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Rossini Overture: Semiramide
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Donizetti Aria : Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore) (mono): BENIAMINO GlGLI (tenor) ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor: SOLOMON PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ISSAY DOBROWEN gramophone records

Edited and introduced byJohn Lade
Building a Library: Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore, by ALAN blyth.
Recent choral and orchestral issues, reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3 LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by andre PREVIN gramophone records

First of two recitals by the Polish soprano Bozena Betley with Martin Isepp (piano) Moniuszko Jaskoleczka
Schubert Lachen und Weinen; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Delphine Moniuszko Wiosnianka; Cztery pory roku; Dzwon zapustny; Swaty
Schubert An die Musik; Auflosung; Suleika I
(Schubert and Chopin: 3 Dec)

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records.

Webern Five movements, Op 5 Schubert Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the Maiden)

Deryck Mumford , who this year retired after 30 years as Principal of the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, introduces his choice of records.

Schumann Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Rhenish)
ZURICH TONHALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
(Swiss Radio recording from this year's Zurich Festival) Mahler Two early songs ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
A mystery item, to be heard with an ' innocent ear '
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491)
MURRAY PERAHIA BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO muti (rias Berlin recording)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Paul Barker (in the Chair) talks with Edward Lucie-Smith Jonathan Raban and Claire Tomalin
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Alicia de Larrocha
Four Spanish pieces Fantasia Baetica
(Spanish Radio recording of part of the Manuel de Falla Centenary Concert, 1976)

. S E. Finer , Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford, gives the third of four fortnightly talks. followed by an interlude

direct from the City Hall,
Glasgow John Mitchinson (tenor)
Jeanne Deroubaix (narrator) SNO Chorus
Bellahouston Children's Choir
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader EDWIN PALING conductor Sir Alexander Gibson Part 1 Stravinsky Persephone

or Maxims for Locomotion by WILLIAM KITCHINER , MD
(died 1827), adapted and narrated by David Lloyd James Part 3: with Victor Lucas as the Doctor
PETER HALL and PAUL TAYLOR
(tenors), ALAN JONES (baritone) RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Producer TERENCE TILLER

Part 2 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Richard Langham Smith , who has recently published a study of Debussy's writings on music, talks about the great French composer's musical tastes and enthusiasms.

Photo ptosis: prelude for large orchestra
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ZENDER
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)

Eight of the 12 which he composed in 1929 The thought; A little music; Things lovelier; Persephone; Now in these fairylands; Rhyme; The floral bandit; Journey's end
NORMA EURROWES (soprano) STEUART BEDFORD (piano)

One of the most idiosyncratic singers in America today is RANDY NEWMAN. A black humorist, constructing unique songs which blend philosophy, social observation, tart wit and on occasions a surprising compassion. Derek Jewell plays some of his new songs this evening, and also features the long and unusual piano concerto from the new LOL CREME/ KEVIN GODLEY composition Consequences, together with the entertaining space-rock songs of STEVE HILLAGE. gramophone records