Listeners' record requests Verdi String Quartet in E minor (orchestral version): NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ZINMAN
7.28* Henri Sauguet Bal let: Les forains
TOULOUSE CAPITOL ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHEL PLASSON

Delius In a summer garden: HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.20* Tchaikovsky Suite No 2, in c: NEW PHIL-HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI

Liszt Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil: EVA ANDOR (sop) FEMALE CHOIR OF GYOR HEDI LUBIK (harp)
GABOR LEHOTKA (Organ) conducted bv MIKLOS SZABO
9.16* Légendes: St Francois d'Assise: La predication aux oiseaux; St Francois de Paule mar-chant sur les flots
MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
9.37* Légende: Ste Cecile LIVIA BUDAI
(mezzo-soprano)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
HUNGARIAN RADIO, Conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK gramophone records

from Lichfield Cathedral played by Peter King
Mozart Fantasia in F minor (K 608)
Bach Two Chorale Preludes: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (bwv 684); Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot (bwv 678) Mendelssohn Sonata No 4, in B flat.BBCBirmmgham

STEFAN POPOV (Cello)
ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) Martinu Sonata No 1
Beethoven Sonata in F major. Op 5 No 1

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor
KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3. in G
Stravinsky Symphonies of wind instruments
Morris Pert Symphony No 2 (The Beltane Rites) (BBC Commission: first performance)

The 20th-Century Viennese: Susan Bradshaw talks about the piano music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg (Webern: see 3.15)

Part 2 Schumann Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Rhenish)
(A public lunchtime concert recorded in the City Hall, Glasgow, on 21 March) BBC Scotland

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation
This week a portrait of Brahms in his late 20s. Mark Rowlinson (bar)
Paul Hamburger (piano) Lawrence Pitchko (piano) Four songs to poems by Daumer (from the set, Op 32): Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Bitteres zu sagen denkst du; So stehn wir; Wie bist du, meine Konigin
Variations on a theme of Paganini, Op 35 (Book 1) Five songs to poems by Count Platen (from the set, Op 32): Wie rafft' ich mich auf; Ich schleich' umher; Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte; Wehe, so willst du mich wieder?; Du sprichst, dass ich mich tauschte.
Variations on a theme of Paganini (Book 2)
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets available from Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)

NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST BOUR (Part of a concert made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)

Tenth of 13 programmes
Kabalevsky Cello Sonata in b flat, Op 71
SASHA VECTOMOV (cello) JOSEF PALENICEK (piano)
Shostakovich Quartet No 11, in F minor. Op 122 BEETHOVEN QUARTET gramophone records

CHRISTIAN ALTENBURGER (violin)
AUSTRIAN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA Webern Six Orchestral Pieces, Op 6 (1928 version)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Ysaye Allemanda from Sonata No 4, in E minor, Op 27, for violin

Ligeti's Chamber Concerto is among the illustrations of Edith Vogel 's talk about Music and Tradition.

Part 2 Schubert Symphony No 9. in c major (Austrian Radio recording made at the 1978 Carinthian Summer Festival)

Lynn Peters , a young flautist who was one of the semi-finalists in BBCtv's 1978 Young Musician of the Year competition, plays music by Faure and Enesco with JANE DODD (piano)

A two-part sequence of music for the early evening

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Presented by Jack Brymer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Gramophone records of music by the composer from Ireland who, as an academic, taught and influenced several English composers of this century, and as a composer revitalised much that is essentially English, as well as expressing a nostalgia for the land of Erin.

(harpsichord)
Couperin Pieces de clavecin. Ordre 6 gramophone record

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Jennifer Smith (soprano) Peter Knapp (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra guest leader
RAYMOND COHEN conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1 Hindemith Overture: Neues vom
Tage Beethoven Twelve German Dances

In the 19th century one of the main questions in British politics was: Will there be self-government for the whole of Ireland? After ten years of violence in Northern Ireland the 'Irish Question' is still on the agenda.
F. S. L. Lyons, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and the biographer of Parnell and Yeats, argues that we must relate political solutions to cultural realities.
(A shortened studio version of the Brian Rankin Memorial Lecture which was given in Queen's University, Belfast, in December 1978)

Part 2 Prokofiev Incidental music to Hamlet (sung in Russian) (UK premiere) (Tickets available at 12.00 and £1.00 from the Box Office. Phone [number removed])

An imaginative reconstruction of the life and paintings of Richard Dadd (1817-1886) by ANGELA CARTER
Narrated by Frances Jeater and Philip Voss
Other parts played by ERIC ALLAN , PETER BALDWIN , MARGOT BOYD , NOEL HOWLETT and GODFREY KENTON Violin played by GEORGE FRENCH
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad.

Comic opera in two acts and a prologue by Poulenc, on the play by Apollinaire
(sung in English)
When Teresa bursts her balloon boobs and grows a beard, her husband puts on a dress and makes babies single-handed. Apollinaire's surprisingly topical spoof on women's liberation was written as early as 1903; Poulenc set it to music in 1944. John Copley introduces this recording of his recent production at the English National Opera
English National Opera Chorus, chorus-master Kenneth Cleveland
English National Opera Orchestra, leader Barry Collins, conducted by Howard Williams