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conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House
Beethoven Die Trommel geriihret; Freudvoll und Leidvoll; Death of Klarehen (Egmont) with BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano)
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor K 550): records

Listeners' record requests
Nielsen Little Suite for strings, Op 1: I musici
9.21* Stravinsky Requiem Canticles: LINDA ANDERSON (soprano) ELAINE BONAZZI (contralto) CHARLES BRESSLER (tenor) DONALD GRAMM (bass)
ITHACA COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT CRAFT
9.36* Gluck Dance of the blessed spirits (OrpWe et Eurydice):JAMES GALWAY (flute)
NATIIDNAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT
9.44* Rameau Prologue to Les Indes Galantes
ANNE-MARIE RODDE (soprano) CHRISTIAN TRÉGUlER (bass)
LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRI DU ROY, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE
19.6* Rheinberger Organ Concerto No 2. in G minor. Op 177 E. POWER BIGGS
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE PERESS

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Ottorino Respighi - more than a vendor of picture postcards? NOEL GOODWIN examines the evidence.
The interpreter as co-creator: some thoughts on the prerogative of a performer by JORGE BO LET.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by ELIAHU INBAL Part 1 Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)

Fritz Spiegl reflects on some of the things we say and write. (Repeated: Wed 11.55 am)

Part 2 Ives Three Places in New England
Varese Amériques
(Hess Radio recording)

Mozart Quartet in A (K 464)
Mendelssohn Four Pieces, for string quartet. Op 81
Schumann Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1

Antony Hopkins

First seen in 1840, La Favorita was Donizetti's third opera of the year for the Paris Opera. It is nowadays mostly sung in its Italian version, as it was in this performance given as part of the Bregenz Festival of 1977.

An opera in four acts
Libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez. Italian translation by F. Jannetti. Music by Donizetti (sung in Italian)

Acts 1 and 2

4.5* Interval Reading

4.15* La Favorita Acts 3 and 4

(Austrian Radio recording)
(Stereo)

' Kim, I believe, is great in its own right; and for the rest, he did so many, many things very well indeed that the greatest novelists never saw to do. It secures him a sure place on Olympus.'
Angus Wilson 's biographical study The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling appears tomorrow, and he discusses it with Jonathan Raban.

The Songs of Francis Poulenc
The title of Poulenc's song-writing diary has been borrowed for this 13-part biographical series.
Written by Graham Johnson , produced by Elaine Padmore and presented by both, with Philip Monnet as Poulenc. 3:Voyage a Paris
Poulenc the Parisian: songs of Apollinaire and Max Jacob , and a ' Parisian ' instrumental sonata, music-hall songs, and the death of Satie.
Poulenc Voyage a Paris (Banalites); Sonata for trumpet, horn and trombone; Paul et Virginie; Poemes de Ronsard; A, sa guitare; Pavane (Suite franchise); Les chemins de l'ameur; Nos souvenirs qui chantent; Allons plus vite; La grenouillère; Parisiana
Ravel Ronsard a son ante Satie Je te veux
MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-sop) PETER Dickinson (piano)
Richard jackSon (baritone) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) JAMES WATSON (trumpet) JOHN PIGNEGUY (horn)
DAVID PURSER (trombone) on records: PIERRE BERNAC (bar) FRANCIS POULENC (piano)
YVONNE PRINTEMPS (soprano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by Walter Weller with Cristina Ortiz (piano) Part 1
Prokofiev Suite: The Love of Three Oranges
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor

Largely concealed from the wider cinema-going public, an elaborate and often acrimonious debate is being conducted in academic and para-academic film circles on the need for film theory. Robin Wood. author of monographs on Hitchcock, Ray, Bergman and Hawks, and formerly Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Warwick University, discusses the nature and implications of this debate.
(Postponed from 13 October)

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 5, in w

The American Involvement in Vietnam
A series of programmes presented by Michael Charlton
' My assumption was that I would be thrown in jail for the rest of my life.'
(DANIEL ELLSBERG)
8: The Story of the Pentagon Papers
Contributions from Leslie Gelb , who edited the Pentagon Papers in the Defense Department. Daniel Ellsberg , who photographed them illicitly, James Greenfield , who was in charge of publication by the New York Times, and William Bundy , who held senior government office throughout the Presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson.'
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

No 119: Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn
URSULA BUCKEL (soprano)
MARGRIT CONRAD (contralto) HELMUT KREBS (tenor)
KARL-HEINZ MULLER (baSS)
MAINZ BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by DIETHARD HELLMANN gramophone record
BBC Music Guide: Bach Cantatas, 55p from bookshops

The adventurous, industrious lives of these admirable insects formed one of a famous series on the grass-blade jungle.
Written and produced by Nesta Pain for the BBC Features Department with music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins Narrator Michael Hordern
Commentator David King-Wood
(This revised version of the programme first heard on the Home Service in 1952 is broadcast as a postscript to last week's Omnibus on BBC1)