Weber, arch Berlioz
Invitation to the Dance
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.13* Britten, arr Bream Courtly Dances from
Gloriana JULIAN BREAM CONSORT
8.23* Glazunov Valse de concert No 1
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
8.31* Sarasate Playera ITZHAK PERLMAN ( Violin) SAMUEL SANDEHS (piano)
8.35* Grieg Norwegian
Dances: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD : records

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Bartok s String Quartets, by ARNOLD WHITTALL.
New orchestral records reviewed by SIMON MUNDY , including:
Beethoven's Choral
Symphony conducted by Haitink: Stravinsky's
Petrushka; and the five Saint-Saens Piano
Concertos played by Pascal Roge.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA house, conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka
DETROIT SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI : records

LEWISHAM CONCERT BAND conductor JOSEPH PROCTOR Shostakovich A Festive Overture
Hoist Suite No 2, in r
Vaughan Williams A Folk Song Suite

First of a new series in which speakers from many walks of life, musical and non-musical, are invited to introduce some of their favourite music on records. This week, author and creator of the Inspector Ghote novels, H. R. F. Keating. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Today is the final day of the Fifth London
Exhibition of Early
Musical Instruments at the New Horticultural Hall, Westminster.
Lionel Salter views the goods on show and talks to exhibitors and visitors. Also, some leading players, including MONICA BUGGETT. PHILIP PICXETT and DAVID ROBLOU give performances on instruments by some of the makers represented. Producer chris SATERS

Leo Black presents a choice of recent music broadcasts which have given him pleasure.
Producer STEPHEN PLAISTOW

In this, the last of ten programmes, the shadows lengthen over the Avenu* Henri-Martin, as World War 11 looms. Poulenc's Organ Concerto, another commission from the Princesse de Polignac accurately reflects the mood. After the outbreak of hostilities, she takes refuge in England, renewing old friendships, establishing new ones, making music. She meets Benjamin Britten , and Peter Pears - who sings at her funeral service, in 1943. Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page Series producer RONALD COOK gramophone records

with Peter Clayton

Gillian Reynolds fin the Chair), talks with John Carey. John Spurling and J. G. Wetghtman.
This week's subjects:
The Russian film Moscow Distrusts Tears, winner of the 1980 Academy
Award for best foreign language picture.
The Blue Dress, a play for radio by William Trevor. on Radio 3. Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe at the Royal Court Theatre.
Thomas Carlyle -1795-1881, a centenary exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

played by RALPH MARKHAM and KENNETH BROADWAY Schubert Rondo in a (D 951)
Debussy Marche écossaise
Liszt Festpolonaise John Field , arr Liszt Nocturne No 4; Nocturne No 5
Liszt Grand galop chromatique

A short story by STEPHEN BUTLER
Read by Richard Vernon Work is coming to an end. People still go to their offices. To drink coffee, to talk, play chess; grow old.
Producer PETER KING

Opera in three acts by Roberto Gerhard
Libretto by THE COMPOSER, after SHERIDAN
BBC CHORUS BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Repetiteurs HAROLD LESTER , ROGER VIGNOLES and JOHN CONSTABLE
Edition prepared by ALAN BOUSTEAD
Produced by VERONICA SLATER and LIONEL SALTER
The action takes place in Seville in the 18th century. Act 1

Portrait of an American 19th-century poet written and introduced by Robin Holmes , with In the 1870s there arrived on the London literary scene a romantic figure in buckskins, with long golden hair to his shoulders, who promptly took the bastions of sophistication by storm ... Other readers EDWARD
ATIENZA and GWEN TAYLOR Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Acts 2 and 3

plays music by Bach on the Christiaan Muller organ of the Waalse-Kerk, Amsterdam
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Bwv 548)
Canonic Variations on Von Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her (Bwv 769) gramophone records

(1865-3 October 1931) Serenata in vano ATHENA ENSEMBLE gramophone record