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Sixth of 12 programmes WILLIAM BYRD CHOIR conductor GAVIN TURNER Confirma hoc Deus
Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus Mass: Veni Creator Spiritus

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Listeners' record requests presented by Christopher Grier
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) S.36* Grieg Varen
birgit NILSSON (soprano) VIENNA OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by BERTIL BOKSTEDT
9.43* RachmaninoY Spring Cantata, Op 20
JOHN SHAW (baritone) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
NEW PIIILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR BUKETOFF
10.5* Rimsky-Korsakoy How calm, how still is the night (May Night)
NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
BELGRADE PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by RIKA ZDRAVXOVITCH
10.13* Debussy Symphonic Suite: Printemps
NEW PBILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Written requests with reasons for choice, questions or interesting musical comments, on a postcard please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Bach's B minor Mass: its origins and performance, by ROGER NORRINGTON
GERVASE DE PEYER talks about his work on both sides of the Atlantic
Sullivan In New York: ARTHUR JACOBS on a recent exhibition Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Bach's a minor Mass: Friday
7.30 pm)

A recital recorded in the Usher Hall
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) and DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) perform Schubert's Song-cycle: Winterreise

conducted by ALEXANDER LAZAREV with ROLF SCHULTE (violin)
Part 1 Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije"
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G major (K 216)

Robert Conquest reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words. (Repeated: Thursday 4.25* pm)

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 6. Op 54
(West Berlin Radio recording of a concert in the Philharmonie, on 8 October 1974)

United Kingdom Rounds 4(1) Equal Voice
BASINGSTOKE LADIES' CHOIR Conductor
COLIN ridgers GLASGOW PHILHARMONIC CHOIR conductor IAN MILLIGAN (ii) Contemporary
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD conductor NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
BANGOR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SINGFRS conductor GWYN L. WILLIAMS
Adjudicatorsb PHILIP MOORE , john pooie . and STEPHEN WILKINSON
BERNARD REEFFE introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks and announces the results.
Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT

Partita No 2, in D minor (bwv 1004)
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) gramophone record

given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, by the Israeli pianist JOSEPH kalichstein.
Part 1 Chaconne after J. S. Bach, for the left hand
Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op 9
Four Piano Pieces, Op 119

An anthology of poems selected by PATRIC DICKINSON Read by PETER ORR and VICTOR HALLAM

Part 2
Sonata in p sharp minor, Op 2
Hungarian Dances: No 2, In D minor; No 1, in G minor

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Repeated: Monday 9.50 am) followed by an interlude

Four duologues on aspects of Britain's future relationship with the European Community, in which prominent political thinkers and practitioners define and defend the rationale for their convictions, 3: Britain's Choice - the EEC and its Alternatives
Rt Hon Peter Shore , mp and Rt Hon Edward Heath , MP Chairman Robin Day (Repeated: 28 May)

(recorder)
HANNE PETRI (Spinet) ANDERS GROEN (cello)
Second of three programmes
Van Eyck Wat zal men op den avonddoen, for descant recorder solo
Shinohara Fragments for tenor recorder solo
Handel Sonata in A minor for treble recorder and continuo
(Part of a recital made available by Norwegian Radio)

Symphonic Metamorphoses of themes by Carl Maria von Weber
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by ANTAL DORATI
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hess Radio)

by Frank Wedekind
in the English adaptation by Peter Barnes
with
and Derek Godfrey, Joe Melia, John Rye, Francis de Wolff, Hugh Burden and Dilys Laye
and the voices of LIANE AUKIN, CAROLE BOYD, KATE COLERIDGE, EMILY RICHARD and HECTOR ROSS
Music composed and conducted by HANS HEIMLER
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN

Frank Wedekind's famous (and in its own time scandalous) play about the rise and fall of the archetypal seductress, which also is the basis of Alban Berg's opera, Peter Barnes's adaptation contracted the huge work, originally planned for two evenings, into a highly successful play of normal length.
(Lulu: Alban Berg's opera: Wednesday 7.30 pm)

followed by an interlude

A Serenata written for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito in Naples, in 1708, Music by Handel
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA conducted by LIONEL SALTER

Acis - SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
Gala tea - MAUREEN I.EHANE (contralto)
Poiifemo - FORBES ROBINSON (bass)
CHRISTOPHER - HOG WOOD (harpsichord continuo)

Derek Jewell 's look at the world of popular music, featuring this week the unusual SOngS of JOAN ARMATRADING , plus new compositions by GREEN-SLADE. DAVID GATES and SLAPP HAPPY/HENRY COW. gramophone records

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