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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Sonata in B flat major (K 570) MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
Quartet in G major (K 387) GUARNERI STRING QUARTET
(Part of a concert broadcast in January 1968 from the Queen Elizabeth Hall )

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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller is Rey Henderson , who at 10.0* will be introducing Delius's Sea Drift, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM.
You can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or by sending details on a postcard, with your name, telephone number, and reason for choice

Introduced by Dominic Gill
STEUART BEDFORD and COLIN GRAHAM talk to NOEL GOOOWIN about Tchaikovsky's opera Yolande, which is broadcast direct from Sadler's Wells Theatre on Friday.
ERIC WALTER WHITE reviews a book on 18th-century English theatre music.
WITOLD ROWICKI, Poland's best known and most distinguished conductor, describes musical life in Poland.
Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER

conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Mahler Symphony No 5
(West Berlin Radio recording)

Christopher Serpell reflects on some of the things we say.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.30 am)

International Rounds 7: Mixed Voice Choirs
Israel: HAKIBUTZ HAMEUHAD CHOIR Canada:
VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR Sweden:
AKADEMISKA KOHEN, STOCKHOLM Yugoslavia:
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CHOIR ' TONE TOMSIC '
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

A fortnightly series
Gillian Weir (harpsichord)

Ariane et Barbe-Bleue An opera in three acts
Text by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Music by Paul Dukas (sung in French)
Crowd of peasants
OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF FRENCH RADIO chorus-master RENt ALIX conducted byTONY aubin
(French Radio recording)
Act 1 A large hall in Blue-beard's castle
2.45* George Steiner , whose 1970 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures were published as In Bluebeard's Castle, discusses some of the meanings and interpretations of the Blue-beard legend In music and literature.
3.5* The French Opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
Act 2 A subterranean hall in the castle
Act 3 A large hall in Blue-beard's castle

on tour in Scandinavia and Germany
Conducted by EDUARDO MATA ALFREDA HODGSON (Contralto) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor)
A concert given in the Rheinhalle, Diisseldorf, on 27 Sept Part 1 Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

Thomas S. Szasz. Professor of Psychiatry at the Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in Syracuse, suggests that ' suicide should be considered a basic human right.' 4

Part 2 Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. Producer DAVID EPPS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)

Dance Rhapsody No 2
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM : record

A comedy of Jacobean London by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston and Peter Barnes
with Joe Melia, Norman Rodway, Dilys Laye and Cyril Shaps
with music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen

Peter Barnes, a contemporary Londoner and playwright, is the fourth co-author of this old play which was the fruit of collaboration between three Jacobean dramatists. He regards himself as their fellow craftsman and collaborator, rather than the adapter of the play for radio.

Busoni Berceuse élégiaque, Op 42
Franz Schreker Chamber Symphony in one movement
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1. in e, Op 9 DIE REIHE ENSEMBLE conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA (Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

In recent years neglect of the best new French poetry has been extensive and profound in England. Last March at the ICA in London. SERGE FAUCHEREAU presented three French poets who are in his view among the best now writing - ANORt FRENAUD, MICHEL DEGUY and MATTHIEU BÉNÉZET.
In tonight's programme. M Fauchereau introduces and reads with them some of their own work in the original French. with English translations by KEITH BOSLEY , ANTHONY RUDOLPH and JOHN MONTAGUE , introduced by GEORGE MACBETH.

A series of programmes of madrigals by Monteverdi, with instrumental music by other Italian composers
Interrotte speranze; Tempro la cetra: Non havea Febo ancora; 0 dolce anima mia; Stracciami pur il core; 0 rossignuol
Keyboard music by A. Gabrieli and Frescobaldi gramophone records

A series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s
Piano Sonata in 0 (h xvi 42)
Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26) Variations in F minor (H XVII 6) PETER WALL.FISCH (piano) OROMONTE PIANO TRIO Perry Hart (violin)
Kenneth Heath (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)

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