Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Borodin Symphony No 2, in B minor
DRESDEN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT SANDERLING
8.36* Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, in F JOHN OGDON
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER

CLERKES OF OXENFORD conductor
DAVID WULSTAN
Wilkinson Credo ; Salve Regina Davy Ah. mine heart; Salve Regina
CornysheAve Maria ; Magnificat

A record request programme

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor JACQUELINE DU PRE, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI

10.31 Strauss Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)

Record Review contributed by STEPHEN DODGSON ANDREW PORTER and STEPHEN WALSH
Editors ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN herbage

Continuing the weekly series that features Haydn's String Quartets
EDITH VOGEL (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello) Part 1
Haydn Quartet in F minor, Op 55 No 2
Beethoven Sonata In z flat major, Op 27 No 1

EDITH VOGEL speaks of her approach to Beethoven's sonatas,

Part 2
Two works in each of which the first movement is a set of variations
Beethoven Sonata in A flat major. Op 26
Haydn Quartet in E flat major, Op 76 No 6

Cinq poemes de Charles Baude laire: Le balcon; Harmonie du soir; Le jet d'eau; Recueillement: La mort des amants sung by ELIZABETH HARWOOB (soprano) with ERNEST LUSH (ptano) 1

MICHAEL CHAPMAN (bassoon)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA co-leaders JACK ROTHSTEIN and CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM Part
Handel Concerto Grosso No 18. in B flat major (Op 6 No 7)
2.38* Nicholas Maw Sinfonia for small orchestra

A talk by DENIS MATTHEWS

Part 2
Vivaldi Concerto In A minor, for bassoon and string orchestra (R Op 45 No 6)
3.48* Haydn Symphony No 89, in F major

given by EVGENY MALlNIN
Prokofiev Minuet; Juliet as a girl; Dance of the maids with lilies; Montagues and Capulets (Romeo and Juliet Suite)
Chopin Ballade No 2, in F major: Nocturnes: D flat major; E major; Polonaise in F sharp minor

Sonata in A, for oboe and harp played by HEINZ AND URSULA HOLLIGER gramophone record

from Glyndebourne
An opera in a prologue and one act by RICHARD STRAUSS Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL (sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by ALDO CECCATO Producer JOHN cox
An elegant production.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Glyndebourne at its best.
GUARDIAN
Prologue: A hall in the mansion of a Viennese ' nouveauriche'
(Radio Times People: page 5)

GEORGE MACBETH introduces a report on the recent Poetry Book Society Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. including readings in their own language by ten poets from Austria, Great Britain, Israel, Poland, Romania and the United States
YEHUDA AMICHAI, W. H. AUDEN CHAIM BE'ER. BASIL BUNTING T. CARMI , D. J. ENRIGHT
ERNST JANDL, DENISE LEVERTOV TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ and NIKITA STANESCU

ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord) Couperin Ordre No 26
Scarlatti Sonatas: D major (LS 6); D major (L 210)

Opera: a stage set erected in the hall, representing the outside of Ariadne's cave

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

Second of six weekly programmes offering a small, and uncomprehensive exhibition of her work since the late 1930s.
Cantata: O saisons, O chateaux (Rimbaud), for soprano and strings (1946)
MARILYN TYLER (soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR (gramophone record)

10.18* Islands (1971): This Island (Sophocles): The isle (Shelley); The isle of Aros (R. L. Stevenson); The ringing island (Rabelais)
JANE MANNING (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MARIUS GORING (narrator) LONDON SINFONIETTA conductor DAVID ATHERTON
(Part of an iscm Festival concert given in St John's, Smith Square, London, on 7 June)

Divertimento In B flat major (K Anh 229 No 1)
THEA KING (clarinet) DAPHNE DOWN (clarinet)
DEIRDRE DUNDAS-GRANT (bassoon) String Quartet in E flat (K 428) DELME STRING QUARTET