Comprehensive forecast

Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (American): SMETANA QUARTET
8.29* Debussy Quartet in G minor: LA SALLE QUARTET: records

Prokofiev Russian Overture, Op 72: PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON
9.18* Bellini Castadiva (Norma) CLAUDIA MUZIO (soprano) With ORCHESTRA (mono)
9.23* Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans): CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by COLIN DAVIS
9.33* Wagner Wesendonk Lieder JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.56* Scriabin Piano Concerto in Fsharp minor:
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY , LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LORIN MAAZEL : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
At the House of the Black Spaniard: memories of Beethoven's last years in Vienna.
BERNARD HAiTiNK reflects on the art of conducting.
Haydn in England, 1791-1795: MISHA DONAT reviews H. c. ROB-BINS LANDON 'S recent book^

with Nathan Milstein (violin)
Mussorgsky Prelude: Khovanshchina
Lalo Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra

John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.50 am)

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c major
(Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording: 1968)

2: W. C. Handy and Co Producer ALAN OWEN

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM MOTET CHOIR, conductor JOHN JOUBERT NASH ENSEMBLE
Joubert String Trio, Op 30
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A (K 581)
2.10* Interval Reading
2.15* Concert Part 2
Joubert Lines from the Youth of Man, Op 90; Octet, Op 33
(Presented by R3 in assoc with the Barber Trust, before an invited audience at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, on 17 March)

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

Curlew River Britten and librettist
WILLIAM PLOMER adapted a traditional Japanese Noh-play, Sumidagawa, to create this first ' Parabie for Church Performance
The ancient story of a mad-woman's search for her son, performed by an all-male cast, is transferred to an English medieval setting in the Fens. A
The players:
RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
NEILL SANDERS (horn)
OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
JAMES BLADES (percussion)
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
STUART KNUSSEN (double-bass)
PHILIP LEDGER (organ)
Music under the direction of THE COMPOSER and VIOLA TUNNARD gramophone records

Lionel Salter , verbaliser as well as harpsichordist and pianist, muses on Words about Music.

Chamber Opera in one act Libretto and music by Gustav Hoist. More than half a century before Britten based Curlew River on a traditional subject from an Eastern ^culture, Hoist wrote Savitri, drawing on an episode from the ancient Hindu sacred book, the Mahabharata.
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE PURCELL
SINGERS, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by IMOGEN HOLST : record

The last of seven programmes presented by Dr Martin Bax of the Thomas Coram Research Unit of London University
7: The Growth of Sociability
Dr Bax examines the long-term consequences of the social attachments of the child's first year. Contributors include: DR JOHN BOWLBY , PROFESSORS RUDOLPH SCHAFFER and BENJAMIN SPOCK.

I VIRTUOSI DI ROMA
With RENATO ZANFINI (oboe) conducted by RENATO FASANO in G, Op 3 No 3, for string orchestra; in c, Op 8 No 12, for oboe and strings; in A minor (p 42), for oboe and strings; in A, Op 3 No 5, for string orchestra (Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Carinthian Summer Festival)

The Tameside Affair
Anthony Bradley , Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Edinburgh, examines the constitutional and legal issues involved in this case, in which in 1976 both the Court of Appeal and House of Lords held that a directive from the Secretary of State for Education and Science was unlawful and allowed the Tameside Borough Council to continue with selective entry to grammar schools.

Johannesburg Festival Overture ^ROYALLIVERPOOLPHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES : record

The Holy Sinner
A play for radio by PETER REDGROVE , based on H. T. LOWE -PORTER'S translation of the novel by THOMAS MANN (1875-1955)
Music composed and played on the psaltery by BOB STEWART Technical assistance by ALLEN HARRIS , MOIRA MANN and RICHARD REYNOLDS. Producer BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar) with Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano) sings songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Gustav Mahler
(Austrian Radio recording)

who was United States Secretary of State 1961-69, throughout the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, in conversation with Michael Charlton
I have long been in favour of closer political and defence relationships within Europe, but I also have long since quit talking about it because I realise that the more the Americans said about it the less likely it was to happen. Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(Repeated: 2 April)

Concerti Grossi (Op 6): No 5, in B flat and No 9, in F
FELIX AYO , ARNALDO APOSTOLI
(violins). ENZO ALTOBELLO (cello) GUY BOVET (organ), MARIA TERESA GARATTI (harpsichord) i musici: records