Listeners' record requests Enesco Romanian
Rhapsody No 1. in A DETROIT SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.17* Fibich Quintet in D, Op 42
KAREL BLOUHY (clarinet) ZOENEK TYLSAR (horn) with the FIBICH TRIO
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8.5 Alessandro Scarlatti Sanctus ; Agnus Dei (St Cecilia Mass)
ELIZABETH HARWOOD , WENDY EATHORNE (sopranos) MARGARET CABLE (contralto)
WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baSS) JOHN SCOTT (organ) CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE WREN ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE GUEST
8.13' Leopold Mozart
Concerto in E flat, for two horns and strings
HERMANN BAUMANN. MAHIR CAKAR (horns)
CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by JAAP SCHRODER
8.24* Nielsen Symphony No 2, Op 16 (The Four Temperaments) LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by OLE SCHMIDT

Barber
Capricorn Concerto, Op 21 (mono)
EASTMAN-ROCHESTER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HOWARD HANSON
9.21* Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24
LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
9.38* Night Flight, Op 19a LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID MEASHAM
9.47* Melodies passageres, Op 27 (mono)
PIERRE BERNAC (baritone) FRANCIS POULENC (piano) gramophone records

Paul Crossley (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra led by Peter Thomas, conducted by Simon Rattle

Szymanowski: Concert Overture, Op 12
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor
Tadeusz: Baird Symphony No 3 (first UK broadcast)

played by George Wilson in Holy Trinity Parish Church, St Andrews
Bruhns: Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Bach: Trio-Sonata No 3, in D minor (BWV 527)
Milos Sokola: Passacaglia quasi toccata on the theme BACH
BBC Scotland
(Repeat)

FELICITY LOTT (soprano) SARAH WALKER
(mezzo-soprano)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSOI ( (tenor)
NORMAN WELSBY (bass) THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL CHORUS
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DONALD HUNT (Vaughan Williams) and JOHN SANDERS
Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
Gerard Schurmann Piers Plowman (first performance)
(Part of a public concert, given in August 1980, at Gloucester Cathedral) BBC Birmingham

direct from Broadcasting House. London
Nicholas Walker (piano) Scriabin Sonata No 4
Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op 55: Scherzo No 1, in B minor
Raehmaninov Etudestableaux. Op 33 Nos 3, 5. 6 and 7 Liszt Rigoletto: paraphrase de concert (Given before a studio audience)

Beethoven Quartet in minor, Op 95
Borodin Quartet No 2 LINDSAY STRING QUARTET (Given in 1979 in the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
BBC Manchester (Repeal)

Song-cycle: Sun, moon and stars
JANE MANNING (soprano) RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (piano)
BBC Manchester

Ronald Pickup reads from the autobiographical poem. abridged in 12 parts and introduced by Patric Dickinson
8: Residence in France
Meantime, day by day, the roads
Were crowded with the bravest Youth of France,
And all the promptest of her Spirits link'd
In gallant Soldiership . . .'

Eighth of 12 programmes Violin Sonata in F major (K 377)
NORBERT BRAININ (violin) LAMAR CROWSON (piano)

Roger Nichols

Sonata In B minor
Philip Fowke (piano)

How long is a day?
Longer, it seems, than It used to be. In the 18th century, the astronomer
Edmund Halley suggested that the Earth was gradually rotating more slowly. Recent observations have confirmed the idea.
John Maddox discusses with Professor Raymond Lyttleton of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge why the days are drawing out. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

50th
Anniversary Season direct from the Royal
Festival Hall, London
Margaret Price (soprano) Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor) Roland Hermann
(speaker and baritone) BBC Singers (men's voices) director JOHN POOLE
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Michael Gielen
Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor (Choral)

Presenter Kevin Ruane

MSTISLAV ROSTBOPOVICH
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (pianO) gramophone record

A portrait of the writer William Gerhardie (1895-1977)
Olivia Manning once wrote of Gerhardie: he is our Gogol's overcoat, we all came out of him . Yet when he died he was largely forgotten. And still is.
John Stevenson investigates the case of the disappearing novelist with comments from ANN AMYES , MICHAEL HOLROYD , MICHAEL IVENS , MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE , ANTHONY POWELL and CHRISTINA STREET. Readings from
Gerhardie's work by Malcolm Hayes and Nigel Anthony
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT followed by an interlude

Field Two Nocturnes: No 1, in E flat; No 2, in c minor
DANIEL ADNI (piano) gramophone record