Khachaturyan Suite: Masquerade BRNO STATE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by JIRI BELOHLAVEK
7.24* Poulenc Suite francaise (mono)
THE COMPOSER (piano)
7.37* Gershwin An American in Paris
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS

Part 2 Vaclav Pichl Sym phony in D (Mars)
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.21* Flotow Ach so fromm (Martha)
FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor) BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BERISLAV KLOBUCAR
8.24* Ferdinand Ries Piano Concerto No 3. in c sharp minor: MARIA LITTAUER.HAMBURG SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALOIS SPRINGER : records

Copland
The Composer Interprets El Salón Mexico: NEW
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Symphony No 3
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Peter Williams plays Chorale Preludes by Bach and his predecessors Buxtehude, Scheidemann, de Grigny and Böhm
BBC Scotland

A sequence of music featuring a variety of soloists and ensembles
(Moscow Radio recording)

JACK KIRSTEIN (cello)
JEANNE KIRSTEIN (piano)
Samuel Barber Sonata for cello and piano
Mario Davidovsky Syn chronisms No 3, for cello and electronic sounds
John Cage Bacchanale. for prepared piano (first broadcast performance in this country)
George Crumb Sonata for solo cello
Beatrice Witkin Chiaro scuro, for cello and piano (first performance in this country)

conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 13. in c (x 415)
Symphony No 32, in G (K 318)
Piano Concerto No 22, in E flat (K 482) BBC Scotland

Gillian Sansom (violin)
Roger Vignoles (piano and harpsichord)
Marguerite Dolmetsch (viola da gamba)
Schmelzer Sonata in G sharp minor
Peter Aviss Transfigura tion
Bach Sonata in E minor (BWV 1023)
Dohnanyi Sonata in c sharp minor, Op 21
(Given before a studio audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London)

ELAINE WOODS (soprano) GEORGE MACDONALD (clarinet)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY WILDE conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Patric Standford Five Epigrams (first broadcast performance)
Arthur Butterworth The Night Wind. for soprano, clarinet and chamber orchestra (first broadcast performance)
Robert Simpson Symphony No 2
BBC Manchester

with music from the Bach -family to Chopin and MacDowell: records

Theme and Variations, Op 36: RADOSLAVKVAPIL (piano) String Sextet in A, Op 48 MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET: records

BBC SINGERS conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT present a programme of music bv William Byrd , Michael East, Richard Rodney Bennett , Roger Quilter and Matyas Seiber.

BILL MILLAR (euphonium), 16-year-old winner of the Alexander Owen Scholar ship and Butlin's Youth Solo Championship 1978 With THOMAS BILLINGTON
(piano) BBC Manchester

Part 1

Part 2

Jack Brymer presents Bizet Symphony in c
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Janacek Concertino for piano and chamber ensemble: JOSEF PALENICEK CZECH PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLE (record)

Weelkes When David heard that Absalom was slain
Byrd This day Christ was born
Parsons Ave Maria
Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David: CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OXFORD, conducted by SIMON PRESTON : record

direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Felicity Palmer (soprano) Malcolm King (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1 Shostakovich Symphony No 14

Part 2 Walton Symphony No 1. in B flat minor

For a little over five months, the Einstein X-ray Observatory has been orbiting the Earth, providing astronomers with an unprecedented view of the Universe. So effective is the instrument that probably there is no significant problem in astrophysics that will not be eliminated by the Einstein findings.
John Maddox discusses with the principal users the new results that have already emerged.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

at the 1978 St Magnus Festival, Orkney Islands MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone)
MARK FURNEAUX (juggler) FIRES OF LONDON, STROMNESS ACADEMY WIND ENSEMBLE director JEAN LEONARD conducted by THE COMPOSER Peter Maxwell Davies Le jongleur de Notre Dame
(first performance)
A juggler joins a monastery, but he is incompetent at any skill suited to the cloister.
Eight Songs for a Mad King