medium ware only

Listeners' record requests Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op 91: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
7.17* Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in c, Op 87 No 1 (mono) EMIL GILELS (piano) 7.25* Sokolov / Glazunov
Lyadov Polka (Les vendrcdis) (mono)
PIIILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NIKOLAI MALKO
7.38* Rheinbergcr Organ Concerto in F, Op 137
E. POWER BIGGS, COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MAURICE PERESS

Part 2
Monteverdi Beatus vir I DOROTHY DOROW ,
BIRGIT NORDIN (sopranos) NIGEL ROGERS , IAN PARTRIDGE (tenors) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE ,
FRIEDHELM HESSENBRUCH (basses)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR, instrumental ensemble conducted by JÜRGEN JÜRGENS
8.14* Rameau Pieces de clavecin en concert, No 5 ...............FRANS BRÜGGEN (flute)
SIGISWALD KUIJKEN (violin) WIELAND KUIJKEN (viola da gamba). GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
8.23* Grandi 0 beate benedicte: EARLY Music CONSORT OF LONDON, directed by DAVID MUNROW
8.29* Stanley Sonata in D minor: HANS-MARTIN LINDE (flute), KURT RAPF (organ)
8.39* Purcell Suite No 6, in D: COLIN TILNEY (spinet)
8.44' Corelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 11: LA PETITE BANDE directed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN : records

Massenet
Herodiade (excerpts)
PARIS OPÉRA ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE gramophone record

played by David Ponsford in St Peter 's Church, Dunchurch. Warwickshire Bruhns Prelude and Fugue in E minor (starting on manuals)
Bohm Partita on Ach wie nichtig, ach wic fluchtig
Buxtehude Ciacona in E minor: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor BBC Birmingham

Clarinet Quartet in E flat CUMMINGS STRING TRIO With ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet)

PASCAL ROGÉ (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIMON RATTLE Haydn Symphony No 52, in c minor
Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra
11.50* Interval Reading
12.0* Midday Concert Part 2 Elgar
Symphony No 1. in A flat (A public lunchtime concert given on 7 May in the City Hall. Glasgow) BBC Scotland

direct from Broadcasting House. London
Lenore Smith (flute) Ian Brown (piano) Julie Adam (piano)
Frank Martin Preludes (1948). Nos 1-4
Faure Fantaisie for flute and piano. Op 79
MarlinuSonataNo1,for flute and piano
Frank Martin Preludes (1948), Nos 5-8

Britten Canticle I (Francis Quarles: My beloved is mine)
Gerald Finzi Song-cycle: Till earth outwears (poems by Hardy)
Philip Cannon Three rivers (poems by Jacqueline Laidlaw)
DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)

leader RONALD THOMAS conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Handel Concerto Grosso in c, Op 6 No 1
Haydn Symphony No 22, in E flat (The Philosopher)
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Concert. Part 2 Lalo Two Aubades Dvorak Czech Suite BBC Bristol

Gcrdon Reynolds introduces the programme o( music for early evening. medium wave and mono only from 6.20

Martin Cooper , the author of Beethoven: The Last Decade, sketches the background against which the Ninth Symphony was conceived, and introduces some of Beethoven's letters and other contemporary documentation. (Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies; tomorrow
7.30, Radio 3 and Radio 4)

Opera in a prologue and three acts
Music by Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
(sung in Italian)
direct from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Royal Opera Chorus
chorus-master John Barker
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
leader John Brown
conducted by Sir Colin Davis

Prologue and Act 1 Sc 1

For his second talk in this new series Bernard Levin visits Atdeburgh for the opening performances of this year's 33rd Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, which includes a new production of Benjamin Britten 's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream (Radio 3 Friday 8.15).
(24 June: Hohcnems)

Act 1 Scene 2

Acts 2 and 3 (Production sponsored by IBM UK Ltd and the Royal Opera House Trust)

Suite No 2, in G minor COLIN TILNEY (spinet) (gramophone record)
Four-part Fantazia No 2 (composed 11 June 1680) ENGLISH CONSORT OF VIOLS (Fantazia No 3: next Sat)