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First of a series of programmes presenting some of the lesser known Haydn symphonies, and keyboard music by Bach.
Haydn Symphony No 1, in D PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.19' Bach Partita No 3, In A minor
KARL RICHTER (harpsichord)
Bach Preludes and Fugues in E and E minor (' 48 ' Book 1) gi.enn gould i piano)
8.40* Haydn Symphony No 50, in c PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by antal DORATI gramophone records

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Stephen Dodgson introduces listeners' record requests, and at S.55* talks to this week's guest Sir Adrian Boult.
9.5' Rossini Une caresse a ma femme; La passeggiata
9.16* Strauss Oboe Concerto
9.46* Brahms An die Nachtigall
9.55' Moeran Sinfonietta
10.25* Roussel Joueurs de flute
10.40' Milhaud Ballet: L'homme et son désir

Introduced by Christopher Grier

Siegfried Wagner: Geoffrey Skelton discusses his music

Walter Klien in profile

French church music: Colin Mawby gives a conductor's viewpoint.

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor louis FRtMAUX
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for wind and percussion
Debussy Three Symphonic Sketches: La mer

A talk by Don Cupltt
(Rptd: Tuesday, 12.10 pm)

Mixed Voice Class France v Finland Youth Class
Australia v Norway
Introduced bv DAVID WILLCOCKS
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

RALPH KIRKPATRICK (harpsichord) YIKTOR LCKAS (organ)
ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord) gramophone records

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Wilhelm Wohlbruck
Music by Heinrich Marschner
Produced by Bavarian Radio on behalf of the EBU

This work by Marschner, an important figure in German romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, is based on the notorious rumour surrounding the life of the ' black Ruthven
Cast of actors and singers Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reger
Producer Theodor Holzinger
Executive producer for the EBU Lionel Salter

Act 1: The action takes place in Scotland in the 17th century

3.10* The Feast of Blood
Colin Wilson, author of The Occult, traces the development of vampirism in folklore and literature.

3.35* Der Vampyr: Act 2

Antony Hopkins
(Rptd. Monday, 9.45 am)

in E flat. Op 65 gramophone record followed by an interlude

FELICITY PALMER (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRI.EY-QUIRK (bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by colin DAVIS and SIR MICHAEL TIPPETI (direct from the Colston Hall. Bristol)
Part 1: Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks: concerto for chamber orchestra
Mozart piano Concerto No 25. in c major (K 503)

by Peter Cator - Radio Times Drama Award Winner
The play is a quest - a quest for Stiggs. But who is he? Does he exist?
with Ronald Pickup, Dinsdale Landen, Amanda Reiss and Elizabeth Proud
(Stereo)
Back to the bedsitter: page 4

(organ)
Bach Concerto in c (after Vivaldi) (BWV 594) gramophone record

George Macbeth introduces extracts from recordings made at the Poetry Book Society's Festival reading at the Queen Elizabeth Hall earlier this month.
Poets reading their own work include Sir John Betjeman, Seamus Heaney, Judith Herzberg, Peter Huchel, Ted Hughes, Edward Jabes and Charles Tomlinson

followed by an interlude

(UlUmos Kitos)
John Tavener 's new work which received its world premiere at the Holland Festival last week. The words are taken from the poems of the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross. BBC SINGERS
NETHERLANDS RADIO
PHII.HARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN POOLE from St Bavo's Cathedral. Haarlem
(Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio: simultaneous broadcast with BBC2) followed by an interlude

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Derek JeweU 's weekly look at today's popular music, as art. as entertainment, as a social phenomenon. Including this week excerpts from the new albums by Focus and PFM. gramophone records