Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel
HALLE ORCHFSTRAMAURICE HANDFORD Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON Bizet Jeux d'enfants, Op 22 ALFONS AND ALOYS KONTARSKY (piano duet)
Ravel Ballet: Ma mere I'Oye PITTSBURGH SO/ANDRE PREVIN Schumann Three songs
(Lieder-Album fiir die Jugend) ELLY AMELING (soprano) JORG DEMUS (piano)
Dohnanyi Variations on a nursery song, for piano and orchestra istvan LANTOS (piano)
BUDAPEST SO/GYORGY LEHEL records

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Copland's Appalachian Spring by Peter Dickinson ; recent chamber music records reviewed by Robert Henderson ;
William Mann on two new
Wagner recordings: Tannhauser conducted by Haitink and Parsifal conducted by Goodall Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Miaskovsky String Quartet No 2, in c minor, Op 33 No 2
TANEYEV QUARTET OF LENINGRAD Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1, in D minor, Op 49
BORODIN TRIO: records

(born 26 October 1685)
Scarlatti Sinfonia, Trio and six Arias from the opera Narcisso; Harpsichord Sonatas: in D
(Kk 140, 145 and 29); in D minor (third movement) (Kk 89); in D (Kk 21)
Charles Avison Concerto
Grosso No 6, in D (after Scarlatti) Scarlatti Salve Regina
patrizia KWELLA (soprano) GILLIAN FISHER (soprano)
MARGARET CABLE (Contralto) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) ian PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MELVYN TAN (harpsichord) RAGLAN BAROQUE PLAYERS leader ALISON BURY directed by NICHOLAS KRAEMER (harpsichord/organ)

Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
JEROME ROSE (piano) (R)

Settings of verse by Giovanni Battista Guarini
A selection of the madrigals which Schutz composed at the end of his period of study in Venice. The works were published there in 1611. THE CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY records

Purcell and Dowland
The fourth of nine programmes to include Purcell's complete Fantazias together with other consort music of the period THE CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY LONDON BAROQUE , directed by CHARLES MEDLAM : records

Seventh of nine programmes
Gyrowetz Overture: Semiramis PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Dussek Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 44 (The Farewell) SONTRAUDSPEIDEL
Dvorak Symphony No 7, in D minor, Op 70
LPO CARLO MARIA GIULINI Smetana Comic opera: Viola (fragment),
MARIE VESELA (mezzo-soprano) JAROSLAV HORACEK (bass) jiri POKORNY (piano)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
THE PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE/
ZDENEK KOSLER Ivana Loudova String Quartet
No 2 (To the memory of Smetana)
KOCIAN QUARTET
Novak Sea Fantasia: The Storm, Op 42 SOLOISTS
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/ZDENEK KOSLER records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Marghanita Laski , Philip Oakes and Peter Porter. This week's subjects:
Gary Marshall 's film Flamingo Kid; Lord Elgin and some Stones of No Value on Channel 4 last Sunday;
The Artist's Eye: Francis Bacon at the National Gallery, London; The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest by Ronald Harwood at the Almeida Theatre, London and Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner.
Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON

ALAN SPEDDING
(organ of Beverley Minster) Alexandre Boely Toccata in B minor, Op 43 No 3; Quatuor sur deux claviers, Op 45 No 7; Andante moderato in B minor (1840); Canone all'ottava;
Larghetto in c sharp minor, Op 43 No 8; Allegro ma non troppo, in F minor; Fantasie and Fugue in B flat, Op 18 BBC Manchester

A sequence of poems for two voices by ROBERTA BERKE with Miranda Forbes as Corinna and Trevor Nichols as Mark Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Paavo Berglund Joseph Swensen (violin)
Eeva-Liisa Naumanen (soprano)
Jorma Hynninen (baritone) Helsinki University Male Voice Choir direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Parti Violin Concerto in D minor

For over a century anthropologists have argued that incest is taboo in all human societies.
Keith Hopkins , Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University, reflects on the contrary habits of the Roman Egyptians.

Part 2
Symphony: Kullervo
(Given in association with Kansallis-Osake-Pannki and Neste Oy)

A story about mothers and daughters by A. S. BYATT
Read by Anna Massey

First of three programmes tracing Sir Michael Tippett 's continuing interest in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and including his two pieces to words by W. B. Yeats. Words for Music Perhaps (A sequence of love poems by W. B. Yeats ), for speaking voices and chamber ensemble With NORMAN RODWAY
BARBARA JEFFORD and MOIR LESLIE A Vision of the Island Text arranged from
SHAKESPEARE'S The Tempest by IAN COTTERELL
Music adapted by Andrew Parrott from Tippett's incidental music for
The Tempest (Old Vic, 1962) (first performance of this version)
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by ANDREW PARROTT Producers ANTHONY BURTON and IAN COTTERELL
(Part 2. comprising a complete recording of Tippett's 's opera 'The Knot Garden can be heard tomorrow at
6.0pm; Part 3, including the 'Songs for Dov follows on Monday at 9.55 pm)

Fourth of five programmes ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) David Roth (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)
With PATRICK IRELAND (viola)
Parry String Quintet in E flat Dyson Three Rhapsodies for string quartet: No 2 BBC Bristol

Sonatas in e major (Kk 380 and 381) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)