Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore water*

A series to include the complete sets published as Op 9 and Op 17
String Quartet in D minor, Op 9 NO 4: AEOLIAN QUARTET
Sonata in G minor (H xvi 44) RUDOLF BUCHBINDER (piano)
String Quartet in E, Op 17 No 1 TATRAI QUARTET: records

Listeners' record requests Wagner Overture: Rienzi
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.17' Strauss In Roms Ruinen (Aus Italien, Op 16)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLEMENS KRAUSS
9.29* Faure Five Mélodies (Chansons de Venise), Op 58 FELICITY PALMER (soprano) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
9.42' Franck Piano Trio in I sharp minor. Op 1 No 1
FRANTISEK POSPISIL (Violin) VACLAV JIROVEC (Cello) ALES BILEK (piano)
10.16* Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques: YVONNE LORIOD (piano) CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN

Introduced by John Amis
'Do We Need the Critics'
Discussion with J.W. Lambert, Edward Greenfield, Peter Heyworth.

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD With CSABA ERDELYI (viola) Bartok Viola Concerto Concerto for Orchestra

with Dannie Abse , the poet
(Repeated: Thursday 10.35 am)

12: Semi-Finals
Youth Class: Match 2
West Germany: AMADEUS-CHOR NEUENDETTELSAU (MITTELFRANKEN) UK: BULMERSHK GIRLS' CHOIR
Contemporary Class: Match 2
Hungary: SCHÛTZ CHAMBER CHOIR OF THE JOZSEFVAROS CULTURAL CENTRE
West Germany: VOKALENSEMBLE KASSEL
Introduced by Bernard Kettle (Organised by the BBC under the auspices oj the EBU)

Isidore Cohen (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
Beethoven Trio in E flat major, Op I No 1
Brahms Trio in c major, Op. 87
1.55* Edmund Rubbra discusses Schubert's original view of form and texture as exemplified in the E flat Piano Trio. (Music by Rubbra: 9.0 pm)
2.10* Trio: Part 2 Schubert Trio in E flat major (D 929)
(Swiss Radio recording from the 1975 Ascona Music Festival)

Antony Hopkins puts questions about music to Anne Collins , Paul Esswood and Sir Anthony Lewis. Recorded at Bury St Edmunds at the invitation of the National Federation of Music Societies, East Midlands and East Anglian Branches. Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR. Series producer ROY HAYWARD. BBC Bristol
(Antony Hopkins is Talking about Music next Sun and about 30 Years of Radio 3 in RADIO TIMES)

ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) HANNA SCHWARZ (contralto) ADALBERT KRAUS (tenor) WOLFGANG SCHONE (bass) (Arias) PHILIPPE HUTTENLOCHER (bass)(Christus), FRANKFURTER KANTOREI, BACH-COLLEGIUM, STUTTGART conducted by HELMUTH RILLING
The performance incorporates the five movements in Appendix 2 of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe Part 1

4.10* Interval Reading

4.20* St John Passion: Part 2
(Hess Radio recording from the 1975 Cassel Music Week)

A conversation between
Rt Hon Edward Heath. MP, Prime Minister 1970-74. and Rt Hon Lord Trend. Secretary of the Cabinet 1963-73 and Robert McKenzie in the Chair Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(First broadcast in February)

Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.10* Beethoven Scene and aria: Ah perfldo!, Op 65 BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE COVENT GARDEN conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
7.24* Resplghl Symphonic Poem: Feste Romane PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, COnducted by EUGENE ORMANDY : records

Buffet by RHYS ADRIAN with Richard Briers
The businessmen's nerves have taken a hammering all day long. One crisis after another. They're going to the Buffet. They need a drink. They are going to be late home.
Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

First of a series in celebration of his 75th birthday.
RAPHAEL SOMMER (cello) MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BROWN conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Soliloquy, for cello and orchestra: Piano Concerto in G major

Lewis Mumford in the first of six conversations with Malcolm MacEwen, recorded at his home in New England.
The American Declaration of Independence was followed by the birth of an indigenous literature, represented by writers such as Fennimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Ralph Emerson. Fifty years ago, Mumford called this period The Golden Day.

Part 2: Symphony No 4

Carleton Hobbs reads sonnets by Charles Tennyson Turner
Compiled and introduced by Patric Dickinson

(Repeat)

Derek Jewell looks at SHIRLEY COLLIN 'S Anthems in Eden suite from 1969 now put together with new songs. Also the JAN HAMMER group and encores from ALICE BABS : records