Vaclav Pichl Symphony in D (Mars)
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.21* Landowska Le Houblon (mono) Jacob le Polonais Galliard (mono)
Landowska Bourree d'Auvergne (mono) WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord)
7.30* Stravinsky Three Tales for Children
ODA SLOBODSKAYA (soprano) IVOR NEWTON (piano)
7.35* Debussy Prelude: Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses jEAN-RODOLPnEKARS (piano)
7.38* Virgil Thomson Acadian Songs and Dances (mono)
LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY conducted by THOMAS SCHERMAN
8.0 News
8.5 Brahms, orch Rubbra Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE OUMANDY
8.29* Field Nocturne No 4, in A
DANIEL ADNI (piano)
8.35* Bloch Concerto Grosso No 1
FRANCIS GRIER (piano) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-
IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Monteverdi Gloria a 7 NIGEL ROGERS and IAN PARTRIDGE (tenors) ALAN LOVEDAY and NEVILLE MARRINER (violins) THAMES CHAMBER CHOIR
LONDON TROMBONE QUARTET conducted by Louis HALSEY Zefiro torno e di soavi accenti: Tirsi e Clori NIGEL ROGERS and IAN
PARTRIDGE (tenors)
SOLOISTS, LAUSANNE VOCAL
AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE directed by MICHEL CORDOZ gramophone records

Second of four programmes of Brahms's four symphonies, arranged by the composer for two pianos
Symphony No 2, in D major played by BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR

Reincken Sonata 1; Suite in A minor
Pachelbel Suite in E minor Schenk Suite IX
Buxtehude Sonata in B flat major. Op 1 No 4
Handel Violin Sonata in F, Op 1 No 12
Couperin Sonata (La Sultane)
(Git'en in September as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 1980)

BBC WEI.SH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conductor BRYDEN THOMSON RADOSLAV KVAPIL (piano) Part 1 Debussy
Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune; Fantaisie for piano and orchestra

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

Part 2
Stravinsky Symphony in e Hat, Op 1

MAX VAN EGMOND (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Reynaldo Hahn D'une prison; L'incredule; Trois jours de vendange: Les cygnes; Fetes galantes Franck Le mariage des roses; La procession Saint-Saëns Lc pas d'armes du Roi Jean; Clair de lune: Vogue, vogue la galere

The first of seven programmes compiled from recordings made by the once-famous orchestra launched in 1873 under the direction of the French violinist and conductor EDUOARD COLONNE Berlioz Hungarian March
(The Damnation of Faust) conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
(mono): YEHUDI MENUHIN conducted by GEORGES ENESCU
Prokofiev Suite: The Prodigal Son (mono) conducted by GEORGE SEBASTIAN : records

The complete Bartok string quartets and Haydn's Op 20 quartets played by the LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6
Bartok Quartet No 3
(Fourth prog: Thurs 3.55)

Records with Charles Fox

... mainly by Mozart with Natalie Wheen

Part 1
MARY THOMAS (mezZO-SOp) THE FIRES OF LONDON directed by JOHN CAREWE Purcell/Maxwell Davies Fantasia on one note Maxwell Davies
Anakreontiea (first broadcast performance) Purcell/Maxwell Davies Fantasia on a ground and two pavans

I go to Greece and 1 just sit and look at olive groves. In the ivind, the colour shifts, the light shifts. I want to get that feeling in the paintings.
The American minimalist, Brice Marden. talks with Edward Lucie-Smith about the inspiration for his one-colour paintings.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
Bricc Mardcn 's paintings and drawings are on show at the Whitcchapel
Art Gallery. London.
(26 May: Leonard Baskin )

Part 2
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT SANDERLING
Mahler Symphony No 9 (Given on 22 February in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
BBC Manchester

Conductor John Poole, In the second of four concerts, music by Edmund Rubbra (80 this month) and Herbert Howells

Rubbra Lauda Sion Howells Requiem (incorporating material later used in Hymnus Paradisu (first performance)

Rubbra Five Madrigals (First set)

Howells Inheritance; Take him, earth, for cherishing

Rubbra Festival Gloria

'...a most elegantly arranged sequence of 'a cappella' pieces by Herbert Howells and Edmund Rubbra. They are well-matched composers, stylistically not too far apart (if not in the end so very close); each of a polyphonic, ecclesiastical bent; each accepted for his master' craftsmanship but neither exactly popular or property known.' (Financial Times)

(Given on 20 November; 22 May: Williamson, Maw)

(Edmund Rubbra is the castaway on Desert Island Discs: 30 May, Radio 4)

(died 12 May 1931) Sonata in A minor,
Op 27 No 2: RUGGIERO ricci (violin): record