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British Film Music
Walton Prelude and Spitfire Fugue (The First of the Few) ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.13* Ireland Suite: The Overlanders
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.35* Richard Rodney Bennett Honeymoon in Italy (Lady Caroline Lamb )
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCUS DODS
8.40* Vaughan Williams Three Portraits (The England of Elizabeth): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN: gramophone records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Franck's Symphony in D minor, by Jeremy Noble.
Donald Aldous replies to listeners' questions.
Recent choral records: reviewed by Colin Mawby.

(Stereo)

MSTISI.AV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: leader FELIX KOK conductor LOUIS FREMAUX
Anthony Gilbert Ghost and Dream Dancing (first perf: Feenev Trust Commission)
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2

Introduced by Donald Milner

Part 2 Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
followed by an interlude

Beethoven
Sonatas: D, Op 12 No 1; E flat, Op 12 No 3
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin)
CLARA HASKIL (piano): record

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Brass Quartets
A Symphony for four trumpets by Molter; a Sonata for four horns by Tippett; Equate for four trombones by Beethoven; even a Chopin Mazurka for four tubas: and Haydn's Symphony No 31, in D (The Horn Signal) in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

Gertrude Hutchinson , writer, has chosen music largely for its nostalgic associations, and recalls going to concerts with Harriet Cohen 's brother, her time as secretary to H. G. Wells , and acting in America witn Elaine Stritch. She includes records of HARRIET COHEN playing a Bach concerto, KARAJAN conducting Beethoven, RITA STREICH singing a Russian lullaby and DONALD SWANN accompanying IAN WALLACE in his own setting of a Betjeman poem.

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Bizet Overture: Doctor Miracle Borodin, arr Sargent Nocturne Eric Coates Suite: London Every Day
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Tchaikovsky Four movements from the Nutcracker Suite
Saint-Saens Bacchanale (Sam-son and Delilah)

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists.
Today's guests, the Omega Quartet, play music by Terzi, Torroba, John Lambert. Stravinsky and by their director, Gilbert Biberian , who talks to PETER SENSIER.

The British Baritone
The tradition through three generations: recordings by SIR CHARLES SANTLEY , HARRY PLUNKET GREENE and PETER DAWSON. Presented by JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Excerpts from Handel's opera
CHARLES SPI'NKS
(harpsichord fcorttinuo)
HURWITZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS

This week: Michael Billington (in the chair) talks with A. ALVAREZ , ROBERT CUSHMAN and MARINA VAIZEY
Producer CHRIS SWANN

leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD WANDA WILKOMIRSKA (Violin)
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1

Reflections on current affairs
Stuart Hall , Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University, gives the third of four fortnightly talks.

Part 2
Mahler Symphony No 1, in D

followed by an interlude

By way of introduction to tomorrow's broadcast of The Cunning Little Vixen, Ian Horsbrugh discusses some of the female roles Janacek created in his operas, including Jenufa, Katya Kabanoua , Elena Makropoulos, and the Vixen herself.
(The Cunning Little Vixen direct from Glyndebourne, Sunday 5.40 pm)

Mllhaud Overture and dance from the Suite: Saudades do Brazil: FRENCH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by MANUEL ROSENTHAL Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira No 2: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL GAPOLONGO gramophone records

Every night before drawing the curtains round the Tester Bed, Mrs Caudle lectures her husband. PATRICIA HUGHES reads the fourth Of DOUGLAS JERROLD 'S pieces.

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