Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases, including:

8.00 Schubert Quintet in C (D956) - Australia Ensemble

Anthony Burton introduces Building a Library
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 in C by David Fanning.

Graham Sadler with new releases of Baroque vocal music.

10.35 Record Release
Pieces from the discs just reviewed.

11.35 Robert Philip has just published a study of performing practice on early records. Today, he reviews reissues for the centenary of Szigeti and important recordings of music by Richard Strauss.

12.34 Bach Violin Concerto in D minor
(from Harpsichord Concerto, BWV 1052) Joseph Szigeti (violin) New Friends of Music Orchestra/Fritz Steidry (Mono, 1940)

(9.05-10.35am rptd Wed 2.05pm)

Prelude and Fugue in C (K394)
Sonata in F (K5331494) Sonata in A (K331)
2.00
The Myth of Mozart A brief survey of 200 years' worth of reactions to Mozart, with Jonathan Adams , John Church and Gudrun Ure.
2.15
Six German Dances
(K509); Adagio in B minor (K540); Minuet in D
(K355); Sonata in A minor (K310)

Richard Osbome documents the Vienna Philharmonic's
150 years of music-making in 12 programmes. 3: Enter Mahler
The radical impact made by Gustav Mahler on Vienna's Court Opera and Philharmonic Concerts between 1897 and 1907 is chronicled in a programme that includes extracts from Fidelio and Cost fan tutte, as well as part of Leonard Bernstein 's recording of Beethoven's String
Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 and at
4.09 Rafael Kubelik 's famous 1954 mono recording of Mahler's Symphony No 1. Records

with Geoffrey Smith.

Christopher Cook investigates serious crime in America and low life in Britain, with reviews of the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard , the film Swoon and John Byme 's play Colquhoun and MacBryde. And there's a reappraisal of Patrick Hamilton , author of Rope and Hanover Square, who died 30 years ago. Producer John Goudie

In the second of two harpsichord recitals, Colin Tilney plays settings of popular melodies by 17thcentury English, German and Dutch composers.

A concert performance of Tchaikovksy's four-act opera recorded at this year's Edinburgh
International Festival.
Scottish Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Mark Ermler

"I have hunted butterflies in various climes and disguises: as a pretty boy in knickerbockers; as a lanky cosmopolitan expatriate; as a fat, hatless old man."
Vladimir Nabokov recalls the excitement of entomological exploration....
Reader Hugh Dickson Producer Duncan Minshull

Stefano Scodanibbio (double-bass)
Baden-Baden RSO/ Michael Gielen
Gerhard Stabler Co-wie Kobalt, for double-bass and orchestra
Franz Jochen Herfert Nituok-Sa

Brian Morton introduces a recording of a concert given earlier this year in the Bloomsbury Theatre by an 11-piece band led by John Harle (soprano and alto saxophones) and including Henry Lowther (trumpet), Steve Lodder
(keyboards), Frank Ricotti (percussion) and Sarah Leonard (vocals). They played music by Duke Ellington , Stanley Myers and John Harle himself, who talks to Brian Morton during the interval about his wide-ranging career.