Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER

7.18* Liszt Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Tunes: JOHN OGDON (piano). PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN Pritchard

7.34* Mahler Lob des hohen Verstandes (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL

7.37' Wolf-Ferrari Serenade in E flat, for string orchestra I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SIMONE

(gramophone records)

Purcell Suite for string orchestra: Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge: HARTFORD
SYMPHONY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ MAHLER
8.18* J. C. Smith Sigh no more, ladies: APRIL CANTELO (soprano) RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
8.23* Handel Suite (Serse) Richard LEWIS (tenor)
VALDA AVELING (harpsichord)
HALLE ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.41* Britten Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

W. F. Bach Sinfonia in F
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD C. P. E. Bach Sonata in G minor iWq 135)
MICHEL PIGUET (oboe)
HANSJURG LANGE (bassoon) LIONEL ROGG (harpsichord)
J. C. Bach Symphony in D major, Op 3 No 1: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Ballet Suite No 1
NETHERLANDS RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by HUBERT SOUDANT
(Netherlands Radio recording)

Ivor Gurney Desire in spring Warlock Sleep; Sweet content Howells King David Haydn String Quartet, Op 103
(Unfinished)
Hugo Distlcr Four Motets
Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op 50 No 4
Wolf Der Gartner: Lied vom Winde; Schlafendes Jesuskind
DOREEN CRYER (mezzo-soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET NETHERLANDS RADIO CHORUS conducted by MEINDERT BOEKEL (Netherlands Radio recording)

Verklarte Nacht , Op f, for string orchestra: RADIO
FRANKFURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK MACAL
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Frankfurt)

A recital of early German songs
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON

A personal choice of records presented by James Blades who reminisces with the assistance of music by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky. Handel, Auber, Britten and Schubert Part 1

Part 2

The sixth of 13 programmes HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
MARJORIE BIGGAR (MEZZO-SOP) GEORGE MALCOLM (piano) J. C. Bach
Sonata in D major, Op 5 No 2 Canzonets, Op 4
Sonata in c minor, Op 5 No 6 Canzonets, Op 6
Sonata in B flat, Op 17 No 6

An occasional series In which composers talk about music criticism - its effect on them, and the changes they'd like to see in the critic's role.
Today Lennox Berkeley
(21 August: Alun Hoddinott )

Quartet No 2
AMICI STRING QUARTET

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 34, in c (K 338)
4.8' David Ellis Concert Music for string orchestra (first performance)
4.30* Composing and Decomposing: DAVID ELLIS suggests that the one does not take place without the other.
4.40* Concert: part 2
Brahms Symphony No 2, in D followed by an interlude

THE CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE (by permission of the Air Defence Board of the Defence Councili conductor WING-COMMANDER R. E. C. DAVIES
Organising Director of Music
Music by Clare Grundman , G. U. Lazarus and Gordon Jacob
6.0 Stock Market Report; Programme News

A sequence for the early evening played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by Richard ARMSTRONG BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN CAREWE with artists on records

6.30 Perspective 17: Sex in Disguise. BUNTY JAMESinvestigates the tradition and art of female impersonation in popular entertainment,
7.0 The Arab Heritage
4: The Classical Arab Arts
PROFESSOR JOHN CARSWELL. of the American University of Beirut on art and architecture, and DR PIERRE cachia of Edinburgh University on literature.

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Joseph Kalichstein (piano) Elly Ameling (soprano) Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) Stafford Dean (bass) Monteverdi Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

Schubert Huntsmen's Chorus, for men's voices and orchestra (Rosamunde); Standchen, for mezzo-soprano, men's voices and piano; Nachthelle, for tenor men's voices and piano; Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, for men's voices and string orchestra
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4

(This Week's Proms: page 11)

by GRACE WYNDHAM GOLDIE , former Head of Talks and Current Affairs, BBCtv
A review of The Making of a Television Series by Philip Elliott. a sociologist's study of the process of producing an ATV documentary series The Nature of Prejudice.

Part 2 Haydn Mass in B flat major (Harmoniemesse) followed by an interlude

direct from the Round House London _
JANE MANNING (soprano) MARY THOMAS (soprano) Mark FURNEAUX (mime) HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
SCHOLA CANTORUM , STUTTGART musical director
Cl.YTtS GOTTWALD
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor Pierre Boulez Part 1 Maxwell Davies Blind Mans Buff

George Steiner's second report on the chess contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik.

Boulez e e cummings ist der Dichter

Holliger Siebengesang, for oboe, voices and orchestra

Romance in F. Op 118 No 5
Intermezzo in E flat minor. Op 118 No 6: julius KATCHEN (piano) gramophone record