Third of 14 programmes
In March 1778 Mozart reluctantly tore himself away from Mannheim and Aloysia Weber , making his way to Paris.
Mozart Violin Sonata in c (K 296; written for a 15-year-old girl pupil in Mannheim) (mono): NORBERT BRAININ (violin) LILI KRAUS (piano)
Sinfenia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and orchestra (K 297b; later revision of a work composed in Paris - the original, with flute instead of clarinet, is lost) KARL STEINS (oboe)
KARL LEISTER (clarinet)
GUNTHER PIESK (bassoon) GERD SEIFERT (horn)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM : record

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Haydn Symphony No 7, in c (Le Midi)
VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by MAX GOBERMANN
9.39* Beethoven Die Trommel; Freudvoll und leidvoll (Egmont) JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.35* Schubert Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F (d 487)
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE
9.48* James Blades , timpanist, remembers his friend Benjamin Britten , who died a year ago.
9.56* Britten Libera me (War Requiem)
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano) PETER PEARS (tenor), DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar), BACH CHOIR, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS, HIGHGATE SCHOOL CHOIR, MELOS ENSEMBLE, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Wagner Offstage: WILLIAM MANN examines Wagner's work outside the opera house.
A New Piano Concerto: a conversation With EDWARD COWIE. The Inventive Mr Sax , ' whose Sax horns possess a quality and richness of tone unheard among brass instruments ': by FRITZ SPIEGL.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

A music drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
The second part of Bayreuth's controversial Ring, mounted for the centenary last year and revived this summer. In Patrice Chéreau's vision of Walkure Hunding's Hut of Act 1 is dominated by a pit-wheel, and Wotan in morning dress is found in the drawing-room of Valhalla in Act 2.
Ortlinde...ASTRID SCHIRMER (sop)
Siegrune CORNELIA WULKOPF (mezzo-sop)
Grimgerde
ILSE GRAMATZKI (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweise ELISABETH GLAUSER (mezzo-sop)
ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ : ACt 1

Roy Fisher , poet, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester

given by ANTHONY BAILES
Denis and Vieux Gaultier Suite in D
Denis Gaultier Suite in G

3: 1924 and 1925 With FLETCHER HENDERSON ,
JACK HYLTON , BLANEY AND FARRAR,
MELVILLE GIDEON, THE REVELLERS,
JACK SMITH ,GERSHWIN ,FRED AND ADELE ASTAIRE ,NICK LUCAS and others on disc.

Act 2

Antony Hopkins

Act 3
(Bavarian Radio recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival)

The diversity and range of music now available to the music-loving public is without precedent in the history of music. Robert Layton examines the LP explosion that has transformed the world of records, and discusses the changes that have taken place with various figures in the gramophone industry. He asks whether the ready availability of this repertoire is an unmixed blessing, and whether the range of musical stimuli now open to the young composer has served to undermine his traditional roots in the culture of his immediate past. His argument is illustrated by reference to particular performances. Producer CLIVE BENNETT

The soprano Sophie Wyss , 80 this year, reminisces with the help of some rare recordings about her early singing career. Composers such as Britten, Berkeley, Seiber, Gerhard and Rawsthorne all wrote works specially for her.

The Songs of Francis Poulenc
The mid-point in this 13-part biographical series looks at the other side of a number of old records.
Written by Graham Johnson ,produced by Elaine Padmore , and presented by both. 7: Monsieur Sans Souci
The gregarious Poulenc had a large number of friends among contemporary French composers, and this programme includes rarely-heard songs by nine of them, as well as by his spiritual grandpapa, Chabrier.
Many of the performances are by Bernac and Poulenc. Poulenc A sa guitare Auric Printemps
Chabrier L'lle heureuse: Ballade des gros dindons; Lied Roussel Le jardin mouillG Milhaud La tourterelle Auric Trois interludes Satie Daphénéo
Durey Le Métempsychose Stravinsky Uncle
Armand Milhaud Berceuse ; Gloire a Dieu; Chant hassidique (Chants populaires hébraïques)
Tailleferre Souvent un air de vérité; Vrai Dieu, qui m'y confortera (Chansons fran-Caises)
Poulenc Quatre chansons pour enfants
Honegger Cycle: Saluste du Bartas
Faurd Jardin nocturne (Mirages)
HUGUES CUÉNOD (tenor) accompanied by MARTIN ISEPP and on records:
PIERRE'BERNAC, FRANCIS POULENC YVONNE PRINTEMPS , JANE BATHORI
IRENE JOACHIM , CATHY BERBERIAN
LOUIS JACQUES RONDELEUX

Presented by Hugh Sykes Davies
Herbert Read (1893-1968) was one of the most influential critics of 20th-century art; poet. man of letters, educationist and philosophical anarchist. In this programme he is recalled by some of his contemporaries.
Contributors Misha Black
Naum Gabo , Graham Greene
Barbara Hepworth , Tom Heron Henry Moore , Frank Morley Roland Penrose ,
Anthony Weaver and George Woodcock Producer LEONIE COHN

Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano) Kenneth Bowen (tenor) BBC Singers
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Pierre Boulez
Ligeti San Francisco Poly phony
Lumsdaine Hagoromo (BBC commission: world premiere)
9.50* Pierre Boulez , in conversation with ANTHONY SARGENT , looks back on his conducting career and explains why it is coming to an end this year.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio London)
10.10* BBC SO in Paris Part 2 Boulez Le soleil des eaux
(revised version)
Nono II canto sospeso
(Postponed from 1 December)

In 1816 Shelley and Byron, with their households, lived near together on the shores of Lake Geneva. In September they gave Scrope Davies a package of manuscripts to take to their publisher in London. The parcel was never delivered and last year it was discovered in the vaults of a London branch of Barclays Bank. Apart from new versions of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold and Shelley's Mont Blanc and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, the parcel contained two previously unknown sonnets by Shelley.
Judith Chernaik , the Shelley scholar, describes this astonishing ' find ' and discusses its literary importance.
Reader Ronald Pickup (Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player)