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Schumann Liederkreis. Op 24 JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone; MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Brahms Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No 1
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET

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Denis Matthews introduces listeners' record requests, and at 10.0* talks to this week's special guest Janet Craxton about her choice of music, Serenade BEA by Jean Francaix (mono)
Also in today's programme:
5.5* Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
9.10* Beethoven Piano Sonata. in e. Op 109: MYRA HESS (mono)
9.35* Sibelius Symphony No 7, in c (mono): BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY
9.55* and 10.25* French chansons
10.32* Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat: ERIC PARKIN
LONDON PHII.HARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Written requests, with reasons for choice. to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Introduced by Dominic Gill
Franck and his circle, discussed by LAURENCE DAVIES.
The Melos Quartet of Stuttgart talking to BERNARD KEEFFE.
Some thoughts on master classes from PIERRE BERNAC and PAUL TORTELIER.
Producer KEITH HORNER

conducted by KARL BÕHM with HUBERT JELINEK (harp) HANS ANDREAE (harpsichord) RUDOLF AM BACH (piano) Part 1
Mozart Serenade in D major (Serenata notturna) (K 239)
Martin Petite sympnonie icncertante

Harmonic Upbeats
Eric Roseberry talks about upbeats in general and, in particular, the opening of the Eroica's finale.

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)
(Recording from the 1973 Lucerne Music Weeks made available by Swiss Radio)

Ian Grimble reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 12.5 pm)

(piano)
Mozart Sonata in G major (K 283)
Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op 116
Hugo Kauder Toccata (first broadcast performance in this country)
Chopin Ballade in A flat

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

Miracle in three acts
Libretto by MAURICE LENA Music by Jules Massenet
Presented by the European Broadcasting Union
This ' miracle.' based on a medieval legend, tells how Jean the juggler is persuaded to enter a monastery. The monks compete with each other to praise the Virgin on the Feast of the Assumption. Jean offers the only skill he possesses - his juggling ...
ORTF CHILDREN'S CHOIR director JACQUES JOUINEAU ORTF CHORUS chorus-master JEAN PAUL KRÉDER
ORTF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Solo viola d'amore MICHEL PONS conductor PIERRE DERVAUX
Sound supervisor GUY CHESNAIS Producer LIONEL SALTER
The action takes place in Cluny in the 14th century. Act 1
3.30* Massenet and the Most Sublime of all Women
A talk by JAMES HARDING
3.45* Le Jongleur de Notre Dame. Acts 2 and 3

By way of introduction to the forthcoming series, JEREMY NOBLE talks about this great Renaissance composer and assesses his achievement.
followed by an interlude

H. Colin Davis looks at the story of the Three Kings with David Kossoff and David Davis
Producer ANGELA TILBY

Second of 30 programmes to include Haydn's string quartets from the Op 20 set onwards.
Quartet in c major, Op 20 No 2 (1772)
English Canzonets (1792-5): The sailors song. The wanderer; Piercing eyes; 0 tuneful voice Quartet in c major, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) (1797)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)

The three prizewinning plays from the BBC African Service 1972 Competition, introduced by GWYNETH HENDERSON Who organised it.
Sweet Scum of Freedom by JAGJIT SINGH (Uganda) (Third prize)
The play deals with the problems of a newly independent African state and of its minority Asian population.
8.0* Make Like Slaves by Richard RIVE (South Africa) (First prize)
A Cape-Coloured poet and a liberal-minded white girt confront one another.
8.30* Station Street by KHALID ALMUBARAK MUSTAFA (Sudan)
A mother, who has sacrificed herself to send her son to England to study, faces one of the problems of any evolving society.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX

JANE MANNING (soprano)
COLIN BRADBURY (bass-clarinet) ANTHONY JENNINGS (bass-clarinet)
DONALD WATSON (bass-clarinet) JAMES HOLLAND (percussion) HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Birtwistle Nenia on the Death of Orpheus
Bartok Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin

Conversations in four programmes about the current relevance of the arts to politics. Presented by Frank Kermode 4: A Critique of Commitment
David Craig , critic and university teacher
Francis Stuart , Irish novelist Adrian Mitchell , poet
Tony Garnett , TV and film producer
Richard Wollheim
Producer RICHARD KEEN

The first of eight programmes of the church music of Lassus. Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me (Penitential Psalm No 1); Beati, quorum remissae sunt iniquitates (Penitential Psalm No 2)
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conductor BRUNO TURNER

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Derek Jewell 's weekly look at today's popular music.
This week Morganna King Fete Atkin and Clive James gramophone records