Alban Berg (born 9 February 1885) Seven Early Songs HEATHER HARPER (soprano) BBC SO/BOULEZ Four Pieces, Op 5 ANTONY PAY (clarinet) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Violin Concerto ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) AMSTERDAM CONCERT GEBOUW ORCHESTRALIGOR MARKEVITCH records Producer MISHA DONAT

Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 11 MICHAEL LESLIE (piano)

Suite No 3, in G, Op 55 VIENNA PO/MAAZEL record

KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) ROGER steptoe (piano)
Alan Bush Cantata for tenor and piano: Voices of the Prophets, Op 41
Britten Winter words, Op 52 BBCWales

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS (ladies' voices) directed by STEPHEN WILKINSON Hoist The Planets BBC Manchester

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Dong-Suk Kang (violin) Pascal Devoyon (piano) Lekeu Sonata (1891) Ravel Sonata in G
(Tickets £1.70 available from 11.0am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel: [number removed])

Johann Melchior Molter
Trumpet Concerto No 2 in D WYNTON marsalis (trumpet) ECO/LEPPARD
Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K563)
MEMBERS OF THE AMADEUS QUARTET Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) HARTMUT HOLL (piano)
Schumann Three Fantasy Pieces, Op 73
ANTONY PAY (clarinet) IAN BROWN (piano)
Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of J. A. Hiller
BAVARIAN RADIO SO/SIR COLIN DAVIS

Graham Fawcett introduces music associated with Saga, Fable and Myth.
Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol

played by GERARD GILLEN in the Franciscan Church, Limerick. Guilmant Premiere Symphonie, Op 42 BBC Northern Ireland

At moments of national crisis, or political embarrassment, governments often appoint a committee to look into the problem. Peter Hennessy examines the effectiveness of such committees, how their members are selected, and what sort of a future there is for them, if any.
Speakers include: Lord Franks, on his Committee's Report on the origins of the Falklands war, and Lady Warnock, who chaired the Inquiry into human fertilisation and embryology, as well as LORD BULLOCK,
JONATHAN CHARKHAM ,
SIR HENRY CIllLVER ,
PROFESSOR RALF DAHRENDORF ,
DR BERNARD DONOUGHUE , SIR REGINALD HIBBERT , THE RT HON DAVID OWEN , MP, SIR
ANTHONY PARSONS , CLIVE PRIESTLEY and DR BERNARD WILLIAMS Producer ANNE WINDER
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Don Carlos
(Four-act version of 1884) Text by JOSEPH mery and CAMILLE DU LOCLE , after the play by Schiller
(sung in Italian): records
CHORUS OF THE DEUTSCHE OPER.
BERLIN, BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducting HERBERT VON KARAJAN Act 1

on Don Carlos

An anthology of poetry arranged by PATRIC DICKINSON and read by JILL BALCON , NIGEL GRAHAM
JAMES KERRY and MICHAEL SPICE Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Acts 3 and 4

Music from India played by BRIJ NARAYAN (sarod)
KASHINATH MISHRA (tabla) Rag Basent Mukerji Rag Gunkali