Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted bv KAREL SEJNA
8.10' Gershwin Piano Concerto in F:
ROBERTO SZIDAN LONDONPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
8.43* Debussy Symphonic Suite: Printemps
NEW PHILHARMONJA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ

ILSE WOLF (soprano)
FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone) LONDON BACH SOCIETY COLIN TILNEY
(chamber organ continuo) STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS conductor PAUL STEINITZ
Sebastian Knüpfer Cantata: Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht
Johann Schelle Cantata: Ach mein herzliebes
Jesulein Kuhnau Cantata: Wenn ihr frohlich seid an euren Festen

A record request programme Mozart Quartet in n (K 285) KARLHEINZ 7.0LLER (flute) THOMAS BRANDIS (violin)
SIEGBERT UEBERSCHAER (viola) WOLFGANG BOETTCHER (Cello)
10.20* Brahms Quintet in B minor, Op 115
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET with KEITH PUDDY (clarinet)

Music at Eastertide: by ALEC
ROBERTSON
Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron: by JOHN WARRACK
Musical Profile: Anna Reynolds by JOAN CHISSELL
The Beethoven Companion: book review by STANLEY SADIE Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

The second in the series
Quartet in A major, Op 20 No 6 Quartet in B minor, Op 33 No 1 AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES Musical Director GRAYSTON BURGESS Part 1
Madrigals from the Italian Renaissance:
Monteverdi Sfogava con Ie stelle; Dolcissimo uscignolo Gesualdo Itene o miei sospiri Vecchi Hor ch'ogni vento lace Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli ; Ah! dolente partita
English part songs from the 20th century:
Cordon Crosse A May-song Richard Homes Eros
Geoffrey Burgon Mai Hamama

- Static or Dynamic! An illustrated talk by HUMPHREY SEARLE

Part 2
French chansons from the 20th century: d'Indy Compère Guillery
Poulenc La belle se siet au pied de la tour d'lndy L'apothecaire facltieux Auric Le jour m'est nuict
Puulcnc les tisserands; Un soir de neige
Madrigals from the Courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England:
East Quick, quick, away
Weelkes Death hath deprived me; Hark, all ye lovely saints; Since Robin Hood
Tomkins Too much I once lamented; How great delight East Your shining eyes
(Given at the Freemasons' Hall on 8 September, 1970)

SYLVIA ROSENBERG (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDI Part 1
Weber Overture: Euryanthe
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2. In G minor

THEA MUSGRAVE talks about the relevance for her of present-day composing techniques,

Mahler Symphony No 1, in D major

(Given before an audience in BBC Studio 1, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit, [address removed], enclosing sae)

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS
(Rptd: Monday, 10.50. am)

An opera by SCHOENBERG
English version by DAVID RUDKIN The Covent Garden Opera production
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA leader CHARLES TAYLOR conductor GEORG SOLTI
(From a 1965 Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London)
The action takes place In Egypt and the Sinai Desert In Biblical times. Act 1

After the pogroms of the 1880s. many thousands of Jews fled from Tsarist Russia and came to settle in Britain.
LIONEL KOCHAN, Bearsted Reader in Jewish History at the University of Warwick, talks about this wave of immigration and. in particular, examines the ways in which these Russian Jews were received by the wider British community,

Act 2

Uttini Overture: II re pastore
Naumann Pas de deux: Pas de quatre (Gustav Wasa)
Roman Music for Drottningholm DROTTNINGHOLM THEATRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ULF BJ ÖRLIN gramophone records

by JOHN ARDEN
The story of the play is taken (more or less) from Homer's Hymn to Dionysus and from Book Three of the Metamorphoses by Ovid
Aboard The Life of Man:
Crew: HENRY LIVINGS, SHANE CONNAUGHTON , ALUN ARMSTRONG , PAUL HUMPOLETZ , DAVID JACKSON
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Arpeggione Sonata
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) gramophone record

Poet-Musician
A selection from his Ayres Compiled and introduced by DENIS GOACHER
With ROBERT SPENCER (lute) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) and ERIC PHILLIPS
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

A major. Op 101
10.16* c minor. Op 111 played by MAURICE COLE

(died 1521)
Sixth of a series marking the 450th anniversary of his death LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS conductor LOUIS
HALSEY Praeter rerum seriem: Germinavlt radix Jesse; 0 admirabile commercium; Ave Maria (a 4); Hue me sidereo
(18 April: Mass: Pange lingua)