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Couperin Motet for Easter Sunday
NADINE SAUTEREAU (SOpranO) JANINE COLLARD (contralto) NOELIE PIERRONT (organ) Bach Easter Oratorio
SOLOISTS; STUTTGART VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by MARCEL COURAUD gramophone records

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Antony Hopkins introduces listeners' record requests, and at
10.0* talks to this week's guest, Victoria de los Angeles. Also in today's programme:
9.5* Handel Overture: Agrippina, conducted by KARL RICHTER
9.13* Monteverdi Psalm 111: Beatus vir
9.28* Mozart Piano Concerto No 11, in F (K 413) INGRID HAEBLER LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
9.52* Faurl Elggie in c minor, Op 24
With JACQUELINE DU PR9 (cello)
10.20* Chopin Waltzes DINU LIPATTI (piano)
10.35* Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kijé: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL

with Christopher Grier
Byron and music: DAVID CAIRNS ILEANA COTRUBAS speaks to ALAN BLYTH about La Traviata (Mon, R3) and her career in general
ALEXANDER GOEHR talking about his music to BAYAN NORTHCOTT. Producer KEITH HORNER
(Prima donna seamstress: p 4)

conducts the SOUTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Part 1 Schubert
Symphony No 5, in B flat

Reflections by Paul Bailey
(Repeated: Monday, 2.20* pm)

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 4, in E flat (first definitive version)
(South German Radio recording)

Quartet in f, Op 50 No 5
Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (The Lark)
BARTOK STRING QUARTET
Introduced by MISHA DONAT

Opera in three acts
Music by Weber; libretto by JOHANN FRIEDRICH KIND
(sung in German: records)
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLOS KLEIBER

In celebration of his 70th birthday
RICHARD BEBB. with the aid of sound recordings, attempts an analysis of Gielgud's genius as an actor and an evaluation of the contribution he has made to the English theatre of the last 50 years.
Producer BENNETT MAXWELL

Stravinsky Fanfare for a new theatre
Geoffrey Bush Homage to Matthew Locke Raymond Premru Quartet
Henze Fragments from a show (first broadcast performance in this country)
Britten Fanfare for St Edmundsbury

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday, 10.35 am)

ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER Overture: The Impresario
Piano Concerto No 12, in A major (K 414) gramophone records

Infancy and Childhood
Two of seven short plays The Seven Ages of Man by THORNTON WILDER
Lack of communication between -adults and children forms the theme of these two plays, one comic, one wistful. The first is about babies' resentment of the way adults talk to them, while the second deals with the privacy of children's games.
Narrator CORMAC RIGBY Infancy
Producer GUY VAESEN

A reconstruction of an imaginary Vespers service for the feast of St John the Baptist, the music drawn in the main from the two printed anthologies of Monteverdi's Venetian church music (1640 and 1650) NORMA BURROWES (soprano) ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
JOHN ANGELO MESSANA (alto) CHARLES BRETT (alto)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass) TERRY EDWARDS (baSS) Continuo:
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello) ROBERT SPENCER (chitarrone)
NICHOLAS KRAEMER (harpsichord) MALCOLM HICKS (organ) THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR
THE MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Part 1
10.5* Tom Coryat 's ' Crudities' PETER BARKER reads some impressions of Venice in Monteverdi's day from this tireless eccentric English traveller's Crudities of 1611 10.25 Monteverdi's ' Other ' Vespers Part 2
(An invitation concert in St George's Chapel in September 1972, as part of the Windsor Festival)

by STEPHEN BISHOP
Debussy Three Preludes from Book 2: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; La puerta del vino; Ondine
11.10* Beethoven Sonata in i flat major, Op 31 No 3
(Part of a public recital in Neville's Cross College, Durham, as part of the 1971 Durham Music Festival)

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Derek Jewell 's look at today's popular music, including CARLY SIMON , GENTLE GIANT, SHUSHA and JOHN FAHEY gramophone records