Records of music by English composers, including Arnold, Delius, Elgar and Grainger

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library - Haydn's Symphony No 96: STEPHEN WALSH News from the recording studios: MICHAEL BERKELEY
Recent records of chamber, instrumental music and songs: JOHN WARRACK

A programme of new records
Debussy Suite: Children's Corner: PETER FRANKL (piano)
10.32* Malcolm Williamson Song-cycle: From a child's garden: APRIL CANTELO (sop) THE COMPOSER (piano)
10.51* Schumann Carnaval, Op 9 WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)

A series drawing on the treasury of music for one and two performers for the first time features the cello
ZARA NELSOVA with ERNEST LUSH (piano) Poulenc Cello Sonata Brahms Sonata in F
(11 May: Zara Nelsova with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from Paris)

yossi ZIVONI (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by URI SEGAL Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
12.28* Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No 5, in A minor
12.48* Ravel Tzigane, for violin and orchestra

with JOHN AMIS

Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 8

A profile of the English oboist who this year celebrates his 75th birthday. JOHN WARRACK presents several of Goossens's gramophone recordings including the Mozart Oboe Quartet, movements from Bach, a historic Bach recording from 1927 With ELISABETH SCHUMANN, and part of the Strauss Concerto.

of two composers and a performer who feature prominently in the week's broadcasting
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6, in B flat major
NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conductor ROELOF KROL
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio) (Monday Lunchtime Concert-Bach Suite in B minor: see also This Week's Composer)
Faur6 Song-cycle: Le jardin ClOS: SHEILA ARMSTRONG (SOp) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in g major
ANDRE WATTS. HUNGARIAN STATL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MIKLOS ERDÉLYI
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)
(Tuesday evening: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, and Sheila Armstrong in McCabe's song-cycle: Notturni ed Alba)

THE WILBYE CONSORT
Introduced and directed by PETER PEARS

Introduced by PETER CLAYTON

Although Dorothy L. Sayers has been dead for nearly 15 years, her great detective creation is very much alive and has conquered the television screen with the ever-faithful Bunter and Parker in his wake. JANET HITCHMAN has written a portrait of the aristocratic detective with scenes and extracts from the books and stories in which he appears.
Hugh Burden plays the part of Lord Peter Wimsey withProducer
ROBERT CRADOCK

Serenade In E minor, for string orchestra
SINFONlA OF LONDON conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone record

Podvig, originally published in Russian in 1932. has just appeared in English translation for the first time.
JOHN SPURLING reviews the novel and introduces extracts from a recent interview with VLADIMIR NABOKOV

An opera in three acts by Roberto Gerhard
Libretto by the composer after SHERIDAN
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Repetiteurs HAROLD LESTER , ROGER VIGNOLES and JOHN CONSTABLE Producers VERONICA SLATER and LIONEL SALTER
Edition prepared by ALAN BOUSTEAD
(David Atherton and Joseph Rouleau broadcast by permission of Covent Garden) Act 1
8.25* Gerhard and The Duenna ATES ORGA, who has recently edited for publication a selection of Roberto Gerhard 's essays on music, discusses the Catalan composer and his music and considers in particular his opera The Duenna.
8.45* The Duenna. Act 2

Reflections on current affairs
Mary Warnock gives the last of four talks

Act 3

Theatre
Presented by BRYAN MAGEE
Since the first World Theatre season in 1964 London has seen the work of nearly 50 theatre companies from all over the world. During the current season at the Aldwych there have already been productions from South Africa, Spain and Greece MICHAEL BILLINGTON and HAROLD HOBSON discuss the value of such visits for the British theatre.
From New York OLEG KERENSKY considers the American theatre on and off Broadway.
There is also discussion about other new productions in London. including The Londoners which brings Joan Littlewood back to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 537)
Schumann Davidsbiindlertanze WALTER KLIEN (piano)