A series of eight programmes devoted to the Latin church music of the great Tudor composers, each one including a setting of the Mass, as well as organ music of the period, played by THURSTON DART and others, and some shorter liturgical pieces: Antiphons, Responds and Motets.
Todays programme includes: Ta-verner Mass: Corona Spinea SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD directed by JOHN BYRT : records

Mehul Overture: Le tresor suppose (mono)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.11* Couperln Le carillon de Citbere imono) SOLOMON (piano)
9.13* Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme. Op 33
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
9.32* Dukas Scherzo: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
NEW YORK PRILHARMONICORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
9.42* Puccini Si. mi chiamono Mimi (La Boheme)
ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
9.48* Liszt Legend No 2: Saint Francis walking on the waters MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
9.58* Emmanuel Bendeville (born 29 October 1898). Les Illuminations i mono)
BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES SÉBASTIEN: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
' Cries; a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow ': Debussy's assessment, re-assessed by CHRISTOPHER GRIER.
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON disCUSSeS his Mass of Christ the King. The Musician's Bookshelf: a reyiew of some recent publications.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
YVONNE MINTON (mezzo-soprano) Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Mahler Kindertotenlieder

Michael Schmidt , poet and publisher, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)

Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 9. in E minor (From the New World)
(Austrian Radio recording)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.40 am)

Partita in B minor (French Overture)
JAMES FRISKIN (piano)

Opera in four acts
Music by Amilcare Ponchielli
Libretto by ARRIGO BOITO , after VICTOR HUGO
(sung in Italian: records) with the CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA, ROME conducted by FERNANDO PREVITALI
The action takes place in Venice in the 17th century. Acts 1 and 2

And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
(Jaques in As You Like It)
A selection of poems on Jaques' theme, presented by ANTHONY THWAITE and read by GARY WATSON.
1: Birth and Infancy
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

Acts 3 and 4

Tadeusz Gadzina (violin)
Pawel Losakiewicz (violin) Artur Paciorkiewicz (viola) Wojciek Walasek (cello)
Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op. 59

In the second of two talks on the Moscow diaries of Veljko Micunovic , Christopher Cviic discusses the former Yugoslav ambassador's acute personal observations of such Russian leaders as Khrushchev, Zhukov and Suslov and the way they ran the Soviet Union. (Rpl)

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in A minor, Op 132
(Recordingmadeavailableby courtesy of Hungarian Radio)

Second of two Latin-American programmes introduced by Alicia Terzian
This week, music from her own country, Argentina
Augusto Rattenbach Canciones obvias y adolescentes
ADELAIDA NEGRI (soprano)
MARTIN TOW (clarinet)
DOMINGO GARREFFA (horn)
MARTA BONGIORNO (piano)
Guillermo Graetzer Sestina RAFAEL GINTOLI (violin)
HECTOR MORENO (piano)
Eduardo Alemann Concertino a tre: HOBACIO BRODSKY (violin)
MARTIN TOW (clarinet)
RENE DERKS (piano) Luis Maria Serra Visiones (electro-acoustic music) Alicia Terzian Carmen Criaturalis DOMINGO GARREFFA (horn) PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF BUENOS AIRES conducted by JUAN CARLOS ZORZI (tirst broadcasts in this country)

by Tom Mallin

The imperious Arnold Butterworth goes to a convalescent home after a cancer operation. He meets the other patients in a sad story laced with ironic humour.

followed by an interlude

A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 conducted by Carlo Maria GlulinI In his first season as Principal Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in d minor (Choral)
Carol Neblett (soprano)
Claudine Carlson (mezzo-sop) Robert Tear (tenor) Simon Estes (bass)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Chorus
Introduced by Michael Berkeley

1929-1978
At the time of his death earlier this year, John Mackintosh was Labour mp for Berwick and East Lothian - where the by-election was held last week-and Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. In this talk, David Marquand , now Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Salford, assesses his friend's contribution to national politics at Westminster and to the teaching of Political Science.

String Quartet No 8, in c minor FITZWILLIAM QUARTET: record

Gesang der Norna (from Scott's The Pirate)
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano): record