Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/THE COMPOSER Violin Concerto IDA HAENDEL (violin) BOURNEMOUTH SO/BERGLUND Suite: Henry V PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/THE COMPOSER records

Hoffmeister Serenata in B flat Pleyel Sextet in E flat BBC Bristol

The first of three programmes of rarely heard choral music Mendelssohn Psalm 114, Op 51 Schumann Advent Hymn, Op 71 PAULA BOTT (soprano) BBC SINGERS BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by SIMON joly

STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) MALCOLM MESSITER (oboe) JOHN LENEHAN (piano)
Grieg Zur Rosengeist , Op 48 No 5; Der Jager (posth);
Dereinst Gedanke mein, Op 48 No 2; Ein Traum , Op 48 No 6 P. Napier Miles Four Songs for voice and oboe
Patrick Piggott Duo
Concertante: The Wizard;
Three Songs (First broadcast performances)

leader DESMOND BRADLEY conductor ERICH BERGEL
GORDON FERGUS-THOMPSON (piano) Part 1
Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude (Act 1)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in c, Op 15

Part 2
Vaughan Williams Symphony
No 4 in F minor BBC Wales

GORAN SOLLSCHER
Fernando Sor Sonata Op 15;
Fantasia elegiaca, Op 59
Introduction and Variations on Marlbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre, Op 28
BBC Manchester

Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR georg solti (WFMT recording)
Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
(Italie): Sposalizio; II Penseroso PASCAL roge (piano)
Wolf Italian Serenade
STUTTGART CO/MUNCHINGER
3.5* Interval Reading
3.10* Berlioz Harold in Italy Op 16
YEHUDI MENUHIN (Viola)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/ SIR COLIN DAVIS records

direct from the Concert Hall Broadcasting House. London Lynda Russell (soprano)
David Campbell (clarinet) Graham Johnson (piano) Paer Beatus vir
Faure Notre amour; Le secret-Chanson d'amour; Tristesse ' Schumann Fantasiestucke Op 73
Schubert Du bist die Ruh'; An die Lauter; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen

Presenter Richard Graves Producer ERIC WETHERELL

Second of two programmes of music from the 14th-century manuscript now at Montserrat, near Barcelona
0 Virgo splendens; Los set goyts; Splendens ceptigera; Imperayritz de la ciutat joyosa; Ad mortem festinamus NEW LONDON CONSORT director PHILIP pickett

Idris Parry reflects on the ways in which we rebel against the arbitrary limits imposed by definition on what we are allowed to think of as possible.

direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester BBC Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Luciano Berio Aldo Bennici (viola) New Swingle Singers
Part 1 Luciano Berio Voci , for viola and chamber ensemble (first UK performance)

I would like politics in Latin America to have what our contemporary literature has: great inventiveness and imagination
The writer Mario Vargas
Uosa, whose seventh novel, The War of the End of the World, is due to appear in English, in conversation with Graham Fawcett. Llosa, who declined to become Prime
Minister of Peru, reflects on the possibilities and limitations of the literary life compared to a political one, and on the role he sees for himself in Latin America. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Part 2 Luciano Berio Sinfonia

Adagio and Variations in E flat for clarinet and strings
ANTON WEINBERG (clarinet)
AMPHION STRING QUARTET

'I think the period between
1945 and 51, when the Labour Government was in power, was one of the most interesting postwar periods, ... although the Government didn't always quite know what it was doing or where it was heading. The first of three weekly conversations between
Sir Alec Cairncross , Economic Adviser and Head of Government Economic Service (1961-69) and Master of St Peter 's College, Oxford (1969-78), and William Keegan , Economic Editor of The Observer
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Presented by Charles Fox and featuring
MICHAEL GARRICK AND FRIENDS Michael Garrick (piano) Will Gaines (tap dancer) Norma Winstone (voice)
Jimmy Hastings (tenor and soprano saxophones)
John Etteridge (electric guitars)
Alec Dankworth (bass) Alan Cox (drums)

Mass in c (Missa Hispanica) ALISON HARGAN (soprano)
AMERAL GUNSON (mezzo-soprano) MALDWYN da vies (tenor) RICHARD JACKSON (bass) BBC SINGERS
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA leader SIMON STANDAGE conducted by SIMON JOLY