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The first in a series of nine programmes featuring music from 18th-century England, by both native composers and foreigners who made England their home.
Boyce Symphony No 5, in D
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA directed by RONALD THOMAS Greene Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end
ST ALBANS ABBEY CHOIR directed by PETER HURFORD Babell Recorder Concerto in D: FRANS BRÛGGEN, SOLOISTS, directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
Arne Cantata: Bacchus and Ariadne
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Croft Suite No 3, in c minor: TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 5
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD : records

Listeners' record requests Beethoven Septet in E flat. Op 20: MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
9.46* Bartok Violin Concerto No 1
DAVID OISTRAKH
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
10.7* Saint-Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
MAURICE ANDRÉ (trumpet) JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano)

A A oagazine about the music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts.
Including this week an interview with EDMUND RUBBRA about his new Symphony, his llth, a BBC commission. Presented by Jeremy Siepmann
ProducerPIERS BURTON-PAGE

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major, Op 7
Chopin Impromptus: A fiat major, Op 29; F sharp major, Op 36; G flat major, Op 51; c sharp minor, Op 66 (Fantasy-Impromptu)
11.50* Interval Reading
12.0* Murray Perahia Part 2 Schubert
Sonata in A major (D 959) (Given in June 1979 in the QEH, London)

SIMON STANDAGE (baroque Violin)
JENNIFER WARD CLARES (baroque cello) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Georg Muffat Sonata in D
Biber Sonata representativa in A
Bach Sonata in E minor (bwv 1023)

International Amateur Choral Competition
Fourth of 15 programmes Equal Voice Choirs (2)
West Germany: GIRLS' CHOIR OF HANOVER; Netherlands: DE TROUBADOURS; UK: WIRRAL SINGERS; Finland: ACADEMIC MALE VOICE
CHOIR OF HELSINKI Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

in the Liedcrhalle, Stuttgart
VICTORIA POSTNIKOV A (piano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaderRODNEY FRIEND conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Mozart Symphony No 13, in r major (K 112)
Britten Diversions on a theme for piano (left hand) and orchestra

David Blake

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 4
(Given on 22 May)
A BBC Digital recording

Basil Lam talks about Bach's Goldberg Variations and the problems posed to the modern interpreter. He includes performances by GOULD, KEMPFF, ROSEN and TURECK on the piano, and by KIRKPATRICK, LANDOWSKA, LEONHARDT, RUZICKOVA and TURECK on the harpsichord.

Six Promenades
Harmony Music No 4 . ATHENA ENSEMBLE gramophone record

"What does it meant he says - What's it meant to mean - and so on - lot more stuff like that - usual drivel." (Happy Days)
A critical biography of Samuel Beckett by Christopher Ricks, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University.
Contributors include: Richard Ellman, Harold Pinter, Billie Whitelaw, Denis Donoghue, Donald Davie, Alain Robbe-Grillet
With readings from Beckett's works in the BBC Sound Archives.

AMADEUS QUARTET: record

by DAVID IIALLIWELL with Nigel Anthony as Adrian Hazelgrove
Adrian Hazelgrove , ex-employee of Nickerson Byng Associates, is on his way to an interview for a new job when he turns down into Cleveland Street and, for a moment, thinks he has seen his old girl-friend, Marcia. On second thoughts, he's not sure, but on the other hand, it could have been her; it certainly looked like her. Was it her? A quest begins which changes his life.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN followed by an interlude

Opening Concert direct from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Peter Frankl (piano)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus chorus-master JOHN CURRIE Philharmonia Orchestra leader CARLpini conductor Riccardo Muti Part 1
Beethoven Fantasia in c minor, Op 80, for piano, chorus and orchestra; Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor, Op 37

A short story by BARBARA LACEY
Read by Anna Massey Producer ANTHONY VIVIS

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c (D 944) BBC Scotland A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2

1903-78
Some unscripted auto-biographical musings by the late NICOLAS NABOKOV prompted by his book Bagazh, Confessions oj a Russian Cosmopolitan.

Romance for violin and orchestra: JOSEF SUK CZECH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KAREL ANCERL : record