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... a la provençale.
Music from L'Europe galante by Campra - native of Provence - and Milhaud's adaptation of Campra's music in his Suite Provencale frame a selection of music from troubadours, Schumann, Bizet, Gounod and the 14th-century Avignon school, all drawing on characteristics of Provence and its music. Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD : records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Grieg's Holberg Suite, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Quadraphonics today: DONALD ADDOUS.
Recent records of pre-classical music: reviewed by CHARLES CUDWORTH.

A concert for children recorded last Saturday in the Royal Festival Hall, London ALAN CIVIL (horn)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BROWN
Introduced and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Weber Overture: Oberon
Beethoven Three Movements from Symphony No 6, in F (Pastoral): Allegro (Peasants' merrymaking); Allegro (Storm); Allegretto (Shepherds' song: thanksgiving after the storm)
Strauss Horn Concerto No 1, in E flat
Tchaikovsky Three Movements from the Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Reed Pipes; Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy; March

Arranged by Benjamin Britten ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
PHILIP LEDGER (piano)
The Sally Gardens; Little Sir William; 0 waly, waly; The Bonnie Earl o' Moray; 0, can ye sew cushions?: The trees they grow so high; The ash grove; Oliver Cromwell : records

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

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Donald Milner introduces a programme of press reaction to the week's events.

MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Haydn Sonata in c (H XVI 50)
Schumann Etudes symphoniques, Op 13

Elizabeth Jane Howard , novelist, makes a personal choice of records that trace her musical impressions from childhood. She includes two songs composed by her grandfather Arthur Somervell and recalls how Tchaikovsky's ' Pathérique ' once made her burst into tears. She finds that the most enduring music is by Mozart, Bach, and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and above all Searkatti - Like the best poetry he gives one the chance to understand and accept more about life.'

Debussy Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan

A mystery item - by Rachmaninov, or maybe not?
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor - Eugeny Mogilewski (piano), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kyril Kondrashin
(Soviet Radio recording)

Ravel Bolero - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
(Lucerne Festival recording by courtesy of Swiss Radio)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

DAVID LUMSDEN
With BOYS FROM THE CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
Buxtehude Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor
Scheidt' Kyrie domlnicale (Quarti Toni )
Adrian Cruft Meditation on the Passion Chorale
Scheidt Magnificat (Noni Toni ) Bach Toccata and Fugue in r (bwv 540)

Anthonv Thwalte (in the Chair), talks with JULIAN MITCHELL , ERIC RHODE and HILARY SPURLING. Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London tonight and tomorrow night DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Part I
Concerto No 1, in c

Alan Ryan , Fellow and Leeturer in Politics at New College. Oxford, gives the third of four fortnightly talks.

Part 2 Beethoven
Concerto No 5, in E flat
(Tomorrow's concert: 7.30 pm)

Professor Denis Arnold places the composer in the context of music-making and composing in the Venice of his time. and considers Cavalli's debt to Monteverdi. The musical illustrations were recorded by HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) MARTYN HILL (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD director NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH. POLLY WATERFIELD (baroque violins) MARK CAUDLE (baroque cello) NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
(organ and harpsichord) conducted by DENIS ARNOLD
(Cavalli Requiem: Wed 8.45 pm)

Sonata for four horns: BARRY TUCKWELL HORN QUARTET: record

by novelist and film-writer Frederic Raphael
1 The first three fellow-fresh-men to whom I spoke when I went up to Cambridge in October 1950 are now Professors. Proust saw his friends, in old age. disguised with white hair: I see mine, in their mid-40s, prudent upon their pedestals, just as young as they were, only older. Can this be maturity? '

Second livre de clavecin, 1717: Ordre No 12: KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord): record

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