Hummel Octet-Partita in E flat
CONSORTIUM CLASSICUM
8.16* Mozart Piano Concerto No 22. in E flat (K 482): ANNIE FISCHER
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALUSCH ; records

Listeners' record requests Beethoven Overture: Egmont, Op 84: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
9.13* Brahms Rhapsody in B minor, Op 79 No 1 (mono): EGON PETRI (piano)
9.21* Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky)
HUNGARIAN QUARTET
10.0* Stravinsky Ode CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
10.11* Suk Fantastic Scherzo, Op 25: CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK MACAL

This week: Scandinavia at the Proms: a conversation with SIR
ALEXANDER GIB
SON, and a preview by ROBERT LAYTON Of Sibelius's rarely heard KuUervo Symphony.
NICHOLAS MAW introduces the first of this year's BBC Prom Commissions, his La Vita Nuova. Presented by Jeremy Siepmann
Producer PIERS BURTON-PACE

A concert recorded last year under the direction Of LORIN MAAZEL
Leslie Bassett Echoes from an Invisible World (first UK broadcast)
Paganini Violin Concerto No 1, in D: MAURICE HASSON
11.55* Interval Reading
12.0* Concert. Part 2
Debussy Prélude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Scriabin Le poeme de l'extase (Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)

International Amateur Choral Competition

Finland: VANTAANJOKI SCHOOL CHOIR; South Korea: YONG KWANG GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR; Sweden: GIRLS' CHOIR OF THE STOCKHOLM MUSIC CLASSES; Belgium: LES DJAMBOTS

Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

CHRISTIAN
BLACKSHAW Schubert Allegretto in c minor (d 915)
Schumann Fantasiestiicke , Op 12
Chopin Introduction and Rondo in E flat, Op 16
(Given in February in the Library Theatre, Bradford) BBC Manchester

Opera in three acts
Music by Tchaikovsky Libretto by THE COMPOSER and v. p. BURENIN, after PUSHKIN'S Poltava (sung in Russian)
An episode in the Ukraine's struggle for independence.
CHORUS OF RADIO FRANCE chorus master
JACQUES JOUINEAU
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-PIERRE MARTT
(Radio France recording)

In the middle of Tchaikovsky's opera. Everett Helm talks about the composer's Inexplicable Marriage.

Act 2
4.15* Interval Reading
4.20* Mazeppa, Act 3

Christopher Headington talks about Chopin's First andFourthBallades,as recorded by Arrau, Ashkinazy, Cortot, Horowitz, Michelangeli, Paderewski, Richter, Rubinstein, and others.

SYDNEY STRING QUARTET Harry Curby (violin)
Dorel Tincu (violin), Alexandru Todicescu (viola) Nathan Waks (cello)
With EILENE HANNAN (SOp)

Transcriptions of music by Lully and Couperin for the theorbo, played by Nigel North : record

by FLANN O'BRIEN adapted for radio by ERIC EWENS with Niall Buggy Patrick Magee and Jim Norton
Set in Dublin in the 1930s, the main action takes place in the ' kingdom of the mind ' of the main character. Myles. a student at Trinity and an aspirant novelist.
The principal character is himself a novelist and his characters a rebellious bunch, who frequently take over the novel and indulge their own fancy. One of them begins to write yet another novel. A novel, within a novel, within a novel ...
Cast. in order of speaking:
Myles .......NIALL BUGGY Uncle ...PATRICK MCALINNEY Jesuit/Sweeny
ALLAN MCCLELLAND
Tipster/Lamont
SEANBARRrrT
Conan/Moling n DAVID BLAKE KELLY Finn/Trellis
DENYS HAWTHORNE
Brinsley........... JIM NORTON Kelly/Casey
HARRYWEBSTER
Shanahan ... KEVIN FLOOD Furriskey ..DONAL MCCANN Ronan/Corcoran
Bryne/Tracy ALAN BARRY Pooka WESLEY MURPHY Pooka ... PATRICK MAGEE Fairy KATE BINCHY
Orlick .........TOM MCCABE Cow ..... ELIZABETH MORGAN Technical presentation by JOCK FARRELL
Directed by RONALD MASON

A concert recorded earlier this evening in the usher Hall. Edinburgh Elly Ameling (soprano) Tamas Vasary and Peter Frankl (pianos) Scottish Chamber Orchestra leader JOHN TUNNELL conducted by Tamas Vasary Part 1
Bartok Divertimento for strings
Mozart Concert Aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te (K 505); Concerto in E flat, for two pianos 4K 365)

The moral and tragic dilemmas of Aeschylus' Oresteian trilogy are ultimately resolved for the best - or so it seems. But was the Athenian audience right to accept the plays' glaring contradictions, and the compromising way in which their city's patron goddess brings the protracted blood-feud to its conclusions? Philip Vella cott. critic and translator of the Greek Tragedians. offers a new interpretation of what the poet really meant.

Part 2
Mozart Concert Aria: Voi avete un cor fedele (K 217) Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A major (Italian) BBC Scotland

A series of seven programmes of music recorded by Deben Bhattacharya and presented by Michael Berkeley.
4: Two Rags on the Sitar followed by an interlude