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French Church Music
Charpentier Histoire sacree: La Peste de Milan
KATE HURNEY (soprano) LEO GOEKE (tenor)
SIDNEY JOHNSON (tenor) CHESTER WATSON (bass)
MUSICA AETERNA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by FREDERIC WALDMAN
Delalande Troisieme Caprice
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD Couperin Motet de Sainte Suzanne: JENNIFER VYVYAN (SOp) WILLIAM HERBERT (tenor) GEORGE JAMES (bass)
RALPH DOWNES (organ)
BORtS ORD (harpsichord), VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS gramophone records

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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests by tele-
Jack brymer , who at 9.45* introduces Bartok's Contrasts, for violin, clarinet and piano Listeners can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with their request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today, or by sending details on a postcard, with, their name, tele-phone number and reason for choice

Presented by Dominic Gill
' I couldn' help being moved, but don' tell the Wagnerites! ' (Wagner on Les Huguenots): CHARLES OSBORNE discusses the glory that was Meyerbeer
The East-West musical cross-roads: Music Weekly looks at Japanese music and speaks to TORU TAKEMITSU and STOMU YAMASH 'TA about traditional Japanese and Western influences on their music
GALINA VON MECK , great-niece of Tchaikovsky and granddaughter of his patroness Nadezhda von Meek, reminisces with JOHN WARRACK
Editor KEITH HORNER

ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader KENNETH SILLITO directed by Pinchas Zukerman PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) KENNETH SILLITO (Violin) JOSE-LUIS GARCIA (violin) JOHN TUNNELL (Violin) NEIL BLACK (Oboe)
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord) Part Bach
Concerto in c minor, for oboe, violin and string orchestra Violin Concerto in A minor
Concerto in D minor, for two violins and string orchestra

Marghanita Laski on some of the things we say and write
(Rptd: Wednesday. 11.35 am)

Violin Concerto in E flat major (La tempesta di mare)

Concerto in A minor, for two violins and string orchestra (L'estro armonico)

Concerto in F major, for three violins and string orchestra (R Op 23 No 1)

Concerto in B minor, for four violins and string orchestra (L'estro armonico)

(A 1972 Promenade Concert given in the Royal Albert Hall, London)
(Vivaldi's The Seasons can be heard in the Cardiff Midday Prom on Tuesday)

Debussy Images, Series 2 Ravel Gaspard de la nuit HANAE NAKAJIMA (piano)

An opera in three acts by Roberto Gerhard
Libretto by the composer, after SHERIDAN
For his only opera, completed in ]947 but never yet staged, Gerhard - Spanish by birth, English by adoption - appropriately chose an English play set in Spain; and though never a nationalistic composer, he here made use of elements of Spanish folk music to evoke the background to Sheridan's sparkling comedy.
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)
The action takes place in Seville in the 18th century. Act I
3.20* Sheridan's Duenna: Play into Opera
JOHN WARRACK considers the relationship between the original 18th-century comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and some of the operas that have been based on it.
3.35* The Duenna, Act 2

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

Act 3

A story written and read by BRIAN GLANVILLE

(organ)
A public recital given in Norwich Cathedral in March 1972 Part 1 Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in c minor (bwv 542); Trio-Sonata No 3, in D minor (BWV 527); Chorale Preludes: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (bwv 669); Christe, aller Welt Trost (bwv 670); Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (BWV 671): Prelude and Fugue in E flat (St Anne) (bwv 552)

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them
Eric Roseberry talks about today's musically educated person

Part 2
Liszt Variations on a theme of Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen,
Zagen Vierne Berceuse , Op 31 No 19; Scherzetto, Op 31 No 14
Duprf Variations on a Noel

by SUSAN HILL with Sean Barrett , Ian Richardson Jon Rollason and Terry Scully That's typical of the lot of you.... Why bother? What's the use? Give in, why don' we? What sort of men are you, for Cod's sake? If that's your attitude why don' we all go outside and lie face down in the snow and die? Why are we bothering at all? Have you asked yourselves that? '
Music by GEOFFREY BURGON Sung by KEVIN SMITH
Mouth organist ALFIE KAHN Producer GUY VAESEN
The second-rate is certainly as common on the air as anywhere else and the first-rate (the truly original, the truly experimental, the truly successful) as rare - though there was an example of it in Susan Hill's marvellous piece The
Cold Country ' (NEW STATESMAN) ... extraordinarily powerful and moving.... a formidable occasion for radio drama.
(THE TIMES)

THAMES CHAMBER CHOIR conductor LOUIS HALSEY ALAN HARVERSON (Organ) PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON leader WILLIAM ARMON conducted by NICHOLAS GOLDSCHMIDT
Deutsche Messe (D 872)
9.17* Lazarus: an unfinished religious drama (1820) (sung in German)

Third of seven programmes each containing a work by Mozart and a 19th-century composer
Mozart Trio in G major (K 496) Brahms Trio in c major, Op 87 PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)

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