GAYLE SMITH (cello)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by SIMON STREATFEILD
Chabrier Suite Pastorale Faure Elegie for cello and orchestra
Haydn Symphony No 97, in c major
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued)
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1, in A minor
Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes )

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Sibelius's reputation ultimately rests by common consent with his achievements as a symphonist. Yet it is all too easily forgotten just how close were his links with the theatre throughout his creative life. From two early miniatures to the extensive Tempest score of 1926, Sibelius was to provide music for some 11 plays, as well as for two historical pageants that produced Finlandia and the Karelia music.
It is on Sibelius's theatrical compositions that this week's programmes concentrate.
Overture: Karelia, Op 10 SCOTTISH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Kuolema; incidental music, Op 44 and 62 HUNGARIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by jussi JALAS
Suite: King Christian II, Op. 27: SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON gramophone records

In this series of 13 programmes the singer Nigel Douglas presents recordings of some of his favourite singers.
6: Lauritz Melchior
(First broadcast on R4UK)

(violin and piano)
Richard Rodney Bennett Sonata (1978) (first broadcast performance)
Schumann Sonata No 2, in D minor, Op 121
John McCabe Star Preludes (1978) (first broadcast performance)

conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Part 1 Haydn
Symphony No 104, in D (London)

Marghanita Laski asks What shall we do to be saved - from music?

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in i minor (From the New World). (Austrian Radio recording from the 1979 Salzburg Festival)

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Aeolian String Quartet
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with Kenneth Essex (viola)
Mozart Quintet in c minor (K 406); Quintet in E flat major (K 614)
(Tickets, £1.10, available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: Wed 10.45 pm)

played by Jonathan Rennert in Bath Abbey

James Brown Scherzo
Edward Harper Interlude: Ave maris stella
John Ireland Elegiac Romance
Michael Berkeley Sonata

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE cavanagh conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
Gordon Langford Overture: The Spirit of London Massenet Suite: Le Cid
Robert Farnon A ]a claire fontaine
Mussorgsky Scherzo
Josef Strauss Waltz: VillageSwallows
Britten Soirees musicales (from Rossini)
BBC Northern Ireland

Bizet Suite: Jeux d'enfants AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Satie Trois Gymnopédies ALBERT FERBER (piano) Respighl Deita Silvane ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ARGO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LASZLO HELTAY
Ravel String Quartet in r MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART Saint-Saens Samson ct Dalila (Act 3)
ELENA OBRAZTSOVA (mezzo-soprano).
PLACIDO domingo (tenor)
RENATO BRUSON (baritone) THE PARIS ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM

A two-part sequence of music for early evening.
5.45-5.50 News

Presented by Jack Brymer Prokofiev and Haydn.
This week gyorgy sandor plays Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No 1, Op 1 and the Ten Pieces, Op 12, and the AMADEUS QUARTET plays Haydn's String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1

BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by ANTAL dorati Part 1
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
7.30* Interval Reading
7.35* Dorati Conducts Mahler Part 2
Symphony No 6
(■A public concert given on 24 September 1978 in the Royal Festival Hall, London)

If men really are descended from apes, why has Mother Nature taken away their warm fur, their sharp teeth, their excellent vision, and that exceedingly useful tail? Dr Nick Humphrey of King's College, Cambridge, argues that nature's theft provoked man to acquire a much more valuable gift-a highly developed brain.
Producer GEOFF deehan

JULIAN DAWSON-LYELL (piano)
Elliott Carter Sonata
Faure Nocturne No 6; Impromptu No 3

Peter Howell reads a short story by saki followed by an interlude

A series of programmes in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared.
John Steane talks about the role of Carmen in Bizet's opera as sung by Victoria de los Angeles , Emmy Bettendorf , Grace Bumbry , Maria Callas , Emma Calve. Geraldine Farrar , Dusolina Ciannini , Leontyne Price , Conchita Supervia , Tatiana Troyanos and others.

Introduced by Charles Fox
. JON CORBETT 'S AFFINITY
ORCHESTRA
Jon Corbett ftrum'pet)
Stuart Boardman (alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet) Dave Draper (guitar) Paul Spanton (bass)
Dave Solomon (drums)