 120 No 1, in its original scoring and in the composer's own transcription for viola, a Concerto for double-bass and viola, an orchestra with no violins and a glance at the viola d'amore and the viola pomposa. Record reque&ts from the under-20s.

Anthony Quinton , philosophy tutor at New College, Oxford. and literary journalist, says his actions are always with words. Inveterate verbaliser, he likes music with words, or where, as often, that is not decently possible, music that is exciting enough to extinguish any verbal impulse. His choice of records includes BENNY GOODMAN 'S Air Mail Special, ELLA FITZGERALD and LOUIS ARMSTRONG with Love is Here to Stay, part of Palestrina's Stabat Mater and a movement from a Bach double harpsichord concerto.

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by MARCUS DODS
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Boyce Symphony No 5, in D
Saint-SaensLe rouet d Omphale Gorden Jacob Divertimento for small orchestra Dvorak Nocturne
Schonherr Austrian Peasant Dances, Op 14

Prelude and Fugue In c; Chorale Variations on Christe, der du bist Tag und Ldcht; Capriccio in D; Chorale Prelude on Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr'; Prelude and Fugue in D minor
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN
Organ of Viborg Cathedral gramophone record

Introduced by Peter Clayton

(11 re cervo)
Opera in three acts based on GOZZI's play
Libretto by HEINZ VON CRAMER English version by MARIA MASSEY PELIKAN
Music by Hans Werner Henze
Henze's operatic fairytale has all the classic ingredients - a handsome prince falling in love with a beautiful young girl, thwarted by a bad baron and helped by a good fairy. Right triumphs in the end....
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The action takes place in a southerly landscape - a kind of Venice between a forest and the sea.
Act 1 The Palace

Act 2 The Forest Act 3 The Town

Julian Mitchell (in the chair) With JANET ADAM SMITH , DEREK MALCOLM and JOHN SPURLING. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader ALAN TRAVERSE conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Part 1 Schumann Symphony No 3. in E flat (Rhenish)
9.25* Interval Reading
9.35* Concert Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 7, in D minor

JAMES GIBB and PAUL HAMBURGER discuss the finale of Mozart's c minor Piano Concerto (K 491) as recorded by ANDA, casadesus CURZON. ANNIE FISCHER, HAEBLER, HASKIL, KEMPFF, KLIEN, SCHNABEL, SOLOMON and others.