An Advancement of Learning

Purcell Duets: Let us wander
(The Indian Queen); Shepherd, leave decoying (King Arthur); Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)
ISOBEL BAILLIE (soprano)
KATHLEEN FERRIER (meZZO-SOp) GERALD MOORE (piano)
7.10* Debussy, orch Ansermet Six epigraphes antiques BASLE SO/ARMIN JORDAN
7.27* William Lawes Sonata No 1, in G minor
CONSORT OF MUSICKE
7.38* Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
SINFONIA OF LONDON/BARBIROLLI
8.0 News
8.5 Purcell Sonata for trumpet and strings: JOHN WILBRAHAM ECO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.11* Britten Suite for harp
OSIAN ELLIS
8.23* Elgar Severn Suite GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND directed by ELGAR HOWARTH

and orchestra
HERMANN BAUMANN
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRAl KURTMASUR records

Composers of the Great War Bridge Cherry Ripe LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT
W. Denis Browne Diaphenia; To Gratiana dancing and singing GRAHAM TREW (baritone) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
William Baines Paradise Gardens
ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Bridge Oration: Concerto elegiaco
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (Cello) LPO/ NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE records

Soir de fête, Op 32
TOULOUSE CAPITOL ORCHESTRA;
MICHEL PLASSON
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) MONTE CARLO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA/ARMIN JORDAN records

leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle Part 1 Ravel Ballet: Mother Goose

Ian McDougall , with the help of the BBC's Monitoring Service, presents his weekly selection of foreign radio broadcasts.

Part 2 Brahms Symphony No 2, in D BBC Birmingham

The fifth of eight concerts direct from Studio 7, Manchester Yossi Zivoni (violin) Rosemarie Wright (piano) Joseph Gibbs Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 1 Mendelssohn Sonata in F minor, Op 4 Chopin, arr WUhelmj Nocturne, Op 27 No 2 Kreisler Caprice viennois, Op 2 (Tickets available from BBC Concerts Promotion, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ) BBC Manchester

Opera in four acts Libretto by MARCO PRAGA , DOMENICO OLTVA , GIULIO RICORDI, LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA after the novel by Abbe Prevost Music by Puccini (sung in Italian): records ROYAL OPERA CHORUS PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI Act 1: Outside the inn at Amiens
2.40 * Interval Reading
2.45 * Act 2: Geronte's house in Paris
3.30 * Interval Reading
3.35 * Act 3: A square near the harbour of Le Havre Act 4: A desert plain on the borders of New Orleans

MICAELA COMBERTI (violin) NIGEL NORTH (guitar) Porro Sonata in D major, Op 11 No 3 Giuliani Serenade , Op 127

Presented by Graham Fawcett Producer ERIC WETHERELL BBC Bristol

BOSCOMBE BAND OF THE
SALVATION ARMY conductor GEOFF orrER
Dean Goffin Symphony of Thanksgiving
Bruce Broughton Meditation: The Prayer Meeting
(first broadcast performance) William Himes Suite : To the Chief Musician
(first broadcast performance) BBCBristol

3: The Demanding Mistresses The Rt Hon David Howell , mf, was a minister in Mrs Thatcher 's Government and also worked on Edward Heath 's proposals to introduce a more managerial style into the Cabinet system. In conversation with Peter Hennessy , he discusses the ways in which new bite could be introduced into policy-making and the changing role of prime ministers.
Producer ANNE WINDER

Medici String Quartet
Paul Robertson (violin)
Uavid Matthews (violin)
Ivo-Jan van der Werff (viola) Anthony Lewis (cello)
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
Kodaly Quartet No 2, Op 10

Quartet in B flat, Op 130
(Given on 9 June by the Bath Festival
Society) BBC Bristol

A short story by MARY GLADSTONE
Read by Joanna Keddie Producer PATRICK RAYNER
BBC Scotland

Symphony No 4, in E flat ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
BRYDEN THOMSON: record

Anthony Payne
Two tone-poems for chamber ensemble and an extended song-cycle
Introduced by Bayan Northcott A Day in the Life of a Mayfly (1981)
THE FIRES OF LONDON conducted by JOHN CAREWE Evening Land (1981)
JANE MANNING (soprano) JOHN MCCABE (piano) (Repeats)
The Stones and Lonely Places Sing (1979)
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by LIONEL FRIEND (Anthony Payne 's new BBC commission, 'The Spirit's Harvest, Will receive its first performance at the Proms on 31 July)

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cello) PETER WALLFISCH (piano) Bach Sonata in G major (BWV1027)
Reger Sonata in A minor, Op 116