Mendelssohn Capriccio brillant RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Sullivan (born 13 May 1842)
Finale Act I (The Gondoliers) ELSIE MORISON (soprano)
MARJORIE Thomas (contralto)
RICHARD LEWIS (tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone)
OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Elgar Three Bavarian Dances LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: an introduction to the music of Frank Bridge , by ANTHONY PAYNE.
Recent records of organ music reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN.

MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN is the soloist in two Handel organ concertos (Op 4 No 1 and Op 7 No 1) and GERALD GIFFORD plays music by Tomkins, Blow, Greene and S. S. Wesley on the organ of Hexham Abbey: records

Suite No 3, In c, for unaccompanied cello (bwv 1009)

conducted by Janos Ferenesik Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Vagn Holmboe Epitaph (Symphonic Metamorphosis) (commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the BBC Third Programme in 19561 Brahms Alto Rhapsody (text from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter) with the DANISH RADIO MALE VOICE CHOIR
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra Part 2
Britten Cantata: Phaedra (text by Robert Lowell )
Strauss Death and Transfiguration
(Danish Radio recording of a concert given on 14 April)

Fourth in a series of six talks. Ovid Among the Scythians by Anita Brookner
In 1859, towards the end of his life, Delacroix painted a scene which sums up his rather tragic philosophy. Dr Brookner, Reader in History of Art, Courtauld Institute, London, places this painting in the National Gallery in London against the background of Delacroix's experience as an artist.

MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
Mladi (Youth), for wind sextet In the Mist, for piano
Concertino, for piano and chamber ensemble

Sir Robin Mackworth-Young is Librarian of Windsor Castle, and Deputy Keeper of the Queen's Archives. He has also devised an ingenious piece of electronic gadgetry for tuning harpsichords. And he's a nephew of the composer. Victor Hely-Hutchinson. whose setting of ' Old Mother Hub-bard ' In the style of Handel forms just one of Sir Robin's personal choice of records,

Handel Concerto Grosso in minor, Op 6 No 10
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by IGOR BEZHROONY
.(Czech Radio recording from the 1977 Bratislava Festival)
Tchaikovsky Was I not a little blade of grass?; Serenade. Op 63 No 6; 0 sing that song; Mid the din of the ball; The cuckoo (sung in Russian)
IRINA ARKBIPOVA (mezzo-sop)
JOHN WUSTMAN (piano)
(Part of a recital recorded by French Radio)
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony. Op 110 (composer's arrangement of his Eighth String Quartet)
Mozart Symphony No 29, In A major (K 201)
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by IGOR BEZHRODNY
(Czech Radio recording from the Bratislava Festival)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Anthony Thwalte (in the Chair), talks with Alan Brien , Richard Cork and Marina Warner . Producer LEONIE COHN

The Spanish Piano Tradition
Jerrold Northrop Moore discusses the influence of the piano in Spanish music at the turn of the century, with illustrations from recordings by Albeniz, Granados, Falla and Vines: gramophone records

Felicity Palmer (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Pierre Boulez direct from the Konzerthaus, Vienna
Part 1 Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celeste

Theodore Zeldin , Fellow of St Antony's College. Oxford, and historian of modern France. gives the first of four fortnightly talks.

Part 2
Berg Seven early songs
Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird

2: Saudi Arabia
Dr Robin Ostle of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London talks to a wide range of people in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and assesses the way in which the guardian of the holy places of Islam is responding to the challenges of rapid economic growth and oil-based influence.
Producer JOHN THOMAS

Derek Jewell returns this week to a longer look at the music of the fine new British band UK. Also featured are new sounds from CARLY SIMON , MANFRED MANN 'S EARTHBAND, and perhaps surprisingly a man who has been on the road for over 40 years, WOODY HERMAN , on this occasion delving interestingly into the classical European repertoire: records

An die Musik
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (sop) GERALD MOORE (piano): record