Mozart Flute Concerto in D (K 314): RICHARD ADENEY ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.30* Beethoven Symphony No 1, in c CHICAGO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
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ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN
8.15" Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor JASCHA HEIFETZ
RCA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER HENDL
8.35* Dclius Paris: The Song of a Great City
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

The Court of Dresden
' As to the spectacles, among them the Italian opera is justly admired most of all. The extraordinary pay which the king bestows on the players has attracted the best and most excellent masters of their art to Dresden. When Lotti is the composer, then one hears all that is beautiful and tender in music.' (Contemporary report, 1718)
Zelenka (born 16 October 1679) Hipocondrie a 7 concertante
Hasse Aria: Tradir sap. este, o perfidi (Arminio) Weiss Tombeau sur la mort de Mr Cajetan, Baron d'Hartig
I.otti Aria: Pur dicesti, 0 bocca bella
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (per S.A.R. di Sassonia); records

(cello and piano)
John Joubert Kontakion , for cello and piano
George Crumb Sonata for solo cello
Ivor Keys Sonata for cello and piano
BBC Birmingham

Requiem Mass a 5 Motet: Heu mihi Domine (liturgical reconstruction) LONDON LASSUS ENSEMBLE conductor CLIVE WEARING

plays piano music by Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach Sonata in G (Wq 55 No 6); Rondo in G (Wq 57 No 3); Variations on ' La Folia ' (Wq 118 No 9); Sonata in A (Wq 55 No 4) BBC Birmingham

JOHN BRADBURY (violin) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by Richard HOWARTH conducted by MARCUS DODS Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 30,
In c (Alleluja)
Mozart Violin Concerto
No 3, in c major (K 216)

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Part 2
Schubert Konzertsttick in d, for violin and orchestra (D 345); Symphony No 6, in C (D 589)
(Given before an invited audience in Guildhall, City of London, in association with the Corporation of London)

Second in a series of ten programmes devoted to some of the music associated with the salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac, who devoted her share of the Singer sewing-machine fortune to the patronage of the arts. Today. Debussy and Ravel are encountered in the Princess's salon, and the music to be heard also includes a work dedicated to her by Gabriel Faur é, the Suite: Pellets and Mllisande. Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page gramophone records

Divertimento. Op 4
EAST BERLIN WIND ENSEMBLE Six songs to texts by Berthold Brecht: Speisekammer (1942); Friihling; Der Kirschdieb; Vom Sprengen des Gartens;
Die haltbare Graugans; Pappel vom Karlsplatz ROSWITHA TREXLER (sop)
JOHN TILBURY ipiano)
Song-cycle: Zeitungsausschnitte Op 11
ROSWITHA TREXLER (SOp) DAVID BLAKE (piano)
Five Pieces for orchestra (1938): BERLIN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ RÔGNER (Radio DDR recordings of the Divertimento and Five Pieces)

Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (K 339)
Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)
ELISABETH SPEISER (SOp)
RUTHILD ENGERT (contralto) PETER MAus (tenor)
HARALD STAMM (bass)
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted bv
FERDINAND LEITNER (North German Radio recording)

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Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata played by Jean-Pierre Wallez and Ernest Lush. Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante defunte, and one of the shortest symphonies ever written.

Opera in four acts Music by Verdi Libretto by ANTONIO GHIS-LANZONI , sung in the English translation by EDMUND TRACY
The new production by English National Opera. direct from the London Coliseum
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS, chorus-master HOWARD WILLIAMS
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA, leader
BARRY COLLINS , conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES Acts 1 and 2

Memory.

Act 3

A selection of RAINER MARIA RILKE 'S letters on Cezanne, by MARY BENSON
' To look, to work and to praise' these were Rilke's precepts, and when he discovered Cezanne's paintings at an exhibition in the Salon d'Automne he became obsessed by them. In a series of letters to his wife, Clara, he explained just how and why Cezanne had so impressed him. Directed by CHRISTOPHER YENNING

Act 4
(Presented in association with the English National Opera Trust)
(Josephine Barstow is this week's Desert Island Discs castaway, Friday
9.5 am R4VK)

In this studio version of his 1979 Hannah Arendt Memorial Lecture, with which he inaugurated a new annual series at the University of Southampton. Dr George Steiner looks at the treatment of remorse and justice in the Book of Job and in Sophocles' Antigone, with the aim of clarifying the ancient polarity between Athens and Jerusalem. between the Attic and Hebraic readings of man's membership in the world. He raises the question as to why absolute tragedy is such a rare form and his inquiry brings him down from the ancient world through Kino Lear to Franz Kafka , Osip Man delstam and Paul Celan.

Performances conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Berlioz Symphonie fantastique: FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA (rec 1957) gramophone records
Presented by PETER TANNER (Revised repeat)