First of seven programmes, each featuring some of his choral music.
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.20* Mass in G minor JOHN EATON (treble) NIGEL PERRIN (altO)
ROBIN DOVETON (tenor) DAVID VAN ASCH (baSS)
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records

Listeners' record request* Mozart Flute Concerto No 1, in G (K 313): RICHARD ADENEY, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.30* Fauré Dolly Suite
CYRIL SMITH , PHYLLIS SELLICK (piano, three hands)
9.47* Magnard Symphony NO 3, Op 11: SUISSEROMANDE ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Leo Delibes ' the father of modern ballet music ': by FELIX APRAHAMIAN.
Silence and empty words: a conversation with JOHN CAGE. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated; Wed 2.0 pm)

conducted by SEIJI OZAWA OTTOMAR BORWITZKY (cello) Eugen d'Albert Cello Concerto in c. Op 20
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Concert Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 1, in B
(SFB Berlin recording)

Busoni Fantasia contrappuntistica
Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Beethoven, Op 86 played by ALFONS AND ALOYS KONTARSKY (two pianos)

Tenth of 13 programmes School Choirs (2)
KING CHARLES I SCHOOL MADRIGAL GROUP; RATHMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHOIR; LATY-MER MADRIGAL GROUP; SHER-BORNE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS MADRIGAL SOCIETY
Adjudicators: NOEL cox, GEOFFREY MITCHELL and GARETH WALTERS
Bernard Keeffe introduces the series, summarises the adjudicators' remarks and announces the class winners,

First of two programmes YOSSI ZIVONI (violin)
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (pianO) Sonata in D (K 29); Sonata in c (K 301); Sonata in B flat (K 378)

Opera seria in three acts Music by Handel Libretto by SILVIO STAMPIGLIA
(sung in Italian: records) Her suitors:
LA PETITE BANDE. conducted by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN Act 1

Bernard Levin visits Hohenems in Austria.

Act 2

J. W. Lambert

Act 3

by SYNESIUS OF CYRENE translated by AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD adapted by PETER BARNES Read by Derek Godfrey
Synesius of Cyrene was born in AD 370 and died in AD 414. Though a Christian prelate and neoPlatonic philosopher, he was outstandingly a man of action, who farmed and hunted. But he found time to keep up an informative correspondence with his friends, to compose verse and to write on rhetoric, science, philosophy and baldness .. , Producer IAN COTTERELL

director LEONARD FRIEDMAN Francesco Barsanti Overture in d, Op 4 No 2
Nielsen Little Suite, Op 1 gramophone records

Compiled by JOHN CARR -GREGG from the CHARLES m. DOUGHTY classic Travcli in Arabia Deserta, published in 1888 and hailed as a masterpiece.
T. E. Lawrence wrote In his introduction to the 1926 edition: 'The beauty of the telling, its truth to life, the rich gallery of characters and landscapes in it, will remain for all time and will keep it peerless'. with Norman Rodway as Charles M. Doughty and Noel Johnson as the Narrator Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

conducted by HENRY LEWIS Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2, in E minor

Dichterliebe PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DEZSO RANKI (piano) (Hungarian Radio recording)

Fantasie to an andante by Martini: ALAN CUCKSTON (cabinet piano by Messrs Waite , c 1825): record