Why we should reason well

Johann Strauss (son)
Waltz: Morning Papers
JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA directed by JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
7.13* Mahler Rhelnlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) JESSYE NORMAN (soprano)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/BERNARD H AITINK
7.16* Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in D (K 218)
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER
PHlLHARMONIA/RICCARDO MUTI
7.40* Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky LSO/SIR JOHN BARBIROLU
8.0 News
8.5 Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
CITY OF LONDON SINFONlA/ RICHARD HICKOX
8.15* Bach Four three-part inventions (bwv 792-5) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
8.22* Poulenc Concert champetre, for harpsichord and orchestra
SIMON PRESTON
LSO/ANDRÉ PREVIN
8.46* Bach, transc Elgar
Fantasia and Fugue in c minor LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT records

Delibes and Massenet
Delibes Ballet: La Source (Act 2)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE COVENT GARDEN/
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
Massenet Suite: Scenes alsaciennes
MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA/JOHN EUOT GARDINER records

Vaughan Williams Symphonic Impression: In the Fen Country NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Parry Symphony No 5, in B minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA records

COLIN LAWSON (clarinet) ERIK LEVI (piano)
Krenek Kleine Suite
Lutyens Five Little Pieces, Op 14 No 1
Seiber Andantino pastorale Cowell Six Casual Developments

leader JOSE-LUIS GARCIA conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras Gidon Kremer (violin)
Kim Kashkashian (viola) Part 1
Robin HoUoway Second Idyll, for chamber orchestra (first broadcast)
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major (K 364)

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 4, in B flat major (Given in 1983 at the Royal Festival Hall in association with Texaco Ltd)

direct from the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir (pianos)
Rossini, transc Liszt La Danza Brahms Waltzes , Op 39 (piano duet)
Schubert Rondo in D (D 608);
Characteristic Marches (D 886) (piano duets)
Mllhaud Suite: Scaramouche BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Opera in three acts
Libretto by EDMOND GONDINET and PHILIPPE GILLE after PIERRE LOTI 'S novel Le Mariage de Loti Music by Delibes
(born 21 February 1836) (sung in French): records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE OPERA-COMIQUE. PARIS/ ALAIN LOMBARD
The action takes place in British India, shortly after the Mutiny of 1857-8. Act
2.55* Interval Reading
3.0* Act 2
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Act 3

Richard Baker presents a selection of music for the early evening.
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT

BAND OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY Director of Music
MAJOR F. A. RENTON
Edward Gregson Festivo (first broadcast)
Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite
Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufry (first broadcast)

J. C. F. Fischer Suite: Uranie WILLIAM CHRISTIE (harpsichord) Vivaldi Concerto in G major (RV 102)
MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE: records

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by ANTONI WIT
GEORGES PLUDERMACHER (piano) Parti Ravel La Valse-
Concerto for piano (left hand)

Andrew Clements takes a critical look at the week's music broadcasting.

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 5
(Given last December at Derngate, Northampton in association with W&A Gilbey) BBC Birmingham

NICHOLAS LOGIE (viola) SUSAN TOMES (piano)
MUhaud Sonata No 1
Maconchy Five Sketches
(first broadcast performance) Glinka Sonata in D minor BBC Birmingham

NORTHERN SINFONIA leader BRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN TERESA CAHILL (soprano)
Ives Washington 's Birthday Copland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Ives Symphony No 3 (The Camp Meeting) BBC Manchtsttr