Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

A programme of recent records Purcell Symphony (The Fairy Queen)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.13* J. S. Bach Concerto in the Italian style
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
8.26* Durufle Four Motets on Gregorian themes
STEPHANE CAILLAT CHOIR conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.29' J. C. Bach Sonata In E flat. Op 5 No 4
INGRID HAEBLER (fortepiano)
8.44* Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme- by Thomas Tallis : PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY

Bach Cantata No 67
MARGA HOFFGEN (contralto) HELMUT KREBS (tenor)
FRANZ KELCH (bass), HEILBRONN HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHORUS
PFORZHEIM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ WERNER
Telemann Concerto in A, for two oboes d'amore and string orchestra
ROLF-JULIUS KOCH, GUNTHER PASSIN COLOGNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HELMUT MULLER-BRUHL Bach Cantata No 104 RICHARD LEWIS (tenor) HEINZ REHFUSS (baSS)
BACH CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF AMSTERDAM PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY conducted by ANDRÉ VANDERNOOT gramophone records

A record request programme
Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano, from Mozart's Don Giovanni
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAV SKROWACZEWSKI
Dvorak Symphony No 6, in D LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ

Leopold Stokowski (born 18 April 1882): by HANS KELLER
The London Bach Society: by HENRY RAYNOR
Delius: book review by STEPHEN WALSH
The Symphonies of Shostakovich: by JEREMY NOBLE
Edited by ANNA IN STONE and JULIAN HERBAGE

First performance of Symphony No 15 by Dmitri Shostakovich SOVIET RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH at a concert in the Moscow Conservatoire of Music on 8 January
(Soviet Radio recording)

A piano recital given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. on 17 October 1971 Part 1 Schubert
Sonata in A minor (d 845)
1.17* Two Scherzos (d 593): a flat; D flat
1.30* During the Interval
HANS GÁL reflects on Schubert and his contemporaries.
1.50* Radu Lupu : part 2
Schubert Sonata in B flat (D 960) (NextSun: Andre Tchaikowsky )

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader FELIX KOK conductor LOUIS FRÉMAUX Part 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
3.30* During the Interval
Can the French write symphonies' DAVID cox answers a question which is often thought and never asked.
3.50* Concert: part 2
Mozart Serenade No 6, in a (Serenata notturna) (K 239) Roussel Symphony No 3

by ANTONY HOPKINS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)

(or Marriage in a Monastery) An opera in four acts by Prokfiev. Libretto by THE
COMPOSER and MIRA MENDELSSOHN (sung in Russian)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE USSR STATE ACADEMIC STANISLAVSKY AND NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO MUSICAL
THEATRE conducted by KEMAL ABDULAYEV
(Recording made available by courtesy of Soviet Radio)
Seville in the 18th century. Acts 1 and 2 6.25* Sheridan's Duenna: Play into Opera
JOHN WARRACK considers the relationship between the original 18th-century comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and some of the operas that have been based on it.
(Roberto Gerhard's The Duenna will be broadcast on 29 April)
C.45* The Duenna Acts 3 and 4

A play for radio by Frederick Bradnum
with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Charlotte, Simon Lack as Nolan, Felix Felton as Bolan

Poor Charlotte, by yourself, alone in the house, nobody to love you, nobody to care.... they are trying to get in... they will force an entry and nobody will stop them...
(Stereo)
[Repeat]

A fortnightly series
LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
G minor (Kk 121); c (Kk 117); F (Kk 296); F (Kk 297); b flat (Kk 550); B flat (Kk 551); D minor (Kk 120)

STUART HAMPSHIRE, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, talks to LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI and CHARLES TAYLOR
Leszek Kolakowski , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was the leading political and moral philosopher of Poland until expelled in 1968 Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University (The discussion was recorded in Cyprus during the Zeno Symposium. an international philosophical conference held in Nicosia last September)

Bilder aus der ' Kriegsfibel (first broadcast in this country) EDITH GRUBER (soprano) EDITH HOLZER (contralto)
MARTIN KLIETMANN (tenor) GÜNTHER LEIB (baritone)
MEN'S VOICES OF GRAZ ACADEMY CHOIR: GRAZ PRO ARTE ENSEMBLE conducted by KARL ERNST HOFFMANN
(Recording from the 1971 Musikprotokoll made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

A sequence of records of short pieces for late-night listening. The titles will be given at the end of the programme.