Rawsthorne Overture: Practical Cats (mono)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER Cimarosa Concerto for two flutes and orchestra
AURELE AND CHRISTIANE NICOLET , STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER de Séverac Le soldat de plomb: MARYLENE DOSSE, ANNIE PETIT (piano duet) Orft Court of Love (Car-: mina Burana)
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (Sop) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone)
ST CLEMENT DANES GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRÉPREVIN: records

Vivaldi Concerto in C minor, for flute and string orchestra (La notte) (RV 439)
RICHARD CHESTER (flute) CANTILENA, directed by ADRIAN SHEPHERD (Cello)
Cererols Requiem in four parts: CHOIR OF MONTSERRAT ABBEY, GREGORI ESTRADA (organ), conducted by IRENEU SEGARRA
Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm: CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2. in E minor LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER WELLER

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VIRTUOSI BRASS BAND
Shostakovich Festival Overture conducted by HARRY MORTIMER
Bach, transe Eric Ball Fugue in e flat (St Anne) conducted by ERIC BALL
Arthur Butterworth Royal Border Bridge 1850 (Three Impressions for Brass) conducted by JAMES SCOTT Bliss Kenilworth conducted by HARRY MORTIMER : records

A series in which speakers from many walks of life, musical and non-musical, are invited to introduce some of their favourite music.
This week, the critic Felix Aprahamian
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE gramophone records

leader DAVID NOLAN conductor SIR GEORG SOLTI KYUNG-WHA CHUNG (violin) Part 1
Weber Overture: Oberon Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major
2.0* Interval Reading
2.10* Concert Part 2 Tippett Symphony No 4
(A public concert given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, in November 1979)

Sacred and Secular Songs FRANK PATTERSON (tenor) ANDREW ROBINSON (viola da gamba) JOHN BECKETT (harpsichord)
On the Brow of Richmond Hill; Man is for the woman made; Sweeter than Roses; Ah, how sweet it is to love; Love, thou can'st hear, tho' thou art blind; 0 Solitude; Olinda in the shades unseen: A Religious Elegy: With sick and famish'd eyes: A Divine Hymn: Lord, what is man?

IMOGEN COOPER and ANNE QUEFFÉLEC in a programme recorded at the 1980 Perth Festival of the Arts
Schubert Allegro in A minor (D 947)
Mozart Sonata in F major (K 497)
4.10* Interval Reading
4.15* Recital. Part 2
Schumann Pictures from the East, Op 66
Bizet Jeux d'enfants, Op 22
(Given on 23 May in the City Hall) BBC Scotland

Introduced by Peter Clayton

"I suppose I'm often successful because I suffer from conviction. Academics are notoriously unconvinced."
The novelist Rachel Trickett, Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, in conversation with Alastair Hetherington

String Quartet in t flat, Op 33 No 2
JANACEK QUARTET gramophone record

played and introduced by Petet Hurford
Organ of New College Chapel, Oxford
Preludes and Fugues: c major (BWV 553); D minor (bwv 554): F major (bwv 556); A minor (bwv 559)
Variations on Allein Gott in der Hoh' sel Ehr' (BWV 771)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall.
London
Robinson Crusoe
Operetta in three acts Music by Offenbach
Libretto by CORMON and CRÉMIEUX. based on the novel by DEFOE. Sung in the English translation by DON WHITE
The Opera Rara production
BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Alun Francis. Act 1

In tonight's talk in this series, Bernard Levin reports from Salzburg, in Austria, the birthplace of Mozart and spectacular setting for the most sumptuous of European annual music festivals.
This year there is a new production of Offenbach's Talcs of Hoffmann by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. conducted by James Levine. to celebrate the composer's centenary.
(Repeated: Wed 10.0 pm) (23 August: Bayreuth)

Robinson Crusoe Act 2

A sequence of poems selected by PatricDickinson Readers
MARTIN JARVIS , ELIZABETH BELL , PETER MARINKER
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

(The Henry Wood Proms by David Cox, £8.75, from book and music shops)

A short story by PATRICIA HIGIISMITH
Read by Douglas Lambert 1 I never cared for nature before in my life, but snails have opened my. eyes to the beauty of the animal world.'
Producer MATTHEW WALTERS followed by an interlude

from Debussy: the first of his Images Series I JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano): record