Historic recordings of the pianist, Dinu Lipatti
Bach, arr Kempff Sicil iana (Flute Sonata in E flat, bwv 1031)
8.8* Lipatti Concertino in classical style
THE COMPOSER (piano)
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, COnducted by HANS VON BENDA
8.24* Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA : records

Listeners' record requests Prokofiev Suite: The Love of Three Oranges
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
9.20* Messiaen Le merle noir: SUSAN MILAN (flute) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
9.27* Schubert, transc Liszt Die Taubenpost JOHN BINGHAM (piano)
9.32* Spohr Clarinet Concerto No 1 in c minor GERVASE DE PEYER LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
9.53* Taneyev Symphony No 2, in b flat
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The dominance of Rimsky-Korsakov, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
The Haydn Society of Great Britain: a conversation With DENIS MCCALDIN. The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)

leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
Debussy Prelude a I'après-midi d'un faune
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in f minor
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* London Symphony Orchestra. Part 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, in F minor
(A concert given at the Usher Hall as part of the 1979 Edinburgh International Festival)

The Final of this year's International Amateur Choral Competition
Bernard Keeffe introduces the finalists, summarises the jury's comments, gives its verdicts and announces the winner of the BBC Silver Rose Bowl for 1980. Finalists:
School Class: Finland, its Youth Class: UK, Finland Equal Voice Class: Finland, W Germany
Mixed Voice Class: UK, W Germany
Large Choir Class: W Germany, Hungary
Chamber Choir Class: Norway, Hungary
Contemporary Music Class: Finland, UK
Jurors: NIKI VASKOLA, Chairman of the Jury (Finland); NOEL cox (UK); WILFRIED BRENNECKE (W Germany); SVERRE LIND (Norway); ROBBERT DE NEEVE (Netherlands); ELZ-BIETA GRYNSTASIK (Poland); OH-SUNG KWON (S Korea)
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

SARAH WALKER (mezZO-Sop) THE NASH ENSEMBLE
Ravel Introduction and Allegro; Chansons madecasses
Trois poemes de Mallarmg (conducted by ANTONY PAY )

Part 2 Faure
Piano Quintet in c minor, Op 115

Opera in seven scenes by Paul Hindemith (sung in German)
For his fifth opera Hindemith took as his central figure the 16th-century painter, Mathias Griine wald. He worked on Mathis during the early period of the Nazi regime in Germany, and it is not hard to trace a relationship between political circumstances and the events of the opera.
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK gramophone records
Prologue, Scenes 1 and 2
4.45* Interval Reading
4.55* Mathis der Maler Scenes 3, 4 and 5

David Wilde

Scenes 6 and 7

by FLANN O'BRIEN , adapted for radio by ERIC EWENS with Niall Buggy Patrick Magee and Jim Norton
Set in Dublin in the 1930s, the main action takes place in the ' kingdom of the mind ' of the main character, Myles, a student at University College and an aspirant novelist.
Myles s principal character is also a novelist and his characters a rebellious bunch, who frequently take over the novel and indulge their own fancy. One of them begins to write yet another novel. A novel, within a novel, within a novel....
Technical presentation by JOCK FARRELL
Directed by RONALD MASON followed by an interlude

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS
EDITH PEINEMANN (Violin)
Walton Capriccio burlesco Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D
10.0* Interval Reading
18.5* Concert Part 2
Hindemith Concert Music for string orchestra and brass
Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice

by CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY
A series of six Gothic fantasies
4: Decreation
Read by Stephen Moore

Two madrigals from this unlikelv source, as well as In a Mandarin's Orchid Garden and By Strauss GREGG SMITH SINGERS
ORESTRA CYBRIWSKY (piano) gramophone record