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Mozart Six German Dances (K 509): ROTTERDAM PHILHAR
MONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
Mendelssohn Capriccio brillant in B minor, Op 22
PETER KATIN (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTlNON
Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19: SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MILTON katims : records

Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Fault's Requiem by LIONEL SALTER.
MICHAEL BERKELEY talks tO
ANTHONY ROOLEY.
Recent instrumental records: reviewed by JOHN HENRY ,

with Elgar's Enigma Variations, played by the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI and music by Virgil Thomson : records

(piano)
Scriabin Fantasy in B minor
Rachmaninov Sonata No 1, in D minor, Op 28

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records.

Gaelic Psalm singing from Lewis and Stornoway
Producer MADEAU STEWART

JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN 'S, SMITH SQUARE, leader RICHARD DEAKIN conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
Mozart Divertimento in D (K 136) Britten Simple Symphony, Op 4 Mozart Divertimento in F (K 138) Britten Les illuminations, Op 18

Lord Willis, screenwriter and novelist, introduces his peri sonal choice of records.

Mahler Rheinlegendchen; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen: ELIZABETH GALE (soprano) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Symphony No 5: BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : record

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Philip French (in the Chair) talks with George Melly , Peter Porter and Marina Vaizey.

The Centenary of the Talking Machine
JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE introduces five programmes tracing the history of sound recording during its first 50 years.
1: Phonograph v Gramophone covers the period up to the turn of the century.

Walter Bodmer , Professor of Genetics at Oxford University, gives the last of four talks. (5 March : Prof Douglas Johnson )

' This year will be in the fourth dace of the Heavenly Stem, which symbolises fire....' Predictions for the Year of the Snake which began yesterday', with WONG CHONG-MIN and HUGH BAKER .

Memories of the traditional Chinese New Year, in and outside China before and after-. theRevolution and readings from The Golden
Lotus by JANE KNOWLES and DAVID GRAHAM

The life and ' death ' of an opera
The legend of the White Snake goes back' at least as far as theTang dynasty. As a tale and later as an opera, it was pushed into various shapes by time, taste, and politics until its suppression in the Cultural Revolution. 1966. Research mm POH-SIM Narrator Christopher Bidmead with EVA HADDON. ANNE ROSENFELD
GODFREY KENTON , ROD BEACHAM and JOHNROWE

Arthur Cooper introduces poems by LI PO, TU FU, WANG WEI and others
Read in Mandarin by TAO TAO SANDERS and SHUI CHIEN-TUNG, in English by ANN MORRISH, ARTHUR COOPER
Translations by ARTHUR COOPER

Presenter Rembrandt Wolpert, of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Birds' song in the empty mountain; Welcoming the Dearest; Three versions of the Plum Blossoms; The Joyous Plain tong kin-woon (Cli'in) Tsui Wah-Nam (Pan-hu, Erh-hu)

A short story by Lu Hsun (1881-1936)
Introduction by Ling Su-Hua
Lu Hsun lived in a time of extraordinary change and violence in China. This story gives a gentle, ironic picture of a would-be-writer
Read by Alec McCowen

A Revolutionary interlude

A piece of dramatic propaganda for the 1960s in which an uncle discovers a new world. with DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , PAUL
MEIER and VALERIE
MURRAY.

Poems by Mao Tse-Tung translations by MICHAEL BULLOCK ,
JEROME CH'ÊN. Reader: NIGEL STOCK
. NarratorLlM PIK-SEN
Producers: NICHOLAS ANDERSON
LIANE AUKIN , SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN and KAY PATRICK

In the spirit of this evening's Radio 3 programmes, Derek Jewell looks at some examples of the meeting of West
_ern popular music and Oriental modes.