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starts with a musical surprise and continues with Elgar's Nursery Suite, played by the ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES : records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein), by DAVID MURRAY.
Recent records of chamber, instrumental music and songs, by ROBERT HENDERSON

Bridge Three Idylls for string quartet: GABRIELI QUARTET
Mozart Songs: Die kleine Spinnerin (K 531); Ridente la calma (K 152); Das Lied der Trennung (K 519): JILL GOMEZ (sop)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
Shostakovich Viola Sonata FYODOR DRUZHININ (viola)
MICHAEL MUNTYAN (piano): records

(tenor and piano)
Finzi A Young Man's Exhortation
Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut Schubert Wonne der Wehmut : Der Rattenfanger
Wolf Der Rattenfanger
David Cox Five Songs from John Milton
(One of a series of concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in association with the BBC) BBC Manchester

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

james LEES-MILNE evokes the spirit of those ' cradles of the British gendus ' - country houses.

A recital by IGO KOCH
Haydn Sonata in B minor (H XVI 32)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major, Op 31 No 3
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 784)

Peter Barkworth , the well-known actor, introduces his personal choice of records.

Happiness in music: four great composers' views
Gluck Che puro ciel! (Orfeo) TERESA BERGANZA (mezzo-sop)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON Gluck Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
Elgar The little bells: Slumber scene (The Wand of Youth)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Berlioz Love Scene (Romeo and Juliet)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH (gramophone records)
Beethoven Symphony No 6, in F major (Pastoral)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Swiss Radio recording of part of the 1976 United Nations Day concert)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

by JANE PARKER-SMITH
Bach Fugue in G major (a la Gigue) (Bwv 577); Chorale Prelude on Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (Bwv 658)
Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam from Meyerbeer's opera Le Prophète Jean Guillou Toccata
(Part of a recital given on 3 November 1976)

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Malcolm Bradbury Marghanita Laski and Clancy Sigal
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Opera in four acts
Music by Gustave Charpentier Libretto by THE COMPOSER
(sung in French: records)
Set in Paris at the turn of this century, Louise has the rare quality of being a completely credible opera. Apart from one rather exotic character, the Noctambulist, who announces he is the 'Plaisir de Paris', it's filled with real, everyday people, and tells a simple story of a girl struggling to escape from the restrictions of home life and find love, freedom and happiness in the city of Paris.
with soloists and the AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE Acts 1 and 2

Reflections on current affairs.
Professor Norman MacKenzie , Director of the School of Education, University of Sussex, gives the last of four fortnightly talks.
(Owen Dudley Edwards : 25 June)

Acts 3 and 4

As the popular sounds of the Silver Jubilee still continue at the end of the week in which it was celebrated, Derek Jewell seeks out some appropriate music. It's American as well as British - with some surprising sounds and conclusions, gramophone records