First of nine programmes Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E flat, Op 8 No 5 (La Tempesta di Mare) directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER (violin) Ramcan Incidental Music: Les Indes Galantes directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
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Overture: The Wasps BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
Schubert Piano Sonata in F minor (D 625) MARTINO TIRIMO
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in E minor
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by VLADIMIR ASHitENAZT

Introduced by Michael Oliver
' Will the real
Signor Cavalli .. y \ by Michael SAVAGE; Waitino /or Gozo: a conversation with JONATHAN LLOYD ; Mill/
Alexeuevich Balakirev: a critical reappraisal by DAVID BROWN.

YO YO MA (cello)
NEIL BLACK (oboe)
THEA KING (clarinet)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader
GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES Part 1
Holst Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool
Haydn Cello Concerto in D major

Michael Neve. Lecturer in the History of Medicine at University
College, London, reflects on the ways we think about language and use it.

Part 2
Rainier Concertante for two winds
Beethoven Symphony No 2. in D major
(Given on 7 August 1981 in the Royal Albert Hall , London)
(A BBC Digital recording)

ZVI ZEITLIN (violin)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) Schubert Fantasy in c major (D 934)
Schoenberg Phantasy , Op
Ravel Tzigane
(A BBC Digital recording)

Opera in two acts
Libretto by luigi illica and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA after the play by DAVID BELASCO Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
A performance recorded at the GRAND THEATRE, geneva in June 1981
CHORUS OF THE GRAND Tilt ATRI GENEVA, chorus-master PAUL-ANDRE GAILI.ARD
ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE romande, conducted by MIGUEL GOMEZ-MARTINEZ Act 1

Leslie Gardiner looks at the Madam Butterfly story.

Act 2, Part 1

' The poems of E. J.
Scovell have delighted me ... and unnerved me a little too, with the thought of how easily I might have missed them.' Presented by John Mole
Read by FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer FRASER STEEL si eel BBC Manchester

Act 2, Part 2

GYORGY PAUK (violin) NOBUKO IMAI (viola)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) PETER FRANKL (piano) Parti Brahms Violin Sonata in A, Op 1011
Bartok Rhapsody No 1 for cello and piano

In June 1943
Leslie Howard died when his civil aircraft was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was possibly a chosen target of Dr Coebbels
The film critic and Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University.
Jeffrey Richards , examines Howard's role as propagandist in the early war years.

Part 2 Brahms
Piano Quartet No 1, in G minor. Op 25
(Given during the 1981 Cheltenham International Festival of Music)

Some uncommon works from last year's London Stravinsky Festival
FELICITY PALMER (soprano) ANTHONY ROLFE-JOHNSON (tenor)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) LONDON SINFONIETTA
LONDON SINFONIETTA CHORUS conducted by DAVID ATHERTON Part l
Three Tales for Children; Storm Cloud; Berceuse;
Four Russian Songs; Petit Ramusianum harmonique; Cantata

A Fairy Tale for Adults by PETER REDGROVE with Angharad Rees as Florence Florent and Timothy Bateson as Dan Florence Florent , looking for a career for herself after Cambridge, becomes a private detective, with highly unforeseen results.
With JULIA HILLS,
DAVID PONTING , BRIAN GEAR , DEREK GRAHAM and PAUL NICHOLSON Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

led by BARRY HASKEY conductor
OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cellO)
Denis Ap Ivor Cello
Concerto, Op 64 (1977) (first broadcast performance)
Dvorak Symphony No 4, in D minor, Op 13

2: To Everybody a Season In a caring society, a football player must be safe from the fear that he or she. will be thrown onto the scrap heap, with failing eyesight and lumbago, written by BARRY PILTON and performed by Leonard Rossiter Producer
CATHERINE WEARING

Played and introduced by Peter Hurford at Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Australia.

Sonata II in C minor (BWV 526)
Prelude and fugue in A major (bwv 536)
Partita: O Gott, du frommer Gott (BWV 767)