PHILIP CHALLIS (piano) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Delibes Suite : Le roi s'amuse
7.21* Honegger Pastorale d'été
7.31* Scriabln Piano Concerto in F sharp minor

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Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
8.16* Faurl Suite: Masques et bergamasques
8.31* Borodin Symphony No 2, in B minor

Mozart in 1786 The high point of this year, in which Mozart celebrated his 30th birthday, was the first performance of his opera, The Marriage o/ Figaro. But he also completed 21 other pieces, from which the week's programmes are drawn.
Overture: The Impresario DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
9.10* Horn Concerto No 4, in E flat (K 495): DENNIS BRAIN, PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
S.27* Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491) CLIFFORD CURZON LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ : records

Haydn Quartet in G, Op 64 No 4
Tippett Quartet No S
10.55* Interval Reading
11.0* Delmé String Quartet Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in E flat, Op 74 BBC Birmingham

guest leader RAYMOND COHEN , conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
GARY KARR (double-bass)
Haydn Symphony No 35, in B flat major
Dragonetti Double-bass Concerto in A major
Schubert Symphony No 1, in D major

CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) MARY THOMAS (soprano) NASH ENSEMBLE
Stravinsky Four Russian Songs; Three pieces for solo clarinet (ANTONY PAY) Bax Two Russian Tone Pictures, for piano: Nocturne (May Night in the Ukraine); Gopak (Russian National Dance)
Stravinsky Epitaphium ; Elegy, for solo viola (BRIAN HAWKINS); Fragment, from Symphonies of wind instruments (In Memory of Debussy) for piano axElegiacTrio
Stravinsky Three Songs from Wilham Shakespeare

Alan Harverson plays the organ in the chapel of Cranleigh School, Surrey Michel Corrette Magnificat du deuxieme ton
Heinrich Scheidemann Prelude in G (wv 73)
Johann Pachelbel Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
Johannes Speth Toccata No 6
Johann Ludwig Krebs Chorale Prelude: Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, 0
Herr; Toccata and Fugue in E

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Messager Suite: The Two Pigeons
Schubert Entr'acte in 9 flat (Rosamunde)
Gordon Langford Four Movements for string orchestra
Vaughan Williams Serenade to music
Nicolal Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Berg Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Brahms Piano Trio in c, Op 87
JOSEF suit (violin)
JANOS STARKER (Cello) JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
Zemlinsky Lyric Sym phony
DOROTHY DOROW (soprano) SIEGMUND NIMSGERN (baritone)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GABRIELE FERRO

A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.
Part 1

Part 2

Presented by Jack Brymer Sextet, Trio, Nonet
W. F. E. Bach Sextet in E flat
Haydn Divertimento in o, for flute, violin and cello (H IV 7)
Spohr Nonet In r, Op 31

David Munrow talks about his favourite instrument, the recorder, and introduces some of its exotic relatives: the spilapipa, caena and ocarina.

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Peter Frankl (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, guest leader Harry Cawood, conductor Walter Weller

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for strings

Schumann: Konzertstuck in F major, for piano and orchestra (arranged from Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra, Op 86) (first UK performance)

A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E "flat major (Eroica)

'The Border District of Scotland was, of all districts of the inhabited world, pre-eminently the singing country - that which most naturally expressed its noble thoughts and passions in song.'
Roger Kendall examines the Great Border Ballads sung on the Scottish/English border from the 14th century onwards. with the voices of TOM FLEMING , RUSSELL HUNTER, EILEEN MCCALLUM and JOHN SHEDDEN
Ballads sung by TERRY CONWAY and RAY FISHER Northumbrian pipes played by JAMES HALL
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Handel Sonata In F major. Op 1 No 12
Leclair Sonata in e minor, Op 5 No 6 (Le tombeau)
Biber Sonata In G minor (Passacaglia), for solo violin
Bach Sonata in G major (bwv 1021)
MONICA HUGGETT (baroque violin), WILLIAM HUNT (viola da gamba). ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)

BALLOON
Introduced by Charles Fox