Gershwin Overture: Of thee I sing
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
7.10* Copland
El Salon Mexico NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.21* Bernstein Three dance episodes from On the Town
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER
7.32* Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasllelras No 2
PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL CAPOLONGO
8.0 News
8.5 Elgar Chanson de matin
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.8' Vaughan Williams The lark ascending HUGH BEAN (violin) NEW PHILHAHMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.23* Rossini Sonata No 1, in c, for string orchestra ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS. conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.35* Bliss Music from the film Things to Come ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

Brahms
Piano Trio No 1, In B, Op 8
JOSEF SUK (violin)
JANOS STARKER (Cello) JULIUS KATCIIEN (piano)
Liebe und Fruhling I and II: In der Fremde: Lied, Op 3 Nos 2, 3. 5, 6:
Nachtigallen schwingen. Op 6 No 6
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano) gramophone records

conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
Dvorak Overture: My Homeland
Martinu Symphony No 2 gramophone records

conducted by JOHN POOLE Thea Musgrave Four
Madrigals of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Quitter Five Lyrics of Robert Herrick
Fricker Seven Little Songs

Cella Pitstow (flute) Christopher Redgate (oboe)
Sylvia Bowden (piano) C. P. E. Bach Trio In B minor
Beethoven Variations on La petite Russie, Op 107 Pasculli L'Api Damase Trio
(Concert arranged by St George's Music Trust in association with John Player and Sons) BBC Bristol

GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by GAETANO DELOGU Part 1
Dallaplceola Orchestral Variations
Bruch Scottish Fantasia

Part 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3, in D (Polish)
(Given on 29 April at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow)
BBC Scotland

with Michael Oliver
ROBERT LAYTON considers the last Sibelius symphonies and their Inter-relationship; A
Celeste Player's Guide to the Orchestra, by MICHAEL ROUND - the ondes martenot; The Tigers: CALUM MACDONALD introduces Havergal Brian 's opera.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

Clarinet Sonata In E flat, Op 120 No 2
JANET HILTON (clarinet) PETER FRANKL (piano) gramophone record
Piano Quartet In A. Op 26 ISRAEL PIANO QUARTET

Maconchy Overture: Proud Thames conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Haydn Symphony No 97, in c conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
Rachmaninov Fantasy: The Rock conducted by WALTER WELLER gramophone records

Tony Scotland presents a programme of music for the early evening, ending at 6.8* with Mozart's Symphony No 33, in B flat major (k 319)
Producer RICHARD HUNT

Virtuoso Instrumental music from 17th-century Italy
BRUCE DICKEY (cornett)
MONICA HUGGETT (violin) ANDREW PARROTT
(harpsichord and chamber organ)
MARK CAUDLE (baSS viol and cello)

Opera in a prologue and three acts by Havergal Brian

The rediscovery In 1977 of the long-lost full score of this mammoth opera led to its first-ever performance, a BBC studio recording, made in association with the Havergal Brian Society, in January this year.
The Tigers are a regiment of First World War conscripts whose comic escapades while in training under 'Dad's Army' style leaders were devised by Brian as a distraction from the real horrors of that war. A fair on Hampstead Heath, a mock battle, and a ballet of cathedral gargoyles are just some of the grandiose scenes that make up Brian's fantastic landscape.
With no concern for practicalities, he wrote for 44 soloists (including a man on an elephant), several choruses and a vast orchestra. and in numerous roles
MARILYN HILL SMITH (sop), ANNE MARIE OWENS, AMERAL GUNSON (mezzo-sops), PAUL CROOK, HARRY NICOLL, JOHN WINFIELD, KENNETH WOOLLAM (tenors), IAN CADDY, HENRY HERFORD, ALAN OPIE, ALAN WATT, NORMAN WELSBY (baritones), RICHARD ANGAS, DENNIS WICKS (basses) BBC SINGERS chorus-master SIMON JOLY BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaders RODNEY FRIEND, MAURICE BRETT conducted by LIONEL FRIEND
Repetiteur MARY NASH
Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Tape editor PETER SIDHOM
Producer ELAINE PADMORE

Prologue and Act 1

In a selection from
The Torrington Diaries by THE HON' JOHN BYNG compiled by SUE LIMa
Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Act 2
9.15* Interval Reading
9.25* The Tigers: Act 3

(piano)
Scrlabin Sonata No 5, in F sharp
Franck Les plalntes d'une poupée; Danse lente
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 333)