The first of seven programmes of music inspired by the landscape, traditions and legends of the British Isles
Hoist Dances from The Morning of the Year (Op 45 No 2) LSO/DAVID
ATHERTON Grainger My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY Ireland In a May Morning
(Sarnia) ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Delius Summer Night on the River
LPO/VERNON HANDLEY
Bax November Woods
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON records

Cantata No 115: Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit
MARKUS HUBER (treble)
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) KURT equiluz (tenor)
PHILIPPE HUTTENLOCHER (baSS)
TOLZ BOYS'CHOIR
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT record

The third of seven programmes The Seasons, Op 37a: July-December
LYDIA ARTYMIW (piano)
Menuetto Scherzoso and Valse de Salon (Op 51)
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) records

Debussy Suite: Children's Corner (mono)
ALFRED CORTOT (piano)
Rubbra Violin Sonata No 2, Op 31 (mono)
FREDERICK GRINKE (violin) THE COMPOSER (piano)
Dvorak 0 Silver Moon (Rusalka) RITA STREICH (soprano) BERLIN RSO/KURT GAEBEL
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45
CBSO/SIMON RATTLE records
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BBC, Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver William Alwyn (1905-85): an assessment by Roger Wright. A conversation with the harpsichordist William Christie. Hugh Cobbe , newly-appointed music librarian at the British Library, talks about his work. Aureliano Pertile (1885-1952): John Steane considers the singing of Pertile, for many the supreme tenor of his time. Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2.0pm)

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3
Dvorak Theme and Variations Martinu Fantasy and Toccata (A re-broadcast of last Monday 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1.5pm: Dezsb Ranki , piano)

led by ANDREW ORTON conductor Edward Downes Dennis Simons (violin) Part 1
Rossini Overture: Semiramide Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)

Tom McNab reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.

Part 2
David Blake Violin Concerto Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio) (Presented by York University)
BBC Manchester

Forgotten Fairy Tales. Op 4; Idylls. Op 28, Nos 1 and 2; Fireside Tales, Op 61 ROSEMARIE WRIGHT BBC Birmingham

String Quartet in A minor, Op 132
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET BBC Manchester

Berkeley Serenade for strings, Op 12: LPO'THE COMPOSER
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op 10 ECO/THE COMPOSER
Berkeley Partita for chamber orchestra, Op 66
LPO/THE COMPOSER: records

Choral Music
Cantata No 82: Ich habe genug HANS HOTTER (bass)
SIDNEY SUTCLIFFE (oboe)
PHILHARMONIA/ANTHONY BERNARD Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in alien
Landen ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) HAROLD JACKSON (trumpet)
PHILHARMONIA/PETER GELLHORN mono records

6: Europe and America:
Reconciled Among the Stars? Written and presented by Michael Charlton
The concern that Europe might be made safe for nuclear war if both the Soviet Union and the Americans pursue 'Star Wars' defences and the implications of this for the British and French nuclear deterrents are analysed by leaders who have been involved in critical strategic choices of the past. Contributors:
The Rt Hon Edward Heath. mp Helmut Schmidt
Maurice Couve de Murville and Sir Hermann Bondi
Producer ANNE WINDER

First of five programmes BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA leader RONALD THOMAS
WALTER TRAMPLER (viola) Henze Symphony No 1 conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN

Six comic episodes of fantasy history by colin MCLAREN
Read by Michael Hordern 4: Disasters and Disasters Ruritanian revolution Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

(piano)
Chopin Ballade in A flat, Op 47 Faure Theme and Variations, Op 73
Chopin Ballade in f minor, Op 52

byDONHAWORTH
Up in the Lancashire hills a farmer struggles with the farm which has become too much work for him in his old age.
Selling out would not only mean the loss of his family home but also halt visits of friends from past generations.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (R)

Dramatic oratorio in 16 scenes Words by HW. LONGFELLOW and H.A. ACWORTH Music by Elgar
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN
London Philharmonic Choir conducted by Vernon Handley Parti

An anthology of poetry arranged by Patric Dickinson and read by JILL BALCON
JAMES KERRY and MICHAEL SPICE Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Part 2
(Given earlier this evening in the Royal Festival Hall, London, in association with the Elgar Society)

The last of three programmes Corelli Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 4
LA PETITE BANDE directed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN
Handel Harpsichord Suite in E (Set 1 No 5): TREVOR PINNOCK Cesti Cantata: Mia tiranna, oh dio, pieta
CONCERTO VOCALE
Handel Harpsichord Suite in F minor (Set 1 No 8)
KENNETH GILBERT
Corelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 11
LA PETITE BANDE directed by sigiswald KUIJKEN records