Weber Overture: Preclosa SPANISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
8.13* Chopin Polish songs: My sweetheart; The messenger STEFANIA WOYTOWICZ (soprano) WANDA KLIMOWICZ (piano)
Chopin Variations on Rossini's aria Non piu mesta
WLODZIMIERZ TOMASZCZUK (flute) BARBARA HESSE-BUKOWSKA (piano) Chopin Polish songs: The bridegroom; Drinking song ANDREJ BACHLEDA (tenor) WANDA KLIMOWICZ (piano)
8.28* Paganini Violin Concerto No 4, in D minor ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by piero BELLUGI

A record request programme Bizet Overture: Patrie (mono) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.19* Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
JOHN OGDON
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER
9.41* Bax Symphonic Poem: The Tale the Pine Trees knew GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON Handley

Mendelssohn and Oratorio by ALEC ROBERTSON
The British Music Information Centre by SAM HEPPNER
Opera Cavalcade: book review by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN herbage

JOSEF SUK (violin)
RADIO FRANKFURT SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by DEAN DIXON Part 1
Martinu Double Concerto, for two string orchestras, piano and timpani
Suk Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op 24

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.
Mother and Daughter: part 1 Elizabeth Maconchy (Part 2: 1.50 pm)

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 4. in B fiat major (Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Frankfurt)

Ian Mcintyre reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.

Nielsen Theme and Variations (1916): PETER WEIS (piano)
12.56* Holmboe String Quartet NO 4: COPENHAGEN QUARTET (gramophone record)
1.21* Nielsen Quintet (1922) STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC WIND QUINTET
(From a public concert given In St John's, Smith Square, London, in October 1971)

Mother and Daughter: part 2 Nicola Lefanu

Opera in two acts
Music by Beethoven
Libretto by JOSEF SONNLEITHNER and GEORG FRIEDRICH TREITSCHKE (sung in German: records)
' It must be something I can take up with sincerity and love' Beethoven once remarked, having dismissed a number of undistinguished opera plots. Fidelio, with its contrast between imprisonment and liberty, provided the material he needed to write a unique opera about justice and freedom. .....
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BöHM Act 1
3.15* Robert Simpson talks about the key system of Fidelio and its dramatic significance,
3.35* Fidelio, Act 2 (Martti Talvela on BBC2: next
Sunday evening)

A poem in the Lincolnshire dialect by ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Read by MARY WIMBUSH
Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON Tennyson's dialect poems, written 30 years after he had left his native Lincolnshire, are among his least known but most vigorous works,
(Postponed from 24 February)

Quintet in A minor, Op 84 ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Hugh Maguire (violin) David Roth (violin)
Patrick Ireland (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello) with JOHN OGDON (piano) gramophone record

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 9.50 am) followed by an interlude

(piano) Part 1
Bach Partita No 2 (bwv 828)
Chopin Sonata in B flat minor
6.30* Eric Sams talks about Schumann's piano music, and in particular about Carnaval.
6.50* pm Recital: part 2 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
Schumann Carnaval, Op 9 (Austrian Radio recording)

with Miriam Margolyes as Rowan and Henry Woolf as Sweeney FAY WEI. DON says of her first play for radio:
Producer Richard WORTLEY

A continuing series
PETER WALKER (baritone) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted bv BERNARD KEEFFE Part 1
Walton In Honour of the City of London
9.16* Delius In a summer garden
9 .30* The Byron Symphony
Alan Bush introduces his Third Symphony, written to a commission from East German Radio and first performed in Leipzig in 1962. S.40* Orpheus Britannicus
Part 2 Alan Bush Symphony No 3 (The Byron Symphony) (first broadcast performance in this country)
(Byron's Don Juan : Thurs,
11.25 pm)

Prizes and Safety Pins
In December 1972 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the German novelist and short-story writer.
JOYCE CRICK assesses his contribution to contemporary literature - with illustrations read by RICHARD BEBB followed by an interlude

Couperin Ordre No 5 played by Thurston Dart

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