A series including all of his major piano works
3: A Concerto without Orchestra
Impromptus on a theme of Clara Wjeck , Op 5 JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD Sonata No 3. Op 14
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (recorded at public performances in America in 1975) gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Berlioz Symphonic funebre et triomphale. Op 15 MUSIQUE DES GARDIENS DE la PAIX. conducted by DESIRE DONDKYNE
9.42* Tchaikovsky Joan of Arc's Hymn (The Maid of Orleans, Act 1) IRINA ARKHIPOVA (soprano) MOSCOW RADIO CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
9.49* Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op 77 (monoi JOSEPH SZIGETI , HALLE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR HAMILTON HARTY

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Rosary and the House Of Gold: JULIAN BUDDEN On Ponchielli's La Gioconda. A conversation with ALFREDO KRAUS.
' A very innocent diversion '?: ROGER FTSKE considers the harp in the age of Jane Austen. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Heather Harper (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader David Nolan, conductor Bernard Haitink
Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 41, in C major (Jupiter) (K 551)

Britten Our Hunting Fathers: symphonic cycle for soprano and orchestra

12.25* Interval Reading

12.30* From the Proms 79 Part 2

Dvorak Symphony No 7, in D minor

2: Chamber Choirs (2) GERALD BROWN SINGERS
TUDOR SINGERS OF LONDON EXON SINGERS
ALDWYN CONSORT OF VOICES, GLOUCESTER
STRANMILLIS SINGERS, BELFAST
Adjudicators: NOEL cox. GEOFFREY MITCHELL and GARETH WALTERS
Bernard Keeffe introduces the series, summarises the adjudicators' remarks and announces the class winners.

MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
Nocturnes: f major. Op 15 No 1; f sharp major. Op 15 No 2
Waltz in G flat major, Op 70 No I
Sonata in B flat minor, Op 35

Opéra-comiquc in four acts by Grctry 117711 edited by Beechami Libretto by MARMONTEL, sung in a new English translation, with lyrics by RODNEY BLUMER and dialogue by JEREMY SAMS
The Phoenix Opera production, given as part of this year's Camden Festival at the Collegiate Theatre. London, on 28 March
Grttry's fairy-tale opera is a version of Beauty and the Beast.
Cast in order of singing:
WREX ORCHESTRA leader JONATHAN STRANGE conducted by RODERICK BRYDON
The action takes place in Persia at the Palace of Azor and in Sander's house.
Acts 1 and 2 3.30* Interval Reading
3.30* Zjmire and Azor Acts 3 and 4

A short story by GABRIELE B'ANNUNZIO translated by ALETHEA GRAHAM
Read by David Buck
' People called him Cincinnatus. and said he had a bee in his bonnet: then they spoke vaguely of love betrayed, of a blow with a knife, of a flight ...' Producer MAURICE LEITCH

JANET HILTON (clarinet) RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) PETER FRANKL (piano) Part 1
Beethoven Trio in B flat major. Op 11; Cello Sonata in A major, Op 69

' We have just entered a new decade in a mood of pessimism and forebodings. For the historian it's tempting to think back a millenium. if only to give scale, dimension and a larger relativity to these forebodings.'
Karl Leyser. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. and author of Rule and Conflict in the Early Middle Ages, asks: what was the world like in 980?

Part 2 Brahms
Trio in A minor. Op 114
(Given on 4 January in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)

Second of two illustrated talks by Denis Matthews. Professor of Music at the University of Newcastle, in which he examines some of the problems posed by the cadenzas of classical concertos.
2: The Cadenza in Beethoven's Piano Concertos

played by ANTHONY BAiLES
Denis Gaultier/Vieux Gaultier Suite in D
Denis Gaultier Suite in G

by ALAN MCDONALD with Jennie's role in life is that of a working wife and mother. In her thoughts, however, she rebels against such conformity.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester

transc Sedlak
Overture: Semiramide NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE: record

A concert in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, conducted by ANDRE PREVIN , With HORACIO GUTIERREZ (piano) Nicholas Maw Life Studies vn and viii, for strings Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c

Richard Hoggart presents extracts from Arnold's series of annual reports as an Inspector of Schools and assesses his lasting contribution to education. Reader GABRIEL WOOLF

Part 2 Strauss
An Alpine Symphony
(WFMT recording from Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association)