Guy Ropartz Prelude,
Marine and Chansons for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Florent Schmitt Quartet for flutes
QUATUOR ARCADIE
Faure Piano Quartet No 1, in c minor: jean-philipfe COLLARD (piano)
AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin) BRUNO PASQUIER (viola) FREDERIC LODEON (cello) gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Arne Overture No 8, In G minor
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC conducted by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Debussy Suite bergamasque
LIVIA REV (piano)
Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 1, in G minor MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON Lalo Symphonle espagnole (mono)
JASCHA HEIFETZ (Violin)
RCA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG

with Michael Oliver
Weber's Diaries: opened by JOHN warrack ;
A conversation with ANDREW DAVIS ;
From 1888 to 1420 via the Moon: JOHN TYRRELL on Mr Broucek 's Excursions.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (bar) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN wricht BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader rodney FRIEND conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Naresh Sohal The Wanderer (BBC commission: first performance)
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Hoist The Planets (The Wanderer) could well be taken up by more than one grateful choral organisation; indeed this may be Sohal's first big popular success. Andrew Davis conducted a lucid and authoritative performance.
(FINANCIAL TIMES)
(Given last August in the Royal Albert Hall , London) A BBC digital recording

ALBAN BERG STRING QUARTET Gunther Pichler (violin) Gerhard Schulz (violin) Thomas Kakuska (viola) Valentin Erben (cello)
Webern Five Movements, Op 5
Beethoven Quartet in c sharp minor. Op 131
(BroadcastlastMonday) A BBC digital recording

Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in f major (bwv 1047)
Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G major (BWV 1049)
ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK gramophone records

Margaret Field (soprano) Wilfred Goddard (clarinet)
Peter Pettinger (piano) Songs by British and American composers. Giles Swayne Mistress Margaret Hussy
Alan Hovhaness 0 lady moon
Corey Field Three Songs for soprano and clarinet Phyllis Tate Scenes from Tyneslde: Six
Northumbrian Folk Songs (first broadcast performances)

leader barry GRIFFITHS conducted by Yuri Temlrkanov
Karlne Georgian (cello) direct from the Royal Festival Hall. London Part I Tchaikovsky
Fantasy; Francesca da Rimini
Variations on a Rococo theme for cello and orchestra

The story of the Peninsular War (1808-14) compiled from written records by DAVID BEAN The last of five programmes Narrator
Michael Tudor Barnes with NICHOLAS COURTNEY , JOHN HOLLIS , JIM NORTON. GORDON REID and JOHN RYE Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Part 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5. in E minor

A short story by GEOFFREY HEPTONSTALL Read by Brian Carroll Oswald on Oswald: the personal manifesto of a monomaniac with marital plans and extraordinary visionary powers.
Producer CLARE TAYLOR

Opera in three acts Music by Gluck
Libretto by calzabici
The 1762 Vienna version performed using authentic instruments
GHENT COLLEGIUM VOCALE
LA PETITE BANDE, conducted by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN Act 1
(A co-production of the European Broadcasting Union and the Belgian National Opera)
5.50* Sounds Natural: interlude
5.55* Act 2
6.35. Sounds Natural: interlude
6.40* Act 3

by KNUT HAMSUN , translated and dramatised for radio by ROBERT FERGUSON
Set in North Norway, this is the story of a summer idyll with a tragic outcome. On a hunting holiday Lieutenant Glahn discovers that the mystery of nature is less perplexing than the enigma of human passion.
Directed by ANTHONY vivis (John Normington is a National Theatre player)

led by ANDREW ORTON conductor EDWARD DOWNES Dvorak Legends: Book 1 George Lloyd Symphony No 9
Copland Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo) BBC Manchester

ALLX.-VNuER BAILLIE KATIIRON STURROCK Lutoslawski Grave:
Metamorphoses
Schninke Sonata
(first UK broadcasts)

Everybody got down off his stilts: henceforth nobody drank absinthe with his black coffee; nobody went mad; nobody committed suicide; nobody joined the Catholic church.
(w. B. YEATS on the end of Victorianism)
Anthony Thwaite explores 19th-century poetry. 1890-99 Readers
GARY WATSON , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)