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This week's programme Is devoted entirely to music by Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, for strings (RV 128): I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
8.11* Cello Concerto in A minor (RV 418): CHRISTINE WALEVSKA
NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT REDEL
8.21* Motet: In Furore (rv 626) ANNA MARIA BONDI (soprano)
LES SOLISTES DE PARIS, conducted by HENRI CLAUDE FANTAPIE
8.34* Chamber Concerto in G minor (RV 105)
FRANS BRUGGEN (recorder) JURG SCHAEFTLEIN (oboe)
ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin) OTTO FLEISCHMANN (baSSOOn)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) 8. 48* Violin Concerto in G, Op 9 NO 10: FELIX AYO , I MUSICI Records. See also 2.15 pm

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5. in D
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH Mozart Requiem Mass (K 626) ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baSS) ACADEMY CHORUS
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THS-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Charles Gounod : priest or man of the theatre? by JAMES HARDING.
ANTHONY MILNER introduces his new symphony.
The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti
Part 1
Tippett Symphony No 4

(Sir Michael Tippett's fourth symphony was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This is a recording of its first performance given in the Chicago Symphony Hall last October)

Denis Donoghue BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 2.20 pm)

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 7, in E major
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association recording)

International Amateur Choral Competition
The first of 15 programmes In which 40 choirs from 16 countries compete in six Classes for the International Trophies and for the BBC Silver Rose Bowl.
The series begins with two programmes devoted to the Large Choir Class.
Large Choir Class, Part I
Canada: VANCOUVER BACH CHOIR Finland: FLORAKÕREN AND BRAHE DJÄKNAR
Belgium: ROYAL CERCLE CHORAL JUPILLE ST-AMAND
UK: READING PHOENIX CHOIR
Bulgaria: GUSLA MALE VOICE FOLK CHOIR
Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the Adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
This year's International Jurors are:
NIKI VASKOLA (Finland), Chairman of the Jury; CHARLES BEARDSALL , BBC; WILFRIED BRENNECKE, West Germany; NAM-SU LEE, South Korea; GEORGI MINCHEV, Bulgaria; DRAGISA SAVIC, Yugoslavia; FRANÇOlS VERCKEN, France
(Let The Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

Antony Hopkins

Opera H three acts
Music by Antonio Vivaldt
Libretto by GRAZIO BRACCIOLI after the poem by ARIOSTO (sung in Italian: records)
I SOLISTI VENETI, conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE. Act 1

Paul Bailey , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel At the Jerusalem, and the E. M. Forster Memorial Award for A Distant Likeness, analyses his approach to his craft.

Act 2

by JOHN WHITE
Ever since Vasari's Lives of the Artists early Sienese art has been unfavourably compared with that of the Florentine painters.
John White , Professor of the History of Art at University College, London, asks us to forget received opinions and to look at the work of Duccio and his Sienese contemporaries - untrammelled by the prejudice of history.

Act 3

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 8: L'Exode

A selection of works from the 1977 festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, held in Bonn. Giuseppe Sinopoll Requiem Hashshirim
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHOIR conducted by HELMUT FRANZ
Danilo Terzl Lorenzini Concerto for piano and orchestra (with soprano voice)
ROSEMARIE ZARTNER (piano) MICHAELA KRAMER (Soprano) BONN NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE conducted by TONY ROEDER
Peter Schat Houdini Symphony (words by Adrian Mitchell )
SARAH VELDEN (soprano)
DlETBURG SPOHR (mezzo-soprano) JEROLD NORMAN (tenor) JAN DERKSEN (baritone) NETHERLANDS RADIO CHOIR SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST BOUR
(All first broadcasts in this country: West German Radio recordings)

The Conformer by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT translated by JAMES KIRKUP from a radio version by HANS BAUSMAN. With
Patrick Magee , Alan Dobie and Christopher Benjamin
An old Japanese proverb says ' If a nail sticks up, it will be hammered down '. That is the remorseless moral of this funny and frightening play.
Directed by JANE MORGAN followed by an interlude

from the 1978 Cheltenham Festival
Sonata in A minor (D 845) Four Impromptus (D 899)

John Warren. Head of German at the Oxford Polytechnic. describes life in the city during the Biedermeier period - 1815-1848. BBC Birmingham

Part 2 Sonata in D (D 850)

The Rise to Fame of Edward Irving 1792-1823
Gordon Strachan talks about the young Scottish preacher (later the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church) who. in 1822. took London's fashionable and intellectual elite by storm. followed by an interlude

So lasst mich scheinen (D 877 No 31: META SEINEMEYER (SOP) with orchestra (record: 1928)