French Church Music
Couperin Motet for Easter Sunday: NADINE SAUTEREAU (soprano) JEANNINE COLLARD (contralto) NOELIE PIERRONT (organ)
Delalande Caprice de Villiers-
Cotterets MAURICE ANDRE (trumpet)
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, directed by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
Charpentier Te Deum : SOI.OISTS CHOIR OF THE JEUNESSES MUSICALES
DE FRANCE, JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD gramophone records

Humphrey Burton presents listeners' record requests by telephone
This week's guest:
Dame Eva Turner , who talks about Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Ruslicana, and in particular the Easter Hymn
Listeners can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with their requests between 8.0 am and 10.30 today, or by sending details on a post-card, with their name and telephone number

A magazine programme presented by Dominic Gill including
GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE talking to CARL DOLMETSCH and DAVID MUN Row about the growth of the early music business
GILLIAN WEIR at the organ of the Royal Festival Hall talking about Messiaen Editor KEITH HORNER

leader BARRY WILDE conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER ALAN LOVEDAY (violin) BARRY WILDE (violin)
JANA FRENKLOVA (piano)
COLIN TILNEY (harpsichord)
Part 1
Vaughan Williams The lark ascending, for violin and orchestra (soloist Alan Loveday ) Wilfred Josephs Piano Concerto No 2 (first broadcast perf)
12.25' Pastorals by ALEXANDER POPE
Passages from his four ' seasonal' poems, first published in 1709, arranged and introduced by TERENCE TILLER Readers GODFREY KENTON and ROBIN BROWNE
12.35* Concert: part 2
Vivaldi The Seasons, for violin, string orchestra and continuo (soloist Barry Wilde )
(1972 Westminster Festival concert at St John's, Smith Square)

with Marghanita Laski

(piano)
Schubert Moments musicaux

Opera seria in three acts Libretto by NICOLA HAYM Music by Handel (sung in Italian)
When Handel wrote Tamerlano in 1724 he was at the height of his power, both as one of music's supreme melodists and as a master of dramatic expression. Bajazet's death scene in Act 3 is only one of the memorable events in this little known masterpiece.
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA Continuo:
JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) KENNETH HEATH (Cello)
ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass) conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS Producer JULIAN BUDDEN
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of Covent Garden) Act 1

Asa Briggs, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History at the University of Sussex, reflects on the changing role of the British Library of Political and Economic Science. ‡

Act 3

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 10.0 am)

Third of four programmes
Ian Partridge (tenor) Jennifer Partridge (piano) Aeolian String Quartet

Schubert Im Fruhling; Die Liebe hat gelogen; An mein Herz
Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, Op 71 No 3
Schubert Die gefangenen Sanger; Der Sterne (Wie blitzen die Sterne); An den Mond (Geuss, lieber Mond); Bei dir allein
Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op 74 No 1

Rudkin's Dream
A new play for radio by DON TAYLOR with Sheila Allen , Freda Dowie
Marius Goring. Haydn Jones
' Of course you have something to confess, or you wouldn'be here. Do you think we make mistakes? I don'know what it is yet, and perhaps you don'either, or pretend you don't. But we'll find out. I'll find out. That's what I'm here for.'
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN

A continuing series of programmes of British music RONALD MORRISON (baritone) SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA AND SNO CHORUS leader SAM BOR conductor ALEXANDER GIBSON
Iain Hamilton The Bermudas
9.30* Thea Musgrave Concerto for Orchestra (mono)
9.53' Douglas Young Departure

A short story by Nelson Graham read by Cyril Shaps

followed by an interlude

The second in a series including all of Mozart's mature works in this medium PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)
Mozart Trio in D minor (K 442) Schubert Trio in B flat (D 898)