Today's time: GTS 8.0 am

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2
ADOLF SCHERBAUM (trumpet) WILLY GLAS (flute)
FRITZ FISCHER (oboe)
WERNER KROTZINGER (violin) Cluck Chaconne in c major
Mozart Piano concerto No 25, in c (K 503): JULIUS KATCHEN gramophone records

Bach Suite in c, for cello MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
9.24* lues Three Places in New England 0 AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA
9.45* Haydn Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6: AMADEUS QUARTET
10.2* Bach Suite in c minor, for cello: MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
10.26* Busoni Five Songs from a text by Goethe 0 SIEGFRIED NIMSGERN (baritone) SAAR RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN
10.37* Penderecki De natura sonoris 0 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
19.45* Haydn Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1: AMADEUS QUARTET
(Recordings by courtesy of Yugoslav, Austrian, and Saarbriicken Radios and RIAS Berlin)

Introduced by JOHN LACE
Building a Library: Debussy's La mer by NOËL GOODWIN
Recent opera records: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute
12.18* Schubert Symphony No 8
12.45* Wagner Siegfried 's Journey to the Rhine

i.4 Shostakovich Symphony No 1

A personal choice of records and recordings presented by Edward Greenfield including, at 2.0* Dvorak's Symphony No 5; at 3.15* excerpts from Mozart's Don Gio vanni; at 4.40* JANET BAKER singing the Riickert Lieder by Mahler

JOHN AMIS talks to the artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast musict

introduced by STEVE RACE

Sonata in G major, Op 49 No 2 KJELL BAEKKELUND
Sonata in c minor, Op 111 WALTER GIESEKING
(Recordings by courtesy of Radios Bremen and Frankfurt)

An opera in three acts Libretto by JOSEF WENZIG English translation by HUMPHREY
PROCTER-GREGG Music by SMETANA
Cast in order of singing:
Judges, soldiers, townsfolk BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Repetiteur MARTIN PENNY
Produced by BRIAN TROWELL
The action takes place in Prague in 1498 Act 1

Variations in the Portraiture of a Mythical Figure by W. B. STANFORD
Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin 1: The Hero
Though modern presentations of Ulysses are generally unfavourable. Homer showed him as a figure who commanded respect, even admiration at times In the later tradition Shakespeare and many other writers allowed him to retain some of his heroic qualities. Yet Homer's Ulysses was in some ways a distinctly unconventional hero.
Reader MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Produced by ADRIAN JOHNSON
(25 April - 2: The Villain)

Act 2

The second of four talks by Robert Skidelsky , the author of Politicians and the Slump and English Progressive Schools, who is now at work on biographies of Mosley and Keynes. Mr Skidelsky was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1965-68, and is now Research Fellow of the British Academy

Act 3

ESTHER GLAZER (violin) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conducted by IRWIN HOFFMAN Haydn Symphony No 7. in c major (Le midi)
10.19* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
H.45* Brahms Symphony No 2, in a major