Purcell Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday, 1692: Love's goddess sure was blind: SOLOISTS, EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON conducted by DAVID MUNHOW
7.28* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge (mono)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN: records

Schreker Overture: Die Gezeichneten
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT HERBERT ADLER
8.16* Schumann Five pieces in folk style, Op 102: MSTISLAVROSTROPOVICH (cello)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
8.35* Wagner Morgenlich leuchtend (Die Meistersinger von NUrnberg) SIEGFRIED JERUSALEM
(tenor), MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by GABRIEL CHMURA
8.39* Ravel Rapsodie espagnole: CLEVELAND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ : records

Gerald Finzi
Earth and air and rain, Op 15
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Clarinet Concerto, Op 31 JOHN DENMAN
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by V,ERNON HANDLEY : records

by Rautavaara, Sibelius and Nordgren played and introduced by Philip Martin

English Compositions 1938-78 BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bar) KENNETH MOBBS (piano) CANZONA WIND ENSEMBLE Mary Chandler Trio for oboe, clarinet and horn Adrian Beaumont Song-cycle: The Pale Horizon Frank Bridge Divertimenti for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon

conducted by EDWARD DOWNES JANINA FIALKOWSKA (piano) Alexander Goehr Meta morphosis/Dance Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in b flat.

Presented by Kevin Ruane Producer BLAIR THOMSON
(Rptd: tomorrow 8.35 pm)

by Christopher Kite Byrd Callino casturame Martin Peerson The Primrose; The Fall of the Leafe Giles Farnaby Up tails all Couperin Pieces from Ordre 5 Scarlatti Sonatas: B minor (Kk 87): c major (Kk 270 and 271).

Last in a ten-part series in which Roger Nichols has been presenting a critical revaluation of the art of Claude Debussy with the aid of historic performances on records. Today he looks at the music of the final years, and includes movements from the Cello Sonata (MAURICE GENDRON , JEAN FRANÇAIX); the Sonata for flute, viola, harp (JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL , PIERRE PAS-QUIER. LILY LASKINE); the Violin Sonata (JACQUES THIBAUD , ALFRED CORTOT ) Voice of Debussy: LYNDON BROOK. Series producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE.

Déploration for Orchestra; Symphony No 2 NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by the COMPOSER (Radio New Zealand recording)

ROBERTO BRAVO (piano) JACQUELINE CURRIE (Sop) STEPHEN RALLS (piano) Chopin Polonaise in c minor. Op 40 No 2; Waltz in A flat, Op 69 No 1: Waltz in A flat, Op 34 No 1 Messiaen Poemes pour Mi Chopin Scherzo No 3. in c sharp minor, Op 39

Charles Fox with records

Jeremy Siepmann

March: Queen Elizabeth Suite : Four Centuries
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON: record

In the first of three talks, The Rev Dr Edward Nor man, Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who has been travelling in South America, reflects on the extent to which Argentina can be said to demonstrate the Church's support for reactionary right-wing nationalism. followed by an interlude

direct from the Royal Albert Hall,
London
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1 Shostakovich
Symphony No 1, in F minor

The novelist Paul Bailey reflects on the character of Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations.

Opera in one act
Music by Rachmaninov
Sung in the English translation by David Lloyd-Jones, Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky
BBC Singers, director John Poole

A series of 13 talks by Professor Richard Cobb 11: Marseille (1)

In the 24th of 26 programmes, ANTHONY ROOLEY introduces Thomas Cam pian's Two Bookes of Ayres of 1613 and directs THE CONSORT OF MUSICKE.

by GRAHAM GREENE
Fourth of eight episodes Read by IAN HOLM

Novellettes, Op 21 Nos 1 and 2: ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano): record