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Nine programmes of records made by this violinist, whose 75th birthday is tomorrow
Bazzlni Scherzo fantastique: La ronde des lutins
With ANDRE BENOIST (piano)
Glazunov Meditation. Op 31 with ARPAD SANDOR (piano) Ravel Tzigane with BROOKS SMITH (piano) (recorded at a public concert in 1972) Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer): with BENNO MOISEI WITSCH (piano)

Robin Holmes 's monthly selection of bird poems.

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Saint-Saens Havanaise , Op 83 ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by jean MARTINON
9.16* Fauré Lydia; Prison: Toujours: STUART BURROWS (tenor), JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
9.20* Brahms String Sextet No 1, in B Sat, Op 18: AMADEUS QUARTET, CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) WILLIAM PLEETH (cello): records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Mozart Piano Concertos: DENIS MATTHEWS considers Mozart's unique development of the concerto form. Hungarian music today: by STEPHEN WALSH.

Operetta in two acts and a prologue: Libretto by W.H. AUDEN Music by Benjamin Britten
The authors wrote in the programme of the first performance in New York in 1941: 'This operetta presents in a compressed fairy-story form the development of the American continent from a virgin forest before the birth of Paul Bunyan to settlement and cultivation when Paul Bunyan says goodbye.'
Other parts spoken by MEMBERS OF THE BBC DRAMA REPERTORY COMPANY and sung by BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by STEUART BEDFORD, Technical assistants BILL AITKEN, PIP SHEPHERD
JOHN SPARROW and BOB HARRISON Producers ERNEST WARBURTON and CHARLES LEFEAUX Act 1
11.55* Martin Jarvis reads W.H. AUDEN 'S account of the problems of putting the story of Paul Bunyan on the stage.
12.0* Paul Bunyan Act 2

Ian Robinson
(Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)

CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET PRUNELLA PACEY (viola)
Beethoven Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2
Bartok Quartet No 4
1.551 Interval Reading
2.0* Concert Part 2
Brahms Quintet in F, Op 88

(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Debussy Poeme danse: Jeux Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird

JOAN DICKSON (cello)
PHILIP I.ANGRIDGE (tenor) PETER GELLHORN (piano) BBC SINGERS conducted by KERRY WOODWARD Bach Suite No 3, in c major (bwv 1009), for cello
Rainier Vision and Prayer, for tenor and piano
5.10* Interval Reading
5.15* Concert Part 2 Rainier Cello Suite
Victoria Missa pro defunctis a 6

The Bell Jar by SYLVIA PLATH dramatised by JEHANE MARKHAM
With SEAN ARNOLD , GLENN BECK CAROLE BOYD , JACK CARR
CHRISSY IDDON and PAT STARR
Producer JANE MORGAN

direct from the Royal Albert Hall. London DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Concerto No 2, in B flat
Concerto No 3, in c minor

and the Radical Right
K. R. Gladdish. Senior Lecturer in Politics at Reading University, asks whether the emergence of the radical-right Progress Party in Denmark heralds similar political developments elsewhere in Western Europe.

Part 2 Beethoven
Concerto No 4, in G

Peter Porter , the Australian poet and critic, explores his own reactions and those of his fellow countrymen, to the concept of the vast, empty interior of their continent.

(bar), LEONARD HOKANSON (piano) Five songs by Schubert, to poems by Schiller
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1975 Salzburg Festival)

Derek Jewell takes a longer look at The Hissing of Summer Lawns. the latest album by JONI MITCHELL. There's more, too, from HERBIE HANCOCK , plus TAJ MAHAL, and BING CROSBY : records.

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