Biology, Brain and Behaviour

Verdi Overture: Aida
ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILAN/ABBADO
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622) (mono) BERNARD WALTON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/KARAJAN Donizetti String Quartet No 13, in A: ALBERNI QUARTET
Busoni Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen
PHILIP FOWKE (piano)
Gershwin Overture: Strike up the Band: BUFFALO po/ MICHAEL TILSON-THOMAS
Gershwin Embraceable You ELLY AMELING (soprano) LOUIS VAN DIJK (piano)
John Alden Carpenter
Adventures in a Perambulator EASTMAN-ROCHESTER ORCHESTRAL HOWARD HANSON records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Hoist's The Planets by MICHAEL KENNEDY. RODNEY MILNES reviews recent records of operas by Leoncavallo, Mussorgsky, Puccini and Wagner.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Gounod St Cecilia Mass
BARBARA HENDRICKS (soprano) LAURENCE DALE (tenor)
JEAN-PHILIPPE LAFONT (baritone) lFRENCH RADIO CHORUS fNEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF
RADIO FRANCE/GEORGES PRETRE record

leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor SIR JOHN PRITCHARD CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Le carnaval romain
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, in E minor
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* pm Strauss Symphonia domestica

STEVEN DE GROOTE (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D845)
Brahms Four Piano Pieces, Op 119
BBC Birmingham

Aida
Opera in four acts
Libretto by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI after a scenario by AUGUSTE MARiETTE (sung in Italian): mono: records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO ALLA SCALA. MILAN conducted by tullio SERAFIN The action takes place in Memphis and Thebes during the reign of the Pharaohs Acts 1 and 2 3.25* Julian Budden on Aida
3.30* Acts 3 and 4

The second of two programmes Jean-Fery Rebel Suite in G minor (1705)
FRANS BRUGGEN plays his own arrangement for solo recorder

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Benedict Nightingale (in the Chair) talks with Peter Ackroyd , Helen McNeil and Bryan Robertson. This week's subjects:
Gogol's Government Inspector at the National Theatre,
London; The Elizabeth Frink retrospective at the Royal Academy, London;
Brigadista, a television play by Terence Hodgkinson on BBC1; Joel Coen 's film Blood Simple; Diane Arbus , a biography by Patricia Bosworth
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Mozart Quartet No 20, in D (K 499) (The Hofmeister)
Stravinsky Three Pieces (1914) Schubert Quartet movement in c minor (D 703)

Prabhu S. Guptara , the Indian writer and lecturer, compares the experience of the Commonwealth writers from India, the Caribbean and Africa who came to Britain in the post-war years, with that of their successors, many of them born in this country. He examines the difference between the literature the two generations produced and the public response to it.

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in E flat, Op 127 BBC Wales

The composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at Cambridge University, argues that Schoenberg's music is in danger of misinterpretation unless listeners appreciate that much of his thinking derives from non-musical sources.

led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER Bruckner Symphony No 7, in E (Given on 18 December in association with Kirklees Metropolitan Council) BBC Manchester

Songs from the court of Boniface de Monferrat, chansons de toile, and ballads from the Florentine Ars Nova Folquet de Romans
Far vuelh un nou sirventes Albertet de Sestero
Mos coratges s'es cambiats Raimbaut de Vaqeiras
Calenda Maya anon Bele Yotanz; Bele Doette; Amor mi fa cantar; Lucente stella
Gherardello da Firenze Per non far lieto anon Per tropo fede
Gherardello da Firenze I' vo' bene
ESTHER LAMANDIER (voice, harp, portative organ and vielle)

by RICHARD WALKER
Read by Meg Wynn Owen
A Welsh university lecturer relives a nightmare experience when staying in Spain as a young student, which has 'scarred' her for life.
Producer CHERRY COOKSON

The seventh in the series devoted to the Norwegian tradition that has developed in the wake of Grieg.
Ludvig Irgens Jensen Symphony in D minor OSLO PO/OIVIN FJELDSTAD
Fartein Valen Violin Concerto, Op 37: ARVE TELLEFSEN
BERGEN SO/KARSTEN ANDERSEN records