This morning's programme explores Vivaldi's German connections. For a time in 1716/7 Vivaldi taught a distinguished German pupil, J. G. Pisendel (1687-1755), a violinist in, and later leader of the court orchestra in Dresden. The two men evidently struck up a close friendship and there are a number of manuscripts in the Dresden library which bear the dedication 'fatto per il Sign Pisendel
The concerto Op 3 No 8 is one which J. S. Bach later transcribed for organ.
Vivaldi Concerto in c, for strings (RV 146): 1 SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
8.12* Vivaldi Andante from Violin Sonata in A (rv 29) PIERO TOSO (violin)
EDOARDO FARINA (harpsichord) GIANNI CHIAMPAN (Cello)
8.15* Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (per l'orchestra di Dresda) (RV 577)
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS STADLMAIR
8.25* Pisendel Violin Concerto in D
EDUARD MELKUS MUNICH PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT REDEL
8.41. Vivaldi Concerto in A minor, Op 3 No 8
ROBERTO MICHELUCCI (Violin) ANNA MARIA COTOGNI (Violin) I musici: records

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Handel Trio-Sonata in c minor, Op 2 No 1
SCOTTISH BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
9.19* Bruch Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Op 88a NATHAN TWINING
MARTIN BERKOFSKY LONDONSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
9.43. Walton Symphony No 1, in B flat minor (mono) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962): an anniversary tribute by DAVID . BLAKE Cheltenham: at the start of the 34th International Festival, a conversation with RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT and a visit to the Holst birthplace museum. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

in D major, Op 123 bv
Beethoven HEATHER HARPER (soprano) JULIA HAMARI (contralto) GORDON GREER (tenor)
NICOLAS HILLEBRAND (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR
MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
(Recording from the 1977 Bonn Beethoven Festival made available by courtesy of West German Radio)

Denis Donoghue , Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 3.10 pm)

The final programme in the United Kingdom stage of this year's competition, in which Bernard Keeffe reviews the six Class winners and announces the award for the Best United Kingdom Choir for 1978.
OLDHAM CHOIR; READING PHOENIX CHOIR; ST BERNARD 'S CONVENT CHOIR; READING MALE VOICE CHOIR; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SINGERS, BANGOR; BULMERSHE GIRLS' CHOIR Adjudicators: CHARLES BEAETDSALL NOEL COX , IAN CARSON

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.40 am)

Opera in a prologue and four acts. Music by Rimsky-Korsakov Text by the composer after a fairy-tale by ostrovsky
(sung in Russian: records)
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV Prologue and Act 1

' Perhaps none of us know who we are and we make everything up in the end. But continually I try to write it down, the way it was.'
Beryl Bainbridge, novelist and playwright, winner of The Guardian Fiction Award for The Bottle Factory Outing, analyses her approach to her craft.

Act 2

The Atrakening Conscience by Alan Bowness
Holman Hunt was 27 In 1853 when he painted The Awakening Conscience, now in the Tate Gallery in London. It is a picture of illumination and personal revelation, the secular counterpart of The Light of the World. Alan Bowness , art historian, considers the picture's allusions to the Bible and to such contemporary literary giants as Tennyson and Dickens.

Acts 3 and 4

This week, a programme marking the 60th birthday on 5 July of the American composer George Rochberg. The music comes from three decades, and charts Rochberg's unusual progress from his early lyrical 12-tone writing, via his first use of ' assemblages or collages of different musics ', to his current aesthetic position, in which the notion of ' originality ' is abandoned and the music makes free use of the styles of earlier periods. Serenata d'estate (1955) (first broadcast in this country: record)
CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by ARTHUR WEISBERG Contra mortem et tempus (1956. : CAPRICORN
Part C (March; Finale: Scherzos and Serenades) from String Quartet No 3 (1972) (first broadcast in this country: record)
CONCORD STRING QUARTET

The uses and abuses of history A discussion between David Pownall , Stephen Boxer and Malcolm Ruthven as an introduction to-

by David Pownall
with music by Stephen Boxer
with members of the Paines Plough Company:
Stephen Boxer as George Orwell/Richard III (guitar, crumhorn, electric piano), Diana Kyle as Louise/Richard, Duke of York (guitar, electric piano, glockenspiel, sopranino recorder, crumhorn, percussion), Robert Mclntosh as George McMasters/Warwick/King Edward/Henry Tudor (nordic lyre, percussion), Eric Richard as Francis Lovell/King Louis (penny whistle, dulcimer, percussion), Harriet Walter as Cecily Neville/Edward (flute, psaltery, glockenspiel, percussion), Fiona Victory as Elizabeth Woodville (rebec, nordic lyre, percussion), Joe Marcell as Chrysostom (percussion)
John Adams as Announcer

The action of the play moves in and out of the years 1948, 1984. 1484 and 1485. Richard III - Part Two has been presented at the National Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival.

Directed for radio by IAN COTTERELL

(Stereo & Quad)

guest leader HUGH MAGUIRE conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
MOURA LYMPANY (piano)
Scriabin Piano Concerto in r sharp minor
Martinu Symphony No 5

(piano)
Schumann Symphonic Studies; Abegg Variations, Op 1

Back in 1988 Albert Hunt staged a documentary play, The Destruction of Dresden: A Carnival for St Valentine's Eve, with his Theatre Group at Bradford College, where he is Senior Lecturer in Community Arts. He has taken similar productions all over Europe and It has always been his ambition to present his Dresden play In Dresden itself. The opportunity eventually came this spring, and he reports on the experience of taking his company to East Germany, and on their meetings there with students, members of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble, and citizens of Dresden,

String Quartet in a Bat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
AMAOIUS STRING QUARTET gramophone record

Hector's Farewell (Hektors Abschied: English translation by Leslie Minchin )
FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
ANTHONY RANSOME (baritone) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)