Giorgio Mainerie Five Dances (Il Primo Libro di Balli, 1578) - Early Music Consort of London directed by David Munrow

7.12* Locatelll Concerto Grosso in f, Op 7 No 12 - Collegium Aureum, directed by Franzjosep Maier

7.26* Monteverdi Non vedre mai le stelle; Chiome d'oro (Madrigals, Book 7) - Purcell Consort of Voices, directed by Grayston Burgess

7.32* Giovanni Prioli Canzona Prima a 12 (Sacrorum Concentuum, 1619) - Early Music Consort of London directed by David Munrow

7.37* Nicolo Porpora Cello Concerto in G - Thomas Blees, South-West German Chamber Orchestra, Pforzheim, conducted by Paul Angerer

(records)

(Stereo)

Wolf-Ferrari Overture: La Dama Boba: PARIS
CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by NELLO SANTI
8.13* Rossini Cujus animam (Stabat Mater )
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI (tenor)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.19* Mercadante Sinfonia on themes from Rossini's Stabat Mater
MONTE CARLO NATIONAL
OPERA ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
8.29* Liszt Concert Paraphrase on the Quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
8.37* Donizetti String Quartet in D (arranged for orchestra)
ACADEMY or ST MARTIN-IH-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER : record*

Berg
Concert Aria: Der Wein JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) Lulu Suite
JUDITH BLEGEN (soprano) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ : records

at King James's College, Henley-on-Thames
COULL STRING QUARTET
Haydn String Quartet in c. Op 74 No 1
Tippett String Quartet No 2, in F sharp
10.40* Interval Reading
10.45* Concert Club, Pt 2 Beethoven Quartet in r, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky) (Given on 30 March 1979)

HAMISH MILNE. (piano) BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (Jupiter) (k 551)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat, Op 83 BBC Wales

direct from St George's, Brandon Hill. Bristol
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Purcell, real Britten Morning Hymn; Alleluia; In the black dismal dungeon of despair
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
Britten Folk song arrangements: The Sally Gardens; Come you not from Newcastle; 0 waly, waly
(Tickets: 85p at the door) BBC Bristol

NORTHERN BRASS ENSEMBLE conducted by JOHN POOLE
Gabriell Canzona on the ninth tone; Canzona seconda; Canzona quarta; Sonata pian' e forte Carl Ruggles Angels
Edward Cowie Cathedral Music
BBC Manchester

Opera in two acts Music by Smetana Libretto by ELSIKA KRASNOHORSKA (sung in Czech: gramophone records made in 1952) PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRJT CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEX CHALABALA Act 1

Marion Thorpe , the daughter of ERWIN STEIN (1885-1958), the distinguished musician, writer, teacher and publisher, talks about her father's life and work.

Act 2

Bernard Keeffe introduces the early-evening programme of music. followed by an interlude medium wave and mono only from 6.30

Antony Hopkins considers a work or theme that has recently caught his attention.

The debates among the General Council of the New Model Army held in Putney Church between 28 October and 1 November 1647.
Devised and adapted for radio by JACK EMERY with an introduction by Christopher Hill
A fine cast ... delivered the goods with the force of revelation.
(THE LISTENER)
Recorded in All Saints Church, Fulham, by CEDRIC JOHNSON and ROBIN SPICER Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGBt

Ten minutes in the company of DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU and JANET BAKER , BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR , and YEHUDI MENUHIN and STEPHANE GRAPPELLI. gramophone records

' Is the menstrual cycle women's curse or is it an unexpected resource? '
(THE WISE WOUND)
Marina Warner considers some recent books which discuss the experience of menstruation, and reflects on the implications of changing social attitudes.

leader ELI GOREX conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD with THOMAS IGLOI (cello)
Walton Cello Concerto; Symphony No 2

(guitar)
Albgniz , transc Segovia Sevilla (Suite espanola)
Paganini Trio
With ALAN LOVEDAY (violin) AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello) gramophone records

John Casken, Fellow in Composition at Huddersfield Polytechnic, introduces records of more Polish music heard last September at the 23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music.

Marek Stachowski Divertimento

Wlodzimierz Kotonski Bora

Zbigniew Bargielskl Alpine String Quartet

(All first UK broadcasts)

BBC Birmingham