Purcell Suite: The Virtuous Wife: ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

7.18* Holborne Pavan and Galliard; Almain: The Night Watch
ROBERT SPENCER (lute)

7.26* Wilbye Sweet honey, sucking bees
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA directed by PHILIP LEDGER

7.30* Farnaby His Dream; His Toye; His Reste; His Conceit; Tower Hill THURSTON DART (harpsichord)

7.37* East Quick, quick away. dispatch!
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA directed by PHILIP LEDGER

7.40* Handel Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6 No 1
COLLEGIUM AUREUM, directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER

(gramophone records)

Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh: PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
8.26* Smetana Slcpicka (Czech Dances)
JAN NOVOTNY (piano)
8.30. Mahler Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen JESSYE NORMAN (soprano)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.37* Saint-Saëns Septet in E flat, Op 65: INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF PARIS
ANTOINE LAGORCE (trumpet) JACQUES CAZAURAN (double-bass): records

The programmes this week concentrate on the last eight years of Schumann's life. Although his health and mental condition were rather poor, an improvement at the beginning of this period brought a surge of creativity which was further stimulated by his appointment as Director of Music at Dusseldorf.

Konzertstuck in F, for four horns and orchestra - Dale Clevenger, Richard Oldberg, Thomas Howell, Norman Schweikert, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim

Lied eines Schmiedes, Op 90 No 1; Meine Rose, Op 90 NO 2 - Bernard Kruysen (bar), Noel Lee (piano)

Cello Concerto in A minor - Mstislav Rostropovich, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

(gramophone records)

Last of five programmes of the Cantiones Sacrae of 1589: Defecit in dolore: Domine. praestolamur; 0 Domine. adiuva me; 0 quam gloriosum
THE CLERKFS OF OXENFORD conductor DAVID WULSTAN

(piano)
Part of her Jubilee Concert, given in the Royal Festival Hall last June.
Beethoven Thirty-two variations in c minor
Schumann Etudes symphoniques
11.18* Interval Reading
11.28* Moura Lympany
Part 2 Chopin Sonata in b minor

conducted by uri SEGAL PIERRE AMOYAL (violin)
Saint-Sacns Violin Concerto No 3, in B minor, Op 61
Chausson Symphony in B flat, Op 20. BBC Wales

direct from St John 's, Smith Square. London Peter Frankl (piano) György Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor; Violin Sonata in G minor
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
(Repeated: Wed 8.40 pm)

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL Johann Strauss Overture: The Gypsy Baron
Britten Matinees musicales Lanner Die Romantiker
Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 1
Chabrier Danse slave (Le roi malgré lui)

Songs from Kanteletar; Spiclsmannslieder
JORMA HVNNINEN (baritone) RICHARD NUNN (piano)

Charpentier Three Carols (Midnight Mass) - La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgloire

Ravel Piano Concerto in D, for the left hand - Jean-Philippe Collard, French National Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel

Berlioz Symphonic fantastique - New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta

Jack Brymer medium wave and mono only from 6.20

Cantata No 208: Was mir behagt, istnur die muntre Jagd: IRENE SANDFORD , VIOLET TWOMEY (sopranos) FRANK PATTERSON (tenor) WILLIAM YOUNG (bass)
CANTATA SINGERS, NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA,
GILLIAN SMITH (harpsichord) conductor JOHN BECKETT (First broadcast on R4)

The Government's Employment Bill aims to narrow the scope of the immunities which trade unions enjoy under the law. What will be the consequences in the courts? Should the law be rewritten to give trade unionists a bill of 'positive'rights?
Sir Andrew Shonfteld , a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and now Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, discusses these issues with Lord Wedderburn, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the LSE, and Jon Harvey , QC, author of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law.
Producer DAVID MORTON

Preludes and Fugue for 13 solo strings
WARSAW PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: record

Her eyes have an indrawn look, like a bird hatching its eggs.
To whose voice is she listening
A sequence of poems by Ruth Fainlight which takes the classical figure of the Sybil as a starting-point for an exploration of some of the more mysterious aspects of the creative experience.
Readers: ANN ARIS, ELIZABETH BELL , KATHLEEN HELME , FRANCES HOROVITZ and HELEN RYAN
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Second of two programmes of his Latin church music introduced by David Wulstan , who conducts THE CLERKES OF
OXENFORD Christe qui lux es III; Manus tuae; Christe qui lux es IV; Five-voice Lamentations, Part 2

Introduced by Charles Fox THE BI.UENOTES
Dudu Puckwana
(alto, soprano saxes)
Chris McGregor (piano) Johnny Dyani (double-bass)
Brian Abrahams (drums)

Fairest Isle; Evening Hymn: ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor), WIELAND KUIJKEN (bass viol), WILLIAM CHRISTIE (harpsichord): record