A series of six programmes to include music by Purcell for the church and the stage.

My beloved spake - Soloists, Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Brian Runnett (Organ) conducted by George Guest

8.11* Diociesian: instrumental music for the play - Vienna Concentus Musicus conducted by Alfred Deller

8.29 O God, thou hast cast us out - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Gustav Leonhardt (organ) conducted by Sir David Willcocks

8.34* Hear my prayer, O Lord - Deller Consort directed by Alfred Deller

8.36* King Arthur: music for Act 2 - Soloists Deller Choir, King's Musick, conducted by Alfred Deller

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Listeners' record requests Lalo Ballet Music: Namouna (excerpts): SUISSE ROMANCE ORCHESTRA, COnducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.30* Massenet The Last Sleep of the Virgin (La Vierge): mLARY ROBINSON (CellO), CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
9.35* Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time: LUBEN YORDANOFF (Violin), ALBERT TETARD (cello). CLAUDE DESURMONT (clarinet)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The facts about Tchaikovsky's death: new evidence presented by David Brown.

Postcards from London: 1: Wagner, 'Alberich's dream come true!'

Where the twain meet: Doming Lam on music in Hong Kong.

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the Royal Philharmanic Orchestra
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Haydn Symphony No 100, in G (Military)
Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Tapiola: records

Mixed Voice Choir Class (1) West Germany: KÖLNER KtNTOREI; Netherlands: QUOD LIBET CHAMBER CHOIR; Belgium: CHANTECITÉ; Norway: GREX VOCALIS; Switzerland : VOS DA LOCARNO Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

Berkeley String Quartet No 3
Britten Strine Quartet

Sonata In E flat. Op 81 a PETER EVANS (piano)
BBC Scotland

A romantic opera by Wagner sung in German In the original continuoua version. This recording, from tM 1879 Bayreuth Festival. is introduced by Elaine Padmore , who attended the first performance of this same production last year. Cast in order of singing:
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master
NORBIRT BALATSCH BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES (Ba

During his long career Beecham recarded a number of works more than once. Robert Philip examines the way in which his approach changed. and assesses his achievement in the recording studio.

led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Finga) s Cave)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25. in c (K 503)
Hindemith Concert Music for brass and strings, Op SO

In the first of a new weekly series, Martin Cooper draws on almost a hundred hours of opera, chamber music, orchestral concerts and recitals to present a critical review of the week's music broadcasting on radio. BBC Manchester

sings Haydn and Schumann Lieder with Graham Johnson (piano) direct from the 1979 Benson and Hedges Music Festival at The Mailings, Snape. Suffolk
Part 1 Schumann In der Fremde: Intermezzo: WaldesgesprSch: Die Stille; Mondnacht; Schöne Fremde (Liederkreis. Op 39)
Haydn Arianna a Naxos

* Personal choice of Prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen producer IAN COTTERELL Repeat)

Part 2 Schumann
Frauenliebe und -leben BBC Birmingham

by RICHARD CRANE with Freddie Jones
' It's the worst winter on record.... Every Sunday
I sit down in my coat and talk to myself non-stop for five minutes ...'
An electricity board clerk comes up with a plan for saving the world from winding down. Noses roam the streets. Coats make you grow an inch every day. God Is put away - he's too unpredictable, Numbers take over. This monologue. Inspired by Russia's strangest Prose-poet, Nikolay Gogol , charts the breakthrough and breakdown of the little man ' in our time. Music composed and Played by NICK BICÅT
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY

leader EDWIN PALING conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER
JEAN-BERNARD POMMIER (Piano)
Part l Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No 1, In G minor
'.20' Interval Reading
9.30* Scottish National Orchestra
Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 7, In 9

Programmes of music from the Islamic world, from recordings made by Deben Bhattacharya.
3 Music of the Mevlevi Deivishes of Turkey
An excerpt from a ceremony recorded at Konya in 1974.

played by MARGARET PHIL LIPS on the organ of Clare College, Cambridge Bruhns Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Pachelbel Two chorale Preludes on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her; Chaconne in r minor