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Chabrier Rhapsody: Espafia
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Granados Danzas espanolas, Nos 6 and 11: JULIAN BREAM and JOHN WILLIAMS (guitars)
Montsalvatge Cinco canciones negras
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOp) the PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
Granados El fandango de candil; Quejas o la maja y el ruisefior (Goyescas)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
RavelAlboradadelgracioso
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Recent releases of pre-classical music, reviewed by STEPHEN WALSH.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Music by Monteverdi's contemporaries: Ercole Porta , Giorgio Mainerio , Alessandro Grandi EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW
10.34* Music by Byrd and his contemporaries: Richard Alli son, Antony Holborne and Thomas Lupo
LONDON EARLY MUSIC GROUP directed by JAMES TYLER
10.48* Lute songs by Dowland JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
10.58* Music by Purcell MARTYN hill (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD gramophone records

Cello Concerto in B minor PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTHER HERBIG
(Part of a public concert given in the New Theatre, Cardiff, on 4 December, with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records,

Recordings from two concerts given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in February 1976 and March 1977, both conductedbytheorchestra'smusic directorSeijiOzawa"5 Part 1 George Crumb
Echoes of Time and the River: four processionals for orchestra (1967)
1.25* Interval Reading
1.30* American Music Part 2 Roger Sessions
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd: cantata to words by Walt Whitman (1970) (first broadcast in this country) ESTHER HINES (soprano)
FLORENCE quivar (contralto) DOMINIC COSSA (baritone)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS director JOHN OLIVER
(Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recordings)

Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, introduces his personal choice of records.

Schumann Symphony No 2, in c VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GERD ALBRECHT
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Beethoven String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
(From a concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1969)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

On the last day of 1977, the centenary year of the gramophone, you are invited to a gala of great artists and memorable performances which, without Mr Edison 's magnificent invention, would be lost forever: Elgar, Callas, Schnabel, Caruso, Horowitz, Kreisler ...
Presented by Michael Oliver

A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden w.ree acts
Text by HAFFNER and GENts from a French vaudeville Le Riveillon by MEILHAC and HALEVY Music by Johann Strauss
Frosch, the jailer.JOSEF MEINRAD ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN BACON
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader JOHN BROWN conducted by Zubin Mehta
Producer LEOPOLD LINDTBERG
The action takes place at a watering place near a city. Act 1
At the Eisensteins
7.50* The Bat's Rise to Fame
Philip Hope-Wallace muses on Die Fledermaus's rise from its humbler origin in the world of operetta to equality with the grandest of grand operas in the opera houses of the world.
8.10* Die Fledermaus Act 2
At Prince Orlofsky's
9.10* The City That Didn't Care The Vienna that heard Die Fledermaus for the first time in April 1874 was not in the mood for it. Gordon Stewart draws a thumbnail sketch of Vienna in those days.
9.30* Die Fledermaus
Act 3
At the jail
(Another simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 - Haitink Conducts Mahler: Tuesday 10.15 pm)

in 1964, when the great Russian pianist
Sviatoslav Richter played Schubert duets with Benjamin Britten. Schubert
Sonata in B flat (D 960)
Eight Variations on an original theme in A flat (D 813), for piano duet
BBC Music Guide: Schubert Piano Sonatas, by Philip Rad cliffe, 35p, from bookshops