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Records of Sibelius's Karelia Suite, DANIEL ADNI playing some of Grieg's Lyric Pieces and the Little Su'ite for strings by Nielsen

Rossini Overture: The Italian girl in Algiers
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FRÉMAUX
9.14* Halevy Rachel , quand du Seigneur (La Juive)
Puccini E lucevan Ie stelle ( Tosoa)
Verdi Celeste Aida (Aida) ENRICO CARUSO (tenor)
With ORCHESTRA (mono)
9.28* Prokofiev Dances from Cinderella: CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
9.54* Franco Leoni Final Scene (L'Onacoto): JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano), RYLAND DAVIES (tenor) TITO GOBBI (baritone)
RICHARD VAN ALLAN (baSS)
CLIFFORD GRANT (baSS), NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by Richard BONYNGE : records

conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR JAN LATHAM KOENIG (piano)
Thomas Wilson Concerto for Orchestra
Szymanowski Sinfonia Concertante, for piano and orchestra Ravel Une barque sur l'océan; Alboradta deJ gracioso (Miroirs) BBC Scotland

presents a weekly selection of popular clasisics on records.

2: The Fringe Is there really a ' fringe ' movement? If so, what brought it into existence? Mike Bradwell and Dusty Hughes with Robert Cushman

MARIUS MAY (cello) IMOGEN COOPER (piano) Bach Prelude, Sarabande and Gigue (Suite No 6, in D, for cello) Beethoven Variations on the duet Bei Mannern from Mozart's The Magic Flute Chopin Sonata in G minor

Sir Claus Moser , Chairman of the Royal Opera House, with his choice of records.

Schubert Ellen's second song SANDRA DUGDALE (Soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Schubert Symphony No 8. in b minor (Unfinished): ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN : record Schubert To music: SANDRA DUGDALE , PAUL HAMBURGER Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 VERMEER STRING QUARTET (Rpf)

Peter Clayton with your selection of jazz interpretations of the music of Richard Rodgers ,

Hans Haselbock Kerll Passacaglia in D minor Bach Fantasia in G (bwv 572) Mendelssohn Sonata No 6 Hans Haselbock Improvisation on a given theme (An Austrian Institute promotion in Coventry Cathedral on 16 April) BBC Birmingham

Today's guest Sharon Isbin plays music by Bach, Leo Brou wer, Albeniz, Rodrigo and Lauro, and talks to Peter Sensler. followed by an interlude

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Ida Haendel (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Maurice Brett, conducted by David Atherton

Stravinsky Divertimento: The Fairy's Kiss

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D

Edward Upward, whose trilogy The Spiral Ascent is completed with the publication of No Home but the Struggle, was, as a young man, a friend and source of inspiration to Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden , but their paths diverged when he became a Marxist.
David Phillips , who believes that Upward's work will have the durability of a classic, considers whether this is in spite of, or because of, its unusual theme: the conflict between a life of poetic creation and one dedicated to left-wing politics.

Part 2 Rachmaninov
Three Symphonic Dances

Michael Tilmouth , Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh, talks about Locke, the tercentenary of whose death falls this year. He assesses Locke's importance in 17th-century English musical life.

Soviet composer born in 1934 Where ever you go: RUSSIAN STATE ACADEMY CHOIR, conducted by ALEKSANDR SVESHNIKOV Nagasaki : an oratorio for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra: NINA POSTAVNICHEVA
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by ALGIS ZHURAITIS
(first broadcasts in this country) (Soviet Radio recordings)

One of the unexpected successes in popular music during the past five years has been the enthusiasm of audiences for the Irish traditional band, THE CHIEFTAINS. Three compositions come from them tonight, and Derek Jewell also plays music by a new British band, QUARTZ; a fine modern singer, DAN FOG-ELBERG; and CROSBY STILLS AND NASH - an encore from their reunion album CSN: records