Geoffrey Bush Overture: Yorick
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/HANDLEY
Bliss Piano Concerto
SOLOMON (piano) (mono) RLPO/BOULT
Britten Matinees Musicales NATIONAL PO/BONYNGE
Dvorak Sonatina in G JOSEF SUK (violin)
ALFRED HOLECEK (piano) trad, arr Britten The Miller of Dee; Ca' the Yowes; The Plough Boy
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
Boccherini Guitar Quintet No 9 in c
NARCiso YEPES (guitar)
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Puccini's Manon Lescaut by ALAN BLYTH
The five Beethoven Piano Concertos: a new set, with Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist, reviewed by JOAN cmssell .
New choral records reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON

Mendelssohn Hor mein Bitten, Herr (Psalm 55)
GRETA DE REYGHERE (soprano)
CHAPELLE ROYALE VOCAL ENSEMBLE
COLLEGIUM VOCALE JOHN huys (organ) conducted by PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA records

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES with EUGENE SARBU (violin)
Respighi Symphonic Poem: The Fountains of Rome
Walton Violin Concerto in B minor
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* pm Strauss Symphonic fantasy: Aus Italien

Technology: Values

KENNETH SILUTO (violin)
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano)
Grieg Sonata in c minor, Op 45 Prokofiev Sonata in D, Op 94a BBC Birmingham

Stiffelio
Opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO maria PIAVE (sung in Italian)
Stiffelio was revised by Verdi as Aroldo. It remained unheard in its original form for a century.
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Chorus-master
GOTTFRIED PREINFALK Conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI
The opera is set in Stankar's castle near Salzburg
2.55* Julian Budden on Stiffelio
3.0* Acts 2 and 3 (Presented by the European
Broadcasting Union)

DMITRI ALEXEEV (piano)
Liszt Variations on a theme by Bach (G 180)
Schumann Carnaival , Op 9 BBC Wales

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Alexander Walker (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Bigsby, Margaret Drabble and John Spurling.
This week's subjects:
BBC1's play Stars of the Roller-State Disco; Glyn Philpot 1884-1937 at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Eclogues, a collection of stories, and Geography of the Imagination, a collection of essays, by Guy Davenport; Glenda Jackson in Phedra at the Old Vic, London; Malcolm Mowbray's film A Private Function.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Seventh of nine programmes, BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor Sir John Pritchard direct from the BBC's Maida Vale studios in London Carnival Music and Intermezzo from the opera Notre Dame
Symphony No 4, in c

Journeys past Kings, Gods and Rogues in the work of the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka Written and presented by David Jones. With
Angus Calder , Rex Collings , Denis Duerden , Buchi
Emecheta, William Gaskill ,
Ngugi Wa Thiongo , Ben Okri , Caryl Phillips , John Ryle , George Wilson-Knight and Wole Soyinka
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN THEA KING (clarinet)
JOSE-LUIS GARCIA (violin)
THOMAS MARTIN (double-bass) Barber Adagio for strings
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622)
9.10* Interval Reading
9.15* Bottesini Grand Duo Concertant, for violin, double-bass and orchestra
Mozart Symphony No 41 in c (K 551) (Jupiter)

BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON MARTIN ROSCOE (piano)
Geoffrey Burgon Dos Cores David Ellis Piano Sonata Robin Orr Songs of Zion
Sebastian Forbes Voices of Autumn
BBC Manchester

The fourth of seven programmes
Divertimento in B minor (H xi: 96)
MUNICH BARYTON TRIO Un tetto umil
ELLY AMELING (soprano) jorg DEMUS (piano)
Notturno in F (H n: 26) CONSORTIUM
CLASSICUM Der erste Kuss; Eine sehr gewohnliche Geschichte ELLY AMELING (soprano) jorg DEMUS (piano)
Divertimento in D (H x: 2) MUNICH BARYTON TRIO with JAN SCHROEDER (horn)
GOTTFRIED LANGENSTEIN (hom) WERNER GROBHOLZ (violin) GUNTER KLEIN (violin)
BERNHARD MAHNE (violone) records