Harty A John Field Suite ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
Massenet Scenes pittoresques: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
Satie La belle excentrique FRANCIS POULENC (piano) JACQUES FÉVRIER (piano) Prokofiev March, Op 99 MONTE CARLO OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX : records

Part 2 Emmerich Kalman Overture: Countess Maritza: GRAUNKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLY MATTES Suk Fantastic Scherzo CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK MACAL Paganini, arr Kreisler La Campanella
IGOR OISTRAKH (violin)
NATALIAZERTSALOVA(DianO)
Sullivan, arr Mackerras Suite: Pineapple Poll LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone record*

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, by NOËL GOODWIN.
Recent opera records, reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Excerpts from three recent opera records. Britten's The Little Sweep. Verdi's Nabucco and Mozart's Don Gio vanni, interspersed with the Suite No 1. In E flat, for wind ensemble by Holst and Cherubini's Etude for trench horn and strings.

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings. Stereo

Isabel Beyer. Harvey Dagul Schumann Polonaises Nos 3. 4 and 7 Rheinberger Grand Son ata, Op 122

' At concerts I always manage to sit next to a silent whistler, who always prefers the work in a different key.' This afternoon Alan Ayckbourn introduces his favourite choice of records.

leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon
John Casken Tableaux des Trois Ages (first performance - Feeney Trust Commission)
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
(Part of a Birmingham Triennial Festival concert recorded in the Town Hall, Birmingham in September 1977, given in association with Marks and Spencer Ltd) BBC Birmingham

This month's talk is given by Anne Scott-James , a member of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the author of Down to Earth, The Pleasure Garden and Sissing-hurst: The Making of a Garden. Series producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

Four Pieces, Op 78 Sonatina, Op 80
Danses champêtres, Op 106
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) JOHN MCCABE (piano)

The Second Goosepimple Show
' The music's so good. even my goosepimples have got goosepimples.'
(attrib BUDDY BOLDEN )
Peter Clayton , embarrassed by an outbreak of requests,, has relapsed into a second edition,

This week:
Robert Cushman (in the Chair), talks with Clancy Sigal , Hilary Spurling and Anthony Thwaite.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH Review: page 90

In today's edition, recorded before an invited audience at Highland College, Jersey, Charles Ramirez plays music by Dowland, Sor, Villa-Lobos and Bach and talks to MICHAEL JESSETT , and members of the audience.
Producer GARETH WALTERS

direct from the Royal Hall
Zvi Zeitlin (violin)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Avi Ostrowsky
Hindemith Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber
7.53* Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in g minor

In Hitler's Germany, anti-Semitism was made theologically respectable by Gerhard Kittel , Professor of New Testament at the University of Tubingen. James Bentley , Maurice Reckitt research fellow at the University of Sussex, examines Kittel's support for Hitler and analyses his influence on his British contemporaries, caught up in the controversy over revelation.
BBC Manchester

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No4. in E minor (Presented by Leeds Leisure Services)
BBC Manchester

Trevor Harvey has listened to some of the world's greatest conductors at work: and in the second of two talks on how a conductor gets the interpretation he wants, he discusses the methods and idiosyncracies of Wood, Beecham, Boult, Koussevitzky and Walter; followed by an interlude.

MARTYN HILL (tenor)
JAMES WALKER ipiano)
Reynaldo Hahn D'une prison; Paysage; L'heure exquise; Le rossignol des lilas: Si mes vers avaient des ailes;
Mai Jules Massenet Stances: Nuit d'Espagne: Chant Provencal: Serenade du Passant; Serenade d'Automne
Gabriel Faure ' Au bord de l'eau; Sylvie: Clair de lune; Chanson d'amour; Apres un rêve
BBC Birmingham

In retrospect of the year that has just ended, Derek Jewell looks at the effects of a top band's break-up, with music from lOcc and Kevin GODLY and LOL CREME. There are more powerful images from ALAN PRICE and ESTHER PHILLIPS , the nostalgic sounds Of MANHATTAN TRANSFER and LEE KONITZ as well as a regretful memoir of uk, a group which flourished all too briefly. gramophone records

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The service is conducted by HIS GRACE METROPOLITAN ANTHONY OF SOUROZH

(medium wave only)
Australia v England
Test Match Special, with commentary on the final two hours of the second day at Sydney by Christopher Martin Jenkins, Alan McGilvray, Alan Marks and Jim Maxwell with expert comment from former Australian Test players, Lindsay Hassett and Dave Renneberg.
(Commentary by arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission)