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Cantata No 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden: BOY TREBLE
PAUL esswood (counter-tenor) KURT EQUILUZ (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR
CHORUS VIENNENSIS, VIENNA CON-CENTUS musicus, directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT : record

Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM

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Part 2 Rameau Suite: Les Indes galantes: LAMOUREUX
CONCERTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT S.25* Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor: BEAUX ARTS trio
10.7' Messiaen L'ascension: quatre meditations symphoniques: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Stokowski: a portrait on his 94th birthday.
A Voice in Time: EDWARD GREENFIELD reviews the new biography of Fred Gaisberg by J. N. Moore.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

A sacred festival drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by HORST STEIN
(Bavarian Radio recording from the 1975 Bayreuth Festival) Act 1

Sir Charles Tennyson , born 1879. recalls his visits to Bayreuth, the first of which took place before the present century.
I do not think that younger generations would tolerate a massive Briinnhilde smacking her equally massive horse smartly on the rump and flopping into the stage bonfire!

33 Variations on a waltz by Diabelli. Op 120
WILLEM BRONS (piano)

Act 2
3.10* Interval Reading
3.20* Parsifal Act 3

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

Piano Concerto No 2, in minor: GARRICK OHLSSON
POLISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK : record

[Starring] John Rowe, John Gielgud in the play by William Shakespeare
with Michael Aldridge, Barry Foster, David Graham, Antony Hall, Martin Jarvis, Peter Jeffrey, Angela Pleasence, Elizabeth Spriggs, Patrick Troughton, Timothy West, Peter Woodthorpe and Alec McCowen
(Stereo)

During the interval 7.25*-7.30* a record of Machaut's Ballade: Mes esperis se combat - Early Music Consort of London directed by David Munrow

Fifth of 13 programmes: an evocation of a solemn celebration of the main Mass of Easter Day as it might have been sung in Lord Lumley's chapel at Nonesuch Palace in 1608. Lassus Missa Paschalis Byrd Mass Propers a 5 Vidi aquam (Lassus); Processional: Venite exultemus (Byrd); I: Introit; Kyrie; Gloria; Collect: Epistle: Gradual and Alleluia: Sequence; Gospel: Credo: Offertory; Preface: Sanctus: Benedictus; Elevation Motet: Venite commedite (Byrd); Paternoster; Agnus Dei : Communion: Last Gospel WILLIAM BYRD choir, director
GAVIN TURNER , LONDON PRO MUSICA JOHN LANGDON (organ) conducted by GREGORY ROSE
The part of the celebrant is sung by PETER JEFFES (tenor). of the deacon by JOHN DUDLEY (tenor), and of the subdeacon by WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor)

John Weightman
(Repeated: Tuesday 12.10 pm)

This week Derek Jewell plays a long extract from the new suite, ' I by PATRICK MORAZ keyboards player with Yes. Also featured are FLORA PURIM. JANIS IAN and BILL WYMAN : records

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