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Orchestral music by Sullivan, Warlock and Bridge and piano music by Warlock and Elgar.
(gramophone records)

Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Berlioz's Song-cycle: Les nuits d'été, by BERNARD KEEFFE .
MICHAEL BERKELEY talks to WALTER WELLER.
Recent records of orchestral music: reviewed by HUGH OTTAWAY.

Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by COLIN DAVIS : record

1605-1672
Music for Four Choirs
Magnificat III toni; Missa Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos SCHUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON
JONATHAN HINDEN , HAROLD LESTER
MALCOLM HICKS , ALASTAIR ROSS (organs), conductor
ROGER NORRINGTON

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records.

KEITH LOVELL believes that many modernsignsandvisualsymbolsaredirectlyinheritedfrom the forms of medieval heraldry.

GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
Shostakovich Quartet No 1. in c Brahms Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No 1

Sir William Hayter. writer, former diplomat and, until last year, Warden of New College, Oxford, introduces his personal choice of records.;

Dvorak Symphonic Variations BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by STEWART KERSHAW Gounod Vénise; L'absent; Où voulez-vous aller; Sérénade
ANNE-MARIE RODDE (soprano)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Franck Symphony in D minor BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by STEWART KERSHAW

This week Peter Clayton introduces jazz interpretations of the music of George Gershwin.

The Centenary of the Talking Machine
With JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE
4: The Gramophone in War and Peace, 1914-1924 with recordings of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Clara Butt , Marie Lloyd , John Mc -Cormack and Rachmaninov.

Julian Mitchell (in the Chair) talks with Edward Lucie-Smith Gillian Reynolds and John Weightman
Producer JOY HATWOOD

A performance, sung in German, recorded in Denmark earlier this month
RENATE KRAMER (soprano) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor)
THEO ADAM (bass), DANISH RADIO CHOIR AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT Part 1: The first four days of Creation
8.0* Part 2: The last two days complete God's work and culminate in his creation of Man
8.40* Part 3: The hymn of Adam and Eve praising God and celebrating the stability of their perfect world
(Danish Radio recording)

Professor Norman MacKenzie , Director of the School of Education, University of Sussex, and biographer of H. G. Wells and the early Fabians, gives the first of four fortnightly talks.

Petite Suite; Six épigraphes antiques: WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN : record

Debussy's writings on music are no less personal than his music itself. He began to write regular criticism before Pelleas in 1901 and continued almost until the First World War. Leslie Stokes introduces and reads his own short selection. followed by an interlude

Two years ago today the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces took Saigon. Dennis J. Duncan-son, Reader in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Kent, reflects on the final stage of the war in Vietnam in the light of The Victory in Spring, the recently published memoirs of General Van Tien Dung who was the commanding General of the victorious People's Army,

After a long silence, the major group of the earlier 1970s, EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER, have recently heralded their return with a double album called simply Works. This week Derek Jewell begins an extended look at ELP'S development, featuring their version of Aaron Copland 's Fanfare to the Common Man. Also to be heard are compositions from the latest album by guitarist LARRY CORYELL , and British band BAD
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