A concert of new releases, including at

Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
LSO/Barry Wordsworth

9.05 Anthony Burton presents the second part of the programme, beginning with Building a Library: Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) with Jonathan Swain. Julian Budden reviews new recordings of Cilea's L'Arlesiana, Rossini's 17 Turco in Italia and Puccini's La Fanciulla del
West.
10.35 Record Release beginning with extracts from the operas just reviewed.
11.43 To inaugurate Record Review's new section devoted to reissues and historical recordings,
Anthony Burton presents a documentary on this busy comer of the record scene.
12.23 Debussy Images
Suisse Romande Orchestra/ Ernest Ansermet from Decca's 12-CD Ernest
Ansermet Edition.
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10.35 repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)

Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin) Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3
Prokofiev Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80
Schumann Sonata in A minor, Op 105
Intermezzo (FAE Sonata) Brahms
Scherzo (FAE Sonata)

Settings from the 17th, 16th and 15th centuries, showing the text in quite different lights.
Monteverdi Salve Regina Nigel Rogers (tenor) Tavemer Players/ Andrew Parrott
Lassus Salve Regina a 8 Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips Wilkinson
Salve Regina a 9 The Sixteen/
Harry Christophers. Records

Richard Osbome presents a series of 12 programmes documenting the Vienna Philharmonic's 150 years of music-making.
1: The Founding Fathers Nicolai Overture: The
Merry Wives of Windsor conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler (Mono. 1952)
J Strauss (father) Eisele und Beisele Sprunge
Boskovsky Ensemble/ Willi Boskovsky
Beethoven Overture:
Leonore No 3 conducted by Furtwangler (Mono. 1944) Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A conducted by Carlos Kleiber Berlioz Queen Mab
Scherzo (Romeo et Juliette) conducted by Lorin Maazel Wagner Wotan 's Farewell; Magic Fire Music (Die Walkure)
George London (baritone) conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch
Schumann Overture , Scherzo and Finale conducted by Georg Solti. Records
Series producer John Evans

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

Christopher Cook looks at the week's literary events, with reviews of Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson ; Sacred Country by Rose Tremain ; and Grandmothers of the Light, a book of short stories by Native American women writers.
Producer Fiona McLean

Graham Wiggins went to Elcho Island off the north-eastern coast of Arnhem
Land to learn the secrets of making and playing the didgeridoo, or yeraki, as it is known on Elcho. Producer John Thornley

String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Melos Quartet. Record

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Tatyana Nikolaeva (piano)
George McIlwham
(bagpipes); BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Andrew Davis Rossini Overture: The
Barber of Seville
Massenet Pleurez mes yeux (Le Cid)
Je marche sur tous les chemins (Manon)
Rossini, arr Britten Soirees musicales
Shostakovich Piano
Concerto No 2 in F
8.30 A Kitchenette of Composers by Tim Firth. "Clairvoyant's when you see the dead, clairaudient's when you hear the dead, and clair - well, there isn't one for smelling the dead, is there?"
Maureen can't read music, and only plays the stylophone. But she takes dictation from Liszt,
Beethoven and Ravel - so long as they speak slowly.
8.55 Brahms, arr Sargent Academic Festival Overture
Korngold Marietta's Song (Die Tote Stadt)
Catalani EbbenPNe andro lontana (Im Wally)
Puccini Chi il bel sogno (La Rondine)
Sullivan Overture di Ballo Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1
Wood Fantasia on British
Sea-Songs
Ame Rule, Britannia! Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem
•SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST
: Part 1 with BBC2/Part 2 with BBC1

Her Favorite Story
In the first of six readings by outstanding young American writers introduced in programmes broadcast during the past week, Virginian novelist Mark Richard reads a swampy tale from his collection The Ice at the Bottom of the World.

Brian Morton introduces the first in a fortnightly series of jazz concerts.
Earthworks, a quartet led by the former Yes drummer Bill Bruford , including Django Bates (keyboards/tenor hom), lain Ballamy (saxophones) and Tim Harries (bass), was recorded in concert earlier this year at the Junction, Cambridge. Producer Derek Drescher