Comprehensive forecast

Bach Suite No 4, in D (BWV 1069): ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.23* Mozart Piano Concerto
No 20, in 9 minor (K 466)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY , LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS SCHMIDT -ISSERSTEDT: records

Handel Concerto Grosso in F, Op 3 No 4: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.16* Beethoven Romance in F, for viotin and orchestra PINOHAS ZUKBRMAN
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
8.25* Haydn Symphony No 104, in D (The London): PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI : records

Walton Symphony No 2
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, Conducted by GEORGE SZELL : records

With KENNETH ESSEX (Viola)
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (The Rider)
Mozart Quartet in D (K 499)
10.30* Interval Reading
10.40* Concert Part 2
Beethoven Quintet in c, Op 29

(sung in German)

A personal preview by DONALD PRICE of plays and features on Radio 3 and 4 next week.

A meditation for Good Friday by Tom Hamill drawing on Scottish, Welsh and Irish poetry from earliest times to the present day
And he saw a tall tree by the side of the river, one half of which was in flames from the root to the top, and the other half was green and in full leaf.
(PEREDUR, THE SON OF
EVRAWC: THE MABINOGION)
In his essay On the Study of Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold notes the image of the green and burning tree as an instance of Celtic magic in poetry. In this meditation for Good Friday, Tom Hamill takes as his theme the Celtic preoccupation with the tree as a symbol of death and rebirth, summer and winter, light and dark. Spoken by JILL BALCON , PHILIP MADOC , DENYS HAWTHORNE Narrator Gary Watson
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD BBC Northern Ireland

St Matthew Passion Part 2
(A public concert in St Marylebone Parish Church, 19 March)

Triad: choreography by KENNETH MACMILLAN
Music by PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1: PIERRE AMOYAL
STRASBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALAIN LOMBARD Symphonic Variations: choreography by FREDERICK ASHTON Music by FRANCK
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FR ÜHBECK DE BURGOS: records
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

Gemini, for violin and piano; Libra, for flute, clarinet, violin, guitar, percussion and piano: douglas whittakeh
(flute), keith puddy (clarinet) YFiRAH NEAMAN (violin)
KARLHEINZ BOTTNER (guitar) TRISTAN FRY (percussion)
DAVID WILDE (piano), conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

When an opera is recorded for the first time, what happens? How do the artists prepare? What do they think about their performances? What are the problems and the pleasures of all the hard work involved?
Producers DENYS GUEROULT and NATALIE WHEEN spent ten days last summer with the cast of Haydn's La vera costanza and recorded not only what happened in the hall but what the producer, engineers and antists were doing and saying.
With CLAES-HAAKON AHNSJO, HELEN DONATH , WLADIMIRO GANZAROLLI
KARI LOVAAS , JESSYE NORMAN
ANTHONY ROLFE-JOHNSON , DOMENICO TRIMARCHI , and MARIO SALERNO LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conductor Antal Dorati
The opera produced by ERIK SMITH , recorded by HANS LAUTERS-LAGER, for Phonogram and the European Broadcasting Union Introduced by DENYS GUEROULT
(La vera costanza: Easter Mon)

leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by Zdenek Macal with Lynn Harrell (cello) Smetana Sarka (Ma vlast)
Dvorak Cello Concerto in » minor

-In the first of three programmes Sir John Gielgud reads from the reminiscences DisraeU wrote in the first half of the 1860s, before he became Prime Minister for the first time. In them he looks back on 40 years of striving for literary and political success and social acceptance, and the stories are the nearest Disraeli came to non-fictional autobiography, containing some of his finest and wittiest writings, Introduced and selected by Lord Blake
Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Part 2 Berlioz
Romeo and Juliet: Introduction; Love Scene; Queen Mab's Scherzo; Romeo's Reverie; Feast of the Capulets
(Given in Birmingham Town Hall, Oct 1976) BBC Birmingham

We always speak about Western and Eastern Europe. There is another area - the Third Europe of the Mediterranean European countries.
(PROFESSOR GEORGE MANGAKIS)
Ian Gillham explores the idea of Third Europe in conversations With
PROFESSOR FERNAND BRAUDEL , PROFESSOR JEAN GOTT -MAN, Portuguese poetess SOPHIE DE NELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN, Spanish historian and politician ANTONIO GARCIA LOPEZ , SALVADOR
DE MADARIAGA, LAWRENCE DURRELL , FREYA STARK, Greek author PAVLOS ZANNAS , Mayor of Istanbul AHMED ISVAN. and BULENT ECEVIT.

Part 1 Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A (k 581)

Rosalind Mitchison , Reader In Economic History at the University of Edinburgh, reap-praises the two great movements of the 18th century.
Illustrations from contemporary sources read by LEONARD MAGUIRE

Part 2 Beethoven
Septet in E flat, Op 20
(Swiss Radio recording from last year's Ascona Festival)

Dietrich Buxtehude: seven Holy Week cantatas, devotions to the body of the crucified Christy VI: Ad cor (The heart)
SARAH LEONARD , SUSAN VARLEY
(sopranos), FRANCIS THOMAS (bass) CATHERINE MACKINTOSH , POLLY WATERFIELD , NICOLA CLEMINSON , TREVOR JONES , JANE RYAN (viols) WALTER HILLSMAN (Organ) conducted by KERRY WOODWARD