Today's time GTS 8.0 am

1820-1830: the second of two programmes
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, a in f minor
CHARLES ROSEN , PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
8.39° Spohr Double Quartet 0 in D minor. Op 65 MELOS ENSEMBLE
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin). Ivor McMahon (violin). Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello)
lona Brown (violin), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Kenneth Essex (viola), Keith Harvey (cello)

9.4 Beraald Septet in 8 flat major
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Adrian Beers (double-bass)
9.29* Loewe Ballade :Herr 0 Olaf
DIETRICH FISCHERCIESKAU (baritone)
GERALD MOORE (piano)
9.34, Spontini 0 re del clell (Agnes von Hohenstaufen) ANITA CERQL'ETTI (soprano) FLORENCE MAGGIO MUSICALE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
9.38* Berlioz Overture: Les 0 francs-juges
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS (gramophone records)

born 6 September 1869
To many people the name of Watford Davies will conjure up the person from whom they learned to appreciate music. His outstanding gifts as a broadcaster have, however, obscured his distinguished achievements as a composer. The music he wrote between his appointment to the Temple Church in 1898 and the outbreak of war in 1914 represents him at his finest
Motet: God created man, for double choir and organ (first broadcast performance) Jesu dulcis memoria
God speaketh (Everyman: revised version) Interlude in c
Motet: These sweeter far, for unaccompanied chorus
A Memorial Melody in c (1936) Motet: Grace to you and peace, for voices and organ
GEORGE THALBEN-BALL (organ) BBC CHORUS
Conducted bv TREVOR HARVEY (From the Temple Church, London, by permission of the Treasurers and Masters of the Bench of the Inner and of the Middle Temple)

yoshio unno (violin)
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC orciikstra, conducted by HIROYUKI IVVAKI
Haydn Symphony No. 94, in G major (Surprise)
Yuzo Toyama Violin Concerto (first broadcast in this country) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2, in c minor
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union)

Introduced by STEVE RACE

Introduced by Peter Jones
12.30
Sports Parade
Including Weather, previews of the day's Soccer and Racing at Sandown Park, latest news of the Gillette Cup Final and the News of the World Match Play Golf Championship
1.0. 2.25, 3.0, 3.35, 4.45
Rugby Union, Cycling, Golf
Rugby Union: Harlequin Sevens. Teams from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales compete for the Wakefield Trophy. Eric York reports from the Stoop Memorial Ground, Twickenham
Skol International Six-Day Cycle Race. John Burns reports from the Empire Pool, Wembley
Golf: News of the World Professional Match Play Championship. Reports on the third and fourth rounds by Tom Scott from Walton Health Golf Club, Surrey
1.15, 2.25, 3.0, 3.35, 4.45
Gillette Cup Cricket
The Final: Derbyshire v. Yorkshire. Commentary and reports from Brian Johnston and John Carlotta at Lord's
1.5
Doncaster Preview
When the St. Leger meeting starts next Tuesday, the new Grandstand will be open to the public for the first time. Peter Bromley takes a look at the facilities there and Roger Mortimer and Julian Wilson sum up the prospects for Wednesday's Classic race
2.10. 2.45, 3.20
Racing from Sandown Park
Commentary by Michael Sethsmith on the 2.10 Harrison and Willis Stakes: 2.45 William Hill Handicap Stakes; 3.20 Bonsoir Handicap Stakes
4.0, 4.40
Association Football
Commentary by Maurice Edelson and Bryon Butler during the second half of one of today's English League matches; at 4.40 the Association Football Results as they come in
5.0
Sports Report including classified Racing Results, reports on selected Football League matches, Golf and Rugby Union Sevens, the Rugby Union Test Match between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town, a preview of tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix and at 5.55 Classified Football Results

c minor, Op 101; a major, Op 8; c major, Op 87 THE SUK TRIO
Recorded from a public concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 18 November 1"7

Variations in the portraiture of a mythical figure by W. B. STANFORD
Regius Professor of Greek, University of Dublin 3: The Voyager
Homer's Ulysses was always homeward bound, in contrast with the outward - bound Byronic wanderer of the Romantic tradition. Many later writers including Charles Lamb and James Joyce preferred the Homeric portrait, but transformed it into an allegory of everyman on the voyage of life. Reader michael mcclain
Produced by ADRIAN JOHNSON

Sette Canzoni
Seven dramatic expressions
Words and music by malipiero First of two one-act operas (the second is at 9.5 pm) given by the Teatro Comunale, Florence
(Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ) from the King's Theatre Edinburgh
In tonight's double bill, both operas are conducted by Nino Sanzogno. The first. Sette Canzoni, consists of seven short episodes connected only by the central theme of love
The Vagabonds: a ballad singer
RENATO CAPECCHI (baritone)
Vespers: a monk
GUERRANDO rigiri (bass)
The Return: the old mother
MAGDA OLIVERO (soprano)
The Drunkard: the man renato capecchi (baritone)
The Serenade: the lover
GIUSEPPE BARATTI (tenor)
The Bell-ringer: bell-ringer
SCIPIO COLOMBO (baritone)
Dawn on Ash Wednesday: the lamplighter
GIORGIO giorgetti (baritone)

Dorothy Pickles , the lecturer, broadcaster, and author of The Fifth French Republic, gives the second of three fortnightly talks

Opera in a prologue and one act: words and music by DALLAPICCOLA
(based on La torture par l'espérance by Count Villiers de l'lsle Adam and La Wgende dUlenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster) Of this opera Philip Hope -Wallace wrote: ' In an idiom somewhere between Berg and Menotti. it enacts at length the painful torture by false hope of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is led to believe the doors are open. only to find himself trapped again '
The mother
Claudia PARADA (soprano)
The prisoner
SCIPIO COLOMBO (baritone)
Gaoler and Grand Inquisitor
MIRTO PICCHI (tenor)
Two priests
DINO FORMICHINI (tenor)
GIORGIO giorgetti (baritone)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO comunale, FLORENCE chorus-master ADOLFO fanfani conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
Produced by ALEXANDER FERSEN

In this programme comparing different interpretations on gramophone records, JAMES GIBB and PAUL HAMBURGER diScuss the first movement of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto as interpreted by Arrau. Backhaus, Gilels, Kempff, Schnabel, and others