Dvorak Overture: Amid nature: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.18* Smetana String
Quartet No 2, in D minor GABRIELfQUARTET
7.37*Janaeek, arr Talich and Smetacek
Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen: TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
8.0 News
8.5 Handel Concerto
Grosso No 21, in D minor, Op 6 No 10
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS. directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.19* Allegri Miserere (Psalm 51)
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
8.30* Beethoven
Variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano HEINZ HOLLIGER, HANS
ELHORST (oboes). MAURICE BOURGUE (cor anglais)
8.40* Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

John Ireland Landscapes and Places
For Remembrance;
Amberley Wild Brooks ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Legend, for piano and orchestra: ERIC PARKIN LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Earth's Call (A Sylvan Rhapsody): ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
ALAN ROWLANDS (piano) Equinox: ERIC PARKIN
Cello Sonata: JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER ( cello
JOHN MCCABE (piano): records

Sinfonia austera
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI BBC Scotland

Tchaikovsky Quartet No 3, in E flat minor
BBC Manchester

MITSUKO SHIRAI (soprano) HARTMUT HOLL (piano) Schubert Im Freien; Wehmut: An die
Nachtigall: Wandrers
Nachtlied II: Der Einsame Berg Four Songs, Op 2 Schumann Lied der Suleika. Intermezzo:
Dein Bildnis ; Melancholi; Der Himmel hat eine
Thranegeweint; Widmung Wolf Spanisches
Liederbuch: In dem
Schatten mciner Lochen;
Alle gingen, Herz, zur Ruh: Bedeekt mich mit
Blumen; Geh', Geliebter, geh' jetzt!
(Given in association with University College of Wales, Cardiff)

EUGENE SARBU (violin)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG. Part 1 Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2

Ian McDougall presents his weekly selection of foreign radio broadcasts. (Rptd: Wed 8.50 pm)

Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4, in F minor. BBC Manchester

played by WILLIAM WATERHOUSE , With ELIZABETH RITCHIE (piano) Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sonatina. OD 30
Noel-Gallon Recit et Allegro
Massenet Morceau a déchiffrer
Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortege
Ltckl Serenate, for tenoroon and piano

String Sextet in B flat. Op 18: THE SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE BBC Scotland

(piano)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor (The Well-
Tempered Clavier, Bk 2) Mozart Variations on Unser dummer Pobel meint (K 455)
Schubert Sonata in c minor (D 958)

Records with Charles Fox

Natalie Wheen introduces an American edition, ending with Aaron Copland 's Ballet Suite. Billy the Kid, at 6.37*.

EDITH KERTF.SZ-GABRY (SOp) BARBARA SCHERLER (mezzo-soprano)
GWENDOLYN KILLEBREW (contralto)
ANTON DE RIDDER (tenor)
CLAUDIO NICOLAI (baritone) HARALD STAMM (bass)
COLOGNE RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HIROSHI WAKASUGI
Zimmermann Vocal -
Symphony: Die Soldaten
7.45* Interval Reading
7.50* Concert
Part 2 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

How Chekhov Nearly
Abandoned Writing for the Stage by L. W. BAILEY
Narrated by Martin Jarvis with The Moscow Arts Theatre still has a seagull on its curtain, in memory of the triumphant first performance of Chekhov's play there on 17 December 1898. But the original version of The
Seagull was produced in 1896 in St Petersburg and was met with boos. With the voices of JOHN LIVESEY , ALEXANDER JOHN , CHRISTOPHER SCOTT , MICHAEL SPICE, PAULINE LETTS. MARY CLARE NASH ,
DIANA BISHOP, HAYDN WOOD, DAVID TIMSON ,
KATHRYN HURLBUTT , AMANDA MURRAY Directed by RICHARD KEEN (New production of a programme first broadcast in 1971) (Peter Jeffrey is in * Moving ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
(The Seagull will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 27 April)

Reverie
LIVIA REV (piano)
Sonata for flute, viola and harp: CHRISTIAN LARD GERARD CAUSSE, MARIE-CLAIRE JAMET: records

Second in a series marking the 300th anniversary of his birth THE ENGLISH CONCERT leader SIMON STANDAGE directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Ouverture in F sharp minor, for strings and continuo
Concerto polonois in G, for strings and continuo Ouverture in G. for strings and continuo: Don Quichotte
Concerto in E, for flute, oboe d'amore. viola d'amore, strings and continuo: STEPHEN PRESTON
DAVID REICHENBERG , MONICA HUGGETT

Sonatina, Op 13: JAMES GALWAY (flute),
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano): record