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Jarnefelt Praeludium BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
8.9* Palmgren Piano Concerto No 2 (The River): IZUMI TATENO HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA
8.31. Sibelius KuUervo and his sister (Kullervo Symphony) RAILI KOSTIA (soprano)
USKO VIITANEN (baritone)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY MALE VOICE CHOIR, BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FAAVO BERGLUND gramophone records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Brahms's Alto Rhapsody by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
Some special boxes: reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD

Berlioz Overture: Les francsjuges
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
10.31* Verdi Recit and aria: Giorno di pianto (The Sicilian Vespers) 10.42* Verdi Aria: La donna e mobile (Rigoletto) CARLO BERGONZI (tenor) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NELLO SANTI
10.46" Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2, in G minor
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
11.20* Nielsen Symphonic Rhapsody (1889): DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT BLQMSTEDT : records

Today's guest Dagoberto Lin hares plays music by Attlio Bernardino , Villa-Lobos. Bach, Marlos Nobre and Paganini, and talks to PETER SENSIER.

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.

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Introduced by Donald Milner

Night Music ... from Bartok. Biber and Mozart (Wind Serenade, K 388) and two solo works by Britten: Notturno for piano and Nocturnal for guitar Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD.

Dr George Steiner , author and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Geneva University, says that though he is someone who lives with, and by. words he needs music perhaps most of all. Among the records he has chosen are SOLTI conducting Mahler, ROGATCHEWSKY singing Wagner, the AMADEUS QUARTET playing Schubert, part of Couperin's Leçons des Ténèbres and ' the incomparable EDITH PIAF. '

Mozart Piano Concerto No 15
4.0* Brahms Song of Destiny
EAST GERMAN RADIO CHAMBER CHOIR AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HELMUT KOCH
(East German Radio recording) 4.20* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor ARTURO BENEDETTI-MICHELANGELI VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
(Austrian Radio recording from 1975 Vienna Festival) Introduced by Hugh Wood

Part 1
Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante in E minor Op 125
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello) ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE conducted by PAUL SACHER

Richard Mayne (in the Chair) talks With Margaret Drabble, Jasia Reichardt, Alexander Walker.

Part 2 Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE conducted hy ERICH LEINSDORF
(Swiss Radio recordings from 1975 Lausanne Festival)

by Bernard Crick , Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College

String Quartet No 2, in c AMADEUS QUARTET: records

BARRY FOSTER (narrator)
SANDRA BROWNE (SOp), JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor), ALEXANDER Oliver (tenor), JOHN NOBLE (bar), RICHARD ANGAS (bass),
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS, ChOrUS-master STEPHEN WILKINSON BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR Strauss Symphonic Poem: Also sprach Zarathustra

Tom Pickard reads his poem which takes its title from the traditional ceremony in Allen-dale. Northumberland

Part 2 Stravinsky Oedipus Rex (A public concert presented in the City Hall, Newcastle, on 26 Sept by the BBC in association with the Newcastle Festival)

An analysis by RICHARD BEBB of the five surviving recordings of the greatest of Victorian actresses, made for the Victor Company in 1911. Producer BENNETT MAXWELL

Intermezzo for 24 string instruments (first broadcast in this country)
ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted byEDMOND DE STOUTZ (Lausanne Festival recording by courtesy of Swiss Radio)