Elgar Serenade for Strings
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
7.18* Mendelssohn Fantasy in F sharp minor
LYDIA ARTIMIW (piano)
7.31* Turina Sinfonia sevillana
LPO/ENRIQUE BATIZ
8.0 News
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.14* Kreisler Concerto in the style of Vivaldi OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin) MILTON KAYE (piano)
8.27* Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat
VIENNA PO/SIR GEORG SOLTI records

Bach: An Evening at
Zimmermann's Coffee-house Sinfonia (Cantata No 174)
WURTTEMBERG CO/HELMUTH RILLING Concerto in D minor, for harpsichord and strings (BWV 1052)
HERBERT TACHEZI (harpsichord) VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Cantata No 211: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata) ROSMARIE HOFMANN (soprano) GUY DE MEY (tenor)
GREGORY REINHART (bass) LINDE CONSORT directed by HANS-MARTIN LINDE records

director John Poole
Penderecki Agnus Dei Vic Nees Magnificat (first broadcast)
Sven-David Sandstrom Agnus Dei (first broadcast)

Symphony No 2 (Antar)
MOSCOW RSO/KONSTANTIN IVANOV record

JEFFREY SIEGEL (piano)
Mozart Sonata in A minor (K 310) Schumann Camaval
(A re-broadcast of last Thursday Manchester Summer Recital)

leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Peter Donohoe (piano) Part 1
Lyell Cresswell Speak for us, great sea
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Part 2 Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (K 551) (Jupiter)
(Given on 8 April in association with the MacRobertArts Centre. University of Stirling) BBC Scotland

NEIL SMITH
Sor Minuet in c (Sonata Op 25); Minuet in G, Op 11 No 1; Minuet in A, Op 11 No 6 Gomez-Crespo Nortena Rodrigo Tiento antiguo; Pequena sevillana
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza Paseo; El loco; La muerte (Platero y yo) (R)

and Other Emigres
First of three programmes including music by this English composer (born 1926) who has for many years lived in Vienna Ernst Krenek Song-cycle: Durch die Nacht (1931: text by KARL KRAUS ) (mono)
MARY THOMAS (soprano) WIGMORE ENSEMBLE conducted by JACQUES LOUIS MONOD (R)
Medea (1951: text from EURIPIDES) MECHTHILD GESSENDORF (soprano) UNZ BRUCKNER ORCHESTRA conducted by ROMAN ZEILINGER (Austrian Radio recording)
Francis Burt Espressione orchestrale
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH (R) Boris Blacher Music for Cleveland
COLOGNE RSO conducted by GEORGE SZELL
(West German Radio recording) (R) Francis Burt Ballet: Der Golem
AUSTRIAN RSO conducted by MILAN HORVATH (Austrian Radio recording)

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Medici String Quartet Paul Robertson (violin) David Matthews (violin)
Ivo-Jan van der Werff (viola) Anthony Lewis (cello) with Imogen Cooper (piano) and Christine Cairns (soprano) Chausson Chanson perpetuelle, for soprano and piano quintet
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

Today's music for the early evening is presented by Jeremy Siepmann
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Secular cantatas from baroque Rome
The second of two programmes Carissimi Sventura , cor mio; Se nell 'uscir di spene
Kapsberger Toccata No 7, in G minor
Carissimi Consolati , cor mio Kapsberger Toccata No 1, in F minor
Carissimi 0 dura piu d'un sasso JUDITH NELSON (soprano) NIGEL NORTH (archlute)

Opera in three acts
Libretto by PETER ZINOVIEFF
Music by Harrison Birtwistle (sung in English: first broadcast)
English National Opera's production of Harrison Birtwistle 's highly acclaimed new opera, recorded last week at the London Coliseum.
Electronic material realised by BARRY RICHARDSON
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA associate conductor PAUL DANIEL conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH Act 1

First of three programmes Towards a New Identity
Ian McDougall , the former BBC Correspondent in Germany and Central Europe, reflects on the revived search for national self-definition in both parts of Germany.

Act 2

A sequence of poems by FRANK ORMSBY
Read by ELAINE CLAXTON ,
ERICK RAY EVANS. JIM NORTON.
SHAUN PRENDERGAST , DAN RUSSELL and ERIC STOVELL
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Act 3

Quartet in D minor, Op 42;
Quartet fragment in D minor, Op 103; Quartet in G major, Op64No4
DELME STRING QUARTET (R)