Verdi Overture: The Sicilian Vespers
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
7.14- Faur6 Fantasie In G ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS
7.29* Sibelius Symphony No 3, in c
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : records

Telemann Suite: Don Quichotte: STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
8.19' Handel Where shall I fly? (Hercules)
JANET BAKER (meZZO-SOp)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted. by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.24* Vivaldi Sonata No 2, in c (II Pastor Fldo) HANS MARTIN LINDI
(recorder), EDUARD MUELLER (harpsichord) MICHAEL JAPPE
(viola da gamba)
8.35* transc Resplghl Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARA JAN : records.

Bach
Chorus: Gloria In excel-sis (Mass in a minor, bwv 232)
Cantata: Lass, Furstin, lass noch einen Strain (Funeral Ode) (BWV 198)
UTA SPRECKELSEN (soprano) NAOKO IHARA (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
PHILIPPE HUTTENLOCHER
(bass), LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND VOCAL ENSEMBLE, conducted by MICHEL CORBOZ : recorda

. COULL STRING QUARTET
RICHARD MARKHAM (piano)
Haydn Quartet In D, Op 76 No 5
Dvorak Piano Quintet In A BBC Birmingham

transc Howarth 16th-century English dances
William Brade Galliard Richard Dering Pavan
Anthony Holborne Coranto Thomas Tomkins Pavan Hugh Aston Hornpype
Jan Koetsier Petite Suite Joseph Horovitz Music Hall Suite
Richard Rodney Bennett Commedia IV
Samuel Scheldt Battle Suite
(A concert given in May 1976 by St Andrews University Musical Society) BBC Scotland

conducted by BERNHARD KLEE , MICHEL BEROFF (piano) Reger Four Tone Poems after Bocklin Stravinsky Capriccio for piano and orchestra

Haydn Symphony No 104, in D major
(North German Radio recording)

Concertino KOENIG ENSEMBLE director JAN LATHAM-KOZNIG (piano)

' The rediscovery of Verdi's early operas has been among the great pleasures of musical life in recent years.'
John Steane considers some of these works with particular reference to Nabucco and Ernani, at present in repertory with English National Opera North and Welsh National Opera. With the voices, on record of MONTSERRAT CABALLE, JESSYE NORMAN , NICOLAI GHIAUROV , CARLO BERGONZI, GIUSEPPE DE LUCA and EZIO PINZA,

conductor
ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music emphasising the work of living British composers
Edward German Overture: Nell Gwyn
Anthony Hedges Kingston Sketches
Elgar Sursum corda
Alan Langford Diversions and interludes
Delius Two aquarelles
Joseph Horovitz Jubilee serenade

MARTINO TIRIMO
Franz Reizenstein Scherz * in A
Pawlu Grech Rhapsoldia (1977) (first broadcast performance)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2

Jack Brymer
(medium wave and mono only from 6.20)

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

JOHN LADE introduces some of the records of Plain-chant recommended in Record Review.

by GRAHAM GREENE Episode 6
Read by Ian Holm
(Episode 7: tomorrow 9.10)

(harpsichord)
Georg Böhm Suite No 1. in c minor
Pachelbel Hexachordum Apollonis: Aria No 6, in F minor (Sebaldina)
Kuhnau Sonata No 4, In c minor (Biblical Sonatas)
Bach French Suite No 5. in G major (Bwv 816)

Sixty years after the first woman mp took her seat at Westminster, Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Yet at the same election only 19 women out of a total of 635 mps were returned to Parliament, the smallest number since 1951. David Marquand , Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Salford, reflects on the practical considerations that deter women from the national forum, and suggests that the real reasons lie at a deeper level.
Contributors JOYCE BUTLER , THE RT HON BARBARA CASTLE, LYNDA CHALKER , MP, DAME MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY , MARCUS FOX , MP, HELENS HAYMAN , LORD HAILSHAM, SYLVIA RODGERS , BARONESS SEEAR, THE RT HON NORMAN ST JOHN STEVAS, MP, LORD
UNDERHILL, THE RT BON SHIRLEY WILLIAMS
Producer ELIZABETH KERR

Violin Concerto In I flat, Op 8 No 5 (La tempesta di mare) FRANSJOSEF MAIER who also directs the COLLEGIUM AUREUM: record

Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals. This week:
Early Cole Porter and Lyrics as Light Verse Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORZ

Detlev Miiller Siemens Variations on a landler by Schubert (first broadcast performance)
Geoffrey Poole Chamber Concerto (BBC Commission: first performance)
Ligcti Chamber Concerto for 13 instrumentalists MEMBERS OF THE
LONDON SINPONIETTA conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH Introduced by Ann Stangar
BBC Manchester