Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
Mahler Lob des hohen Verstandes (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Inert Histoires
CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
John Lanchbery The Tale of Pigling Bland
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Rameau's keyboard works, by JANE CLARK. Recent orchestral issues reviewed by MARTIN COOPER. Producer ARTHUR JOBNSQN

Haydn Piano Concerto in D (H ziii 11)
ILSE VON alpenheiu
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD haitins

DAVID BUTT (flute)
BELA DEKiNV (Violin)
HAROLD LESTER (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE brett conducted by PAUL SACHER Kelterborn Traummusik
Blacher Dialog for flute, violin. piano and string orchestra
Honegger Symphony No 4 (Deliciae Basilienses)

presents a weekly selection of classics in popular style, in performances chosen from 75 years of gramophone records.

IDA HAENDEL (Violin)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 30 No 3
Bach Partita in D minor, for violin

(The Girl of the Golden West) An opera in three acts
Libretto by guelfo CIVININI and CARLO zangorini after the play by DAVID DELASCO Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN BACON
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA BOUSE, leader MEYER STOLOW conducted by zubin MEBTA. Act 1

Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Benedict Nightingale , Bryan Robertson and Marina Warner
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Part 1

Act 2

Part 2

Act 3 (Placido Domingo is Andrea Chanter on Thurs at 2.0)

Introduced by Ptfter Clayton

OERD SEIFERT, NORBERT HAUPT -MANN, CHRISTOPH KOIILER MANFRED KLIER (horns) conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI Pt 1: Haydn Symphony No 99
Schumann Concertstiick in F, Op 86. for four horns and orchestra

Sir leuan Maddock , Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and former Chief Scientist at the Department of Trade and Industry, gives the second of four fortnightly talks.

Pt 2: Beethoven Symphony No 8 (rias Berlin recording)

An interpretation of the life and work of Forrest Reid by Brian Taylor. Forrest Reid, the first Ulster novelist to achieve European status, was born in Belfast in 1875 and died at Warrenpoint, Co Down, in 1947. Brian Taylor presents some themes from Reid's work and contributions from his friends and admirers. (Shortened repeat)

All his three sonatas for violin and piano: c, Op 78: A, Op 100:
D minor, Op 108. played by WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN and ALEXANDER JENNER
(Recording from the 1977 Carinthian Summer Festival by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

By way of introduction to the broadcast of the Fourth Symphony. Hans-Hubert Schonzeler discusses Honegger's achievements as a symphonist. followed by an interlude

Patric Dickinson discusses the public's need for poetry of escape and romanticism after the rigours of war. Readers PETER CRAZE
WALTER HALL , JANE KNOWLES NICOLETTE MCKENZIE
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON

1978 has begun with a popular album which Derek Jewell believes will be among the best 20 of the year: JONI MITCHELL 'S Don Juan 's Reckless Daughter. Tonight he plays the first of three sets of compositions from it, featuring JACO PASTORIOUS (bass) and WAYNE SHORTER (SOprano* saxophone) as well as the composer's voice and guitar.
TALKING HEADS from the New Wave bands, multi-instrumentalist TIM WHEATER , JEAN-LUC ponty 's new suite, and a second extract from ANDREW LLOYD Webber 's Paganini Variations complete the bill: records

Du bist die Ruh'
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano) gramophone record