Variations on ' Come un' agnello' from Sarti's Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (x 460)
WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Three Nocturnes (k 436, 438-9): ELLY AMELING , ELISABETH COOYMANS (sopranos)
PETER VAN DER BILT (bar)
MEMBERS OF THE NETHER
LANDS WIND ENSEMBLE
Variations on ' Salve tu, Domine' (K 398)
WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Menuetto (Duets for two horns, K 487)
HENK AND IMAN SOETEMAN
Piano Concerto No 16, in D (K 451): PETER SERKIN
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER : records

Marin Marais La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE
9.13* Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No 4, in D minor, Op 31: ITZHAK PERLMAN
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, COnducted byDANIELBARENBOIM
9.44* Berlioz Symphony: Harold in Italy, Op 16
DANIEL BENYAMINI (Viola) ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA : records

First in a new series of magazine programmes about this year's Proms, featuring some of the music to be heard and interviews with many of the performers taking part. This week, ROBERT PONsonby, the BBC's Controller of Music, on the series as a whole.
Interpreting Bach cantatas - a conversation with JOHN BECKETT.
MICHAEL LANKESTER on Britten's Pagodas. Presented by Jeremy Slepmann
Producer PIERS BURTON PAGE

This week, the first of four 1971 concerts conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ , who became Music Director and Principal Guest Conductor of the orchestra after George Szell 's death Debussy Nocturnes CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
CHORUS (WOMEN'S VOICES) Schoenberg Erwartung
HELGA PILARCZYK (soprano)

' Charlotte? The last time I saw her, the darling, she was manning the National Art Collection stand at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair.'
Roy Strong reflects on fashions in dress and culture.

Part 2
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1, Op »
Varese Arcana (Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)

The final programme in the United Kingdom round of the competition, In which all the winning choirs can be heard, and Bernard Keeffe announces the award for the Best UK Choir of 1979 SCOTTISH PHILHARMONIC
SINGERS, EXETER UNIVERSITY SINGERS, READING PHOENIX LADIES CHOIR, CHAPTER HOUSE CHOIR, CHETBAM'S CHAMBER CHOIR LONDON CHORALE, EXON SINGERS
Adjudicators DR EDGAR BOUCHER , NOEL COX, CARETS WALTERS

NIGEL KENNEDY (Violin) YiTKiN seow (piano)
Cbausson Poeme , for violin and piano
Chopin Nocturne In c minor, for piano, Op 48 No 1
Ysaye Sonata in D minor, for violin, Op 27 No 3
Brahms Sonata in a minor, for violin and piano, Op 108
(Given in the Royal Exchange Theatre)

Authentic Listening: a talk by composer Sebastian Forbes

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN
Mahler Symphony No I

John Loeillet Suite No 1. from Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet': MERSEEL (harpsichord)
Jacques Loeillet Concerto in E flat, for oboe and orchestra
KU EBBINGE (haroque oboe) ' MUSICA ANTIQUA ' BAROQUE ORCHESTRA OF AMSTERDAM conductor TON KOOPMAN
(Belgian Radio recording)

A series of three programmes in which Peter Fryer talks about the traditional music of black Africa and shows what happened when it crossed the Atlantic.

(Neo-African Music in the New World: next Sunday)

Gillian Weir gives the first of a series of five programmes in which British organists talk about two of their favourite instruments and play recordings they have made on them.

Haydn: Divertimento No 8, in A major
Michael Berkeley: String Trio (first broadcast performance)

I wanted to use. in my verse, a selection of the real language of men " - though it wasn't poetic diction that discomfited me, but a language that made me an alien in my own country.'
The Edinburgh poet
Robert Garioch reads a selection of his verse in Scots and English.

Producer: Fraser Steel
BBC Manchester

Part 2
Lennox Berkeley String
Trio. Op 19
Beethoven Trio In G major, Op 9 No 1
(A public concert given m the Wtgmore Hall , London, on 3 December 1978) followed by an interlude

Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2
An opera in three acts Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
Full cast details: page 33
Act 1
8.25* Interval Reading
8.35* Der Rosenkavalier Act 2

A short story by JOHN SEWELL
Read by Margaret Whiting
What one dislikes about
Pain is its lack of dignity. Pain must be *orn with decorum; it's de rigueur in the best circles. " De rigueur mortis ", the same nurse said. She was invaluable, that nurse.' producer DAVID SPENSER

Act 3

Regarded as a major "gure during his lifetime, Bloch has fallen into relative neglect. Alexander Knapp examines the essential Jewishness of his artistic personality. followed by an interlude