Organic Chemistry

First of six programmes, including some of his serenades, divertimentos and dances, as well as music by six
20th-century masters
Mozart Six German Dances (K600)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE directed by WILLI BOSKOVSKY Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
JANET CRAXTON (Oboe)
Mozart Divertimento in D (K 136) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by JAAP SCHRODER
(violin) and CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
Britten Suite , Op 6
JEAN-PIERRE SABOURET (violin) ALAIN SABOURET (piano)
Mozart Serenade in D (K 185)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by JAAP SCHRODER (violin) and CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord): records

Boyce Symphony No 7, in B flat
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE-
FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Schubert Fantasia in F minor (D 940) MURRAY PERAHIA RADU Lupu (piano duet)
Dvorak Sonatina in G, Op 100 JOSEF SUK (violin)
ALFRED HOLECEK (piano)
Danzi Cello Concerto in E minor
THOMAS BLEES
BERLIN so/ c. A. BUNTE: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Britten, Curlew River and the Church Parable: a talk by Donald Mitchell
A conversation with lannis Xenakis
First and Second Thoughts -
Stravinsky and his Symphonies of Wind Instruments: by Stephen Walsh
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2.0pm)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JIRI STAREK RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano)
Fibich Overture: A Night in Karlstein
Martinu Piano Concerto No 2 Dvorak Symphonic Variations BBC Scotland

NASH ENSEMBLE
Marcia Crayford (violin) Roger Chase (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) Ian Brown (piano)
Malcolm Arnold Piano Trio, Op 54
Frank Bridge Phantasy for piano quartet (R)

Opera in three acts
Libretto by HEINZ von CRAMER , after CARLO GOZZI
Music by Hans Werner Henze Original version (sung in German)
(first UK broadcast)
Other parts sung by MEMBERS AND CHORUS OF THE WURTTEMBERG STATE
OPERA. STUTTGART
ORCHESTRA OF THE WURTTEMBERG
STATE OPERA. STUTTGART conducted by DENNIS RUSSELL DA VIES Act

Living in Late Modernity the poet can raid the past for techniques or project the future in experiments. What he cannot do is to avoid meaning.
Peter Porter introduces and reads a selection from his recent work.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester (R)

Act 2
4.10* Interval Reading
4.20* Act 3
(South German Radio recording)

Presented by Stephen Games Producers FRASER STEEL andSAMCOLLYNS
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 10.15pm)

A special concert arranged by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1972 in aid of the Titian Appeal Fund. This was the first concert to be given in the National Gallery since the wartime concerts.
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
Britten Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
Schubert Der Atlas; Der Wanderer; Litanei
Britten Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi
Schtitz Die Seele Christi heilige mich
Purcell, real Britten If love's a sweet passion; When Myra sings; Sweeter than roses; Dulcibella; When the cocks begin to crow (R)

Saint-Saens Le deluge PARIS ORCHESTRA;
DANIEL BARENBOIM
Franck Les Eolides BASLE SO/ARMIN JORDAN records

Melos Quartet of Stuttgart Wilhelm Melcher (violin) Gerhard Voss (violin) Hermann Voss (viola) Peter Buck (cello) with Hans Haublein (cello) direct from the Assembly Rooms, Bath Parti
Haydn Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2 Ravel Quartet in F

'In Poland there is no embarrassment at putting "poet" on your passport - always assuming you can get a passport.'
From the position of a Polish poet living in England, Adam Czemiawski reflects on the function of poetry and the role of the poet in two contrasting cultures.

Part 2 Schubert
Quintet in c (D 956) BBCBristol
Part 2 is a simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 See page 53
0 FEATURE: page 36, HEAR THIS! page 37 and INFO: page 101

George Benjamin Ringed by the flat horizon conducted by MARK ELDER Messiaen Chronochromie BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49 STUTTGART PIANO TRIO BBC Birmingham (R)

Amis, t'amour me contreint (Lai des dames); Un mortel lai vueil commencier (Lai mortel) performed in contrasting realisations by members of the NEW LONDON CONSORT
Catherine Bott (soprano) Frances Kelly (harp) Tom Finucane (lute)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (vielle) directed by Philip Pickett (recorder)