The sixth of seven programmes of music inspired by nature or by the landscape, traditions and legends of the British
Isles Bantock Overture: The Pierrot of the Minute: BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA/NORMAN DEL MAR Butterworth Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-INTHEFIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Ireland For Remembrance; Amberley Wild Brooks ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Bridge Suite for String Orchestra
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONlETTAI NORMAN DEL MAR: records

The first of three programmes to include Schubert's three mature string quartets
Entr'acte in B flat (Rosamunde) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS
ORCHESTRA/KURT MASUR
Im Abendrot; Der Einsame
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
String Quartet in A minor (D 804) MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART records

Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in c. Op 48
ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Weber Piano Sonata No 2, in A flat
PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
Zemlinsky String Quartet No 3, Op 19
LA SALLE QUARTET records

Introduced by Michael Oliver The Busch legacy: a talk by Richard Osborne ;
'Ringed by the Flat Horizon' and beyond: a conversation with George Benjamin ;
Rothschild's Violin: Calum MacDonald explains the background to the opera
Shostakovich completed but never started;
More than Mozart's librettist: a new biography of orenzo da Ponte reviewed by William Mann.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

David Parkhouse (piano) Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
Schubert Trio No 2, in E flat (D 929)
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1.5pm: Sheila
Armstrong, soprano, and Geoffrey Parsons , piano)

GEORGE MALCOLM (piano) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE conducted by SANDOR VEGH Parti
Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op 133 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos and orchestra (K 365) directed by GEORGE MALCOLM

Peter Holmes , Lecturer in Economics at Sussex
University, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.

Part 2 Haydn
Symphony No 102, in B flat (Given on 11 July in Lichfield Cathedral)
BBC Birmingham

Keyboard Music
Third of 11 programmes
Partita No 1, in B flat (BWV 825) DINU LIPATTI (piano)
Gigue (Partita No 1, in B flat) PERCY GRAINGER (piano) mono records

Opera in three acts Words and music by Richard Wagner (sung in German)
A recording of the opening performance of this year's Bayreuth Festival
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master ORBERT BALATSCH BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by Giuseppe sinopou Act
3.0* Interval Reading
3.5* Act 2
4.20* Interval Reading
4.25* Act 3
(Bavarian Radio recording)

Stephen Games presents a sceptical review of new ideas and old orthodoxies in the arts. Producers CATHY WEARING andSAMCOLLYNS

Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1
Bagatelle in c minor (WoO 52) Bagatelle in c,(WoO 56) Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2 ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) BBC Bristol

A monologue by NICK DEAR with John Hurt as Lee
A schoolmaster philosophises to his imaginary class on the seashore. He is tempted to be overwhelmed by the follies of the world.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

direct from the Concert House, Stockholm Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the World Philharmonic Orchestra in its inaugural concert.
Bruckner Symphony No 8, in c minor
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First of two programmes
Louis-Antoine Dornel Sonate en trio in B minor, Op 3 No 3
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Sonata in G, Op 51 No 4, for flute and violin without bass
Jean-Joseph Mondonville Sonata in c, Op 3 No 4, for harpsichord and violin L'ECOLED-ORPHEE director John Holloway (violin) Susan Sheppard (cello)
Lucy Carolan (harpsichord) with JANET SEE (flute)

Innocence and Design
Six talks about the influence of economic ideas on policy by David Henderson
5: DIYE Plus the Lobbies: Counting the Cost
(Lecture 6: Wed at 7. 45 pm on Radio 4) (The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER)

PETER DONOHOE (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH and BERNARD RANDS
Part 1 Gyorgy Ligeti
San Francisco Polyphony
York Holler Piano Concerto
(BBC commission for European Music Year: first performance)

An anthology of poetry for men and women compiled by Sylvia Colley and read by KATE BESWICK. DAVID DE
KEYSER ELLEN MCINTOSH and COLIN STARKEY Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Part 2 Bernard Rands Suite: Le tambourin conducted by THE COMPOSER Ravel La valse