Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, In r (bwv 1046) PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON directed by THURSTON DART
7.25* Schumann Scenes from Childhood, Op 15
HOMERO FRANCESCH (piano)
7.45* Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival, Op 9 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX gramophone records

Verdi Overture: La forza del destino
HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.13* Bellini Ah! Non credea mirarti (La Sonnambula)
MARIA CALLAS (soprano) NICOLA MONTI (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN, conducted by ANTONrNO VOTTO
8.18* Dvorak Slavonic Dances. Op 46 Nos 4-8
BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR (piano duet)
8.38* Myaskovsky Symphony No 21
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DAVID MEASHAM : records

Arnold Bax (1883-1953) scarcely ever have I been tempted to seek again the ivory tower of youth.
In common with so many artists of his generation, Bax and his music were deeply affected by the Great War. As well as featuring some of the immediate post-war music, this week's programmes draw upon Bax's symphonic output, which ended within a month of the outbreak of the Second World War.
What the minstrel told us (mono)
IRIS LOVERIDGE (piano)
Symphony No 1, In E flat LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MYER FREDMAN : records

Arnold Steinhardf (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello) at the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society
Smetana Quartet No 1, in E minor (From My Life)
Dvorak Quartet in G, Op 106

Piano Sonata, Op 1 played by EASLEY BLACKWOOD

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader RAYMOND OVENS , conducted by JACEK KASPRZYK
Lutoslawskl Musique funebre
Ravel Choreographic Poem: La valse
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* Midday Concert Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5. In t minor

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Michel Biroff (piano)
Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126
Bartok Sonata
Debussy Pour les Agreements; Pour les Notes répétées; Pour les Sonorites opposées; Pour les Accords (Etudes, Book 2) (Tickets £1.10 available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel: [number removed])

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE-CAVANAGH conductor ERIC WETHERELL Bryan ' Kelly Overture: Sancho Panza
Tchaikovsky Waltz and Polonaise (Eugene Onegin ) Respighl Suite: The Birds Johann Strauss (father) Waltz: Burgersinn
Luigint Ballet Suite No 1: L'Egyptienne
BBC Northern Ireland

played by SERGIO ABREU
Handel. arr Segovia Sonata; Fughetta; Passcpied (The Aylesford Collection)
Sylvius Leopold Weiss Minuet; Sarabande; Minuet; Fantasy in e
Alexandre Tansman Cava tina

J. C. Bach Sinfonia Concertante in c
GUNTHER HOLLER (flute) HELMUT HUCKE (oboe)
FRANZJOSEF MAIER (violin) HORST BECKEDORF (cello) COLLEGIUM AUREUM
Purcell Neptune's Masque (The Tempest)
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Mozart Piano Concerto No
14, tn E flat (K 449) TAMAS VASARY
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Steve Race introduces the programme of music for the early evening, medium wave and mono only from 6-20

String Quartet In r. Op 44 (1906)
CARL NIELSEN STRING
QUARTET gramophone record

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader FELIX KOK conducted by RUDOLF BARSHAI
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) Part l Mozart
Piano Concerto in G (K453)

translated by c. H. sisson Eclogues 1 and 2 Read by Stephen Murray , John Gabriel and Jonathan Newth
The first Eclogue Is a dialogue between two country men, one disPossessed, the other granted a reprieve for the continued holding of his land. The second Eclogue describes Coryoon's love for the beautiful youth, Alexis.
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 8
BBC Birmingham

' Creating the conditions for everybody to take Part in whatever blessings a modern society has to offer required a whole range of measures which both created and destroyed liberty.'
Two former Reith lecturers, A. H. Halsey , Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at Oxford, and Professor Ralf Dahrendorf. Director of the London School of Economics, reflect on a social agenda for the future in the light of their recent research ana writings-

JACEK STRAUCH (baritone) IAIN LEDINGHAM (piano)
Moniuszko The Apricot; Barcarolla; Conversation; Krakoviak
Wolf Koniglich Gebet; Phanomen; Epiphanias; Anakreons Grab; Der Rattenfanger
Borodin The Sea; Song of the Dark Forest; Those Folk

An improvisation and meditation on this ancient member of the lute family by Mounir Bashir (A recital on the sarod, the Indian lute: Friday
11.15 pm)

Introduced by Charles Fox STINKY WINKLES Open Score 1