7: The Poet Speaks Humoreske, Op 20
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
Scenes from Childhood, Op 15: CLIFFORD CURZON (piano): records

A monthly selection of Clare's poetry chosen and read by Robin Holmes

Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
9.15* Rodrigo. arr Galway Fantasia para un gentilhombre t.M* Strauss An Alpine Symphony: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
' The sons of fam'd Brigantium ... with blooming glories still renew the year ' - a musical exploration of York. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK (Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta

Part 1 Schubert
Symphony No 6, in C major

11.59* Interval Reading

11.55* Proms 79, Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 5

6: Youth Choirs (2)
GROSVENOR HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR; WAVERLEY SINGERS; MARKET HARBOROUGH SINGERS; BULMERSHE GIRLS' CHOIR; KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL CHOIR. Introduced by Bernard Keeffe

with Clifford Benson piano)
Beethoven Sextet in i flat, Op 71
Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Mendelssohn Konzertstiick in D minor, Op 114

Edward Holmes visits the German opera house in Berlin and hears the music of Gluck. The King of Prussia's obtuse musical ear offends him, as does Spontini's situation. Read by Richard Briers
gramophone records

Part 2 Mozart Serenade in E flat (K 375)
(Given on 23 May in the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham)
BBC Birmingham

Opera in three acts. Music by Janacek. Libretto by THE COMPOSER based on the play by KAREL CAPEX
(sung in Czech: records)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS

3: J. F. Powers is a devout Roman Catholic, now in his 60s. whose short stories concentrate on what God's representatives are getting up to in the great Mid-West. PAUL BAILEY talks to him about his work. Reader
JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

First of three programmes today based on a concert given during the 1980 Salzburg Mozart Week by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm
1: Symphony No 39, in E flat m 543)
(Austrian Radio recording)

Cowboys
Written and lead by Harry Towb
Selected by the judges for special mention in the recent competition. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Harry Towb is a Nation-at Theatre player)

Quatuor pour la fin du temps
JANET HILTON (clarinet) RAYMOND OVENS (violin) ADRIAN SHEPHERD (cello)
STEWART ROBERTSON (piano) BBC Scotland

2: Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
(For details: see 5.45 pm)

by BERTOLT BRECHT. translated by ERIC BENTLEY
At the end of the last war. in order to help two Russian villages reach agreement over a disputed valley, a famous folk singer and his company of actors give a public performance of the legendary story of The Circle of Chalk in which two women, each with a justifiable claim to be the mother of a young child, are put to an extraordinary test by a drunken judge. The Prologue:
All sound effects by members of the company Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(Peter Jeffrey is a National Theatre player) followed by an interlude

3: Symphony No 41, in c (K 551) (Details, .see 5.45)

Four Mazurkas from Op 50 ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) 1961 gramophone record