Listeners' record requests Wagner Ballet Music: Rienzi
DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE conducted by HEINRICH HOLLREISER
7.19* arr Maxwell Davies Renaissance Scottish Dances: FInES OF LONDON directed by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
7.29* Smetana Tabor; Blanik (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

Part 2 Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fin-gal's Cave): PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.15* Beethoven Violin Sonata in g, Op 30 No 3 (mono): FRITZ KREISLER
SERGE RACHMANINOV (piano)
8.31* Parish-Alvars Harp Concerto in G minor
NICANOR ZABALETA
SPANISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS

Gustav Hoist
Ballet: The Golden Goose, Op 45 No 1
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IMOGEN HOLST The Evening Watch, Op 43 No 1: PURCELL SINGERS conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
Toccata KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
The Wandering Scholar, Op 50
Chamber opera in one act Louis, a farmer
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
Alison, his wife
NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
Father Philippe MICHAEL LANGDON (bass)
Pierre, a wandering scholar .... ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD : records

played by David Hill at St John's College Chapel, Cambridge
Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale Ad nos. ad salutarem undam from Meyerbeer's Le Prophete
BBC Birmingham

Endellion Quartet: Andrew Watkinson (violin) Louise Williams (violin) Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello)

Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Alun Hoddinott: Scena for quartet, Op 100 No 1
Schubert". Quartet Movement in C minor (D 703)

(Given at New Hall, University College, Cardiff, on 30 November 1979)

leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by SIMON RATTLE FIONA DOBIE (soprano)
David Blake Metamor phoses arr Canteloubc Songs of the Auvergne
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
Part 2 Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D major
(A public lunchtime concert recorded at the City Hall, Glasgow, on 2 May 1979)

A series of weekly recitals given by artists of the younger generation.
Tomotada Soh (violin)
Paul Hamburger (piano) Ravel Sonata
Faurfi Romance. Op 28
Milhaud. transc Claude LSvy Leme ; Ipanema; Corcovado (Saudades do Brasil)
Debussy, arr Hartman La fille aux cheveux de lin
Debussy, transc Heifetz Golliwogg's Cake-walk
Ravel Tzigane
(Git'en before a studio audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Introduced by Michael Oliver

BBC SINGERS director JOHN pools
SOUTHEND BOYS' CHOIR director MICHAEL CRABB
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
Paul Patterson Requiem

BORIS BERMAN (piano)
Haydn Sonata in c (H xvi 50)
Prokofiev Sonata No 7, in B flat

In this series Francis Smith shows how much can be learnt about the life of the black American from the blues he sang. 6: Trains
The noise of trains has inspired many imitators, for example, William Mc-Coy - with his harmonica and Booker White with his bottleneck guitar. The railroad itself has always been important as a means of either bringing people together or separating them - ' I hate that train called the M and O ' sang Bessie Jackson. Then there is the metaphoric use of trains as in Blind Willie McTell 's Broke down engine blues '.

Jeremy Siepmann introduces the programme of music for the early evening. medium tvave and mono only from 6.20

John Warrack , author of an important study of the composer, talks about Weber as a seminal force in 19th-century romanticism.
followed by an interlude

leader IONA BROWN conductor
Neville Marriner direct from the Royal Festival Hall. London Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Mozart Symphony No 38, in D (Prague) (K 504)

Part 2 Vaughan Williams The lark ascending Iona Brown (violin)
Beethoven Symphony No 2, in D
(A Royal Philharmonic Society concert)

About four-and-a-half billion years ago, the earth was formed as a completely dead planet. Yet only about a billion years later, the planet's surface was swarming with primitive life forms. How did this transformation come about? Dr Leslie Orgcl of the Salk Insti tute in California discusses with John Maddox our understanding of the origins of life.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

ORLANDO STRING QUARTET
(A BBC Digital recording)