featuring this week the BARRY TUCKWELL WIND QUINTET, in works by Barber, Arnold and György Ligeti
Arnold Three Shanties, for wind quintet
8.11* Shostakovich Three Violin Duets
ITZHAK PERLMAN , PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violins)
SAMUEL SANDERS (piano)
8.18* Ligeti Six Bagatelles, for wind quintet
8.28* Ignaz Schuster
Instrumental versions of four operatic arias SUPERCORD CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHANN SKLENKA
8.41* Barber Summer
Music, for wind quintet gramophone records

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Butterworth's Song-cycle: A Shropshire Lad, by J. W. LAMBERT Improving the manufacture of discs, by BARRY FOX
New orchestral releases reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

C. P. E. Bach Sonata in A minor, for solo Bute JAMES GALWAY
Brahms Violin Concerto ULF HOELSCHER
NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT gramophone records

WEBB IVORY NEWHALL BAND conductor
ERNEST WOODHOUSE
John R. Carr March: Glemdene
Arnold Little Suite No 1
Stanley Woods Little Blue Boy
Denis Wright Tarn O'Shanter's Ride BBC Birmingham

Two for Tea
Musical partnerships preoccupy
Jeremy Siepmann in his selection of records this week, among them those of Mozart and da Ponte, Venus and Adonis
(courtesy of Alessandro Scarlatti ) and Sir William Walton and Dame Edith Sitwell.
Instrumental contributors include Edwin Fischer
(with a Bach Prelude and Fugue), Rudolf Serkin (in Schumann's Introduction and Allegro) and Joseph Szigeti and Bela Bartok who give a complete performance of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.
(Jeremy Siepmann is
The Armchair Traveller:' tonight 11.45 on Radio 4)

Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon
A Virginal Restored! listeners' reactions to the contrasting sounds of the same 17th-century Italian virginal strung with brass and iron wire.
(Malcolm Rose discussed the problems of restoration in Early Music Forum, 20 December, and recitals by Lucy Carolan were broadcast on 23 and 24 December)
The English Royal Band 1540-1715: the first of a five-programme series. With the help of THE
PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS, PETER HOLMAN traces the history of orchestral playing at the English
Court through ten reigns. from Henry VIII to George 1. This first programme, Musical
Refugees, considers the band in the 16th century, and includes music by Albert of Venice, Innocent of Cremona, Joseph Lupo , Peter Philips , Anthony Holborne and John Dowland.

Elaine Padmore introduces her persona! selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.

with Peter Clayton

Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with Robert Cushman
Bryan Robertson and Claire Tomalin.
This week's subjects: Tony Garnett 's film Prostitute.
A television adaptation by Peter McDougall of Jimmy Boyle 's autobiography A Sense of Freedom, on ITV.
Winston Ntshona and John Kani in Beckett's
Waiting for Godot at the Old Vic.
The HonorS Daumie* exhibition at the Royal Academy.
The History of Myddle, a portrait of a 17th-century English parish by Richard Gough.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

presented by BBC Radio I as part of the 1980 Summer School for Guitar, Cannington.
This month's guest artist, Milan Zelenka , plays works by Matiegka, Jana Obrovska , Falla and Vaclav Kucera Introduced by DORITA SENSIER

in Gloucester Cathedral JOHN SCOTT (organ)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MILAN HORVAT
Karg-Elert Passacaglia and Fugue on BACH
Anton Heiller Organ Concerto

The water is rushing into the bulkheads.
Thirty yards above sea level the iceberg, black and silent, passes, glides by the glittering ship, and disappears in the dark.
One of West Germany's most admired poets, Hans Magnus Enzensberger , has taken the story of the Titanic as the theme for his recent poem-sequence, and developed it into a commentary on contemporary culture.
Tonight he reads the first of three selections from the sequence, in his own English translation. BBC Manchester
followed by an interlude

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA leader
MATHIAS UNGENFELDER conductor CLAUDIO ABBADO SALVATORE ACCARDO (Violin) SHLOMO MINTZ (violin) Part 1
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute (K 620)
(conducted by EDWARD HEATH)
Bach Concerto in D minor, for two violins (BWV 1043)
Bartok Suite: The
Miraculous Mandarin, Op 9

Six comic talks
'He first came to public attention as defender of the earth's ozone layer, which was threatened by intensive American acrosol deodorant usage.'
Written by Barry Pilton and performed by Leonard Rossiter.

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 2, in D
(Given in August 1980 in the Usher Hall)
A BBC Digital recording BBC Scotland

Mosco earner, author of a study of Berg, talks about Lulu in its completed form by Friedrich Cerha. (Lulu, live from Covent Garden: Tuesday 7.0 pm)

from Delius's Hassan LESLIE FRY (baritone) BBC CHORUS, ROYAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM : record