with Paul Vaughan Building a Library.-Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat, by BRYCE MORRISON. NICHOLAS KENYON on Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medie: a new recording by Les Arts Florissants. Records of instrumental music reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON

Bach Prelude , Fugue and Allegro in E flat (BWV 998) GORAN SOLLSCHER (guitar) Debussy Three Estampes YOUR! EGOROV (piano) Kreisler La Gitana, Cavatina and Gypsy Caprice OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin) MILTON KAYE (piano) Gershwin An American in Paris KATIA LABEQUE AND MARIELLE LABEQUE (pianos): records

conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS Berg Three Pieces, Op 6
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
12.20* pm Interval Reading
12.25* Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) (Bavarian Radio recording)

Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 537)
Beethoven Sonata in D major, Op 10 No 3; Bagatelle in G major, Op 126 No 1
JAMES GIBB (piano)

Luisa Miller
Opera in three acts. Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO , after SCHILLER'S drama Kabale und
Liebe (sung in Italian): records
LONDON OPERA CHORUS
NATIONAL PO/PETER MAAG Act 1
3.5* Julian Budden on Luisa Miller
3.10* Acts 2 and 3

Suite in A minor for viola da gamba and harpsichord. LA CHAMBRE DU ROY
Marianne Milller (viola da gamba)
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) (French Radio Recording from 1983 Monaco Baroque Music Week)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. Alexander Walker (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Bigsby , Margaret Drabble and Waldemar Januszczak. This week's subjects:
Roland Joffe 's film The Killing Fields. Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn at the Ambassador's Theatre,
London. Robert Forrest's radio play Shanidar in the Radio 3
Scottish Season. The Discovery of the Lake District at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Denton Welch: The
Making of a Writer by Michael De-la-Noy .
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

The sixth of nine programmes Quintet in B flat
THEA KING (clarinet)
MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGRI QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)

'The theatre is irresistible. Organise the theatre!'
Matthew Arnold 's appeal has been taken up with a vengeance over the last 100 years, but he might have been dismayed by its consequences. John Elsom , the writer and theatre critic, talks to administrators, artistic directors and politicians about the effects of financial and bureaucratic organisation of what appears on stage. Producer THOMAS SUTCUFFE

Sonatas played by ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord) in G major (KK 259 and 260); D minor (Kk 141); F minor (KK 69); c major (KK 513); G major (KK 144 and 146)

Lyric comedy in three acts Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
The Glyndeboume Chorus director JANE GLOVER
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by Bernard Haitink Act 1
9 35* Interval
9 40* Acts 2 and 3 (Given in association with Imperial
Tobacco Ltd)
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 of the Glyndeboume Festival
FEATURE: page 13

The third of seven programmes Minuetti di Ballo, Nos 1 and 2 (H k 4)
BELLA MUSICA ENSEMBLE, VIENNA directed by MICHAEL dittrich Flute Quartet in G (H n 1)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE
Concerto in F (H xvm 3)
VIENNA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by PHILIPPE ENTREMONT (piano) (records)