Marking the 80th birthday on Thursday of Sir Lennox Berkeley Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
8.16* Berkeley Guitar
Concerto: JULIAN BREAM MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN ELIOT CARDINER
8.38* Poutenc Cantata: Un soir de neige SWINGLE 11
8.44* Poulenc, orch
Berkeley Flute Sonata JAMES GALWAY
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT : records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Donizetti's opera Lucia dt Lammermoor, by ALAN BLYTH : New orchestral records reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Britten Soirées musicales ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Franck Symphony in D minor
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO MUTI Francalx Cinq portraits de jeunes filles: the COMPOSER (piano): records

leader FELIX KOK conducted by MARTIN TURNOVSKY
GVÖRGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (Cello) Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Brahms Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello and orchestra
12.15* pm Interval Reading
12.20* Shostakovich Symphony No 1, in F minor
(Given on 25 Jan in the Town Hall, Birmingham)

JAMES BOWMAN (countertenor), JOHN TURNER
(recorder), KEITH ELCOMBE (harpsichord) JANE RYAN (Cello)
Schurmann Ach wie schnell bist du entwichen (Orpheus)
Muffat Passacaglia In G minor
Schurmann Im Lieben und Kriegen (Achilles)
Telemann Tod und Moder dringt herein
Kuhnau Hiskia agonizzante e risanato Telemann Weg mit
Sodoms gift'gen Friichten BBC Manchester

A comprehensive series of 16 programmes of his music, introduced by Robert Simpson
Ploughman's Song (rs 18, No 4): KURT WESTI (tenor) JOHN WINTHER (piano) gramophone record
Sonata No 2, for violin and piano (FS 64)
ERICH GRUENBERG (Violin) JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Fynsk Foraar (Springtime In Fyn) (FS 96)
BODIL GOBEL (soprano) KURT WESTI (tenor)
MOGENS SCHMIDT JOHANSEN (bass), DANISH RADIO CHORUS COPENHAGEN BOYS' CHOIR CHILDREN'S CHORUS FROM THE SCT ANNAE SCHOOL DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MOGENS WOLDIKE
(Danish Radio recording)

TUNNELL PIANO QUARTET
R. W. Wood Piano Quartet Brahms Quartet No 3. in c minor, Op 60

conductor EDWARD DOWNES Dvorak Serenade in E, for string orchestra
Rachmaninov Caprice bohémien
BBC Manchester

favourite Families
Peter Clayton introduces listeners' choices of favourite jazz families, from the Teagardens to the Marsalises.

John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with Alan Brien , Peter Conrad and Hilary Spurting.
This week's subjects: Edward Bennett 's film
Ascendancy; A discussion on ' The Death of Literature ' in the Channel 4 series Voices; Recent work by Terry Atkinson at the Whitechapel Gallery;
The Body by Nick Darke in the Pitatthe Barbican; Ian Hamilton 's authortsed biography of Robert Lowell.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

played by GRAHAM BARBER Four programmes surveying this North German master, with presentation written by PETER Williams , and recordings made on the Ahrend organ in the Reid Hall at the University of Edinburgh. Prelude and Fugue in D minor; Chorale Prelude: Nun bitten wir den heil'gen Geist; Partita: Freu dich sehr 0 melne Seele; Chorale Prelude: Christum wir sollen loben schon; Prelude,
Fugue and Postlude in c minor

Arnold Sohoenberg thought Brahms as much an innovator as Wagner. The composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at Cambridge University, takes issue with Schoenberg and argues that a proper appreciation of Brahms as a classicist might help curb the worst excesses of contemporary composition.

Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2; Fantasies, Op 116 JULIUS KATCHEN (piano) gramophone records

For four days in April, tho Cambridge Union was the venue for Britain's largest international gathering of poets.
Graham Fawcett reports on the 1983 Cambridge Poetry Festival, and presents his selection from the events.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

String Quartet in A minor
DELMESTRINGQUARTET BBC Bristol

directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (fortepiano and harpsichord)
SIMON STANDAGE (violin) ANTHONY PLEETH (Cello) Vivaldi Concerto in G major, for strings ' Alia Rustica ' (rv 151)
Telemann Violin Concerto in B flat (dedicated to Pisendel)
Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G major (rv 413)
C. P. E. Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A minor (Wq 26)

* 34-part series
Presenter Anthony Rooley 3: William Byrd
Songs of sundrie natures (1589)
Lord in thy wrath; Who made thee, Hob?: Weeping fun sore; Christ is rising again: CONSORT of MUSICKE MADRIGAL ENSEMBLE CONSORT OF VIOLS directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY

Tonight the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Easter. The traditional
Vigil Service in the Russian
Orthodox Church in Ennismore Gardens,
London, is conducted by METROPOLITAN ANTHONY OF SUROZH. Commentary in Russian and English by ALYONA KOZIIEVNIKOV