Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters

A weekly series of pieces based on all kinds of dance forms, including this week Britten's Suite from Rossini: Soirees musicales, excerpts from Walton's Facade, the Arcadian Songs and Dances by Virgil Thomson , the Tango by Albeniz and Bartok's Six Romanian Folk Dances: records

Haydn Symphony No 86, In D MENUHIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
9.34* Patrick Hadley The Hills FELICITY PALMER (SOp), ROBERT TEAR (tenor), CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY CHORUS
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by PHILIP LEDGER
10.12* Delius To be sung of summer night on the water ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, conducted by PHILIP LEDGER : records

conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN JAMES GALWAY (flute)
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Doppler Hungarian Fantasy, for flute and orchestra

Some problems of an emergent culture: a talk by DAVID JOHN SON. BBC Scotland

Part 2 Smetana Symphonic Poem: Vltava
Chaminade Concertino for flute and orchestra
Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin
(Part of a concert recorded in the City Hall, Newcastle, on 2 July during the Newcastle Festival 1976) BBC Scotland

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records.

Introduced by Michael Schmidt 9: A Mere Empty Wit
Readers: DAVID MAHLOWE and PAUL WEBSTER. Producer
FRASER STEEL. BBC Manchester

Imogen Cooper (piano) in the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London
Debussy Images, Series I
Schubert Sonata in G (D 894)

Giles Brindley , Professor of Physiology at London University and Honorary Director of the Medical Research Council's Neurological Prostheses Unit. introduces his personal choice of records.

Mozart Piano Sonata in A (K331) ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano) Haydn Symphony No 53, in D (L'Impe>iale)
Reger Variations on a theme of Mozart: BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor
BORIS BROTT. BBC Wales

Introduced by Peter Clayton

The Complete Musician
The career of Sir George Hen schel (1850.1934), composer, conductor, pianist, singer, writer, translator, and gramophone recording artist, described by Jerrold Northrop Moore: records

Eight programmes written and presented by Ian McIntyre
2: Ties as Lipht as Air -the American British Heritage Speakers: SIDNEY AHLSTROM HARRY ALLEN , BERNARD BAILYN
AI,FRED CHANDLER. RONALD DWORKIN LORD HAILSHAM. ROBERT HANDY ELIZABETH HARDWICK
HAROLD LANGLEY
WARREN NUTTER , EUGENE ROSTOW ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. FRANK THISTI. ETHWAITE and ROBIN WINKS Producer MICHAEL MASON (First broadcast on R4)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall CSABA ERDELYI
(viola) , THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN conductor David Atherton Part 1
Janacek Sinfonietta
Walton Viola Concerto

A. S. Byatt , novelist and critic and Lecturer in English at University College. London. gives the third of four fortnightly talks.

Sibelius Symphony No 1, in E minor

(David Atherton broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain broadcasts in association with Lloyds Bank)

(Part 2 of this concert will be shown on BBC1 on Sun 22 Aug)

Second of seven programmes in which H. C. Robbins Land on takes a look at the state of music in Europe in the year of the American War of Independence and examines each of the main European cultures in turn.
. S: France
(A broadcast version of the 1975 Mellon Lectures given at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)

First of four programmes to include English songs: in the first two, some of the songs from the 12 sets of English Lyrics by Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918), and songs by Brahms, sung in new English translations by LESLIE MINCHIN. WENDY EATHORNE (SOpranO) GEOFFREY PRATLEY (piano)
Parry My true love has my heart: Why art thou slow?
Brahms My love is as fresh as the lilac tree (Meine Liebe ist griin)
Parry My heart Is like a singing bird
Brahms The serenade (Standchen, Op 106 No 1)
Parry A stray nymph of Dian; Armida's garden; On a time; Dream pedlary; The sound of hidden music
(Companion programme: next Sat. Wendy Eathorne in music by Henze: Thurs 10.30 pm)

Second of five programmes Quintet in G minor (K 516) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
(Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London, in 1970) (Quintet in D: Concert Club, Wednesday 2.50 pm)