Tchaikovsky Cossack Dance (Mazeppa)
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERICH KUNZEL 7.9* Chopin Two
Nocturnes, Op 62
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.22* Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op 45 PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA. conducted by EUGENE ORMANDT
8.0 News
8.5 Dvorak Slavonic
Dances, Op 46 Nos 2, 4 and 6 AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.20* Chausson Piano Quartet in A, Op 30
RICHARDS PIANO QUARTET
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD gramophone records

Falla
Harpsichord Concerto in D (mono)
THE COMPOSER (harpsichord) MARCEL MOYSE (Bute)
GEORGES BONNEAU (oboe) EMILE GODEAU (clarinet)
MARCEL DARRIEUX (violin) AUGUSTE CRUQUE (cello) Psych6 (mono)
LEILA BEN SEDIRA (SOpranO) PIERRE JAMET INSTRUMENTAL QUINTET
Fantasia Baetica
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Producer PETER TANNER gramophone records

Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op 76 No 6
Beethoven Quartet in r minor. Op 95
Schubert Quartet in D minor (o 810)
BBC Manchester

(soprano), with JOHN MCCABE (piano) Richard Rodney Bennett Fantasy for piano John Joubert The Turning Wheel (first broadcast) BBC Birmingham VHF only

leader BARRY WILDE conducted by JEAN-BERNARD POMMIER (who is also soloist in the Concerto) Haydn Symphony No 7, in c major (Le midi) Roussel Sinfonietta Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2. in D minor. BBC Manchester VHF only

VHF only

GYÖRGY PAUK (violin) PETER FRANKL (piano) JANET HILTON (clarinet) arr Orszagh Hungarian Folk Songs transc Gertler Sonatina arr Zathureczky For Children arr Szekely Romanian Dances Contrasts BBC Birmingham VHF only

SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by VILEM SOKOL Respighi The Pines of Rome Rachmaninov Symphony No 2, in e minor George Rochberg Transcendental Variations, for strings (first broadcast) Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812 (Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra recording) VHF only

A series of nine programmes with Ivor Keys
6: Salisbury Cathedral Organist and Master of the Choir richard SEAL Assistant Organist COLIN WALSH. BBC Bristol VHF only

VHF only

with Michael Scott Much of tonight's programme is chamber music, ending with Mendelssohn's Octet, Op 20. at 6.25* Producer MARK ROWLINSON BBC Manchester Executive producer CORDON STEWART VHF only until 6.40

Poet and critic Donald Davie gives the first of two talks in this series of reflections on current affairs. BBC Manchester followed by an interlude

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Peter Frankl (piano) Tamas Vasary (piano) John Chimes (percussion) James Holland (percussion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla; Dances from A Life for the Tsar

Mozart Concerto in E flat, for two pianos and orchestra (K 365)

(SB The whole of tonight's concert is a simultaneous broadcast with BBC2)

Michael Holroyd looks at the early career of Hesketh Pearson as an actor.
Readers Alan Dudley and Nickolas Grace
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Part 2
Bartok Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra
Johann Strauss Homage to the Russian People; Polka: Nothing (first UK performances)
Johann Strauss , arr Shostakovich Polka:
Excursion Train (first UK performance)
Vincent Youmans , arr Shostakovich Tea for Two (Tahiti Trot)
(first UK performance)

The final programme In the UK round of the competition. All the winning choirs can be heard, and Bernard Keeffe announces the award for the Best UK Choir of 1981. Adjudicators NOEL cox,
MARTIN DALBY , HUGH KEYTE

A story by TOM HOPKINSON , abridged by the author Read by Simon Callow
It really is a masterpiece ... I know of nothing in its field which could be compared to it.
(ARTHUR KOESTLER)
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

DAVID JOHNSTON (tenor)
JONATHAN HINOEN (piano) gramophone record

Third of ten programmes Reynaldo Hahn was an intimate friend of the Princess Edmond de Polignac (18651943) and Le bal de Beatrice d'Este is dedicated to her. Also entering the picture, Ethel Smyth. Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page : records