Biology, Brain and Behaviour

Weber Andante and Hungarian Rondo - ECO/PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (viola)

Cherubini String Quartet No 1, in E flat - MELOSQUARTET

Beethoven Sonata in E minor, Op 90 - SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)

Schubert Totengraberlied, Die Schatten; Sehnsucht; Verklarung; Pensa, che questa istante - DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (bar) GERALD MOORE (piano)

Hummel Sonata in A, Op 64 - ANDRAS ADORJAN (flute) NOEL LEE (piano)

Schubert Symphony No 1, in D (D 82) - ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER

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Rossini Overture: The Journey to Rheims
PHILHARMONIA/RICCARDO MUTI Poulenc Oboe Sonata MAURICE BOURGUE (oboe) JACQUES FEVRlER (piano)
Telemann Concerto in D for three trumpets
FRIEDEMANN IMMER
MICHAEL LAIRD
IAIN WILSON
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Martinu Three Czech Dances
KATIA AND MARIELLE LABEQUE (pianos)
Schumann, orch Ansermet Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70
HERMANN BAUMANN (horn)
MUNICH PO/MARINUS VOORBERG
Copland Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo)
DETROIT SO/ANTAL DORATI: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Messages and Scenes - the recent music ofGyorgy Kurtag: a talk by Stephen Walsh
Furtwangler and his methods: a conversation with Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
Leo Delibes : a 150th anniversary assessment by Edward Blakeman
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 0pm)

Mozart Quartet in F (K 590) Bartok Quartet No 5 (1934)
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
(Tomorrow at 1.5pm: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra)

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
Parti Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
William Schuman Symphony No

Sita Narasimhan, Lecturer in English Literature at
Cambridge University, reflects on some aspects of language and how it is used.
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Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World) (R)

Haydn Trio in A flat major (HXV 14)
Mendelssohn Trio in c minor, Op 66 (R)

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor Edward Downes Heather Harper (soprano) direct from The Barbican Concert Hall, London Parti
Britten Our Hunting Fathers, Op 8

An anthology of poems arranged by Diana Griffiths read by JILL BALCON , GARY WATSON and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Part 2 Elgar
Symphony No 2, in E flat major BBC Manchester

Time and Chance
'Culture is simply a behavioural adaptation to cope with environmental change!'
Far from being predestined for greatness, human beings seem to have been shaped piecemeal, not least by a change in the weather.
In the last of three programmes Colin Tudge explores not only how views of human evolution have changed but also the way in which we study it.
Producer AUSON RICHARDS

Oedipus Rex
Opera-oratorio in two acts after SOPHOCLES
Music by Stravinsky
The staging of this work at
Berlin's Kroll Oper in 1928, wasamong the era's most influential productions.
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK
Oedipus ....GEORGE SHIRLEY (tenor)
Jocasta SHIRLEY VERRETT (SOpranO)
Creon DONALDGRAMM(bass) Tiresias......CHESTER WATSON (bass) Messenger
JOHN REARDON (baritone)
Shepherd ..LORENDRiscoLL(tenor) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
OPERA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC/ THE COMPOSER: record

Berlin's Opera Conductors
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA/OTTO KLEMPERER: Mendelssohn Scherzo
(A Midsummer Night's Dream) BERLIN PO/ERICH KLEIBER
Schubert, orch Webern
Six German Dances (D 820) BERLIN PO/LEO BLECH
Mozart Overture: Die
Entfuhrung aus dem Serail BERLIN CHARLOTTENBURG OPERA ORCHESTRA/ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY mono records

by Carl Sternheim, translated by J.M. Ritchie
with Cheryl Campbell as Ursula, Gerard Murphy as Ago von Bohna and Peter Woodthorpe
as General Traugott von Beeskow

In the year after the First World War, the Prussian aristocracy is prepared to defend its way of life by murder and seduction. And Baron Ago von Bohna has returned from Moscow infected by new ideas.

Sonata for violin and cello (1922) REGIS PASQUIER (violin) ROLAND PIDOUX (cello) (R)

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Opera in three acts
Text by BERTOLT BRECHT Music by Kurt Weill
Sung in the English translation by MICHAEL FEINGOLD
In Mahagonny, a city whose motto is 'Do if, there is just one capital offence - poverty.
Toby, a witness
BRENDAN CAVANAGH (tenor)
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master IAN REID
RTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader AUDREY PARK conducted by SIMON joly
(Given at the 1985 Wexford Festival) Act

Critics explaining the decline of the realistic novel often assume that experience was perceived as being seamless and organic in the 19th century, while today it seems fragmented and chaotic. Raymond Tallis. Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at Royal Liverpool Hospital. explodes these literary critical myths.

The Rise and Fail of the City of Mahagonny Act 2
11.0* Interval Reading
11.5* Act 3