Four pieces for Mechanical Clock: JOHN SCOTT (organ) 8.10* Mass in B flat (Creation): SOLOISTS CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by GEORGE GUEST : records

Listeners' record requests Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock (D 965)
BENITA VALENTE (soprano) HAROLD WRIGHT (clarinet) RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
9.17* Elgar Sonata in I minor, Op 82
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin)
HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
9.45* Dvorak Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KAREL ANCERL

Introduced by Michael Oliver
' They say I borrowed Mozart, to Hell, I stole Mozart ': ERIC WALTER WHITE discusses Stravinsky's musical kleptomania.
Stepping into Mahler's shoes: LORIN MAAZEL reflects on his appointment as musical director of the Vienna State Opera.
Postcards from London (5): Hector Berlioz: ' into what a nest of idiots have I fallen here! '

Iona Brown (violin), who also directs the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G major (BWV 1048): John Toll (harpsichord continuo)

Bartok Divertimento for string orchestra

12.0* Interval Reading

12.5* From the Proms 79 Part 2

Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G major (K 216); Symphony No 29, in A major (K 201)

1957-1979
BRYCE MORRISON introduces the second of two programmes in memory of the young pianist.
Scarlatti Sonata in A (Kk 39)
Barber Sonata
Liszt Sposalizio ; Venezia e Napoli (Repeats)

Danzi Quintet in D minor, Op 68 No 3
Charles Wood Quintet in F BBC Bristol

A sacred music drama in three acts. Words and music by Richard Wagner (sung in German) An Austrian Radio recording of the 1979 Bayreuth Festival production
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master
NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by HORST STEIN The action takes place in Northern Spain during the Middle Ages. Act 1

by WILLIAM LANGLAND
Abridged for radio in 13 parts, in a new verse translation by TERENCE TII.I.F.R
Incidental music by MICHAEL BERKELEY
So I stayed there, snoring hard, until Palm Sunday,
And dreamed long of Christ's passion, and his penance that redeemed people.
12: The Harrowing of Hell and the Growth of the Holy Church
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Act 2

The earliest account of the Resurrection ends on a note of uncertainty: having been told by a young man at the tomb that Jesus had risen from the dead, the two women 'ran away from the tomb, beside themselves with terror. They said nothing to anybody, for they were afraid.'
The Rev John Fenton, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, reflects on the mystery that surrounds the events of the first Easter.
BBC Manchester

Act 3

by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by IAN HOLM (2)
: Episode 3: Moil 7.20 pm) followed by an interlude

conducted by SIMON RATTLE ELISE ROSS (mezzo-soprano) Berg Three fragments from Wozzeck Stravinsky The Rite of Spring BBC Scotland

This programme, the fifth of 13, is an evocation of a solemn celebration of the Main Mass of Easter Day as it might have been sung in Lord Lumleys Chapel at Nonsuch Palace in 1608. Lassus Missa Paschalis Byrd Mass Proper a 5 Vidi aquam (Lassus); I Processional: Venite ex ultemus (Byrd): Introit; Kyrie; Gloria: Collect:
Epistle: Gradual and Alleluia: Sequence; Gospel; Credo; Offertory; Preface; Sanctus; Benedictus; Elevation Motet: Venite commedite (
Byrd Pater noster; Agnus Dei ;
Communion; Last Gospel WILLIAM BYRD CHOIR director GAVIN TURNER LONDON PRO MUSiCA
JOHN LANc.DON (organ) conducted by GREGORY ROSE

In the second of a series of reflections on what's sporting, Derek Robinson finds the only way to enjoy standing and staring is by fishing - in this case on the Usk.

Serenade in E flat (k 375i; Serenade in c minor (K 3SSi: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC WIND ENSEMBLE
(Austrian Radio recording from the Salzburg Mozart Week)