Handel Overture:
Esther PHILlDOR ENSEMBLE (baroque wind instruments) attrib Haydn Horn Concerto No 2, in ECO, directed by BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A, Op 92 (Beethoven's 1816 arrangement for wind nonet) OCTOPHOROS (classical wind instruments)
Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B flat, for piano and wind (1876)
NASH ENSEMBLE
Vaughan Williams Concerto in A minor, for oboe and strings (1944)
MAURICE BOURGUE (oboe)
ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA/
WILLIAM BOUGHTON records

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor,
Op 132, by Richard Osborne ; new vocal and choral records reviewed by Alan Blyth
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Moniuszko Grajek (The
Fiddler); Wiosna (Spring) TERESA ZYLIS-GARA (soprano) CHRISTIAN ivaldi (piano)
Stenhammar Symphonic Cantata: The Song
IWA SORENSON (soprano) ANNE SOFTE VON OTTER (mezzo-soprano)
STEFAN DAHLBERG (tenor)
PER ARNE WAHLGREN (baritone)
SWEDISH RADIO CHOIR AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/HERBERT BLOMSTEDT Poulenc Tel jour telle nuit FELICITY LOTI (soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) records

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by BERNHARD KLEE Mozart Symphony No 35, in D major (K 385) (Haffner) Strauss Symphonic Poem: Death and Transfiguration

Symphony No 4, in E minor (Given on 12 July in Lichfield
Cathedral as part of the 1985 Lichfield Festival in association with Ind Coope Burton Brewery Limited) BBC Manchester

LESLIE HOWARD
Balakirev Scherzo No 2, in B flat minor
Borodin Petite Suite and Scherzo
Rubinstein Sonata No 1, Op 12 (first broadcast performance) BBC Birmingham

Second of nine programmes Vejvanovsky Sonata Ittalica KUENTZ CO/PAUL KUENTZ
Smetana Symphonic Poem: Wallenstein's Camp, Op 14 BAVARIAN RADIO SO/KUBEUK BlodeklntheWell (Scenes 4 and 5) SOLOISTS
PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE
ORCHESTRA/JAN STYCH
Dvorak Symphony No 2, in B flat, Op 4
LSO/WITOLD ROWICKI
Dvorak Love Songs, Op 38 EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano): records
Fibich Piano Trio in F minor
NASH ENSEMBLE (R)
Krommer Harmonie in F, Op 57 PRAGUE CONSERVATOIRE ENSEMBLE Janacek Cantata: Amarus
SOLOISTS
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Robert Cushman (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker , John Carey and Margaret Walters. This week's subjects:
Wayne Wang 's film Dim Sum; Land of the Tiger in the BBC2
Natural World series; Sheridan's The Critic and Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound at the National Theatre, London; the Gwen John exhibition at the Barbican Gallery, London; and Skevington 's Dauber, a collection of verse by Oliver Reynolds.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

ALAN CUCKSTON (Father Smith organ, 1688) in St Peter 's Chapel, Auckland Castle
Handel Fantaisie in c; Capriccio in G minor; Bourree in G minor (Impertinence); Air in G minor; Toccata in G minor; Allegro in D minor; Prelude and Allegro in A minor; Air in A; Fugue in A minor; Sonatina in A minor BBC Manchester

conducted by Jacek Kasprzyk Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Mendelssohn Nocturne and Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Schubert Symphony No 3, in D BBC Manchester

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, DAME MARY WARNOCK, LORD
BULLOCK. JONATHAN CHARKHAM. SIR
HENRY CMLVER ,
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 (R)

CLEVELAND QUARTET Part 1 Schubert
Quartet in E flat (D 87)
Dohnanyi Serenade in c, Op 10, for string trio

I've written these family poems on and off for several years as a kind of sentimental self-education: in a way, they've become a family themselves.
John Mole picks out one strand in his recent work and reads some of the poems which embody it.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in F, Op 135
(Given on 29 August in the Queen's Hall in association with the Bank of Scotland) BBC Scotland

Petrushka (arr the composer) RICHARD MARKHAM and DAVID NETTLE (piano duet) BBC Manchester

The fifth of six programmes BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
THOMAS TROTTER (Organ)
Bruckner Two Motets: Pange lingua; Tota pulchra es Maria Verdi Pater noster
Bruckner Two Motets:
Vexilla regis; Virga Jesse Brahms Motet , Op 74 No 1:
Warum ist das Licht gegeben BBC Birmingham