First Sunday after Epiphany Bach Cantata No 154: Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren RENE JACOBS (counter-tenor) MARIUS VAN ALTENA (tenor) MAX VAN EGMOND (baSS) COLLEGIUM VOCALE , GHENT MUSICA ANTlQUA AMSTERDAM directed by TON KOOPMAN Bach Sonata in D for viola da gamba and harpsichord (nwv
1028); Sonata in n minor for flute and harpsichord (bwv 1030) MUSICA ANTIQUA COLOGNE: record Buxtehude Chorale Prelude: Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern LIONEL ROGG (organ): record

Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai JUDITH NELSON (soprano) ROGERS covey CRUMP (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass) CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL. OXFORD THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/ SIMON PRESTON Kodaly Duo , Op 7 NILS ERIK SPARF (violin) ELEMER LAVOTHA (cello) Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25 ISTVAN LANTOS (piano) BUDAPEST SO/GYORGY LEHEL records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Antonio Salieri : his musical reputation assessed by NICHOLAS KENYON. Mozart's death: the medical facts explained by PETER J. DAVIES. Is Babel a blessing? ROGER SAVAGE considers the merits and demerits of opera translations. RODNEY MILNES decries the current fashion for opera 'surtitles'. Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE (Repeated: Monday 2.0 pm)

NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF
GREAT BRITAIN conducted by SIMON RATTLE Debussy Jeux
11.35* Interval Reading
11.40* Mahler Symphony No 6 in A minor

BERNARD ROBERTS (piano) Mozart Sonata in c (K 330)
Medtner Novelette in G, Op 17 No 1; Sonata in A flat, Op 11 No 1
BBC Bristol

played by the BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (The Sunrise)
Janacek String Quartet No 1 BBC Birmingham

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin)
Part]
Delius Dance Rhapsody No 2 Sibelius Symphony No 6 in i) minor

The first of three programmes adapted from HECTOR BERLIOZ' Les Grotesques de la Musique and translated by MIKE 1: On the Gullibility of Critics
Read by Robert Stephens
Producer IAN COTTERELL (Repeat )

Part 2 Elgar Violin Concerto in u minor
(Given in association with the MacRobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling) A BBC digital recording

perform secular music by Josquin des Prez
En l'ombre d'ung buissonet; Adieu mes amours; Cueurs desolez; Fortuna desperata;
La bernardina; Mille regretz;
Petite camusette; Si j'ay perdu mon amy; Je me complains; Scaramella va alla guerra BBC Manchester

Piano Concerto No 2 MAURIZIO POLLlNI
CHICAGO SO/ABBADO record

Forging the Universe The second of three programmes.
Paul Davies , Professor of Theoretical Physics at
Newcastle University, reviews current theories about the evolution of the early universe and considers how the cosmic arrangement of galaxies may have been forged in the first instant of creation.
Producer JULIAN BROWN

DORIAN WIND QUINTET
Samuel Barber Summer Music, Op 31
Henry Brant Requiem in Summer
Walter Piston Three Pieces for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Irving Fine Partita for wind quintet
Joplin, arr Franckenpohl The Cascades Rag BBC Bristol

(piano)
Beethoven Variations on Salieri's La stessa, la stessissma (WoO 73)
Prokofiev Sonata No 6

by NIGEL DENNIS
First to go, last to know; but husbands must come back when there's no hope for them. Mrs Stebbing understands what courage she will need to bring Willie's life to an orderly end; and she is ready to concede that today's tart can be tomorrow's valuable assistant. Music by STEPHEN OLIVER
Pianist JOHN OWEN EDWARDS
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
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ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) JOHN SHIRLEY QUIRK (bass)
DAVID BUTT (flute obbligato)
PATRICIA MORRIS (flute obbligato) JOHN MARSON (harp obbligato) BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor sm JOHN PRITCHARD
10.0* Interval Reading
10.5* Part 2

Mozart String Quartet in F (K590)
Robert Simpson String Quartet No 7