Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Sonata in E flat (K 282)
Rondo in A minor (K 511) ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
Quartet in a flat (The Hunt) (K 458): AMADEUS STRING QUARTET (Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in March 1972)

Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them, by telephone, the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller is Norbtrt Brainin , who at 10.01 introduces a record of his choice

Big Ben
Two Minutes' Silence
The Last Post
(The whole ceremony on R4, 10.35)

Introduced by Dominic Gill
SENA JURINAC talks to EDWARD GREENFIELD about Gluck's Iphigénie. en Tauride, which is to be relayed from Covent Garden next Saturday.
JOHN REED discusses Schubert's last year.
THE GABRIELI QUARTET in profile. Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER gramophone records

conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN SmetanaSymphonic Poems: Ma vlast
(From the International Prague Spring Festival. Recording by Czechoslovak Radio)

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

International Rounds
10: Youth Class: Semi-Final 1 New Zealand: AUCKLAND UNIVERsity choir; Norway: SANOEFJORD JENTEKOR GIRLS' CHOIR
Mixed Voice Class: Semi-Final 1 Canada: VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR; Finland: SEKAKUORO kaiku Introduced by DAVID wiixcocks Producer ANTHONY philpott
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

played by JOHN ogdon (piano)
A flat major, Op 110; B flat major, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)

Dialogues des Carmelites Opera in three acts Music by Poulenc
Libretto by GEORGES bernanos (sung in French)
(gramophone records)
Set in France during the Revolution the story, based on fact, centres round the nuns of the community of Compiegne. Having defied a decree of expulsion, they accept the only alternative - the vow of martyrdom.
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE THEATRE DE L'OPERA conducted by pierre DERVAUX Act 1
4.0* Monastic Life In Revolution: a talk by MARTIN COOPER
4.15* The French Opera: Dialogues des Carmeiites Acts 2 and 3 (A portrait of Poulenc on BBC2 tonight at 9.5)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Producer DAVID EPPS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.55 am) followed by an interlude

In a shortened form of this year's Hardy Birthday Lecture, Geoffrey Grigson talks of the bitterness towards life in Hardy's poems:
I never cared for Life: Life cared for me
And hence 1 owed U some fidelity.
Producer PAMELA howi (from Bristol)

Song-cycle: A young man's exhortation
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
ROGER vignoles (piano)

A play for radio from the novel by MURIEL SPARK
with Michael Hordern as Lister the butler
Script and production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Music by TRISTRAM CARY
The wages of sin are death and cash for the servants ... When Baron and Baroness Klopstock and Victor, their secretary, die in a suicide pact, Lister the butler leads the servants to capitalise on the deaths. Staff:
With JADER OLIVEIRA and PERCY EDWARDS
(Michael Hordern is a National Theatre player)

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS Conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Dvorak Overture: Amid nature
9.16. Bruckner Symphony No 2, in c minor (original version)

Last in a series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s Part 1
Trio in E flat minor (H xv 31) Sonata in c major (H xvi 50)
10 50* Stephen Plalstow talks about the music the series has included in relation to Haydn's other works of the period, and in particular about the piano trios,
11.10* Haydn: part
Sonata in E flat (H XVI 52) Trio in flat (H xv 29)
MAI.COLM binns (on a Broad-wood piano of 1804) OROMONTE PIANO TRIO

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