Taffanel Wind Quintet In G minor
VIENNA WIND SOLOISTS
Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) d'lndy Chansons et danses
MEMBERS OF THE MAURICE BOURGUE WIND OCTET gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Patrick Hadley Symphonic Ballad: The trees so high THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON nANDLEY
Beethoven Sonata In C sharp minor (Moonlight) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Howard Hanson Symphony No 2 (Romantic)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Frottola: JOAN WESS traces the origins and history of this 16th-century Italian form;
Ten years of Early Music: a conversation with JOHN THOMSON ;
' A testament of beauty.'
(CARDUS)
MICHAEL KENNEDY considers Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

Ida Haendel (Violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Mozart Serenade in D major for four orchestras (Notturno) (K 286)

Brahms Violin Concerto in D major

12.20* pm Interval Reading

12.25* From the Proms
Hugh Wood Symphony (BBC commission: first performance)
Dvorak Slavonic Dances: Op 72 No 2, in E minor; Op 46 No 5, In A major; Op 72 No 8, in A flat; Op 46 No 8, in G minor

"Wood has never composed anything finer, and this symphony deserves to be in the repertoire of every major orchestra" (The Guardian)

(Given last July in the Royal Albert Hall, London) (A BBC digital recording)

A recital by the American fortepianist
C. P. E. Bach Fantasia in c (Wq 59 No 6)
Beethoven Sonata In F, Op 10 No 2
Haydn Sonata in E flat (H xvi 49)

Richard Strauss 's early tone poem played by the DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE gramophone record

ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano)
HAKEN HAGECARD (baritone) LENNART RONNLUND (pianO) perform the Italienisches Liederbuch. 46 songs after poems by Paul Heyse. Part 1
3.45* Interval Reading
3.55' Part 2
(Given last August in the Queen's Hall during the 1982 Edinburgh
International Festival) BBC Scotland

played by the PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Georg Anton Benda Symphony in b flat conductedbyulfbjorlin Anton Retcha Symphony in E flat, Op 41, conducted by FRANTISEK VAJNAR gramophone records

1: The Diverse Continent From the Himalayas in the North to Cape
Comorin In the South, India presents an immense diversity of peoples, geography and languages. Do the strengths derived from this diversity outweigh the strains it imposes on the Indian Union? In the first of five documentaries about contemporary
Indian culture, John Keay reflects on what holds the subcontinent together. Contributors include PUPUL JAYAKAR, SITA
NARASIMHAN, MRINAL DATTA CHAUDIIURI, ALI SARDAR JAFRI Producer DAVID PERRY

played by the ALBERNI STRING QUARTET Schumann Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
Michael Short Quartet No 1 (first broadcast)

played by JOHN HARLE and JOHN LENEIIAN
Edison Denlsov Sonata Jonathan Lloyd John 's Journal
(first UK broadcasts)

or What Really Might Have Happened to Oedipus by Friedrich Durrenmatt adapted for radio by Hans Hausmann and Martin Esslin.
Are our lives governed by pre-ordained fate, determined by the Inexorable laws of nature, or do we live by pure coincidence, chance, and accident? The Swiss Playwright, Friedrich Durrenmatt, poses this question in re-telling and rethinking the age-old story of Oedipus in the form of a philosophical fable, halfway between drama and Platonic dialogue.
Directed by Martin Esslin (Robert Eddison is a member of the RSC)

Dances from Marosszek (1930)
Concerto for orchestra (1939)
Ulssa Brevis (1945) ELISABETH CROCKER (soprano)
TRACEY CIIADWELL (soprano) PAMELA PRIESTLEY-SMITH (soprano)
AMERAL GUNSON (contralto) GARETH ROBERTS (tenor) JEREMY WHITE (bass) BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT

played by VIRAM JASANI (sitar)
LATIF AHMED KHAN (tabla) GOPAL JASANI (tanpura) Rag Puria Kalyan

A better farmer ne'er brush'd dew from lawn,
A worse King never left a realm undonel
He died - but left his subjects still behind,
One half as mad - and t'other no less blind.
(BYRON on the death of George III )
Anthony Thwalte explores the variiety of 19th-century poetry, familiar and forgotten. 182029
Readers FRANCES HOROVITZ GARY WATSON , PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)