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Haydn Symphony No 27, In G major: PHILIIARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
C. P. E. Bach Trio in F major, for bass recorder, viola and continuo
HANS-MARTIN LINDE (recorder) EMIL SEILER (viola)
RUDOLF ZARTNER (harpsichord) KLAUS STORCK (cello)
Haydn Symphony No 31, in » major (Horn Signal)
PHII.HARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

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Neville Marriner presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller is Eleanor Bron , who at 10.0* discusses her choice: scenes from the opera Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok.
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or send details on a postcard.

Introduced by Stephen Walsh
' I would rather submit to the tortures of a thousand hells than be guilty of playing antiquarian Mozart.' RALPH KIRK PATRICK considers the dubious musical results when performing on reconstructed early pianos. ' On no early piano of my acquaintance is it possible to make a programme for a genuinely musical performance.' The Symphony: how is it viewed by the present-day composer? Music Weekly investigates.
A weekly digest of music news Producer KEITH HORNER

conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
With THOMAS BRANDIS (violin) Part 1 Vivaldi The Seasons

Christopher Serpell reflects on some of the things we say. (Repeated: Thurs, 12.5 pm)
(The word is Europe: Radio 4,
10.15 pm)

Part 2
Strauss Symphonia domestiea, Op 53
(Recording made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio)

International Rounds 3: Equal Voice Choirs Yugoslavia:
ACADEMIC CHAMBER CHOIR COL
LEGIUM MUSICUM
United Kingdom:
FELLING MALE VOICE CHOIR Ireland:
CITY OF CORK MALE VOICE CHOIR USA:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB Adjudicators:
DR SIEGFRIED GOSLICH (Bavarian Radio), GEOFFREY NEWSON (NZBC), ANDRAS SEBESTYEN (Hungarian Radio), NIKI VASKOLA (Finnish Radio), MANUS WILLEMSEN (Netherlands Radio), ALLEN PERCIVAL (for the BBC)
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS (Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

SMETANA STRING QUARTET Part 1
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Janacek Quartet No 1

Konstantin Bazarov talks about the musicality (or otherwise) of ballet music

Part 2 Schubert
Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)
(Presented by Malvern Concert Club at Malvern Girls' College last February)

A study of James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915 written and introduced by PATRIC DICKINSON with and the voices of HILDA SCHRODER, HAYDN JONES
NIGEL ANTHONY. JAMES THOMASON and DENYS HAWTHORNE also taking part
John Sherwood , the poet's nephew
0 friend unseen, unborn, unknown
Student of our sweet English tongue
Read out my words, at night, alone:
I was a poet, 1 was uoung. Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
John Sherwood 's biography of the poet. No Golden Journey, is published tomorrow.

Sapho (1909 version) An opera in five acts
Libretto, after ALPHONSE DAUDET , by HENRI CAIN and BERNEDE Music by Massenet (sung in French)
(first broadcast performance in this country)
Jean is torn between Fanny, known as ' Sapho ' because she once posed for a famous nude statue of that name, and Irene, the orphaned cousin who was his childhood companion.
BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS ACADEMY OF THE BBC concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE Producer .JULIAN BUDDEN
Repetiteur NORMAN FEASEY
Acts 1, 2 and 3 5.45* pm Bernard Keeffe talks about the opera's origin and background.
6.0* The French Opera Sapho, Acts 4 and 5

plays Mozart's Suite in the style of Handel (K 399) and Fantasia and Fugue (K 394)
The instrument used has not been copied from a specific model, but rather combines features from English and Viennese pianos of the late 18th century. gramophone record

by MOLlÈRE died 17 February 1673 translated by JOHN EDMUNDS with ' Marriage is not a trifle, my dear Agnes,
The role of wife imposes solemn duties,
And you shall not assume it to indulge in Permissiveness, and to enjoy yojiself.'
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING. followed by an interlude

First of six programmes, each showing him at work in various media
Sonata in D minor, Op 60
WOLFGANG STOCKMEIER (organ Of St Paul's Church, Furth)
(Recording made available by Bavarian Radio)
String Quartet in A major, Op 54 No 2
ALLEGRI QUARTET Totenfeier, Op 145a GtRTi ZEUMER (soprano) JULIA HAMARI (contralto) WERNER HOLLWEG (tenor) PETER MEVEN (baSS) GÄCHINGEN KANTOREI
CHOIR OF GEDACHTNISKIRCHE.
STUTTGART
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HELMUTH RILLING (Recording made available by South German Radio)

1892-1973
A selection of his poems, chosen and produced by TERENCE TILLER Readers:
GRETTA GOURIET , DAVID DAVIS and DAVID LLOYD JAMES
(Shortened version of the programme broadcast on 3 June)

(baritone) with DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Part 1 Wolf Morike Lieder
Der Tambour: Heimweh; Auf einer Wanderung: Nimmersatte Liebe; Lebewohl; Verborgenheit: Auf ein altes Bild; Karwoche; Seufzer; Denk' es, o Seele! ; Der Feuerreiter
11.10* Reading
11.15' Benjamin Luxon Part 2 Schumann
Song-cycle: Dichterliebe
(A recital given last February before an invited audience at the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham)

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