Handel Overture, Minuet and Gigue (Berenice) - Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood

7.12* Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in D (K 218) - Iona Brown, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

7.36* Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga - Helsinki Radio Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu

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8.5 Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) - London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti

8.19* Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in C minor - Pierre Cochereau (organ) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

(gramophone records)

Haydn
This week, extracts from five of his operas L'injcdelta delusa (excerpts)
LAUSANNE CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTAL dorati : records Producer
CATHERINE WEARING

Symphony: Harold in Italy YEHUDI MENUHIN (viola)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR COLIN davis : record

Conductor Ensti Pohjola

To mark Finnish Independence Day, part of the concert by the leading Finnish male voice choir, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Finnish Seamen's Mission in London.

Including a group of sea songs, Rakastava (The Lover) by Sibelius, Prayer to Thunder by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, and five of Sibelius's Nine Male Choruses, Op 18

conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk
Barbara Gorzynska (violin)

Haydn Symphony No 96, in D major

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture

BBC Scotland

direct from St John's, Smith Square, London

Amadeus Quartet: Norbert Brainin (violin), Siegmund Nissel (violin), Peter Schidlof (viola), Martin Lovett (cello)

Mozart Quartet in E flat major (K 428)

Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Fremaux

Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers

Ravel Pavane pour une Infante defunte

Ravel Suite: Mother Goose

Saint-Saens Danse macabre

Britten Soirdes musicales

Rameau Motet: In convertendo - Suzanne Gari (soprano) Henri Ledroit (counter-tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Choir of the Chapelle Royale, Paris Orchestra, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe

Crusell Clarinet Concerto No 3, in B flat - Thea King, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alun Francis

Tchaikovsky Troika: Christmas (The Seasons) - Lydia Artimiw (piano)

Shostakovich Symphony No 5. in D minor - Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink

Introduced by Michael Berkeley
Recordings made at the inaugural concert of the new Muller pipe organ in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, last December.

The programme includes music by Handel and Haydn sung by Lucia Popp

Mendelssohn Organ Sonata No 1, in F minor

Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani

Frederick Swann (Organ) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

(WFMT recording. Overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Amoco (UK) Ltd)

Continuing the concert given in Chicago last December

Copland Symphony for organ and orchestra

"There was this wonderful slogan: 'Black is Beautiful.' But there was something about it that bothered me..."

Toni Morrison, author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, in conversation with Paul Bailey.

On behalf of the EBU.
Italian Radio presents the fourth concert in the Union's current international season direct from the Large Hall of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire
Cecilia Gasdia (soprano) Francesca Garbl (soprano) Luisa Gallmetzer (mezzo-soprano)
Evgenia Dundekova (contralto)
Luigi Petroni (tenor) Giorgio Surjan (bass) Franco Ruta (bass)
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the RAI, Milan, conducted by Zoltan Pesko
Part I Petrassl
Orationes Christi for mixed chorus, brass, violas and cellos
(first UK broadcast)

Malcolm Deas, Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, reflects on European attitudes to revolutionaries in Latin America

Part 2

Pergolesi Mass in f (Missa Romana) for soloists, four choirs, two orchestras and continuo

An occasional series on the poetry of Africa, Asia and the Arab World

Liu Tao Tao introduces a third personal selection of Chinese poetry

No One to be Seen in the Empty Mountains Reflections on Chinese nature poetry

Readers Caroline John, Clive Johnstone and T'ung Ping-Cheng

The third of four programmes featuring some of his vocal and chamber music.

String Quartet No 2 - Chilingirian Quartet: Levon Chilingirian (violin), Mark Butler (violin), Simon Rowland-Jones (viola), Philip de Groote (cello)

Scenes from Comus for soprano, tenor and orchestra - Jill Gomez (soprano), Brian Burrows (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

(Repeats)

Robin Holmes reads from poets who have loved the English countryside

Presented by Charles Fox

Stan Tracey Sextet: Art Theman, Alan Wakeman, Tony Coe (saxophones) Stan Tracey (piano) Roy Babbington (double-bass) Clark Tracey (drums)