Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY
7.15' Haydn Symphony No 62, in D
PHILHARMONIA HUNCARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.36* Chopin Polonaise in B flat minor, Op posth
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.40* Saint-Saens
Symphonic Poem: La jeunesse d'Hcrcule, Op 50 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
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8.5 Cimarosa Overture: I tract amanti
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.10* Mozart Ch'io ml scordl di te (K 505)
ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.21' Elgar Andante con variazione (Evesham Andante) ATHENA ENSEMBLE 8.36* VoriSek Symphony in D major ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records

Franz Liszt
Liszt first developed the concept of the symphonic poem, and the programmes this week include all 13 of his compositions in the form.
Symphonic Poem No 1: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Symphonic Poem No 8: Héroïde funèbre
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT MASUR gramophone records

played by CHRISTOPHER HERRICK on the organ of Leeds Town Hall
Mozart Fantasia (K 608) Vaughan Williams
Prelude and Fugue in c minor
Guilmant Sonata No 1, in D minor
BBC Manchester

leader PETER POOLE conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
Arriaga Overture: Los Esclavos Felices
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings
Beethoven Rondino in E flat major for wind instruments
Symphony No 4, in B flat BBC Bristol

HILARY MCNAMARA and HOWARD SHELLEY
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Poulenc Sonata for Piano Duet
Ravel Rapsodie espagnol

direct from St John 's Smith Square, London Melos Quartet of Stuttgart
Bartok Quartet No 3
Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 130

ULSTER ORCHESTRA leader RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
Balaklrev Overture on three Russian themes Mozart Six German Dances (K 600)
Ibert Hommage a Mozart Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Anthony Hedges Holiday Overture
BBC Northern Ireland

Zemlinsky Lyric
Symphony: JULIA VARADY (soprano), DIETRICH
FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
Brahms Seven Fantasies. Op 116
DMITRI ALEXEYEV (piano) Lehar 0 Madchen, mein Madchen (Friederike)
FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor)
BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALOIS MELICHAR
Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
JOSEPH VILLA and PATRICIA PRATTIS JENNINGS (pianos) PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRE PREVIN

Presenter Roger Nichols BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE MALCOLM MESS ITER (oboe) Including Mozart's
Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Oboe
Concerto in c <K 314); and Beethoven's Symphony No 1. in c

Compiled and presented by Elizabeth M. Wilkinson , Emeritus
Professor of German at the University
College London.
' He shows us that the one value we cannot dispense with is respect for wholeness: the wholeness in ourselves, the wholeness of other people, the wholeness of the One and the Many.'
Readers WOLF KAHLER, JOHN LIVESEY , DAVID MARCH
Produced by MICHAEL MASON

direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London London Sinfonietta conducted by Ronald Zollman Part 1
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Anthony Thwatte introduces a selection of poems which take civil servants as their theme.
Readers FRANCES HOROVITZ and GARY WATSON
ProducerFRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

Part 2 Oliver Knussen
Where the Wild Things Are Op 20 (1979-82) (first UK broadcast). A fantasy opera in nine scenes to librettobyMaurice
SENDAK, based on his well-known children's book.
Wild Things LINDA HURST (mezzo-soprano), NEIL JENKINS (tenor), GARETH MORRELL (baritone), DAVID WILSON JOHNSON (bass-baritone) TERRY EDWARDS (bass)
(Next prog: 21 April)

The last of three extracts. Read by CYRIL LUCKHAM and JOHN JULIUS NORWICH Compiled by DONALD BANCROFT
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

MITSUKO SHIRAI (soprano)
HARTMUT HÖLL (piano)
Schubert Heidenroslein Wolf Gretchen vor dem
Andachtsbild;
Blumengruss; Fruhling ubers Jahr; Gleich und Gleieh; Phanomen: Anakreons Grab; St Nepomuks Vorabend
Schubert Am Flusse; An Mignon; Auf dem See

Presenter Charles Fox Herm Island Suite CHRIS FRANCIS TRIO

Parry's setting of Donne's sonnet ' At the round earth's imagin'd corners from the Songs of Farewell. LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS: record