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Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegel
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
Grainger The Merry King MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
Glazunov Characteristic Suite, Op 9
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ALGIS ZURAITIS gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition, for piano, by GEOFFREY NORRIS. Recent records of orchestral music reviewed by STEPHEN DODGSON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Schubert
Sonata in A (D 959)
WALTER KLIEN (pianO)
Songs: An die Musik: Die Forelle; Du bist die Ruh' HERMANN PREY (baritone) LEONARD HOKANSON (pianO) gramophone records

leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD IDA HAENDEL (violin) Part 1
Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasia: Romeo and Juliet
Saint-Sacns Violin Concerto No 3, in B minor
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Halle Orchestra Part 2 Nielsen
Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable)
BBC Manchester

Braque's Still Life with Herrings in the Tate Gallery, London
The last in a series of six talks by different speakers on important paintings in British collections.
John Nash , author of Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, believes this painting, dating from about 1910, to be one of the finest examples of Cubism. He examines the picture both for the light it sheds on the nature of Cubism and for the aesthetic pleasure it affords.
(This talk will be printed in THE LISTENER, dated 1 June. The complete set fl.50, ine postage, from BBC Publications, 144/152 Bermondsey Street, London [Postcode removed])

Songs. Duets and Quartets performed by THE SONGMAKERS' ALMANAC

Sir Idris Foster , Treasurer of the National Library of Wales and an expert on the old Celtic language, introduces a programme which includes two works by Welsh composers. and his own reading of a few lines from the medieval lament for Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in a flat major, Op 19
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano), who also directs the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (RIAS Berlin recording)
Haydn String Quartet in a major, Op 54 No 3
ALBERNI STRING QUARTET Beethoven Fantasy in c minor and major, for piano, chorus and orchestra, Op 80 JORG DEMUS
SINGVEREIN DER GESELLSCHAFT
DER MUSIKFREUNDE
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GERHARD LANG (Austrian Radio recording)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Anthony Thwaite (in the Chair), talks with Marghanita Laski , Peter Porter and Marina Vaizey. Producer LEONIE COHN

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. Today's guest Jukka Savijokl plays music by Bergman. Gas-par Sanz, Moreno-Torroba and Vilen and talks to MICHAEL JESSETT
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Opera in three acts Music by Janacek
Libretto by CERVINKA based on OSTROVSKY'S The Storm (sung in Czech: records)
Another in the series of Janacek operas in this, the 50th anniversary year of his death. This recording of Katya won the Gramophone award for the 1977 Record of the Year.
CHORUS OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Act I

Reflections on current affairs. Theodore Zeldin. Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and historian of modern France, gives the second of four fortnightly talks.

Act 2

by John Edmunds
As an introduction to tomorrow's broadcast of the play, Dr Edmunds, who is Head of Drama at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, reviews Racine as a play-wright, examines Britannicus as a subject and discovers some interesting parallels with modern playwrights.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Britannicus is tomorrow night's World Drama at 7.20 pm. and on Tuesday extracts from the Comfdie francaise production are introduced by Hallam Tennyson at 11.5 pm)

Act 3

Eight programmes on the role and significance of Islam in contemporary society, 4: Iran
Professor Hamid Enayat, of St Antony's College, Oxford, and the University of Tehran, examines the distinctive characteristics of Shi'ite Islam in Iran, Us relationship to Sufi mysticism, and the relevance of a new and vigorous Islamic modernism to current social and political issues in Iranian society. Producer JOHN THOMAS

In this extended edition of Radio 3's regular look at the world of popular music Derek Jewell covers several styles of the day. From JETHRO TULL comes what their leader, IAN ANDERSON , describes as ' English music ' - a hymn to rural living and its sights and sounds: the band's new album, Heavy Horses. TELEVISION produce their own kind of rock 'n' roll poetry - songs from their album. Adventure, and there are singing contrasts from ELKIE BROOKS and ESTHER PHILLIPS : records

Erlkonig
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (sop) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) (gramophone record)