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BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor
KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER
Stravinsky Suite No 2. for small orchestra
Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Bizet Symphony in c major BBC Scotland

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher

Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)

Dvorak Symphony No 8, in G major.

BBC Scotland

Much of Mendelssohn's religious and chamber music owes a great deal to his admiration for, and study of the baroque masters, especially Bach, and the week's programmes explore this influence.

Prelude and Fugue in B flat, Op 35 No 6:
Daniel Adni (piano)
Organ Sonata No 1
Wolfgang Dallmann
Psalm 95: Yvonne Perrin (sop)
Magali Schwartz (mezzo-Sop) Olivier Dufour (tenor)
Geneva Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus, conducted by Chen Liang-Sheng

(records)
(Stereo)

for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim sets off with a programme for the youngest listeners.

Antony Hopkins

(tenor and piano)
Haydn She never told her love: Piercing Eyes: The Spirit's Song; Pleasing Pain; Sailor's Song
Trevor Hold Gathered from the field: a cycle of poems by John Clare
Schubert An die Musik: Dass sie hier gewesen: Bei dir allein: An den Mond (D 193); Im Frühling: Fischerweise BBC Birmingham

conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND PETER FRANKL (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
12.6* Brahms Piano Concerto No 1. in D minor BBC Manchester

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Esterhazy String Quartet Jaap Schroeder (violin) Aida Stuurop (violin)
Linda Ashworth (viola) Woulter Moeller (cello) Haydn Quartet in G major, Op
54 No 1
Mozart Quartet in c major (Dissonance) (K 465)
(Tickets 90p, available at the door)

GILLIAN WEIR (organ)
Bach Concerto in C (BWV 594)
Jeffrey Lewis Esultante (first performance: commissioned by the Festival with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council)
Paul Creston Fantasia Op 74
(Public Concert given in St Asaph Cathedral in September 1977 in conjunction with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by IVAN DAVID GRAY
Gluck Overture: Iphigenie in Aulis Mathias Serenade for small orchestra
Borodin Nocturne
Jarnefelt Praeludium
Delibes Coppelia Suite No 1 BBC Northern Ireland

LESLIE CAWDREY (clarinet) JAMES WALKER (piano)
Stanford Sonata. Op 129 Milhaud Sonatine
William Alwyn Clarinet Sonata BBC Birmingham

Roussel Sinfonietta for string orchestra
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by AVIVA EINHORN
Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1, in A minor MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI

Royal Air Force Diamond Jubilee Programme
CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE (By permission of the Air Force Board of the Defence Council) conductor WING COMMANDER JOHN MARTINDALE, Organising Director of Music
B. Walton O'Donnell Two Humoresques: Prevarication and Petulance: Persuasion Kenjire Urata Metamorphosis (first broadcast performance)
Jasper d'Arville The New Wings Suite (first broadcast performance)

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LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY and ASHLEY LAWRENCE
BBC NORTHERN IRELANDORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL with artists on records

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Two intensive beginners' courses for holiday and business travel - with a special competition
6.30 Get By in French With BÉNÉDICTE PAVIOT and DANIEL PAGEON 5: Getting a Meal
Asking for the menu: ordering food and drink; asking for the bill.
Course writer CELIA WEBER
7.0 Get By in Spanish
With MARIA ANTONIA MARCOS and EDUARDO DELGADO
5: Getting to your Destination
Clearing Customs; getting A taxi or a bus; booking into the hotel; meeting people.
Course writer JANE FREELAND
Series producers for both courses CHRISTOPHER STONE and EDITH BAER

conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD ELIZABETH GALE (Soprano) ROBIN LEGGATE (tenor)
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone)
HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY chorus-master GRAHAM TREACHER Part 1 Liszt Psalm 13
7.55* Interval Reading
8.0* BBC Northern SO Part 2 Brahms
A German Requiem
(A public concert presented in the Town Hall on 17 March by the Huddersfield Choral Society) BBC Manchester

An account of the life and work of William Hazlitt. on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Written and presented by Ian Grimble with John Franklyn-Robbins as Hazlitt
' Genius is the heir of fame: but the hard condition on which the bright reversion must be earned is the loss of life '
Hazlitt's words were borne out in a life of poverty, frustration and increasing isolation; hut his genius for imaginative sympathy with the achievements of others, lives on in his prose.
With GEOFFREY BANKS
HUGH DICKSON
RUSSELL DIXON , SALLY GIBSON
JOHN JARDINE , BRIAN SOUTHWOOD and PETER WHEELER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Piano music played by THOMAS RAJNA
Marche Militaire; Seis Estudios Expresivos: record

Ars Nova in France and Italy
The tenth in a series of 28 programmes devised and introduced by Basil Lam
The ' New Art ' which began early in the 14th century was marked by a fresh refinement of melody and rhythm facilitated by advances in notation. It was the beginning of the centuries-long division between the French and Italian styles represented by the major figures. Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON director DAVID MUNROW
(Repeated: Tuesday 18 April)

Der blinde Knabe (The blind hoy)
ELIZABETH GALE (soprano who also reads the 18th-century English poem on which the song is based)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)