Johann Strauss (Son)
Overture: Die Fledermaus VIENNA PO/MAAZEL
7.13* Mozart Violin Concerto in A (K 219): HENRYK SZERYNG NEW PHILHARMONIA/GIBSON
7.41* Kreisler Slavonic Fantasy on 'Songs my mother taught me': OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin) MILTON KAYE (piano)
7.46* Johann Strauss (Son) Waltz: Vienna Bonbons VIENNA PO/MAAZEL
8.0 News
8.5 Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
NEW PHILHARMONIA/GARDELLI
8.11* Telemann Oboe Concerto in E flat: HEINZ HOLUGER
CAMERATA BERN/THOMAS FURI
8.23* Beethoven Symphony No 5, in c minor
VIENNA PO/SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT records
Producer RAY ABBOTT

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) The Final Years
We can allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it.
This week's programmes concentrate on the music of the composer's last ten years, in which he repeatedly explored the theme of death
Preface to the complete edition of my works and thoughts about this preface, Op 123 YEVGENY NESTERENKO (bass)
YEVGENY SHENDEROVICH (piano) String Quartet No 11, in F minor, Op 122 BEETHOVEN QUARTET
Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126 MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA records
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

First of five programmes to include the complete Op 2 L'ECOLE D'ORPHEE
Stephen Preston (flute) John Holloway (violin)
Micaela Comberti (violin) Susan Sheppard (cello)
Robert Woolley (harpsichord) Handel Trio-Sonata in c minor (a version of his Op 2 No 1)
Avison Trio-Sonata in E minor, Op 1 No 5
Handel Trio-Sonata in B minor, Op 2 No 1.

Symphony No 24, in B flat
(K 182); Serenade in D (K 320) (Posthorn)
SOUTH WEST GERMAN RADIO SO conducted by KAZIMIERZ KORD (South West German Radio recording from the 1984 Baden-Baden Mozart Festival)

First of two programmes
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Mary Chandler The Threshold of the New
Elizabeth Maconchy Three songs: Abelard's Lament;
Hangman's Song; Not only I Ruth Gipps Four Baritone
Songs: To a fat lady; I bended unto me; Jenny kiss'd me; The Pulley
BBC Bristol

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor JERZY MAKSYMIUK TAMAS VASARY (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian) BBC Scotland

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Faure Barcarolle No 1, in A minor, Op 26; Impromptu No 2, in F minor, Op 31; Nocturne No 13, in B minor, Op 119 Schumann Papillons, Op 2 Ravel Sonatine; Oiseaux tristes; Alborada del gracioso
(Tickets £1.70 available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, phone: 01.[number removed])

Byrd Mass for four voices
HILLIARD ENSEMBLE/PAUL HILLIER
Beethoven, arr Wenzel Sedlak Overture: Fidelio
OCTOPHOROS
Strauss Piano Quartet in c minor: ivaldi QUARTET
Sibelius Seven Songs, Op 17
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) TOM KRAUSE (baritone) irwin GAGE (piano)
DutiUeux Symphony No 1 ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE
LILLE/JEAN-CLAUDE CASADESUS

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer ANDREW LYLE

played by KARL-ERIK WELIN in the Royal Festival Hall, London
Peter-Maxwell Davies Three Voluntaries
Improvisation

It continually puzzles me that I can't distinguish one bird, tree or flower from another, and yet I can use the words for them.
Donald Davie contributes with reflections and readings to a critical portrait of himself, in which Michael Schmidt appraises Davie's career as poet, critic and teacher.
Speakers include PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER RICKS , PROFESSOR
HUGH KENNER , THOM GUNN , ELAINE FEINSTEIN , ANNE CLUYSENAAR and DR CLYDE BINFIELD
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS.

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by MARK ELDER PETER DONOHOE (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan Tippett Symphony No 2
8.30* Interval Reading
8.35* Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat
(Given in February in the Ulster Hall, Belfast)

MEDICI QUARTET with ROGER CHASE (viola)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello) Strauss Capriccio
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
10.15* Interval Reading
10.20* Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
(Given as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival 1984) BBC Wales

Second of ten programmes of music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier Les arts florissants: Idyle en musique
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS directed by WILLIAM CHRISTIE records

Faure Nocturne No 7, in c sharp minor, Op 74
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) record