Purcell Suite: Abdelazar ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.17* Marais Sonate a la Maresienne
MUSICA ANTIQUA OF COLOGNE
7.31* Monteverdi Beatus Vir I
DOROTHY DOROW. BIRGIT NORDIN (sopranos) NIGEL ROGERS. IAN PARTRIDGE (tenors)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE
FRIEDHELM HESSENBRUCH (basses)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by JÜRGEN JURGENS
7.41* Corelli Concerto Grosso in c, Op 6 No 10 LA PETITE BANDE, directed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN
8.0 News
8.5 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 1 LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.20* Nielsen Flute Concerto
FRANTZ LEMSSER , DANISH
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
8.39* Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI : records

Prague Waltzes: DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Symphony No 6, in D CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN

(records)

MALCOLM BINNS (piano) COULL STRING QUARTET Roger Coull (violin)
Philip Gallaway (violin) David Curtis (viola)
Martin Thomas (cello)
ANnELA NIALSBURY (clarinet) Schumann Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 11
Julia Usher Encounter, for clarinet quintet
Patrick Piggott Eight Preludes (Set 2)
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor

leader SIMON STANDAGE director TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)
Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor. Op 6 No 12
Bach Concerto in c major, for two harpsichords and strings (bwv 1061) Jean-Marie Leclair
Concerto in A minor. for violin and strings. Op 7 No 5
SIMON STANDAGE (violin)

Angus McDermid , with the help of the BBC's Monitoring Service, presents his weekly selection of foreign radio broadcasts.
(Repeated: Wed 9.5 pm)

Part 2 Bach Concerto in c minor, for two harpsichords and strings (bwv 1060)
.Handel Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9 (Given at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London, on 19 October 1980)

A recital by the winner ANDR9- MICHIEL SCIIUB
Mendelssohn Fantasia in F sharp minor, Op 28
Debussy Reflets dans l'eau
Liszt Paganini Study No 2 in E flat
Brahms Variations on a theme of Handel
(Recording from Van
Cliburn Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas)

YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA conductors PETER NORRIS and ERIKA FOX, with SOPHIE RENSHAW and CARLA-MARIA RODRIGUES (violas) Part 1
Mozart Divertimento in F (K 138)
Stamitz Viola Concerto in D.Op
Erika Fox Litany for Strings
(first performance: commissioned by the Yehudi Menuhin School) Britten Lachrymae :
Reflections on a song of Dowland, for viola and strings
Hoist St Paul 's Suite
(Given during the 1981 Cheltenham International Festival of Music) BBC Birminoham

Introduced by Charles Fox

Michael Berkeley introduces the programme of music for the early evening. Producer
PIERS BURTON-PAGE

3: Halo Calvino a prolific writer, now 58, described by a contemporary as ' lo scoiattolo della penna ', the squirrel with the pen, whose most recent books include Italian Folktales and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.
Paul Bailey reflects on Calvino's ' inexhaustible supply of ideas, allusions and visions. He creates shadows that are more substantial than the full-blooded characters in most contemporary fiction '.
Reader Benjamin Whitrow Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

conducted by AVI OSTROWSKY
ALISON HARGAN (soprano) COLNE VALLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR, conductor NICHOLAS POWELL Part 1
Lutoslawski Musique funebre a la mémoire de B61a Bartok Sandor Balassa Y
(first UK performance) Liszt Psalm 18 (Coeli enarrant)
8.35* Interval Reading
8.45* Concert
Part 2 Prokofiev
Symphony No 5, in B ftat (Given last November in the Town Hall as part of the Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield) BBC Manchester

Sonata in A minor (L'infidèle):
EUGEN DOMBOIS (lute): record

A story by JAMES JOYCt Read by Norman Rodway
' You're what I call a gay Lothario,' said Lenehan. ' And the proper kind of a Lothario, too! ' A shade of mockery relieved the servility of his manner. But Corley had not a subtle mind. ' There's nothing to touch a good slavey,' he affirmed
Take my tip for it '.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

ALAN MARKS (piano)
Fantaisie in F minor Op 49
Ballade No 1, in G minor Op 23
Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

Lavatevi presto, written to be inserted in the pasticcio La Circe presented at Esterhaza in 1789. CLAES AHNSJO, ALDO BALDWIN (tenors)
MICHAEL DEVLIN (bass) LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
(Belgian Radio recording)