Second of nine programmes Handel Overture: Judas Maccabaeus
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
Weldon Take , 0 take those lips away: APRIL CANTELO (soprano),
RAYMOND I.EPPARD (harpsichord)
Arne Harpsichord Concerto in G minor
TREVOR PINNOCK
THE ENGLISH CONCERT Boyce 0 be joyful
WORCESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR ACADEMY OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL, directed by DONALD HUNT : records

Listeners' record requests Mozart Symphony No 25, in G minor (K 183)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.26* Schubert Sonata in A (d 664)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
9.46* Verdi Four Sacred Pieces
JANET BAKER (mezZO-SOp) PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI

A magazine about music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts.
Including a conversation with one of the youngest composers ever to be heard at the Proms, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Presented by Jeremy Slepmann Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE

conducted by SEIJJ OZAWA JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN (Violin) Vleuxtemps Violin Concerto No 5. in A minor Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending preceded by a reading of George Meredith's poem on which it is based
11.40* Interval Reading
11.45* Boston SO
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5. in E minor. (WCRB recordino)

International Amateur Choral Competition
Fifth of 15 programmes School Choirs (1)
Finland: CHOIR OF KOUVOLA MUSIC CLASSES; Yugoslavia: JURAJ BARKOVIC GIRLS' SCHOOL CHOIR; South Korea: SOONG-SIL HIGH SCHOOL MALI CHOIR: UK: LATYMER MADRI GAL GROUP
Introduced by Bernard Keen *
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

On a welcome return visit last night, the Czech-born Rudolf Firkusny, now living in America, made it clear that he is a musician's pianist, able to penetrate to the heart of things with the minimum of flamboyance, (THE TIMES) A recital given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London on 21 February.
Haydn Sonata in t flat (h-xvi 49)
Schubert Three Piano Pieces (D 946)
Martinu Fantasia and Toccata (written fur Rudolf Firkusny)
2.0* Interval Reading
2.10* Rudolf Firkusny Part 2
Mussorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
Encores by Chopin and Smetana
(Stereo)

Opera in five acts (1868) Music by Ambroise Thomas Libretto by M. CARR É and J. BARBIER , after SHAKESPEARE (sung in French)
The Buxton Festival production given at the Buxton Opera House on 5 August.
(Sponsored by Bass Ltd) The Bard is treated to a hefty re-write in an opera adorned with splendid choruses and poignant melodies in the French grand manner.
Cast In order of singing:
BUXTON FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master BRIAN HUGHES MANCHESTER CAMERATA leader FAY CAMPEY conducted by ANTHONY HOSE Acts I and 2s

Stephen Dodgson

Acts 3, 4 and 5

COULL QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1
Mendelssohn Quartet in r minor. Op 80

direct from the Usher
Hall,
Edinburgh
New York Philharmonic Orchestra guest concert-master SIDNEY HARTH conductor Zubln Mehta Part 1 Penderecki
Symphony No 2 (first European performance)

Laura and The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
The mysterious goings-on in the Home Counties: when Laura dies, her capacity for interference in the lives of her friends does not.... when Cris Pina disappears, her family's relief is short-lived....
Read by Peter Howell

Part 2 Beethoven symphony No 3, in E flat (Eroica) BBC Scotland

by STENDHAL translated for the first time into English by SUSAN ASHE Read by Anthony Newlands his exotic story tells of an affair between a pope's niece and a French nobleman in early 18th-century Rome, and of an incompatibility between a passionate Roman temperament and a calculating French one which had fatal consequences.
Producer RICHARD KEEN followed by an Interlude

Martinu Sonata No 2 (written on Long Island) Barber Sonata
WALLFISCH/MARKHAM DUO

Two historic recordings of the pianist
Schubert Impromptu in A Hat, Op 142 No 2
Debussy Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Series I) gramophone record: 1926