A programme of recent records, including Mozart's Piano Quartet No 1, in G minor (K 478), and music by Handel, Josquin des Prés and Johann Strauss

Vivaldi Sinfonia in G major SLOVAK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BOHDAN WARCHAL
Bach Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel
Bekummernis EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records

A record request programme
Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale
ROY D'ANTONIO (clarinet) DON CHRISTLIEB (bassoon) CHARLES BRADY (cornet)
ROBERT MARSTELLER (trombone) WILLIAM KRAFT (percussion) ISRAEL BAKER (Violin)
Richard KELLEY (double-bass) conducted by THE COMPOSER Bach Suite No 1, in c
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Stravinsky Four Norwegian Moods:
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH

Record Review, contributed by ALAN BLYTH , STEPHEN DODGSON and JOHN WARRACK
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRIE MOORE conductor LOUIS FRÉMAUX Part 1
Giovanni Gabriell Four Canzoni for brass
Rameau Suite: Les Indes galantes
12.35* During the Interval
Stravinsky: The Violence and the Message
DAVID cox discusses the continuing impact and importance of The Rite of Spring.
12:50* Concert: part 2
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Thirteenth of 17 piano recitals by VLADO PERLEMUTER Fantaisie in F minor
Nocturnes: G minor, Op 15 No 3; c sharp minor, Op posth Waltzes: E minor, Op posth; A flat, Op 42: D flat, Op 70 No 3; a minor, Op 34 No 2; A flat, Op 64 No 3; D flat, Op 64 No 1

First of three programmes in which Jerrold N. Moore introduces recently reissued records of Elgar conducting his own works. He begins with the Enigma Variations, and sketches a picture of Elgar the conductor based on recollections and impressions of musicians who performed under him.
The record of the Variations, which follows, was made in 1926 with Elgar conducting the ROYAL ALBERT HALL ORCHESTRA.

(The double-bass)
Grotesque opera in one act
Libretto, after CHEKHOV, by MARIO MATTOLINI and MAURO PEZZATI Music by Valentino Bucchi (sung in Italian)
MILAN CHORUS and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master ROBERTO BENAGLIO conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI (Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio)

With ANTONY HOPKINS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)

Gerald English (tenor), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Part 1
Beethoven: Song-cycle "An die ferne Geliebte"
Beethoven: Sonata in F major, Op 17, for horn and piano
Debussy: Proses lyriques "De reve"; "De greve"; "De fleurs"; "De soir"

5.23 "On Setting Baudelaire": Humphrey Searle talks about his new work.

5.40* Bath Festival: part 2
Searle: "Les fleurs du mal", for tenor, horn and piano (first performance)
Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
Britten: Canticle III: "Still falls the rain", for tenor, horn, piano

(Recorded from the Assembly Rooms, Bath, on 27 May)

14 million Chinese live in South-East Asia outside China. What is their future role and to whom are they loyal? These are among questions discussed by PROFESSORS WANG GUNGWU and STUART SIMMONDS.

Ballet: Apollo
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Recording from the 1972 Salzburg Easter Festival made available by Austrian Radio)

being part of a comedy written by SIR JOHN VANHRUGH. with an ending by COLLEY CIBBER , taken from his comedy
The Provok'd Husband (1728)
Arranged for stereo and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES Music by STEPHEN DODGSON developed from two songs by HENRY CARRY as used in The Provok'd Husband with Barbara Jefford , Charles Gray Robert Eddison , Gerald Cross Scene: London. 1726
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by RAE JENKINS
(Susan Edmonstone is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Overture and Suite in G (z 770) LEONHARDT CONSORT gramophone record

Four conversations in which CHRISTOPHER EVANS asks why certain fundamental ideas persist in science fiction, and what is their significance. 3: Alien Life-forms
Dr Evans and DR C. M. h. PEDLER talking about life and intelligence in other systems,

Before the performance JACK BRYMER will pay a brief tribute to Bernard Walton , who died recently
Quintet in B minor. Op 115 MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Bernard Walton (clarinet) Hugh Bean (violin)
Frances Mason (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Eileen Croxford (cello)

Tonight, especially for entomologists. music about spiders and dromedaries, goats and ants. And for horticulturists' and farmers, extracts from catalogues selling flower-seeds and agricultural machinery.
The music is by Roussel, Milhaud. Poulenc, Honegger, Stravinsky and Jean Francaix and the performers are: NIGEL WICKENS (baritone) With the NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH RUTH DYSON (harpsichord) and on gramophone records:
STRAVINSKY conducting MEMBERS
OF THE CBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERNEST ANSERMET conducting tne SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA

RS VHF Stereo transmitters join Radio 2 until 1.0 am