Time: GTS 7.0 am

Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder: NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.13* Schumann Piano Concerto in A mior: SVIATOSLAV RICHTER WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
7.44* Smetana Symphonic Poem: Vltava (Ma vlast)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Vejvanovsky Sonata natalis PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-
IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (Violin)
8.12* Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G: BATH festival ORCHESTRA, directed by YEHUDI MENOHIN (Violin)
8.30* Haydn Symphony No 98 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records

Donizetti Overture: La fille du regiment: PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Bellini Son vergin vezzosa; 0 rendetemi la speme (I Puritani): JOAN SUTHERLAND (sop) ORCHESTRA OF THE
MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE Donizetti Fatal Goffredo!; Trono e corona (Torquato Tasso): MONTSERRATCABALLE (SOp) lso, conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO gramophone records

with ANTONY HOPKINS
(Sunday s broadcast)

An historical perspective from the early 16th to the 19th century, illustrated by BBC Sound Archive recordings
1: Early 16th-17th century
Presented by MADEAU STEWART

Last of a series featuring the artist in a dual role
Jaseha Heifetz (violin)
RCA VICTOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANZ WAXMAN
Bach Concerto in D minor, for two violins and string orchestra gramophone record

Etudes and Polkas (Books 1, 2 and 3) IRIS LOVERIDGE (piano)

Sydney Humphreys (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Seaman

Mozart Symphony No 33 (K 319)

12.4* Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No 4

12.35* Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song; The peacock

Gerald English (tenor) Nash Ensemble
Ravel Chansons madéeasses, for voice, flute. cello and piano Martinu La revue de cuisine, for violin. cello. clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and piano Debussy Songs
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, with flute, clarinet and string quartet
(From St John's. Smith Square, London, SW1. Tickets 35p, obtainable at the door)

Final programme in the series based on the current repertory of London Festival Ballet
Introduced by Cormac Rigby

This week: Swan Lake
Music by Tchaikovsky
Choreography, after Petipa and Ivanov, newly produced by Beryl Grey
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvenski
(gramophone records)

Part 1

by Dame Marie Rambrrt
(BBC Sound Archive recording)

Part 2 of Festival Repertoire

Debussy Sonata in G minor Ravel Tzigane
HENRYK SZERYNG (violin)
JOSE TORDESILLAS (piano)
(Recording from the 1971 Dubrovnik Summer Festival made available by Yugoslav Radio)

A special programme in which Harry Mortimer on his 70th birthday looks back on 60 years of music making and plays a selection of his recordings

with David Munrow

JOHN MCCABE on music in London and the South East during the coming weekend.

6.30 Introduction to Arabic: Programme 3
Fifteen lessons for complete beginners.
Introduced by Baha Essaid
with Nadia Tawfiq
Written by T.F. Mitchell and D.L. Barber
Producer ELSIE FERGUSON
(Rptd: Saturday, 10.30 am, R4)
(Book and record from BBC Publications by post £1.90: see page 58)

7.0 Amici, buona sera!
(For details see Friday, 6.30 pm)

from St John 's, Smith Square, London
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) BBC CHORUS
ALAN HARVERSON
(harpsichord continuo) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 93, in D Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella

4: Models of the Cosmos by Dr Dennis Sciama
Did the universe begin with a cataclysmic explosion, or is it still being created now? Strange evidence is now enabling us to decide.
(Let There be a Universe, by Dr Dennis Sciama : Thursday,
9.10 pm)

Part 2 Haydn
Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 4
(Tickets, 11.25 reserved and 75p unreserved are available in advance from [address removed] and at the door tonight)

Spike Milligan talks to GEORGE MACBETH and reads some new poems
The programme also includes new poems by Fleur Adcock , Martin Booth
Thomas A. Clark , Lola Haskins Geoffrey Holloway , J. R. Howell John Ormond , Peter Redgrove and Albert Rowe
(Spike Milligan is the subject of A Walk in the Dark, a new series starting tomorrow at
8.30 pm, Radio 4)

Sonata. Op 1
RAINER KEUSCHING (piano)
(Recording from the 1971 Brno Festival made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio)

MUSICA RESERVATA director MICHAEL MORROW
JANTINA NOORMAN (meZZO-SOp)
GRAYSTON BURGESS (counter-tenor) EDGAR FLEET (tenor)
GEOFFREY SHAW (baritone) CATHERINE MACKINTOSH (treble viol)
CAROLYN SPAREY (tenor viol) JAMES TYLER
(lute, cittern and tenor viol) DAPHNE WEBB (baSS V4Ol)
ADAM SKEAPING (bass viol) ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute) conductor
JOHN BECKETT (harpsichord) Nicholson Sweet , they say
Byrd Who made thee, Hob, forsake the plough?
John Johnson Galliard and Dump anon; Adrianus Valerius Daphne anon Ah, silly poor Joas; Bonny sweet Robin; My sweet little darling; Browning: The leaves be green
Elway Bevin Browning : The leaves be green
William Inglot Browning : The leaves be green
William Cobbold New Fashions

Eighth of 17 piano recitals by VLADO PERLE MUTER
Polonaises: c sharp minor; E flat minor; F sharp minor