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The centrepiece of today's programme is a performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition in Horowitz's later recording made during his Carnegie Hall recitals in 1951. Also two pieces from Liszt's Annees de pèlerinage and a Horowitz favourite - Czerny's Variations on the aria La Ricordanza. Op 33 gramophone records

Handel Cantata: Tu fedel? Tu costanto? HELEN WATTS (contralto) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD

9.25* Mozart Concerto in E flat (K 3651) RADU LUPU, ANDRE PREVIN (pianos) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN

9.51* Borodin Symphony No 2, in A minor USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV

Introduced by Michael Oliver
' To perform is to manipulate.' HERBERT VON KARAJAN diSCUSSeS the truth of this statement With MICHAEL BERKELEY.
Hoist and Egdon by HUGH OTTAWAY.
A composer remembers: a conversation with THOMAS PITFJELD. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

NORMA BURROWES (soprano) DINAH HARRIS (soprano) WYNFORD EVANS ( tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
ALASTAIR ROSS (organ continuo) NIGEL NORTH (theorbo continuo) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader NONA LIDDELL conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Campra Messe des Morts Fauré Requiem

Public administrator Dipak Nandy reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester

ROHAN DE SARAM (CellO) DRUVI DE SARAM (piano)
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata
Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor
BBC Manchester

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.

direct from the Gaumont Theatre. Ipswich David Theodore (oboe)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet) Derek Taylor (horn)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA guest leader RAYMOND COHEN conducted by Charles Mackerras
Part 1 Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 297b)

Reflections at Eastertide by The Rev John Drury , Canon of Norwich
When Christians meet for worship they often say that Jesus Christ is present, there among them. What does the relentless passage of time do to belief in the presence of Christ?

Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 2, in c minor (Little Russian)
(In association with Ipswich Civic Concerts)

Fourth of five programmes from the 1977 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Andras Mihaly String Quartet No 3: BARTOK STRING QUARTET Laszlo Sary Quartetto MAGDA TARKO (soprano) TIHAMER ELEK (flute) ILDIKO HEGYI (violin)
MARTA FABIAN (cimbalom) conducted by THE COMPOSER
(Hungarian Radio recordings) Jaroslav Rybar Sette element! continuali: JANAPRCHLOVA(piano) (Czech Radio recording)
Jose Manuel Berea Musique ininterrompue (Homenaje a Eluardl: GRUPO KOAN conducted by JOSE RAMON ENCINAR
Francisco Guerrero Actus GRUPO INSTRUMENTAL conducted by JOSE MARIA FRANCO GIL
(Spanish Radio recordings)
(All first broadcasts in this country)

in the play by HENR1K IBSEN translated by MICHAEL MEYER
Music composed by DAVID CAIN
A new production of Ibsen's masterpiece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the playwright's birth.
Peer Gynt is the fantastic story of one man's journey to discover his true self: and of his personal struggles with the forces of good and evil. His journey begins with bride-rape and ends in a battle with Death and the Devil. First boy/Overseer
GAVIN CAMPBELL
Mr Cotton DAVID HEALY Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(Denis Quilley is in ' Privates on Parade ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London; Norman Rodway is a member of the RSC.)
6.45*-6.50* Interval

Richard Osborne looks at some of the issues that arise in the interpretation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. His illustrations include conductors as diverse as FURTWÄNGLER, KARA JAN , CARLOS KLEIBER , MENGEL-BERG, NIKISCH, TOSCANINI, WEIN-GARTNER and many others.

Violin Concerto. Op 37 RONY ROGOFF (violin)
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ENRIQUE GARCIA-ASENSIO
(Danish Radio recording)

Rimsky-Korsakov conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH
Sinfonietta on Russian themes (Soviet Radio recording)

A panorama of people, places and things, factual and fictional, in the traditionalist French-speaking culture of 1850 to 1950.
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb. Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford
1: The Tempting Threshold
This series might well have been subtitled in French: L'histoire des petites gens. For that is what it is. ' L'histoire ' - the historical witness of fiction as well as fact. ' petites gens ' - this is a loving celebration of the old individualist French culture of the quarticr, the café des habitues, the small shop. Jacques Tati country, in fact; everything threatened by the New France of the technocrats.

Dem Unendlichen
LAURITZ MF.LCHIOR (tenor) IGNACE STRASFOGEL (piano) (gramophone record: 1942)