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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Mozart Sonata in F (K 280)
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano) Mozart Quartet in D m 575) GtlARNERI STRING QUARTET
(Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1968)

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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests and at
10.0* talks to today's special guest Elizabeth Harwood
Also in today's programme:
Haydn Symphony No 51, in flat
Rachmaninov playing some of his own Preludes
Dan Godfrey conducting the BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA Hindemith Kleine Kammer musik: CZECH WIND QUINTET
Bernard Herrmann Suite: Welles Raises Kane
Written requests, with reasons for choice, to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
(Elizabeth Harwood sings In Messiah: Wed, 9.25 pm, BBC1)

Introduced by Dominic Gill
Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa: book review by JEREMY NOBLE
Liszt's symphonic poems: discussed by HUGH MACDONALD
Carl Orff : by RONALDCRICHTON Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER

Siegfried
A music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German) After forging the sword Nothung and overcoming fearful dangers, Siegfried awakens Briinnhilde and claims her as his bride.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN
(Bavarian Radio recording) Act 1

Ian Grimble reflects on some of the things we say and write. (Repeated: Tuesday, 11.25 am)

La fauvette des jardins - Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Introduced by The Composer

(Part of an English Bach Festival concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 April)

Siegfried, Act 2

between David Hume and Baron d'Holbach by MAURICE CRANSTON withIn the latest of his Political Dialogues Maurice Cranston imagines a conversation in Paris in 1765, while David Hume was Charge d'Affaires at the British Embassy; among his friends was the wealthy Baron d'Holbach, the German Philosopher who lived in aris.
Producer DOUGLAS CLEVERDON

Siegfried, Act 3
(Gotterdammerung: 23 Dee)

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

ZARA NELSOVA (cello)
GRANT JOHANNESEN (piano)
Variations on Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
(Recording from this year's Bergen Festival made available by Norwegian Radio)

(violin)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 (Recording made available by courtesy of RIAS, Berlin)

Flight
A play in eight dreams by MIKHAIL BULGAKOV translated from the Russian by MICHAEL GLENNY with John Bennett
Peter Woodthorpe , Gary Bond Judy Cornwell , Bryan Pringle and Jane Wenham
This is a play based on events that occurred in the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent plight of certain Russian emigres.
Time: October 1920 to Autumn 1921. Place: Russia, Constantinople and Paris.
Accordionist GERALD CROSSMAN Adapted and produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

The fourth of five programmes to mark the 350th anniversary of his death.
LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS
DAVID LUMSDEN (organ) conductor louis HALSEY

Conversations in four programmes about the current relevance of the arts to politics. Presented by Frank Kermode 2: Art and the Establishment Angus Wilson
E. L. Doctorow , author of The Book of Daniel
Peter Maxwell Davies
Norman Podhoretz , Editor of Commentary (New York) Karl Miller
ProducerRICHARD KEEN

A harpsichord recital recorded at St John's. Smith Square, London, on 22 March anon My ladye Careys dompe Cabezon Variations on the Knight's plainchant
Scarlatti Four Sonatas: r major (Kk 205): e major (Kk 380; E major (Kk 381); A minor (Kk 175)
Mozart Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman (K 265)
Bach Partita No 4, in D major

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