Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Dvorak Symphony No 2; in B flat LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI

The fourth of five programmes ANGELA BEALE (SOpranO)
BARBARA ROBOTHAM (contralto) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) RICHARD ANGAS (bass)
LEEDS FESTIVAL SINGERS
ANTHONY LANGFORD (organ)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA leader CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by DONALD HUNT Telemann
Cantata: Machet die Tore weit
9.23* Cantata: Gott sei mir gnädig-
9.40* Cantata: In dulci jubilo

A record request programme
Mozart Divertimento No 8, in F (K 213): LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER
10.11* Berlioz Sara la baigneuse: ST ANTHONY SINGERS ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
10.20* Beethoven String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131 HUNGARIAN QUARTET
Zoltan Szekely (violin)
Michael Kuttner (violin) Denes Koromsay (viola) Gabor Magyar (cello)

The Edinburgh International Festival
A retrospect of recordings made over the last 24 years of Festival personalities and events to introduce the 25th International Festival which begins today.
Editors ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
(Music Magazine visits the 25th Edinburgh International Festival next Sunday morning)

Persfiphone VERA ZORINA (narrator) MICHELE MOLESE (tenor)
ITHACA COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR TEXAS BOYS' CHOIR
GREGG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone record

ANNE HOWELLS (mezzo-soprano) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Catialli Chi mi toglie al die?; Volevo amar' anch'io (L'Ormindo)
Brahms Standchen (Der Mond steht iiber dem Berge); Minnelied; Meine Liebe ist griin
Strauss Meinem Kinde; Schlechtes Wetter
Fauri Nell; Automne; Clair de lune; Notre amour
Debussy Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Falla Seven Spanish Popular Songs
(Promoted by the Royal Manchester College of Music Students' Union Concert Society)

GYÕRGY PAUK (violin) HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by ARVID YANSONS Part 1 Berq
Violin Concerto

ERICH GRUENBERG reflects on the problems facing the contemporary composer.

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5, in D minor

Opera in three acts by Delibes
Libretto by Edmond Condinet and Philippe Gille (sung in French)
The action takes place in India in the 19th century
Act 1: The garden surrounding Nilakantha's temple

DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR talks about Lakmi and its interpreters.

Act 2 The market place Act 3 A hut in the forest
(Recording, from the 1970 Wexford Festival, made available by courtesy of Radio Telefis Eireann)

by JEROME ROSE Part 1 Schumann Davidsbiindlertanze

ELIZABETH JENNINGS talks about the role of the woman poet, and reviews recent books by Jeni Couzyn. Elaine Feinstein and Patricia Whittaker
Reader PAMELA ZINNEMAN

Part 2 Schubert
Sonata in c minor (D 958)

The first British performance of the tragedy by HEINRICH VON KLEIST (written in 1808) in a specially commissioned version by ROBERT NYE with Barbara Jefford
Martin Jarvis , Rosalie Crutchley Kathleen Michael and David Buck
Music and sound score by DAVID CAIN
Declared by Goethe to be ' the product of a diseased imagination,' Kleist's extraordinary epic play takes the legend of Achilles and Penthesilea in an unusual variant - setting the protagonists in a world where they meet both in love and in hate, neither fully understanding the nature of their desires or their objectives. Meanings are so inaccessible that the violent extremes cannot be unravelled one from the other. Truth and Deception, Reality and Illusion change and interchange, the very essence of Masculinity and Femininity is examined and questioned. Beauty and Bestiality go hand in hand in squalor and in splendour ' and those who seek to learn the whole truth find it eventually beyond the compass of the human mind. The Greeks
Kings and Generals:
Antilochus-TREVOR MARTIN Odysseus.................DAVID BUCK Diomedes...........GABRIEL WOOLF Achilles MARTIN JARVIS
Adrastes, a Captain.DAVID VALLA Automedon, the charioteer
SEAN BARRETT
A Myrmidon....CLIFFORD NORGATE A Doiopian Captain
PATRICK TULL
An Aetolian
An Herald ..... EDWARD KELSEY The Amazons
Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons BARBARA JEFFORD Prothoe, a Princess, her companion ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
Amazon Princesses:
Meroe .................. EVA HADDON Asteria ........... ROSALIND shanks
The High Priestess of Artemis KATHLEEN MICHAEL
Arsinoe sheila GRANT Amazon Girls and Warriors
JANK KNOWLES, ELIZABETH PROUD OLWEN GRIFFITHS , EVA STUART
The Musicians
SYMPHONIAS SACRAE
MEMBERS OF THE
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR Percussion: DAVID CORKHILL TERRY EMERY , BARRY QUINN CLIVE HEATH (organ) conducted by THE COMPOSER with special sound by DAVID CAIN and RICHARD YEOMAN-CLARKE in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The Scene: a Battlefield near Troy
Arranged for stereo and produced by JOHN POWELL

Minuet and Finale in F, for wind octet (D 72)
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE AART gramophone record

Musica Reservata, director Michael Morrow (lute) conductor John Beckett
Part 1
Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo) Praetorius Puer natus
Scheidt O Nachbar Roland
Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa Praetorius Pavan de Spaigne; Courante: I care not for these ladies; Courante: Wolsey's wilde (Terpsichore, 1612); Wachet auf

by STEPHEN GARDINER
Mr Gardiner , practising architect and architectural critic of the Observer, talks about some new college buildings at Oxford and their possible effects on the inhabitants' lives,

Part 2
Praetorius Gaillard and Courante: Mistress Winter's Jumpe: Courante: Packington's Pound: Courante: Light o' love (Terpsichore, 1612): Ach mein Herre Scheidt Canzon: Est-ce Mars Monteverdi Con che soavita Praetorius In dulci jubilo