Weber and Friends Berlioz Queen Mab
Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet): THE PARIS
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARKNBOIM
8.13* Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance, Op 65: VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN
8.23* Weber Konzertstuck in F minor:
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano), LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
8.40* Weber Ocean, thou Mighty Monster (Oberon) (mono): FLORENCE AUSTRAL (soprano), ROYAL OPERA ORCHESTRA, COVENT
GARDEN, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.48. Weber, arr Mahler Intermezzo (Die drei Pintos): NATIONAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT HERBERT ADLER : records

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Haydn's Symphony No 104 (London), by STEPHEN DODGSON.
Improyements in recording and duplicating cassettes, by BARRY FOX.
New records of chamber music and song, reviewed by SIMON MUNDY.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Beethoven Septet in E flat ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE
Wolf Five Morike Lieder: Storchenbotschaft:
Fussreise: Elfenlied; Bei einer Trauung: Jaserlied ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano),
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano): records

THE DALMELLINGTON BAND
Conductor ARCHIE HUTCHISON
Gilbert Vinter Variations on a Ninth
Allan Street Metroforce (first broadcast)
William Heinesen, arr R. Oughton Norska Lova
BBC Scotland

In this selection of records, Jeremy Siepmann treads wearily through the minefield of formal education. Bach. Britten and Arbeau prove inspired instructors, and Beethoven demonstrates that pupils can be masters.

Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon jane GLOVER reviews three recent books:
Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High
Renaissance by Denis Arnold , The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi , translated and introduced by Denis Stevens , and Music and Patronage in 16th-century Mantua, by Iain Fenlon. Settings of John Donne
MARY BEVERLEY (soprano) and NIGEL NORTH (lute) perform settings of Donne's poems by 17th-century composers: William Corkine ,
Ferrabosco, Dowland, Coprario. John Hilton, John Wilson , Henry Lawes and Humfrey VHF only

Rodney Greenberg introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
VHF only until 3.35

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with Robert Cushman
Bryan Robertson and Claire Tomalin.
This week's subjects: Martin Scorsese 's film Raging Bull.
Turgenev's A Month in the Country in a new translation by Isaiah Berlin at the NT
Second Sight (3): ' The Watering Place ' by Rubens and Gainsborough at the National Gallery. The Short Story in English by Walter Allen . BBC1's Play for Today: The Union by Tony Perrin.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Three fragments from Wozzeck, Op 7
WENDY FINE (soprano) SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by URI SEGAL tSouth German Radio recording)

(piano)
Haydn Sonata in c minor (H XVI 20)
Bartok Four Elegies, Op 9a Beethoven Sonata in D minor. Op 31 No 2
(Austrian Radio recording of part of a recital given during the 1980 Salzburg Festival)

In actual fact nothing has happened.
There uas no such thing as the sinking of the Titanic.
It Was just a movie, an omen, a hallucination.
Hans Magnus
Enzensborger reads the last of three selections from his recent
Poem-sequence, in his own English translation. Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

in the context of unfamiliar 18th-century music
Judith Nelson (soprano), Melvyn Tan (fortepiano), Academy of Ancient Music, leader Catherine Mackintosh, Davitt Moroney (fortepiano continuo), conducted by Christopher Hogwood

Ordonez Symphony in B flat, with concertante viola and cello

Mozart Rondo in A, for fortepiano and orchestra (K 386: with Mozart's newly-discovered ending)

Haydn Cantata: Miseri noi, misera Patria

Eybler Symphony in C

Six comic talks written by Barry Pilton and performed by Leonard Rossiter.

"And lo! there also appeared an enormous great basilica, 500 car parks ... infinite miracle hamburger stands and souvenir shops ..."

Mozart Quartet in D major (K 575)
Bartok Quartet No 5 EDER STRING QUARTET

by DONALD BARTHELME Read by Bask Moss Producer ANTON GILL

(harp)
Tournier Vers la source dans le bois
Berkeley Nocturne: record