Hérold, arr Lanchbcry Introduction: Dance of the Cock and Hens; Lise and the Ribbon (La fille mal gardée): ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, covent GARDEN, conducted by JOHN LANCHBERY
8.13* Chabrier Four Songs HUGCES CUENOD I tenor)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
8.26' Milhaud Suite d'apres Corrette ATHENA ENSEMBLE
8.35* Poulenc Aubade
GABRIEL TACCHINO (piano) MEMBERS OF THE PARIS
CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE : records

Mendelssohn String
Quartet No 1, in E flat ORLANDO QUARTET
Mahler Symphony No 10 (performing version by Dervck Cooke )
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LEVINE gramophone records

with ERNEST LUSH (piano) A recording from 1968 Der Wachtelschlag: Sehnsucht (Was lieht mir das Herz so?); Mit einem gemalten Band; An die Hoffnung

DESFORD COLLIERY DOWTYBAND conductor HOWARD SNELL Howard Snell Overture: Celebration Eric Ball Kensington Concerto Edward Gregson The Plantagenets

The music of husbands and wives is sounded out by Fritz Spiegl. Including Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick. Robert and Clara Schumann. Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams and Daniel Barenboim and Jacqueline du Pré . gramophone records

Presenter Lionel Salter Early Haydn H. C. Robbins Landon's exhaustive Havdn chronicle was completed last year with the publication of the volume covering the composer's earlv years. DUNCAN DRUCE looks at how the series can be of use to the practising musician. TIM CRAWFORD talks about his discovery of a missing Cassation in B flat, for lute, violin and cello. First broadcast performances of this work, together with two String Trios in D and E flat (H V D1. 11) played by SIMON STANDAGE and MICAELA COMBERTI (violins) JENNIFER WARD-CLARKE (cello)
NIGEL NORTH (lute) Producer ROGER SHORT

Stephen Plaistow with his selection from the outstanding music broadcasts heard recently.

with Peter Clayton

John Elsom (in the Chair) talks with A.S. Byatt, William Feaver and Hermione Lee. This week: Eric Rohmer's new film The Aviator's Wife, The National Theatre revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Contract by Hugh Whitemore in the ITV Playhouse series, Mary Gordon's novel The Company of Women, Picasso's Picassos at the Hayward Gallery.

GABRIEL ESTARELLAS plays music by Lauro, Villa-Lobos. Bartolome
Calalayud and Stephen Dodgson , who introduces the programme.
(Given on 23 March in association with Taunton Classical Guitar Society) followed by an interlude

Heather Harper (soprano) Anthony Goldstone (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted bv
Norman Del Mar. Part 1 Haydn Symphony No 93, in D major
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major

by ROBERT GITTIKGS
The year which elapsed between the death of Hardy's first wife and marriage to his second Proved to be a strange and difficult one for the wife to be, Florence - as is clear from her letters of the time. BBC Bristol

Part 2
Strauss Four Last Songs: Frühling: September:
Beim Schlafengehen ; Im Abendrot
Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos

A portrait of the Wiltshire Poet Alfred Williams written and narrated by John Wells with Timothy West as Alfred Williams
At the beginning of this century, a young farm-hand created a minor sensation when he chalked Greek verbs on his steam-hammer in the Great
Western Railway Works at Swindon.
Alfred Williams continued his own private war against his surroundings by teaching himself
Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, wrote a definitive account of the railway works. published volumes of Poetry, collections of folk songs as well as translations of traditional Indian fables.
Initial research by HOWARD GOORNEY
Recorded on location in and around Swindon by LLOYD SILVERTHORNE
... a truly heartening Programme
(FINANCIAL TIMES)
Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM Directed by MARTIN JENKINS followed by an interlude

Sonatas in E flat (Kk 192 and 193) GUSTAV LEONHARDT
(harpsichord): record