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What one tune links Berlioz, Shostakovich, Django Rein hardt, The Beatles, Schumann and Wagner? What links Debussy and the King of the Belgians?
Find out from CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD in this programme of record requests (and, as a bonus, hear ten pianos played simultaneously).

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Mahler's Symphony No 7 by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Recent records of organ and piano music: reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN.

Swingle II
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY Swingle II: Ragtime and early jazz
Stravinsky Octet for wind instruments
11.0* Interval Reading
11.10* Concert Part 2
Swingle II: Music by Vaughan Williams and Debussy, and French and English madrigals Mendelssohn Symphony No 6, in E flat. for string orchestra
(A public concert recorded in the City Hall, Glasgow on 10 February) BBC Scotland

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.

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Introduced by Mark Tully

Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord) discusses Handel's treatment of the Solo Sonata and Trio-Sonata forms, and plays examples from his Op 1 and Op 2, with STEPHEN PRESTON (baroque flute) SIMON STANDAGE (baroque violin) OLIVER BROOKES (viola da gamba)

David Holbrook , poet. educationalist, and author of a recent study of Mahler. finds that music offers a sense of meaning in life, by expressing joy in existence, even in the face of death. His choice of records ranges from Bach to Varese and includes Debussy's L'isle joyeuse played by WALTER GIESEKING , chamber music by Mozart, a movement from Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, and a song from. Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, sung by DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU.

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR Schubert Overture in E minor
3.43* Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Tapiola
4.3* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6. in a minor (Pathetique) BBC Wales

Introduced by Peter Clayton

The Early String Quartet
Jerrold Northrop Moore introduces recordings by the first famous chamber music groups to enter the gramophone studios: the Flonzaley. Capet, Rosé and Bohemian Quartets.

Julian Mitchell (in the Chair). talks with WILLIAM FEAVER , MARGHANITA LASKI and ERIC RHODE.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London MONTEVERDI CHOIR Continuo:
MARILYN SANSOM (cello) NIGEL NORTH (lute)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) MALCOLM HICKS (organ) MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader NONA LIDDELL conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER John Blow Venus and Adonis: a Masque for the entertainment of the King
Chorus of shepherds and shepherdesses. huntsmen, cupids and graces

Alan Ryan. Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at New College, Oxford, gives the last of four fortnightly talks.
(Hugh Thomas : 28 February)

Part 2 Pelham Humfrey Verse Anthem: 0 Lord my God
Purcell Come ye sons of art away: Birthday Song for Queen Mary: NORMA BURROWES (sop) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) JOHN WILLIAMS (counter-tenor) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone)
(A co-promotion by the Monteverdi Choir Society, BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Transcription Services)

A series of programmes in which different interpretations on records are compared.
Ronald Kinloch Anderson talks about Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor as played by Curzon and the Budapest Quartet, Richter and the Borodin Quartet. Rubinstein and the Guarneris, Eschenbach and the Amadeus, Clara Haskill and the Winterthur Quartet, and others. followed by an interlude

A St Valentine's Day Anthology compiled by H. Colin Davis
From the nursery rhymes and first questionings of childhood. through the ardours of adolescence to ' the right end ' of marriage; not forgetting the hurts of infidelity, of unrequited love and the loneliness of separation.
Readers JULIAN GLOVER
PENELOPE LEE and DAVID NEAL Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

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