With MEMBERS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Villa-Lobos Introduction (Bachianas Brasileiras No 1): 12 CELLISTS
Poulenc Le bal masqué DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone). WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano) CHAMBER ENSEMBLE trad Gospel Train
Lennon/McCartney Yesterday
W. C. Handy St Louis Blues: 12 CELLISTS
Gounod Ballet Music (Faust. Act 5): conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Hoist's The Planets, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
New records of pre-classlcal music, reviewed by LIONEL SALTER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Elizabethan settings of poems by Robert Dev ereux, Earl of Essex and by Sir Walter Raleigh CAMERATA OF LONDON
Songs from Shakespeare's plays: JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor)
JAMES TYLER (lutes) gramophone records

PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (SOp) ATHENA ENSEMBLE
Berio Opus Number Zoo, for wind quintet
Robin Holloway Diverti mento No 3 (Nursery Rhymes), for soprano and wind quintet (first performance)

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.

LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Bartok Quartet No 2
Haydn Quartet in c major, Op 20 No 2

Ronald Eyre spent four years making the series The Long Search - currently being repeated on BBC2. He set out, he says, to explore objectively man's religious quest; but it was a journey in which personal involvement was inevitable. This afternoon he talks about his own long search, as well as about his continuing involvement with the theatre, and introduces a personal choice of music.

(gramophone records)

ROHAN DE SARAM (Cello)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Part 1 Prokofiev
Cello Concerto in E minor

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
The pianist David Wilde talks about The Roots of Music.

Part 2
Prokoflev Ballet: The Prodigal Son
BBC Manchester

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week: Michael Sehmidt (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork. Gillian Reynolds and Claire Tomalin.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. In today's edition, recorded at The Moot Room. Exeter University, Sharon Isbin plays music by Alblniz, Bach. Granados. Ponce and Walton and talks to MICHAEL JESSETT and members of the audience.
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Opera in three acts Libretto by PIAVE based on VICTOR HUGO 'S Le Roi s'amuse Music by Verdi (sung in Italian)
A performance by Scottish Opera
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus director JOHN CURRIE
SCOTTISH PHILHARMONIA leader JOHN TUNNELL conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON Act 1
(A production sponsored by Commercial Union Assurance recorded on 26 April in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow)

Richard Goolden introduces and reads the first of three extracts from Francois Rabelais's "Gargantua and Pantagruel" in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation.

(Next prog: next Sat)

Act 2
S.20* Interval Reading S.30* Rigoletto, Act 3

' I never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' (JOHN RUSKIN) What greater sarcasm can Mr Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men what he cannot perform? '
(JAMES MCNEILL WIIISTLER)
In 1878 Whistler sued Ruskin for libel over his criticism of Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket when it was exhibited in London at the ' Greenery-yallery Grosvenor Gallery '. The two-day trial was a tragicomedy which emphasised the breach that was being driven between the avant-garde artist and the public - a breach which has continued to this day.
The story is told by Eleanor Bron , with and Written by DAVID THOMPSON Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Introduced by Derek JeweU
Last year it seemed that the British band, UK, were fragmenting just when they created a memorable first album. Now, the reorganised group have produced a second fascinating set of compositions. Derek Jewell plays extensively from their repertoire tonight, and also features songs by ANGELA BOFILL and DUSTY SPRINGFIELD , together with an imaginative interpretation of Ravel by ART FARMER and JIM HALL. gramophone records