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featuring folk instruments: the balalaika in music by Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov, the hurdy-gurdy in Mozart and Corretle, the cimbalom in Debussy, Stravinsky and Kodaly and pan-pipes played by GIEORGHE ZAMFIR . gramophone recurrlx

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Bruckner's fourth Symphony (Romantic), by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Cassettes-the Pros and Cons: the first in an occasional serics of cassette reviews, introduced by ANTONY HODGSON. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Haydn Mass in C (Mariazellermesse)
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST Holst The Planets MEMBERS or THE
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, AMSTERDAM conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

A recital of Russian songs recorded at a public concert given in St John 's, Smith Sauare , on 23 June by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
Part 1 Rimsky-Korsakov The west dies out in pallid rose; Eastern Romance: Silence of Night: Winds: The clouds begin toscatter
Tchaikovsky At the Ball; Why: Serenade
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich, Part 2
Glinka I recall the wondrous moment: Venetian Night: The Lark: Mazurka
Prokofiev The little green grove; Katerina; The dream; The Monk; Wedding Song

SYLVIA ROSENBERG (Violin) TAMAS VASARY (piano) Bartok Sonata No 1
Mozart Sonata in c major (k 296)

John Drummond is now the new Director of the Edinburgh Festival. This afternoon he lays his cards on the table with an account of his life so far. and recollections of some of the artists and musicians he's worked with. They include JULIUS KATCHEN, SIR WILLIAM WALTON, and ODA SLOBODSKAYA, who is heard introducing a Tchaikovsky song in her own inimitable fashion.
(gramophone records)

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Schumann Overture: Manfred
3.20* Brahms Symphony No 1 in c minor
BBC Manchester

Ralph Downes plays the organ of the Royal Festival Hall, London
Biutehndc Toccata in D minor Nielsen Commotio, Op 58

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week: Paul Barker (in the Chair), talks with Michael Bllllnston , Edward Lucic -Smith and Margaret Walters. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. In today's edition Guillermo Fierens plays music by Sanz, Paganini, Henze and Ponce and talks to Michael Jessett.
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Debussy Symphonic Fragments: Le martyre de Saint Sebastien - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux

Ravel Piano Concerto in G - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Ettore Gracis

(gramophone records)

Denis Donoghue, Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, gives the first of four talks in this series of reflections on current affairs.
BBC Manchester

followed by an interlude

(The Lourland)
Music-drama in a prologue and two acts
Libretto by RUDOLF LOTHAR after GUIMERA'S drama Terra Baixa (sung in German
Music by Eugen d'Albert direct from the Theatre Royal. Wexford Cast in order of singing:
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master ALAN CUTTS
RADIO TELEFIS EIREANN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by HENRIGALLOIS
The scene is laid partly on a mountain pasturage in the Pyrenees, partly in the Spanish lowland of Catalonia at the foot of the Pyrenees.
Prologue: A rocky slope high in the mountains
Act 1: The interior of the mill

"I'm very fond of gossip - one of the finer means of communication".
John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer. has successfully evoked the narrowness of middle-class suburban life. Just before the publication of his new novel, "Falconer", he talked to writer and critic, Paul Bailey, in New York.

(Repeat)

Act 2: The interior of the mill

(piano)
Records of the composer of this evening's opera in his other role as piano virtuoso. playing music by his teacher Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven, and his first wife.

Between now and tomorrow week, his solo songs to translations of Sir Walter Scott.
Lied der Anne Lyle (Annot Lyle 's Song, from A Legend of Montrose)
ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)