First of eight programmes
J. Stamitz Overture No 9, in G
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Richter Chamber Sonata No 3, in A: ARS REDIVIVA K. Stamitz Sinfonia concertante in D
JOSEF SUK (violin)
JOSEF KODOUSEK (viola) SUK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/ HYNEKFARKAC records

The last of three programmes String Quartet in G (D 887) QU ARTETTO ITALIANO record

Delius Idyll
FELICITY LOTT (soprano) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) RPO/ERICFENBY
Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
BRYDEN THOMSON
Saint-Saens Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila) MARIA CALLAS (soprano)
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
GEORGES PRETRE
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LSO/DAVID ZINMAN records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Ravel - the Model Composer: a talk by Roger Nichols ; Reger and the Organ: a conversation with Graham Barber ;
Beethoven - the Master
Musician: a new biography reviewed by Stephen Dodgson Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 0pm)

Faure Romance, for violin and piano; Elegie, for cello and piano; Piano Quartet No 2, in G minor, Op 45
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)

leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle John Williams (guitar)
Peter Walden (oboe d'amore) Parti
Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat
Takemitsu Vers l'arc-en-ciel,
Palma, for oboe d'amore, guitar and orchestra

Roy Gregory , Reader in Political Science at Reading University, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.

Part 2
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Debussy Iberia
BBC Birmingham (R)

Keyboard Music
Seventh of 11 programmes Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (BWV 903)
WITOLD MALCUZYNSKl (piano) mono record (1954)
(Eighth programme this evening at 6.15pm)

Sextet in E flat, Op 81b JOHN PIGNEGUY (horn)
ANTHONY HALSTEAD (hom) ALBERNI STRING QUARTET (R)

led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by Michael Lankester
Richard Davis (flute) direct from
Studio 7, Manchester Leonardo Balada Sardana (first UK performance)
Leonard Bernstein Halil John Harbison Diotima (first UK performance) BBC Manchester

JOHN SHIRLEY QUIRK (baritone) VERMEER STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in F, Op 74 No 2 Shostakovich Quartet No 7, in f sharp minor, Op 108

A sequence of poems and prose compiled by Michel Petheram Readers PATRICIA GALLLMORE
BRETTUSHER and STEPHENTHORNE Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham

Part 2 Barber Dover Beach Mozart Quartet in c (K 465) (Dissonance)
BBC Birmingham

A sceptical review of new ideas and old orthodoxies in the arts presented by Stephen Games.
Producers CATHY WEARING and SAM COLLYNS
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 10. 15pm)

Keyboard Music
Eighth of 11 programmes
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (BWV 903)
WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord) mono record (1935)
(Ninth programme tomorrowat 10.0am)

Music by Arvo Part
Wenn Bach Bienen geziichtet hatte, for chamber ensemble
Fratres, for chamber ensemble and percussion
Two Slav Psalms: Psalm 117
(Praise the Lord, all ye nations) and Psalm 131 (Lord, my heart has not been haughty)
COLLEGIUM VOCALE. COLOGNE
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENSEMBLE.
VIENNA conducted by PETER BURWIK (first UK broadcasts)
(West German Radio recording)
(Part's Tabula Rasa 'can be heard next Sunday at 11. 10 pm)

A Restoration comedy by William Wycherley
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Opera in two acts
Music by Alan Bush (born 22 December 1900)
Libretto by Barrie Stavis

Joe Hill was executed in Salt Lake City in 1915 after being framed for murder. He wrote songs that were well loved by the workers - but he was a militant trade unionist and a thorn in the side of authority....
Narrator ED BISHOP
BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE chorus-master SIMON JOLY
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by JAMES JUDD

Act 1

The second of five programmes looking at how this country was regarded in the 17th century by such visitors as the French scientist Samuel Sorbiere and the secretary to the Italian nobleman, Cosimo de Medici. ('As Others Saw Us ' in the 18th century: next Saturday at & 35pm)

Act 2
Technical presentation
MARTIN PAGE and CHRIS SAYERS Coach MARY NASH
Producer ELAINE PADMORE (R)