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Dvorak Overture: In Nature's Realm: LONDON SYM. PHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by STVAN KERTESZ
7.18° Bruch Scottish Fantasy: ITZHAK PERLMAN
(Violin), NEW PHILHARMÓNIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by JESUS LOPEZ-COBOS
7.52" Sibelius Valse triste LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
8.0 News
8 5 Overture (continued) Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAM
8.14* Chopin Variations on Mozart's La ci darcm la mano
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
8.34* Rossini Wind Quartet No 1, in F
SAMUEL BARON (flute)
DAVID GLAZER (clarinet) BERNARD GARFIELD (bassoon)
JOHN BARROWS (horn)
8.47* Mercadante Sinfonia on themes from Rossini's Stabat Mater : MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE : records

Bubbra
Passacaglia for recorder and harpsichord: MICHAEL AT.NO, LIONEL SALTER
String Quartet No 2, in E flat: DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
Choral Suite: Inscape, for mixed choir, strings and harp: AMBROSIAN SINGERS RENATA SCHEFFEL-STEIN
(harp), JACQUES ORCHESTRA conducted by MYER FREDMAN (record)

JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS Part 1
Beethoven Sonata in D minor. Op 31 No 2
Liszt Schlaflos: Frage und Antwort; Unstern; L6g-ende No 2
10.40° Interval Reading
10.45* Grizedale Piano Festival 1979 Part 2
Chopin 24 Preludes, Op 28 (A public recital given in the Theatre in the Forest, Grizedale)
BBC Manchester

conducted by EI.GAR nOWARTO
Takemitsu, arr Howarth Garden Rain
Henze Ragtimes and Habaneras gramophone record

ANDREI KORSAKOV (violin)
LARGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of SOVIET RADIO, conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV
Part 1 Scriabin Symphony No 3 (The Divine Poem)

A series of programmes based on material from the BBC's Monitoring Service at Caversham, showing the way other countries see themselves, through the eyes of their own broadcasting networks and news agencies. Presented by Ian McDougall
Producer BLAIR THOMSON

Part 2
Stravinsky Violin Concerto Boris Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations
(Czech Radio recording from the 1979 Prague Spring Festival)

JULIE KENNARD (soprano)
AMERAL GUNSON (contralto ALAN BYERS (tenor)
MICHAEL GEORGE (bass) BBC
SINGKRS CHRISTOPHER BOWERS -
BROADBENT (harmonium) ANTONY SAUNDERS and MARY NASII (pianos) conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT

ERNST KOVACIC (violin)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Gottfried von Einem Sonata.Op11
Ivan Eröd Sonata No
(both first UK broadcasts)

Seven programmes of music by these composers, who were all born in 1879. 7: Cyril Seott
PETER WALLFISCH (piano) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by FRANK SHIPWAY
Scott Aubade ; Piano Concerto No 1

The best of present-day jazz on record
Introduced by Charles Fox

5.45-5.50 News medium u'at'e and mono only from 5.45

Presented by Jack Brymer Music by Mendelssohn including the Symphony No 12, in c minor, for strings; Psalm 42, Op 42; and the Rondo Capricci oso in E minor, Op 14 gramophone records

Pal Kadosa Quartet No 3 Haydn Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2

direct from the Royal
Festival Hall. London
This concert marks Sir
Georg Soltl 's first appearance as the Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader DAVID NOLAN ). The soloist in the Mozart concerto is Maurizio Pollini Part 1
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)

A Seamless Robe
'It is a conservative I argument, hallowed by tradition, to argue that if what exists works well, it should be left alone.' In his new book SIR
CHARLES CURRAN , Director-
General of the BBC from
1969 to 1977, argues just that about the BBC's Royal Charter. Lord
Annan, Chairman of the recent Committee on the Future of Broadcasting,
reviews A Seamless Robe and the success of its principles in practice.

Part 2 Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (Given in association with Commercial Union Assurance)

Jonathan Raban. the play-wright and critic, considers radio drama today and argues that the currently fashionable critical approach which puts radiophonic accuracy and sound textures before verbal content Is as unhelpful as an account of typography would be in a critical study of Ulysses. Producer DAVID PERRY

A late-evening selection of music by Malcolm Arnold , Ravel,
Lennox Berkeley and Debussy, featuring PETER-LUKAS GRAF,
JAMES GALWAY and JOHN SOLUM : records

In the last of these three programmes, Peter Hill plays piano music by Busoni, by Busoni's pupil Stefan Wolpe , and by Wolpe's pupil Bernard Benoliel.
Busoni Sonatina Seconda Wolpe Form; Form Iv (Broken Sequences) (first broadcast performance)
Benoliel Two Movements (first broadcast performance)