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'Cantata ... a sung piece
Settings by Britten of texts also set by Stravinsky (Lykewake Dirge) and Henze (Being Beauteous). Also Salve Regina by Monteverdi and the scena: Berenice che fai, by Haydn, linked and compared by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD.

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's Variations on a theme of Diabelli. by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Recent records of concertos, reviewed by NOËL GOODWIN.

Mozart Flute Concerto No 1, In G (K 3131: JAMES GALWAY LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS conducted bv
RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER : record
(More Stereo Release: Monday
2.5 pm)

Sixteenth of 18 programmes
BRUNO CANINO, ANTONIO BALLISTA
Schubert Three Heroic Marches (D 602)
Dvorak Slavonic Dances. Op 46 (Repeated: Monday 10.20 am)

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
Robin Ray 's Preview: page 13

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Introduced by Donald Milner

played by MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN a't SI
Matthias Berlin-Schoneberg
Clerambault Suite du deuxieme ton
Franck Choral No 3, In A minor Jehan Alain Deux fantaisies; Litanies
(West Berlin Radio recording of part of a public recital on 14 May 1975)

Norman St John-Stevas , author, mp and Opposition spokesman on education, science and the arts, presents his personal choice of records. His love of opera began at the age of ten when he was taken to see Verdi performed at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, and he selects from The Marriage of Figaro, Fidelio and Orphée et Eurydice. He also chooses the opening movement of Elgar's First Symphony, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT , and the Dies irae from Verdi's Requiem.

Mozart Overture: The Impresario
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491)
HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by JANOS FURST
Bach Motet : Fiirchte dich nicht
GACHINGER KANTOREI : STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM, conducted by HELMUTH RILLING : record
Mozart Symphony No 40, In G minor (K 550)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FÜRST

Introduced by Peter Clayton
For the rest of today and all day tomorrow Radio 3 Is given over to the people, sounds and music of Austria.
Presented by the opera singer Nigel Douglas
Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester

... The Beamterei, it's true Is as awful as ever,
The drivers are dangerous, Standards at the Staatsoper Steadily decline each year.
And Wien's become provincial Compared to the pride she was. Still, it's a cosy country,
unracked by riots or strikes
And backward at drug-taking: I've heard of a dozen lands
Where life sounds far more ugsome ... (W. H. AUDEN )
Nigel Douglas , who has known Austria for many years, explores the contemporary reality behind the facade of Viennese song and legend.
Technical supervision IAN REED Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON

Opera in four acts based on PUSHKIN'S dramatic chronicle and KARAKMZIN'S History of the Russian Empire Words and music by Mussorgsky
Revised and orchestrated by Rlmsky-Korsakov (sung in Russian)
Her nurse
BISERKA CVEJIC (mezzo-sop)
Feodor, Boris's son
ROHANGIZ YACHMI (mezzo-sop)
A boyar in attendance
KARL TERKAL (tenor)
Marina Mnishek , a Polish princess
BRIGITTE FASSBANDER (mezzo-sop) Rangoni, a disguised Jesuit
JURI MAZUROK (baritone)
Khrushchev, a boyar
KURT EQUILUZ (tenor)
Simpleton...HEINZ ZEDNIK (tenor) Two Jesuits:
Lavitsky GEORG TICHY (bar)
Chernikovsky ALFRED SRAMEK (bass-bar)
GUMPODLSKIRCHEN CHILDREN'S CHOIR, chorus-master
JOSEF WOLFGANG ZIEGLER
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA chorus-master NORBERTBALATSCH conducted by ROBERT SATANOWSKI (Austrian Radio recording) Prologue and Act 1
7.45* Gerald Abraham talks about the real Boris Godunov and Pushkin's play on which the opera is based.
8.0* Boris Godunov Act 2
8.35* Nigel Douglas talks to the baritone Eberhard Wachtcr about opera, audiences and critics, and about the role of the Staatsoper in Austrian life.
8.50* Boris Godunov Act 3

by Friedrich Heer
'The Austrian volcano from which Freud and Hitler emerged, is not yet quite extinct.' Professor Heer, novelist, historian, literary adviser to the Burgtheater in Vienna, discusses some of the tensions in Austria past and present.

Act 4

F. A. Hayek The distinguished political economist, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, author of The Road to Serfdom, is currently working in Salzburg on a major new study of the relations between law and liberty. In conversation with JOHN VAIZEY , Professor Hayek argues that if democracy is to be saved, some limitations must be reimposed on government.

Introduced by Nigel Douglas

The likes and dislikes of the Viennese have for centuries been reflected in a particular type of song known as the 'Wienerlied'. Most of them are not strictly folk songs, but have become an essential part of Viennese popular tradition. Andre Heller, one of Austria's most successful younger writers and performers, who bases much of his new work on this old material, talks about his interest in the 'Wienerlied' and introduces some of his songs.

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