anon and friends A sequence of German Renaissance songs and dances CAPELLA MONACENSTS, directed by KURT WEINHOPPEL
7.15* Bach Italian Concerto (BWV 971)
IGOR KIPNIS (harpsichord)
7.28* Spohr Octet in E, Op 32: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET: records

Music for Marie Antoinette Breny Overture in c LIÈGE SOLOISTS directed by gery LEMAIRE
8.14* Saint-Georges Concertante in c, Op 13, for two violins and strings HUGUETTE FERNANDEZ
GINETTE CARLES
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
8.28* Fiocco Jubilate Deo JULES BASTIN. (bass) LIEGE SOLOISTS directed by gery LEMAIRE
8.41* Gossec Concerto in d, from the ballet Mirza LILY LASKINE
ODETTE LE DENTU (harps) JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD: records

Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli
Music by Giovanni alone: including ' In Ecclesiis a Magnificat in 14 parts and instrumental works. among them the Sonata pian e forte: records

conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
Richard Rodney Bennett
Serenade Sibelius Romance in c Horovitz Sinfonietta
BBC Northern Ireland

LEILA WARD (oboe), GILBERT ROWLAND , (harpsichord and piano), CHRISTOPHER BOOTH-JONES (baritone), STEPHEN RALLS (piano)
Loeillet Sonata in c, for oboe and harpsichord Faur£ Poeme d'un jour: Rencontre; Toujours; Adieu
Schubert Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Das Fischermadchen ; An die
Leier Butterworth I fear thy kisses;
Requiescat Warlock Rest , sweet nymphs
Ireland Great things
Gordon Jacob Sonatina. for oboe and harpsichord Alan Richardson Rounde lay, for oboe and piano

Mark Varshavsky (cello) Khachaturyan Sonata-Fantasy
Britten Suite. Op 72

conducted by SERGIU COMESSIONA
GERHARD OPPITZ (piano) Part 1 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4, in G

PETER BARKER looks at some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead,

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 1, in D
(A public concert given in the City Hall by the City of Newcastle upon Tyne on 26 January) BBC Manchester

Cyril Scott (born 1879)
Philip Cannon (born 1929) Franz Schmidt (died February 1939)
In each case the music mixes more than one national flavour.
Scott Lotus Land; Souvenir de Vienne
Cannon Sonatine champetre
Scott Water Wagtail; Valse caprice; Impromptu (A mountain brook)
Schmidt Intermezzo (Quintet in A); Toccata BENJAMIN KAPLAN (piano)

Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Nights Dream: ROYAL philharMONIC ORCHESTRA (rec 1946) Berlioz Symphonic fantastique: FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA : records

Happy Birthday. Handel Dear Mr Handel
Today, being your 294th birthday, we would like to offer you a series of musical presents suggested by the under-20s to bring you up to date on what has happened to your music and style since 1759.
Mozart, Beethoven,
Lukas Foss , the Swingle Singers,
Samuel Butler. Sir
Michael Tippett and even the One Experience Choir have all made contributions which we trust you will accept in the anniversary spirit in which they are offered by your humble and obedient servant
Christopher Hogwood gramophone records

A sequence of music for the early evening.

Part 2

Presented by Jack Brymer From concerts at Carnegie Hall
Johann Strauss Overture: The Gypsy Baron
NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH KLEIBER Brahms Symphony No 2 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BRUNO WALTER
(Voice of America recordings from concerts given in 1947 and 1951) Series producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol .

Music for one and two pianos, played by SUSAN BRADSHAW , PETER DICKINSON and RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT gramophone record

Colin Parr (clarinet)
Lindsay String Quartet
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Tippett Quartet No 2

Written and performed by Ivor Cutler. Producer
PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Part 2 Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A
(Given before an invited audience at the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham) BBC Birmingham

Notes toward a portrait of Wallace Stevens in words and music by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
The American poet Wallace Stevens composed much of his poetry walking to the office.
Music played by members Of the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON The best programme about a poet I have heard for a very long time.
(NEW STATESMAN)

conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY , With VINCENTE ZARAO PITARCH (horn)
Malcolm Arnold Horn Concerto No 2
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
(Netherlands Radio recording)

Benevolent benefactor or ' self perpetuating oligarchy '?
Rodney Mitnes examines the hands that hold the purse-strings of public music-making at the Arts Council of Great Britain. Producer NATALIE WHEEN

LUCIA popf (soprano) SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GERHARD WIMBERGER
Basta vincesti - Ah, non lasciarmi, no (K 486a); Alma grande e nobil core (K 578); Nehmt meinen Dank. ihr holden Gonner I 383)
(Austrian Radio recording)