A French edition
Schmitt Dionyslaques , Op 62 No 1
MUSIQUE DES GARDIENS DE LA PAIX, conducted by DESIRE DONDEYNE
8.16* Hahn Four Songs:
Les fontaines: A Chloris: Tyndarls: La chere blessure
MARTYN HILL (tenor)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
8.26* Poulenc Concert champetre:
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by IONA BROWN: records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Schubert's Octet, by ROBERT HENDERSON ; Schubert Lieder on record: JOHN STEANE reviews the eight-record set of songs recorded between 1898 and 1052; New records of pre-classical music reviewed by NICHOLAS KENYON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Ockeghem Five chansons MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF
London, directed by PETER DAVIES and TIMOTHY DAVIES A collection of vocal and instrumental music by Monteverdi and other
Venetian composers EMMA KIRKBY and JUDITH NELSON (sopranos) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER IIOGWOOD
Marc-Antoine Charpentler Canticum in nativitatem Domini nostri Jesu Christi US ARTS FLORISSANTS conducted by WILLIAM CHRISTIE : records

Sonata in f minor, Op 5 FRANK WIBAUT (piano)

in F sharp minor, Op 50 No 4; in D. Op 76 No S Lindsay Quartet direct from Broadcasting House, London

conducted by GARY SHELDON Copland Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid (1938) Hindemlth Mathis der Maler (1934)

In the changed atmosphere of post-Napoleonic Europe, Schubert, Beethoven and Weber wrote their last works and Rossini retired. The young Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt were spreading their wings, and revolution was fermenting in Poland and Belgium.
Main works:

Rossini Overture: William Tell - Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

2.30* Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op 133 - Melos Quartet of Stuttgart

2.50* Schubert Songs - Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano)

3.0* Schubert Impromptu in C minor (D 899, No 1) - Daniel Barenboim (piano)

3.25* Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House - Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Otto Klemperer

3.49* Weber Wolf's Glen Scene (Der Freischutz) - Dresden State Opera conducted by Carlos Kleiber

4.10* Rossini Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide) - Frederica Von Stade, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa conducted by Mario Bernardi

4.30' Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 - Alfred Brendel

and not forgetting that most famous virtuoso of all, Paganini

(records)

with Peter Clayton

Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with John Carey , Anthony Thwalte and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
The Dog it was That Died. a new play by Tom Stoppard on Radio 3, broadcast last Thursday; Messiah by Martin Sherman at the Hampstead Theatre; ' The City's Pictures ' at the Barbican Centre, City of London;
Richard Attenborough 's film
Gandhi; and The Quest for Sherlock Holmes , a biographical study of Arthur Conan Doyle by Owen Dudley Edwards. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Oute)
Carl Kohaut Concerto in F for lute and strings MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER : record

Altered from the Semele of MR CONGREVE, Set to music by Mr Handel. The new production, direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Jupiter's infidelity with Semele so incenses his wife, Juno, that she plots her revenge. After many contrivances, Juno brings about her rival's ruin.
Royal Opera Chorus chorus-master JOHN MCCARTHY
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House leader DAVID NOLAN Continuo players
Christopher Vanderspar (cello), Maurlts Sillem (harpsichord)
John Bacon (organ) conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Act 1
(Git-en in association with the Friends of Covent Garden and the Royal Opera House Trust 1982)

John MacKenzie , lecturer in history at the University of Lancaster. believes that historians have paid insufficient attention to the cheap printed ephemera that late 19th-century technical developments made possible. He argues that cigarette cards and postcards played a key role in the maintenance of the national consensus on imperialism.

Act 2

The last of nine talks by Bernard Levin Wonders
Series producer
ALAN HAYDOCK

Act 3

Compiled and presented by Frank Baker , with A. L. Rowse as the ReaderA. L. Rowse is one of the most readable historians of our times; but as he says in the preface to his recently-published collection of poems.
My Life is my Poetry. Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN. BBC Bristol

Six Ragamalas for cello and tampura. ROHAN DE SARAM , THE COMPOSER