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Schumann Novelletten: No 6, in a; No 7, in E; No 3, in minor: No 2. in D
EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Brahms Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2 (mono)
BOKODIN STRING QUARTET

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Stephen Dodgson presents listeners' record requests, and at 10.0* talks to this week's guest, Maria Korchinska , about her record choice, the slow movement from Bax's Sonata for viola and harp
Also in today's programme:
9.5* Gibbons In nomine
EASTMAN BRASS QUINTET
9.11* trad Sellinger's Round, with variations by Oldham, Tippett. Berkeley, Britten, Searle and Walton
9.35* Gounod The Tomb Scene 'Romeo and Juliet)
9.55* Moscheles Piano Studies played by MICHAEL PONTI
10.15* Copland Symphony No 3 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Edited and introduced by Christopher Grier
EDO DE WAART talks to MICHAEL OLIVER about the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
KENNETH LOVELAND introduces Alun Hoddinott 's new opera The Beach of Falesá (to be broadcast on Tuesday at 730) and speaks to artists involved Producer KEITH HORNER

FRANC() GULLI (violin)
SOUTH WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST BOUR Part 1
Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler
Bach Violin Concerto in E

Paul Bailey reflects on some of the things we say and write (Repeated: Thurs, 12.10* pm)

Part 2
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor
Hindemith Philharmonic Concerto
(Recording made available by courtesy of SW German Radio)

Settings of his poems by j Schumann. Schubert, Mendels sohn , Liszt, and Brahms sung by JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) with MARTIN ISEPP (piano) Schubert Am
Meer Liszt Vergiftet sind meine j Lieder: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Mendelssohn Auf Fltigeln des Gesanges
Schumann Abends am Strand Brahms Meerfahrt
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24 followed by an interlude

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Repeated: Monday, 10.0 am)

(piano at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London Part 1
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major. Op 27 No 1
Schumann Kinderscenen, Op 15; Papillons, Op 2

NORMAN MACKENZIE , the biographer of H. G. Wells , has been reading Gillian Tyndall 's recently published book about the novelist George Gissing. He reflects on the way in which, in life, as in his novels, Gissing seemed bent on self-destruction

Part 2 Debussy Preludes, Book 1

An investigation by john fair-LEIGH into how artists in Northern Ireland survive in an atmosphere of violent social and political upheaval Producer VIRGINIA HARDY
(A World Service production)

JOSEPHINE NENDICK (soprano) NEIL HOWLETT (baritone) BBC CHORUS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted' bv PIERO BELLUGI Dallapiccola Tre poemi
Nono Espana nel corazon (first broadcast perf in this country) Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus
'Recorded before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, on 5 October 1972)

AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Mendelssohn Quartet in D major, Op 44 No 1
Rawsthorne Theme and Variations (String Quartet No 1)

The Cold Country by SUSAN HILL with Sean Barrett. Ian Richardson Jon Rollason and Terry Scully 'That's typical of the lot of you.... Why bother? What's the use? Give in, why don'we? What sort of men are you, for God's sake? If that's your attitude why don'we all go outside and lie face down in the snow and die? Why are we bothering at all? Have you asked yourselves that? '
Music by GEOFFREY BURGON Sung by KEVIN SMITH
Mouth-organ ALFIE KAHN Producer GUY VAESEN

Fifth of seven programmes tracing the evolution of the German vernacular Passion from the Reformation to Bach
This week: Handel
Brockes Passion
HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
MARGARET FIELD (soprano)
SHELAGH MOLYNEUX (mezzo-sop) TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor)
CHRISTOPHER BROWN (counter-tenor)
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone) Eyangelist ....IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) Jesus ....JOHN NOBLE (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) RALPH DOWNES ( organ) MARTIN GATT (bassoon)
BERNARD RICHARDS (Cello)
Philip SIMMS (double-bass) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader PETER BENSON conductor PAUL STEINITZ Part 1
10.20* Reading
10.30* The German Passion Part 2
A concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 23 March by the Steinitz Bach Players in association with the BBC
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

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