Today's time: GTS 8.0 am

Felix Weingartner
Handel Concerto Grosso No 16, in 0 major (Op 6 No 5)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8.19* Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F major
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.46* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Les préludes
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Schubert Hungarian Melody in B minor (d 817) 0 played by VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) (gramophone record)
9.8* Mendelssohn Octet in E flat major 0 played by Members of the ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Hugh Maguire (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin) Iona Brown (violin)
Trevor Connah (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Kenneth Essex (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) Denis Vigay (cello)
(gramophone record)
9.40* Ligeti Requiem LILIANA poli (soprano) BARBRO ERICSSON (mezzo-soprano)
DANISH RADIO CHORUS
DANISH RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
10.10* Brahms Symphony No 4, in e minor DANISH RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2, in A major, by joseph COOPER
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by NOEL GOODWIN

Introduced by PETER JONES
Produced by JACOB DEVRIES and ANGUS MACKAY
Events may alter timings
12.30
Sports Parade
Including weather, previews of racing and football, and a report on the Third Test Match at Johannesburg between South Africa and Australia
1.0 News Summary
1.2
Sports Forum
Journalists, sportsmen and commentators discuss questions put by an invited audience. This week the panel includes
J. L. MANNING of the Evening Standard DENIS HOWELL , MP
' Minister for Sport'
TERRY NEILL , of Arsenal, who Is chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association chairman PETER WEST
From Watney's Sports Club, Mortlake: producer GEOFF DOBSON
1.32
Behind the Sporting Scenes The Matchmaker
The success of a boxing promotion depends very much on the skill of the man who arranges the various contests on the bill. HARRY CARPENTER investigates the role of the matchmaker with the help of jack SOLOMONS, HARRY LEVENE. MICKY DUFF , JIM WICKS , I.ES ROBERTS , and TEDDY WALTHAM, secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control
1.50
Meet His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monaco
ROBIN Richards invites you to meet Prince Rainier of Monaco who each year permits the closing of the streets of his principality for the Monaco Grand Prix. He takes a great interest in sport and the furthering of sporting activities. One of his hobbies is collecting veteran cars
2.10; 2.40; 3.10
Racing from Chepstow
Commentary by JULIAN WILSON on the 2.15 Tote Investors Handicap Steeplechase; 2.45 Welsh Grand National, a handicap steeplechase; and the 3.15 Whiteladies Handicap Hurdle Race
4.55 Racing Results
2.25; 3.25 Cricket
South Africa v Australia Third Test Match at Johannesburg
A relay of the SABC'S ball-by-ball commentary on the third day. Among the commentators is BRIAN JOHNSTON of the BBC.
2.55
Behind the Sporting Scenes Private Flying
Increasingly, people are flying their own aircraft, for fun or convenience. How much does it cost? And what is the fascination of flying? Among the private flyers are show business personalities. sportsmen, and businessmen. MICHAEL BOOTH meets some of them and looks for the answers.
Produced by DOS MOSEY and JOHN WITHINGTON
3.45
Association Football
Commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and BRYON BUTLER on the second half of one of today's FA Cup quarter-final matches, followed by the day's results as they come in. 5.0
Sports Report
Including classified football results, reports on selected soccer matches, a report on the Test Match at Johannesburg, and further news of the rest of the afternoon's sport.

by MARIA TIPO
Debussy Etudes
Pour les agréments; Pour les degrés chromatiques; Pour les arpèges composes Ravel Jeux d'eau
Liszt Grandes Etudes de Paganini: No 2. in E flat major; No 3. in G sharp minor (La campanella)
(Recording made available by courtesy of rias, Berlin)

Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), the Genius of the Swedish Rococo,' was one of Sweden's greatest poets. His unique distinction is that he wrote all his verse to music.
Tonight's feature presents a sound-picture of the man, his songs, and his colourful time. Written and narrated by PAUL BRITTEN AUSTIN With GERALD ENGLISH singing Bellman's songs accompanied by JANE RYAN (cello) and DAVID LUMSDEN (harpsichord) and the voices of MADI HEDD. MICHAEL DEACON
LEONARD FENTON , JOHN GABRIEL
MALCOLM HAYES , CLIFFORD NORGATE DAVID SPENSER , AUSTIN TREVOR Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN

Opera in three acts: libretto by VIKTOR PETROVICH BURENIN and the composer after Pushkin's poem Pollara Music by TCHAIKOVSKY Scene: The
Ukraine, early 18th century
(sung in Serbo-Croat)
Cossacks. Mazeppa's body-guards. Kotchubey's servants, maidens, guests, musicians. monks
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BELGRADE NATIONAL OPERA conducted by OSKAR DANON
Act 1 Scene 1: A garden on the bank of a river. Scene 2: A room in Kotchubey's house

Sir George Weidenfeld

Act 2 Scene 1: A prison in Belotzenkovsk castle. Scene 2: A room in Mazeppa's castle. Scene 3: An open field

NIGEL DOUGLAS takes an irreverent look, in a series of three talks, at the views of music critics, past and present. Mr Douglas is a principal tenor with the Zurich Opera and will sing a part in Benjamin Britten's new opera for BBCtv later this year

Act 3: A garden on the bank of a river
(Recording from the Berlin Festival Week 1969: made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio)