medium ware only

Chabrier Overture: Gwendoline (mono)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON
Sinding Suite in A minor ARVE TELLEFSEN (Violin) OSLO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by OKKO KAMU
Oscar Straus Saison d'amour: Je ne suis pas; Je t'aime <Les troisvalses) RÉGINE CRESPIN (soprano) VIENNA STATE OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALAIN LOMBARD
Ibcrt Divertissement PARIS CONSERVATOIRE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON : records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Verdi's La forza del destino, by RODNEY MILNES.
New instrumental records, reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Chopin Fantaisie in r minor; Two Nocturnes, Op 48
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Brahms Sonata No 2, in F sharp minor
KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN (piano) gramophone records

WINGATES BAND conductor DENNIS WILBY
Percy Fletcher Heroic March (Epic Symphony)
Mike Davis Suite for brass band (first broadcast performance)
Gilbert Vinter Triumphant Rhapsody
BBC Manchester

Love is not love, wrote Shakespeare, which alters when it alteration finds. In his selection of records this week, Jeremy Siep mann discovers the theme of love unaltered in music as diverse as a cantata by Schiitz, a Haydn opera. Weber's Invitation to the Dance (played by Artur Schna bel), and a folk song by Brahms. Atso to be heard are Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and contributions in rather lighter vein from. among others. Bessie Smith and Vincent Youmans.

Presented by Nicholas Anderson
WINTON DEAN previews tomorrow's broadcast 13.15 pm) of Handel's L'Allegro. 11 Penseroso ed 11 Moderato.
Early 11th-century Italian music for cornett and violin
BRUCE DICKEY (cornett)
MONICA HUGGETT (Violin)
ANDREW PARROTT (harpsichord and chamber organ) MARK CAUDLE
(bass viol and cello) Cima Sonata a tre
Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde Canzon quarta per soprano
Fontana Sonata prima for violin and continuo
Bassano Divisions on Frais et galliart
Merula Ballo detto Gennaro a 3; Ballo detto Eccardo a 3 Cesare Sonata per due canti (La Famosa)
Frescobaldi Canzon quin-ta, for two treble instruments

Ronald Corp introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Paul Barker (in the chair), talks with Marghanita Laski, Edward Lucie-Smith and Bryan Robertson.
This week's subjects: The Movement: English poetry and fiction in the 1950s by Blake Morrison; Paul Schrader's film American Gigolo; the Salvador Dali show at the Tate Gallery; the National Theatre revival of Rattigan's The Browning Version; and Jeremy Paul's BBC1 Play for Today - A Walk in the Forest.

played by Peter Hurford who also introduces the series
Organ of the Domkirche, St Polten, Austria
Toccata and Fugue in F major (BWV 540); Concerto in D minor (BWV 596)
(Recording facilities pro-vided by Austrian Radio) followed by an interlude

Opera in three acts Music by Dvorak Libretto by M. CERVINKOVA-RIEGROVA
(sung in the English translation by RODNEY BLUMER )
The Welsh National Opera production, direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff Cast:
Count Vilem of Harasov DAVID GWYNNE (bass)
Bohus of Harasov, his son
HENRY NEWMAN (baritone)
Adolf of Harasov. his nephew.PHILLIP JOLL (bar)
Julie. Bohus's wife
SUZANNE MURPHY (sopranoi
Filip. the steward
JULIAN MOYLE (baritone)
Jiri. the young forester
ARTHUR DAVIES (tenori
Benda. the schoolmaster and composer
EDWARD BYLES (tenon
Terinka, his daughter
HELEN FIELD (sopranoi
Lotinka, the housekeeper
HEATHER FRYER (mezzo-sop
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
CHORUS chorus-master JULIAN SMITH CHILDREN FROM ST TEILO 'S CHURCH OF WALES HIGH
SCHOOL
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALBERT ROSEN
The action takes place in 1793 in a Bohemian village.
Act 1: A village square

In a talk from the BBC Sound Archives, Eliot discusses the aims of poeticdrama. The talk was recorded in 1949 shortly after the completion of The Cocktail Party.

Act 2:
In Benda s schoolhouse

Piers Hellawell takes a look at the kind of help the programme annotatur gives the music lover.

Act 3: The Count's castle

Dawn - a smouldering fume of dry frost.
Sky-edge of red-hot iron. Daffodils motionless - some fizzled out.
The birds - earth-brim simmering.
In the last of three programmes of his recent work, Ted Hughes reads a selection of poems from his book, Moortown, diverse in subject-matter hut all concerned with 'the boundary that runs between awareness and unawareness
BBC Manchester followed by an interlude

Violin Sonata No 2
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) ERIC FENBY (piano) gramophone record
(Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet can be heard on Friday at 7.15 pnn gramophone records

William Lawes Consort No 8. in G: ELIZABETHAN CONSORT OF VIOLS directed from the organ by THURSTON DART Stereo: record