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Rossini Overture: Ihe Thieving Magpie
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Lasceux Symphonic concertante
Lefebure-Wely Sortie in B flat: ANDRE ISOIR (organ)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Kreisler Andantino in the style of Martini; Allegretto in the style of Boccherini
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
SAMUEL SANDERS (piano)
Stravinsky Circus Polka
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA : records

Editedand introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, by ANDREW KEENER
New choral and organ records, reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Bach Concerto in c (BWV S94) (after Vivaldi)
GERALD GIFFORD (organ)
Parry Five Songs of Farewell: LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS conducted by LOUIS HALSEY gramophone records

A concert for children direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Nigel Kennedy (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by HARRY KAWOOD introduced and conducted by Bernard Keeffe
Walton Comedy Overture: Scapino
Toru Takemitsu Green (November Steps II)
Elgar Movements from The Wand of Youth Suite No 1: Overture; Serenade: Fairies and Giants Mendelssohn Movements from Violin Concerto in E minor: Andante; Finale
Dukas Scherzo: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
(For information about tickets please ring Elizabeth Russell, [number removed]extension 2619)

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

GUARNERI STRING QUARTET
Arnold Steinhardt (violin)
John Dailey (violin)
Michael Tree (viola)
David Soyer (cello)
Haydn Quartet in i flat major, Op 76 No 6
Mendelssohn Quartet in D major, Op 44 No 1

David Mercer is now a well-known playwright and screenwriter, but his beginnings were modest: a working-class childhood in Wakefield, the Navy, and scraping a living as an artist in Paris. This afternoon, he recalls his early experiences and the intense process of self-examination that led him to be a writer, with the aid of a personal choice of records that includes a Mozart horn concerto, a Dvorak quartet, and part of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. gramophone records

ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Schubert Die junge Nonne; Erster Verlust: Die Sterne; An die Nachtigall; Delphine
Enesco Seven Songs, Op 15
3.55* Interval Rending
4.0* Song Recital. Part 2
Britten The Poet's Echo Op 76 (sung in Russian)
Brahms Dein blaues Auge; Alter Lieb; Wir wandelten; Wie Melodien zieht es; Junge Lieder No 1: Meine Liebc ist grün
Dupare Chanson triste
Brahms Vergebliches Standchen
(A concert given in the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, on 12 December 1976)

This month's talk is given by Alan Bloom of Bressingham Gardens in Nor-folk. Famous as a grower of perennials and alpines, he has, through his many books, encouraged the imaginative and trouble-free use of these plants ranging as they do from humble cottage flowers to rare and beautiful hybrids.
(John Sales , Gardens Adviser to the National Trust: 3 March) BBC Bristol

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, boots. broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Alan Brien (in the Chair). talks with William Feaver. Peter Jenkins and Claire Tomalin
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

John Mills plays music by Torroba, Sor, Sainz de la Maza and Albeniz and talks to MICHAEL JESSETT
Producer GARETH WALTERS followed by an interlude

leader EDWIN PALING conducted by David Atherton with Csaba Erdelyl (viola)
direct from the City Hall, Glasgow
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
Mosart Three German Dances (K 605)
Lyell Cresswell Salm (first performance of the work which won the 1978 Ian Whyte Award)

The sun lies mild and still on the yard stones
The clue is a solitary daffodil - the first.
And the whole air strugglinn in soft excitements
Like a woman hurrying into her silks.
In the first of two programmes Ted Hughes introduces and reads poems from his collection Season Songs,
BBC Manchester

Part 2 Berlioz
Harold in Italy

At present Radio 3 is broadcasting the complete string quartets of Shostakovich. Gerald Abraham assesses Shostakovich's achievement in this field.
(Quartet No 3: Wed 2.0 pm)

Bliss Music for Strings LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
10.34* Williamson Trio for violin, cello and piano (in memory of Sir Arthur Bliss )
WESTERN ARTS TRIO: records

The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll is a new double album inspired, according to its producer. Bob Porter , by the quest of Alex Haley to discover his heritage, as revealed in the other ' Roots Derek Jewell plays from the album tonight, with fascinating songs from the 1940s and early 1950s by WILD BILL MOORE , JOHNNY OTIS , LITTLE ESTHER and THE RAVENS. He discovers other roots in a rare STAN KENTON release. and moves to 1979 with the sounds of chic and music from ROD ARGENT 'S new album.