Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.13* Scrlabln Piano Concerto in f sharp minor VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
7.411 Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche CHICAGO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.15* Schubert Rondo In A (D 438)
JOSEF suK (violin)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.29* Beethoven Symphony Nol.inc
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT gramophone records

Puccini
La Fandulla del West: Act 2
Minnie, owner of the ' Polka ' bar
CAROL NEBLETT (soprano)
Dick Johnson , leader of a gang of Mexican outlaws
PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
Jack Rance , Sheriff
SHERRILL MILNES (bar)
Other parts sung by ANNE WILKENS , PAUL HUDSON , FRANCIS EGERTON , ROBERT LLOYD , JONATHAN SUMMERS
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA gramophone records

guest leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by GERARD AKOKA
RALPH HOLMES (violin) Berg Violin Concerto

First of two recitals by WALTER KLIEN
Sonata in B flat major (k 281)
Fantasy in D minor (k 397) Nine Variations on a Minuet by Duport (K 573)
Sonata in B flat major (K 570)

IFOR JAMES (horn)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor
KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER Part 1
Schubert, orch Webern German Dances
Schubert Symphony No 7. in e major (realisation by Brian Newbould )

Michael Schmidt

Part 2
Strauss Horn Concerto No 2. in E flat major; Symphonic Poem: Don Juan (A public lunchtime concert, recorded in the Ctty Hall , Glasgow, on 15 Nov) BBC Scottand

direct from the Library Theatre
Craig Sheppard (piano)
Brahms Variations on an original theme, Op 21 No 1
Variations on a Hungarian song, Op 21 No 2
Sonata No 1, in c, Op 1
(The fifth of 12 concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC) BBC Manchester

The Opening Concert of the 250th Anniversary Festival of St John's, Smith Square, London, given on 20 June.
GIDON KREMER (violin)
ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S, SMITH SQUARE leader RICHARD DEAKIN conductor JOHN LUBBOCK Part 1
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
Alfred Schnittke Violin Concerto No 2

A series of short talks, with long thoughts behind them.
Musical Mis-direction: Geoffrey Bush on the Football Supporter of the Second Viennese School.

Part 2
Schubert Polonaise In B flat major, for violin and orchestra (D 580)
Beethoven Concerto Movement, for violin and orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No 2, in D major
(In association with BAT Industries Ltd)

Tchaikovsky wrote his Piano Trio in A minor as a tribute to his friend, the pianist, Anton Rubin stein. It will be followed by records of three Rachmaninov songs and a Shostakovich string quartet.
Tchaikovsky Trio in minor. Op 50
igor ZHUKOV (piano)
GRIGORI FEIGIN (violin) VALENTIN FEICIN (cello)
4.49* Rachmaninov 0. never sing to me again, Op 4 No 4: How fair this spot. Op 21 No 7; What wealth of rapture, Op 34 No 12
ELISABETH SÖDERSTRÖM (soprano)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
4.59* Shostakovich Quartet No 11, in F minor
BORODIN STRING QUARTET gramophone records

for St Andrew 's Night
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DAVID MURRAY , Deputy Director, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, introduces a performance of ' The Lament for Mary MacLeod ' by one of Scotland's leading pipers, John MacFadyen. BBC Scotland

A sequence of music for the early evening

Presented by Jack Brymer Giulini conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Ravel Suite: Mother Goose Debussy La mer
(RMS Berlin recording)
Plus a mystery piece for piano solo

Conditions of Agreement by JOHN WHITING with and In trying to come to terms with the irrational violence and unreasoning fear rampant at the end of the 40s, John Whiting , in this relatively unknown play, influenced all the major post-war playwrights. Peter Bembo 's arrival acts as a catalyst for the Doon household, and a sense of menace grows as their hatred and fears find a victim.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
(A shortened version was broadcast on Radio 4 on 3 April)

Ballet: The Three-cornered Hat
TERESA BERGANZA (mezzo-soprano)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET : records

About 20 billion or so years ago, the explosion ofasuper-denseballof matter signalled the beginning of the universe - at least according to the ' Big Bang ' theory. But does this theory account for all the curious astronomical phenomena that have been observed! John Maddox asks Professor Jean-Claude Pecker of the College de France in Paris, and Professor Martin Rees of the Institute of Astronomy at Cam-bridge, are there any holes in the ' Big Bang ' theory?
Producer GEOFF DEERAN
(Repeated: next Tuesday on Radio 4 UK)

director LEONARD FRIEDMAN arr Elliott Airs and Dances of Renaissance Scotland
11.26* Francesco Barsantl Overture in D, Op 4 No 2
11.32* Nielsen Little Suite gramophone record

Das war ich
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)