Continuing the series which will include all of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues as well as Handel's Op 6 ConcertiGrossi.
This week: Preludes and Fugues from Book II in the keys of F, G and E (major and minor), together with the Concerto Grosso in c minor (Op 6 No 8).
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
COLLEGIUM AUREUM directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Byrd The Bells TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
9.H* Monteverdi Lagrime d'amante (Sestina)
SCHÜTZ CONSORT, directed by ROGER NORRINGTON
9.30* Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 76 No 6 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
9.55* Copland Appalachian Spring
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Alexander Scriabin , the Musician, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
The Instrument Makers: 5 The Fluteinakers Guild. Giacomo Carissimi , and the Development of Oratorio and Cantata, by DENIS ARNOLD. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

First in a series of concerts recorded in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. The first two are conducted by the orchestra's music director, SIR GEORG SOLTI Part 1
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Shostakovich Symphony No 1, in F sharp minor, Op 10

The historian, Jonathan Steinberg , reflects on some of the things we say and write.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 3.20pm)

Part 2 Strauss
Two symphonic poems: Death and Transfiguration: Don Juan
(WFMT Chicago recording)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Mon 9.45 am)

Octet in E flat, Op 20
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN. THE-FIELDS
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
(Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 9 August 1976)

Opera in two acts
Libretto by CLAUS H. HEN , NEBERG after SHAKESPEARE. Music by Aribert Reimann Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role created for him. the realisation of a long-held dream. A recording of the world premiere at the Munich Opera Festival on 9 July 1978.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by GERD ALBRECHT Act 1
3.35* Ten Years In the Making
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau first suggested Lear as an operatic subject to Aribert Reimann in 1968. During the interval Chris de Souza talks to the composer about this fruitful collaboration and the growth of this complex work.
3.55* Lear. Act 2
(Bavarian Radio recording)

A short story by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by HARVEY PITCHER and JAMES FORSYTH
Read by Alan Bennett

GEMINI
Conductor PETER WIEGOLD
Marek Stachowski Musica da camera (1965) (lirst broadcast performance in this country)
Peter Wiegold The flowers appear on the earth (BBC Commission: first performance)
The flowers appear on the earth,
The time of the singing of birds is come.
I chanced on this quotation from the Song of Solomon when I had already begun work on this piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, harp. Percussion and guitar. It seemed to sum up my ideas perfectly, both about what the piece was to express and about how it was to be made.'
(PETER WIEGOLD)

JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARL PINI conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
Berlioz Le jeune patre breton
Havergal Brian Symphony No 27 (1966) (first performance)
Berlioz La captive
Brian Symphony No 31 (1968) (first performance) Berlioz Les nuits d'été
(A Havergal Brian Concert: Saturday 31 March)

The 1978 Reith Lectures on Christianity and the World Order, by Dr Edward Norman , started a national and international debate which has not lost its momentum. Tonight the issues arising from the relationship between religion and politics are discussed by Metropolitan of Sourozh, Head of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church in Britain. Father Jean-Yves Calvez. SJ. The Rev Canon David Edwards. Dean of Norwich, The Rev Dr Jose Miguez -Bonino. Professor of Theology, Instituto Superior de Estudios Teologicos, Buenos Aires and The Rev Dr Edward Norman. Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, the 1978 Reith Lecturer.
In the Chair
Derek Robinson

Sonata in D, for two pianos (K 448) ALFRED BRENOEL
WALTER KLIEN
Variations on ' Lison dormait ' (K 264)
WALTER KLIEN (piano) gramophone records

Das Lied von der Erde
AGNES BALTSA (contralto) HERMANN WINKLER (tenor) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Austrian Radio recording from the Whitsuntide Concerts, Salzburg)
(More Mahler in Wednesday's BBC Symphony Orchestra concert 8.0 pm)