This week: the Concerto No 23, in A (K 488), played by CLIFFORD CURZON , with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ , preceded by Mozart's Overture: The Marriage of Figaro, and music by Michael Kelly , Stephen Storace and Thomas Attwood : records

Listeners' record requests Mozart Symphony No 29, in A (K 201): ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
9.30* Weber Grand Duo Concertant. Op 48
JACK BRYMER (clarinet) DAVID LLOYD (piano)
9.50" Faure Piano Quartet No 2, in G minor, Op 45 (mono): MARGUERITE LONG (piano), JACQUES THIBAUD (violin), MAURICE VIEUX (Viola), PIERRE FOURNIER (cello)

A magazine programme about this year's Proms. Third Symphonies: a conversation with OLIVER KNUSSEN , whose No 3 is one of this year's Prom commissions, and a preview of that by JOSEF TAL , Israel's leading composer. From keyboard to baton: a musical progress with TAMAS VASARY. Presented by Jeremy Siepmann
Producer PIERS BURTON PAGE

To end the series, a concert conducted by the Orchestra's current Music Director, LORIN MAAZEL
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano)
Part 1 Elliott Carter A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Debussy Jeux: poeme danse
11.35* Interval Reading
11.40' Cleveland Orchestra Part 2 Wagner
Wesendonck Songs; Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gbtterdammerung): Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) (Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)

7: School Choir Class (2)
West Germany: choir OF THE SCHILLER-GYMNASIUM, HEIDENHEIM: United Kingdom: CHETHAM'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHAMBER CHOIR; Australia: ST JOSEPH 'S COLLEGE CHOIR Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

GRAHAM MAYGER (flute)
GORDON STEWART (piano) Milhaud Sonatina Henze Sonatine
Frangaix Divertimento

joy ROBERTS (soprano)
ANN MURRAY (meZZO-SOp) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) BBC SINGERS
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROAD -BENT (organ)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA led by ROY GILLARD conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT

A recital direct from the Usher Hall. Edinburgh
Medici String Quartet
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Shostakovich Quartet No 8 Dvorak Piano Quintet in A

Edward Greenfield on The Musician: his Music and his Personality.

Part 2
Ravel String Quartet in F

Some arguments, for and against, are considered by Professor Richard Swinburne.
2: The problem of evil

Schubert Minuet and Finale in F (d 72): Eine kleine Trauermusik (D 79) conducted by CARL RONE LARSSON
Symphony No 8, in n minor (d 759) (Unfinished) conducted by MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
(Swedish Radio recording)

DEZSO RANKI (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 31 No 1; Bartok Suite, Op 14; Six Dances in Bulgarian rhythm: Liszt Apres une lecture de Dante (Dante Sonata)

1: An Old Time Musician ' Liszt is the most interesting and striking looking man imaginable ... His mouth turns up at the corners which gives him a most crafty and Mephistophelean expression when he smiles ... His hands are very narrow. with long and slender fingers that look as if they had twice as many joints as other people's.' Pat Starr reads from Music Study in Germany the Home Correspondence of AMY FAY; adapted for radio by CAROLE ROSEN
Producer piers PLOWRIGHT ( Next prog: next Sun) followed by an interlude

direct from The
Round House, London
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elsie Ross (sopranos) Nash leaderEnsemble
MARCIA CRAYFORD conducted by Mark Elder and Sebastian Forbes
Sebastian Forbes Sonata for eight (conducted by the composer) Nicholas Maw La vita nuova (BBC Commission: first performance) (conducted by Mark Elder)

Geoffrey Hill introduces and reads a selection from his work, including poems from his most recent collection, Tenebrae. BBC Manchester

Part 2
Anthony Payne The Stones and Lonely Places Sing (first performance) (conducted by Mark Elder ) John Tavener Settings of .six Russian folk songs for soprano and chamber ensemble (unconducted)

(oboe and piano) Poulenc Sonata
Schumann Three Romances, Op 94
Seiber Improvisation (1957) Holliger Studie iiber MehrklSnge (1971), for oboe solo
Saint-Saens Sonata in D, Op 166
BBC Manchester

Music recorded by Deben Bhattacharya and presented by Michael Berkeley. 5: The Shawm of India

A programme of music on early instruments, introduced by PETER SYRUS and played and sung by the I.ANDINI CONSORT
Machaut Quand je suis mis au retour; Dame a qui m'ottri; Tant doucement me sens emprisonnes; Je vivrai liement
Richard Orton Chansons perdues, for two voices and instruments (first broadcast performance)
Dufay La Spagna; Je yeuil chanter de cuer joyeux
Robert Morton L'homme armé
Dufay Vergene bella: Besvellies vous et faites chicre lye. BBC Manchester