The first of a series which will include all Mozart's Concertos played by different pianists

J.C. Bach Piano Sonata No 2. in D: Ingrid Haerler.

J.C. Bach, arr Mozart Piano Concerto in D (K 107 No 1): ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX. SAAR RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by Karl Ristenpart

Mozart God is our refuge (K 20): CHOIR OF ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, Conducted by Andrew Morris

Mozart Ergo interest, an quis (K 73a). Jill Gomez (soprano) SINFONIA OF ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, conducted by Andrew Morris

Mozart Piano Concerto No 1, in F (K 37): GEZA ANDA, CAMERATA ACADEMICA OF THE SALZBURG MOZARTEUM

(gramophone records)

Today's programme, appropriately for Palm Sunday, consists of one extended work: the Seven Last Words from the Cross, Op 51, by Haydn in the version for string quartet. The performers are the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET, and the music is interspersed with devotional texts, including poems by Donne, Herrick and Edith Sitwell , read by SIR PETER PEARS: record

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The ' Creation ' mystery: who wrote the words? ROGER FISKE investigates.
' Glorious John ': memories of Sir John Barbirolli. Webern: ROGER NICHOLS reviews the new biography by Hans Molden hauer

Recorded in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. In this fourth programme of the series, another performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, this time from the current season, under Carlos Kleiber. making his American debut.
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Schubert Symphony No 3, in D major

The historian Jonathan Steinberg. BBC Manchester (Rptd; Thurs 11.10 am)

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 5, in c minor
(WFMT Chicago recording)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Rptd: tomorrow 9.50 am)

A recital hy the young Greek pianist
Haydn Sonata in I flat (H XVI 52)
Prokofiev Sarcasms. Op 17 Franek Prelude, Chora) and Fugue

An opera in three acls. Libretto by BAILLI DU ROULLET. Music by Gluck (sung In French)
CHORUS AND NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF
RADIO FRANCE conducted by ANDRÉ JOUVE The action takes place in mythological Greece Act 1

Paul Scott won the 1977 Booker Prize for Stalling On, a sequel to his Raj Quartet. Four months later, on 1 March 1978, he died, aged 57.
For Richard Rhode * Tames, who describes himself as ' a child of the Raj ', Scott's Quartet and its sequel have a special poignancy.

Act 2
4. I5* Interval Reading
4.20* Alceste, Act 3
» Radio France recording)

or The Gift of Providence, Rhode Island
The American humorist, screenwriter and playwright S. J. Perelman is 75 this year. To mark this great event WOODY ALLEN , ALBERT HACKETT , LILLIAN HELLMAN , AL HIRSCHFELD), JOHN HOLLANDER , SIDNEY .1. NAMLEREP, ISRAEL SHENKER, SAUL STEINBERG and CASKIE STINNETT talk about his life and work, ED BISHOP reads from the canon. and the Maestro himself makes a few casual asides.
Edited and presented by PHILIP FRENCH

Florent Schmitt Quartet LONDON SAXOPHONE QUARTET Paul Patterson Comedy, for five winds
VEGA WIND QUINTET

24 Preludes, Op 84, for piano (first broadcast) played by THE COMPOSER

born 8 April 1889
Ninetieth Birthday Concert in aid of the Musicians Benevolent Fund in the presence of HRH The Duke of Kent direct from the Royal Albert Hal, London
Sarah Walker (mezzo-sop)
BBC Singers
director John Poole
BBC Symphony Chorus
conducted by Brian Wright
CBSO Chorus, chorus-master Gordon Clinton
BBC Symphony Orchestra
leader Bela Dekany
conducted by James Loughran, Vernon Handley and Norman Del Mar
Brahms Symphony No 4. in E minor (conducted by James Loughran)

(Stereo)

A short story by MICHAEL MACGRIAN
Read by Denys Hawthorne He began to look more like a man after 15, his voice changing - " the drake in the throat," they joked - and the changes seemed to make his susceptibilities more obvious, and that autumn, when the winter pig was slaughtered, his softness was demonstrated to all, save his gentle mother.' Producer MAURICE LEITCH f Repeat)

Part 2

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (conducted by Vernon Handley)

Elgar The Music Makers (conducted by Norman Del Mar)

(Sir Adrian Boult is the castaway in R4UK's Desert Island Discs on Tuesday at 12.20 pm; his 1970 Promenade Concert performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius will be broadcast on Thursday at 7.30 pm, R4UK)

Concerto for mandolin and string orchestra (RV 425) : TAKASHI OCHI
PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: record

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptl by ELIZABETH SMART Narrated by Maureen O'Brien
This classic story, first published in 1945, has been abridged for radio by the author. It is about a woman's obsessive love for a married man. Un- able to cope with her emotions, her sense of guilt, the endless waiting, she lives in a permanent state of anxiety and disquiet.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

DELMÉ STRING QUARTET
Martinu String Quartet No2 Berg String Quartet, Op 3 BBC Birmingham