6.55 Modern Art: The Aesthetic.
7.15 Flanders Analysis.
7.35 Draughtsmen and Craftsmen.

(cello)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op 69 with MYRA HESS (piano)
Brahms Concerto in A minor for violin and cello with JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) and the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/ORMANDY mono: records

Mahler Symphony No 3 in D minor HELGA DURNESCH
(contralto) Chicago so WOMEN'S CHORUS, GLEN ELLEN CHILDREN'S CHORUS CHICAGO SO/SOLTI: record

Double Firsts
Composer COLIN MATTHEWS and soloist ALEXANDER BAILLIE anticipate the first performance of Matthews' Cello Concerto, and GILLIAN WEIR talks about
William Mathias ' new Organ Concerto, which she will perform in Wednesday's concert.
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon Producer RAY ABBOTT

conductor EDWARD DOWNES with PETER DONOHOE (piano) Part 1
Hoist Oriental Suite: Beni Mora
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
12.10* pm Interval Reading
12.15* Rutland Boughton
Symphony No 3 in B minor BBC Manchester

Mozart Quartet in B flat (The Hunt) (K 458)
Boulez Two movements from Livre pour quatuor
1.30* Interval Reading
1.35* Schubert Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) BBC Birmingham

MELVYN TAN (harpsichord)
Scarlatti Sonatas in A (Kk 211 and Kk 212)
Bach Toccata in F sharp minor (BWV 910)
Scarlatti Sonata in E minor (Kk 98); Sonatas in G (Kk 63 and Kk 201)

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado

Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat

23: John Dowland 's 'A Pilgrimes Solace' (1612)
Sweet, stay awhile; Go, nightly cares; Thou mighty God THE CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute)

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9 in c (Great)

(And Suddenly It's Evening)
A portrait in words and music of the Italian poet
Salvatore Quasimodo
(1901-68, Nobel Prize Winner 1959) by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN from a new translation of Quasimodo's poems by JACK BEVAN
Each of us alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sun - and suddenly it's evening ...
With KERRY FRANCIS
BRETT USHER, MOIR LESLIE
PAULINE SIDDLE
Poems read in Italian by GIANCARLO CICCONE
Music composed and performed by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN ANTHONY RANDALL (hom)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

RICHARD MARKHAM (piano)
Faure Barcarolle No 2 in G; Nocturne in E flat minor,
Op 33 No 1; Impromptu No 2 in F minor
Frank Martin Eight Preludes BBC Birmingham

Thirty years ago Sir Thomas Dugdale resigned over the Crichel Down affair, when the fault lay entirely with his officials. Recently, no Minister has resigned because of the Maze breakout in Northern Ireland. Anthony Barker , Reader in Government,
University of Essex, argues against a return to old-style ministerial responsibility and gives his views about accountability theory today.

John Woolrich La bonne vaux Colin Matthews Divertimento for double string quartet
(Colin Matthews ' Cello Concerto receives its first performance in tomorrow's Prom)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Judith Rees (soprano) James Bowman (counter-tenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Paul Elliott (tenor) Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Michael George (baritone) David Thomas (bass) Taverner Choir Taverner Players leader JOHN HOLLOWAY director Andrew Parrott Part 1
Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia

Everyone has their own expiry date, but most people find it difficult to talk about death and its aftermath without self-contradiction.
Eric Griffiths , Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, considers the rival claims of poetry and philosophy to describe the mystery of what follows death;

Part 2 Handel Dixit Dominus

Music for lute from Germany and Bohemia played by ANTHONY BAILES
Esaias Reusner Suite in G minor
Jan Losy Suite in B flat;
Courante extraordinaire; Gigue

by MIKE WELLER
Directed by PETER KING mono

The Fields of Praise
KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) THE COMPOSER (piano) BBC Wales