Listeners' record requests Liszt Lcs préludes BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.22* Mendelssohn Song without Words in G minor, Op 53 No 3
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
7.24* Dvorak String Sextet in A, Op 48
DVORAK QUARTET, with MEMBERS OF THE VLACH QUARTET

Part 2
Balfe Overture: The Bohemian Girl
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON
8.12* Bellini Aria: Ah! per sempre io ti perdei (I puritani) (mono) GIUSEPPE DE LUCA (bar) With ORCHESTRA
8.16* Alec Templeton Scherzo caprice (mono) LÉON GOOSSENS (oboe) GERALD MOORE (piano)
8.18* Griffes The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT
8.29* Lalo Symphonic espagnole (mono)
JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) RCA VICTOR SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG

Chopin
Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs, for piano and orchestra
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA, conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI Grand Duo on themes from Meyerbeer's ' Robert e Ciable '
NATHANIEL ROSEN (cello) DORIS STEVENSON (piano)
Piano Sonata No 2, in B flat minor: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY: records

played by Martin Neary in Winchester Cathedral
Marchand Dialogue (Troisieme livre)
Franck Choral No 1, in I Vierne Final (Symphony No 1) BBC Bristol

A recital given by the British soprano in 1973, not long after she settled in Germany Heinz Schrbter (piano)
Brahms Das Madchen spricht; Miidchenlied (Auf die Nacht in der Spinnstub'n): Stiindchen (Der Mond steht iiber dem Berge)
Schubert Abendstern : Ellens zweiter Gesang; Nachtviolen Brahms Wir wandelten:
Von ewiger Liebe

by Ferrabosco, Danyel and John Johnson
CHRISTOPHER WILSON PAUL O'DETTE
(Part of a public concert given on 1 October in the Wigmore Hall as part of the 1980 Early Music Centre Festival)

from a concert in Orchestra Hall, Chicago conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
Nicholas Maw Life studies VII and VIII, for strings
Strauss An Alpine Symphony
(WFMT recording)

direct from Broadcasting House, London
Takacs-Nagy Quartet
Haydn Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (The Lark)
Schumann Quartet in A major, Op 41 No 3
(Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

PAUL EDMUND DAVIES DAVID CURTIS
SIONED WILLIAMS
Rawsthorne Suite for flute, viola and harp
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
William Mathias Zodiac Trio

Peter Wallfisch gives a piano recital in the BBC'S Maida Vale Studios
Mozart Fantasy in c minor (K 396)
Reger Sonatina in r major, Op 39 No 3 N'ovak Slovak Suite

Steve Race. medium tcate and mono only from 6.20

Since Thomas Gray majestically declined the offer of the laureateship in 1757, it has never been clear whether the post is honourable or onerous.
Christopher Ricks , Professor of English at Cambridge University, traces the history of the Laureateship and the means by which poets have elevated it to coincide with their loyalties. Verse read by Paul Rogers Other readers PATRICK BARR , JOHN CHURCH, LEONARD FENTON , SONIA FRASER , MARTIN FRIEND, GORDON REID Producer TOM SUTCLIFFE followed by an interlude

The 50th
Anniversary Season
Opening Concert direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Victoria Posmikova (piano)
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Kenneth Woollam (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (bar) BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1
Prokofiev Dreams
Prokofiev, ed Rozhdestvensky White Swan, for female chorus, horn and string orchestra (first performance)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2, in G minor

Part 2 Tippett
A Child of Our Time

JOHN LADE introduces the performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto recommended in Record Review.

plays four harpsichord pieces by William Byrd from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: record