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A weekly programme of recent records
Six Minuets (K.599) (Mozart)
Vienna Mozart Ensemble
Conducted by Willi Boskovsky

8.17 Concert piece, for harp and orchestra (Perné)
Annie Challan with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Conducted by Andre Cluytens

8,32 Nocturnes (Debussy)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
with the Temple Univeristy Women's Choir

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BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Symphony No. 63, in C major
(La Roxolane)
9.23* Symphony No. 43. In E flat major (Mercury)

A request programme of gramophone records
Violin Sonata No. 5, in F major
(Spring) (Beethoven)
David OISTRAKH (violin) and Lev OBORIN (piano)
10.11* Songs from the Chinese
(Britten)
Peter PEARS (tenor) with JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
10.22* String Quartet No. 3. in E flat major (Tchaikovsky)
VLACH QUARTET
Josef Vlach (violin) Vaclav Snitll (violin)
Josef Kodousek (viola) Viktor Moucka (cello)

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage
Josquin des Prés by ALEC ROBERTSON
Musical Profile: Marjorie Thomas by CHARLES OSBORNE
J. P. Salomon (1745-1815) by ALAN TYSON
Noel Goodwin reviews books on Elgar and Walton

Excerpts from the opera by Bizet
Words by MICHEL CARRÉ and EUGENE CORMON
Sung in French on gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE OPERA-COMIQUE. PARIS
Conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
The action takes place In ancient Ceylon
Both Nadir and Zurga love Leila, a beautiful Brahmin priestess. To preserve their friendship, they have sworn never to see her again. However. when a priestess comes to pray for the pearlfishers. Nadir recognises her as Leila and declares his love. As she confesses that she, too. loves him. they are discovered; and the pearlfishers demand their death. A funeral pyre in prepared. but Zurga sets fire to the village and, in the confusfon, helps the lovers escape. He himself, however. Is stabbed to death.

the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz with PETER PEARS (tenor)
Originally broadcast tn the Third
Programme on December 20. 1964. from the Fairfield Hall. Croydon

† INTERNATIONAL MOZART ENSEMBLE
Leonard Friedman (violin)
Conrad von der Goltz (violin) John Underwood (viola) Kenneth Essex (viola) Irene Gudel (cello)
John Gray (double-bass) Derek Wickens (oboe) Kurt Hausmann (oboe) Fritz Hiite (horn) Alan Civil (horn)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
Recorded before an Invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Morgen (Die Tageszeiten) INGRID CZERNY (soprano) BERLIN CHAMBER
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HELMUT KOCH on a gramophone record

4: Mrs. Gaskell by JOHN GROSS,
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
The fourth of a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the English novel.
Second broadcast
Graham Hough on Henry James : November 27

In a translation from the Norwegian by MICHAEL MEYER
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
The action takes place on Allmer's estate, by a fjord In Western Norway. a few miles outside town.
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.25

Gina Bachauer (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend Conducted by Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Festival Hall. London
Part 1
Overture: Egmnnt
7.44* Piano Concerto No. 3, in C minor

† by KENNETH GRAHAM
' An enthusiasm for Edgar Allan Poe.' wrote Henry James. ' is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.' In this re-examination of Poe's stories. Dr. Graham. lecturer in American Literature at the University of Southampton, argues that ' there has never Leen a more oppressed and restricted imagination that still produced memorable writing.'

Part 2
Symphony No. 3, in E flat major (Eroica)

Six conversations between
Raymond Aron
Professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne, and Francois Duchene formerly Paris Correspondent of The Economist
4: Education and the intellectual climate
5: Foreign policy of de Gaulle. November 28

played by the † DANISH STRING QUARTET followed by an Interlude at 10.55