Comprehensive forecast

Mendelssohn Symphony No 6, in E flat, for string orchestra AMSTERDAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MARINUS VOORBERG
7.17* Strauss Duet Concertino MANFRED WEISE (clarinet)
WOLFGANG LIEBSCHER (baSSOOn) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
7.35* Haydn Symphony No 62, in D: PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Rossini Sonata No 1. for string orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.16* Manfredini Concerto in G minor, Op 3 No 10: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.27* Rossini Sonata No 2, for string orchestra: BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.40* Handel Organ Concerto No 4, in F: SIMON PRESTON
MENUHIN ORCHESTRA, Conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN : records

Bartok Historic Recordings
From the diary of a fly (Mikrokosmos), in TIBOR SERLY'S orchestration authorised by Bartok
9.8* Viola Concerto, orchestrated posthumously and prepared for publication by SERLY who conducts the NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON, With violist WILLIAM PRIMROSE Who commissioned the work
9.30* Bluebeard's Castle: Final Scene, with MIHALY SZEKELY (bass) who, coached by Bartok, sang the title role in the successful revival of the opera in Budapest in 1936. The role of Judith is sung by KLARA PALANKAY (mezzo-soprano), with the BUDAPEST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK : records

conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
Emphasising the work of living British composers
Balfour Gardiner Overture to a Comedy
John Fox Countryside Suite Walton Siesta
Alan Langford Three Amusements
Edward German Welsh Rhapsody

PETER PEARS (tenor)
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Chopin Twenty-four Preludes, Op 28

Peter Pears talks about the human voice as a musical instrument, and on the music of our age from the singer's point of view.

Part 2 Britten
The Poet's Echo, Op 76
Six Holderlin Fragments, Op 61
BBC Birmingham

MIRIAM FRIED (violin)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAN KRENZ
Mozart Symphony No 28, in C major (K 200)
12.30* Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1, in D major

A personal preview by ROBIN HOLMES of some plays and features on R3 and 4 next week.

Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5, in E minor BBC Manchester

Two ballets in the current repertory of the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
The Four Temperaments
Choreography by BALANCHINE Music by HINDEMITH HANS OTTE (piano)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER Las Hermanas
Choreography by MACMILLAN Music by FRANK MARTIN CHRISTIANE JACCOTTET
(harpsichord), LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2
Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)

By Divers Handes
Composite compositions are compared in this week's programme of record requests from the under-20s. Christopher Hogwood investigates the pedigree of the FAE Sonata (Schumann, Brahms and Dietrich); the Triple Concerto in A minor by Bach; the Hexameron Variatioris by Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny and Chopin; Variations other than Beethoven's on Diabelli's theme, and a Telemann ' pebble ' polished into a Handelian ' diamond ' a

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Two intensive language courses for travellers on business or on holiday
6.30 Get By in Spanish
5: Getting to Your Destination
Booking into the hotel, ordering a drink, meeting people with MARIA ANTONIA MARCOS and EDUARDO DELGADO
Course writer JANE FREELAND Series producer
CHRISTOPHER STONE
7.0 Get By in German
5: Getting the Essentials
Changing money, finding your way, going in the right direction with GABI ENGLET and JURGEN ANDERSEN Course writer and series producer EDITH BAER
(Get By in Spanish, 7.0, and Get By in German, 6.30, are repeated in Lifelines next week) Look Listen Learn: pages 37-40

leader JOHN glickman conductor HARRY BLECH with ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) Schubert Symphony No 5, in 2 flat
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622)
Haydn Symphony No 92, in c (Oxford)
BBC Manchester

Research at this famous private organisation has ranged recently from problems of guerrilla warfare and international terrorism to energy pricing and health insurance.
John Maddox talks with the Director, and with members of staff concerned with these projects, and discusses whether defence research and the social sciences mix.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

They that go down to the sea in ships; Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone)
INIA TE WIATA (bass), CHOIR Of ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
BRIAN RUNNETT (Organ), ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, COnducted by GEORGE GUEST: records

New poems by GEORGE BAKER , ROGER FRITH
DAPHNE GLOAG , JOHN RETALLACK and NICHOLAS WILLEY
Selected and introduced by Hallam Tennyson
Producer LIANE AUKIN

GIDON KREMER and OLEG MAISENBERG
Webern Four Pieces, Op 7
Schoenberg Fantasia for violin and piano, Op 47
Strauss Sonata in E flat, Op 18
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Salzburg Festival)