The third of seven programmes of music inspired by nature, or by the landscape, traditions and legends of the British Isles Hoist St Paul's Suite
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONlETTAI
GEORGE HURST
Ireland Rhapsody ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Delius A Song Before Sunrise Bax Summer Music
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
BRYDENTHOMSON Grainger A Lincolnshire Posy CLEVELAND SYMPHONIC WINDS/
FREDERICK FENNELL records

Cantata No 26: Ach wie fliichtig, ach wie nichtig
FRIEDERIKE SAILER (soprano)
CLAUDIA HELLMANN (contralto) HELMUT KREBS (tenor) ERICH WENK (bass)
HEILBRONN HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR
PFORZHEIM CHAMBER ORCHESTRAl
FRITZ WERNER record

Fifth of seven programmes

Three Pieces, Op 9 - Michael Ponti (piano)

Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 80 - Melisande Chauveau (piano)

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Mozart Exsultate , jubilate
(K 165): AGNES GIEBEL (soprano) VIENNA SO/PETER RONNEFELD
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) GUARNERI QUARTET
Debussy Canope; Les tierces alternees (Preludes, Book 2) SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
Stravinsky Symphony in three movements (mono)
PHILHARMONIC SO OF NEW YORK/ THE COMPOSER records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The two sides of Aaron Copland : Peter Dickinson attempts a synthesis of his output.
A conversation with the cellist Maurice Gendron.
Thomas Tallis : a 400th anniversary assessment by John Milsom
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

(cello and piano)
Bach Cello Suite No 2, in D minor (BWV 1008)
Chopin Sonata in G minor. Op 65 (A re-broadcast of last Monday's 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1. pm: Richard Hickox Singers, conductor Richard Hickox , with Nigel North , lute)

leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by James Loughran Jack Brymer (clarinet) Parti
Sibelius The Return of Lemminkainen Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K622)

Tom McNab , novelist and former Olympic coach, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.

Part 2
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat
(Given in association with the MacRobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling and Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society) BBC Scotland .

Emilia Csanky (oboe) Antal Hetesi (oboe)
Kalman Berkes (clarinet) Istvan Mali (clarinet)
Tamas Zempleni (horn) Jozsef Bocsa (horn)
Julia Gabor (bassoon)
Gyorgy Hortobagyi (bassoon) J. C. Bach Quintet in B flat
Mozart Serenade in c minor (K388)

BORODIN TRIO
Rostislav Dubinsky (violin) Yuli Turovsky (cello) Luba Edlina (piano)
Arensky Trio in D minor, Op 32 Brahms Trio in c minor, Op 101

HENRY HERFORD (baritone)
BRADFORD FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY chorus-master MICHAEL j. BAKER
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader MALCOLM STEWART conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR Delius Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
4.25* Interval Reading
4.30* Delius Appalachia
(Given on 24 May in St George 's Hall, Bradford, in association with Watmoughs (Holdings) pic) BBC Manchester

The Role of the Director in Opera
There's a range of directors that goes on the one hand from the decorator- the producer seeing himself as a sort of provider of wallpaper - to the other extreme. the producer who allows the music to stimulate his own fantasies ... (ROBERT LLOYD) Once opera was the preserve of the singers, exhibiting their art in defiance of dramatic truth.
All that has changed. Opera has been overtaken by a new breed of directors who, it's often claimed, emphasise drama at the expense of the music.
Peter Conrad considers the reasons for this theatrical assault on the opera house with Peter Brook , Christoph von Dohnanyi, Sir Peter Hall
Michael Hampe , Robert Lloyd Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , David Pountney , John Schlesinger and Peter Stein.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
(Mark Elder, Music Director ofENO, talks to Sue MacGregor in 'Conversation Piece', tomorrow at
7.20pm on Radio 4)
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Third of five concerts BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS TIMOTHY BOND (organ) Parti
Alexander Goehr A Little Cantata of Proverbs; Two Choruses
Luciano Berio Fa-Si, for organ (first UK broadcast performance)
Goehr Imitation of Baudelaire (first performance)
Five Poems and an Epigram of William Blake with JOHN WALLACE (trumpet)

Six comic episodes of fantasy history by COLIN MCLAREN
Read by Michael Hordern 6: Wimberley Stirs it Up
A university lecturer recreates every spell in Shakespeare. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Part 2
Goehr Chaconne, for organ
Hans Werner Henze Orpheus Behind the Wire (poems by EDWARD BOND) (first performance) (Given on 10 September at the Turner SimsHall, University of Southampton)

by DAVID BRITTON with Unwillingly accompanied by his alienated and cynical son,
Michael sets out to conquer a small mountain in Wales. It takes Michael's ill health to bring father and son closer together.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

A 60th birthday tribute to the Australian conductor (born 17 November 1925)

Janacek Prelude: Katya Kabanova - Pro Arte Orchestra

Sullivan, arr Mackerras Pineapple Poll (Scene 2) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks - Wind Ensemble

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Innocence and Design
Six talks about the influence of economic ideas on policy by David Henderson , Head of the Economics and Statistics Department in the OECD
2: Soap Opera in High Places
(Lecture 3: next Wednesday at
7.45pm on Radio 4)
(The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER)

conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
Mariana Nicolesco (soprano) Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) Robert Tear (tenor)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Philharmonia Chorus chorus-master HORST NEUMANN Philharmonia Orchestra leader PETER THOMAS
(Given earlier this evening in the Royal Festival Hall, London, in association with Nissan UK Ltd) (Giulini conducts Beethoven: Thursday at 7.30pm)