A Muslim's Testimony

Offenbach Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld PHILHARMONIA/
sir NEVILLE MARRINER
Jacob Suite for recorder and strings: MICHALA PETRI (recorder) ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS directed by KENNETH SILLITO Grainger Green Bushes
(Passacaglia on English folk SOngS): ECO/STEUART BEDFORD Poulenc Litanies a la vierge noire
LYONS NATIONAL CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA/SERGE BAUDO
Beethoven Quintet in E flat, Op 16, for piano and wind ALFONS KONTARSKY (piano)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC WIND PLAYERS Bellini Sediziose voci Casta diva Ah! bello a me ritoma (Norma)
JOAN SUTHERLAND (Soprano) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA. CO VENT GARDEN/ FRANCESCO MOLINARIPRADELLI Janacek Lachian Dances ROTTERDAM PO/JAMES CONLON records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Wagner's Ring (1):
Das Rheingold by Alan Blyth. Joan Chissell reviews Pearl's set, Pupils of Clara Schumann Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Schumann Novellette , Op 21 No 2 (mono: 1952) ADEUNA DE LARA (piano)
Romance in F sharp, Op 28 No 2 (mono: 1950)
ILONA EIBENSCHUTZ (piano)
10.25 Piano Concerto in A minor (mono: 1928)
FANNY DAVIES
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA/ERNEST ANSERMET Symphony No 2, in c
RLPO/MAREK JANOWSKI: records VHF/FM only from 10.25am

NatWest Trophy final Lancashire v Sussex
Ball-by-ball commentary from Lord's on county cricket's showpiece finale with the first-ever holders of a county one-day trophy, Sussex, meeting the champions of the 70s, Lancashire.
The commentators,
Brian Johnston , Christopher Martin -Jenkins and Henry Blofeld are joined by David Lloyd of Lancashire and John Barclay of Sussex and the impartial Trevor Bailey.
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
12.50 pm News
12.55-1.25 Cricket Forum
Christopher Martin-Jenkins takes the chair in a discussion on the issues raised by the 1986 season.
Producer PETER BAXTER

conducted by Riccardo Muti Kathleen Battle (soprano) Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet Donizetti Quel guardo il cavaliere (Don Pasquale ) Bellini Oh! Quante volta (I Capuletti e I Montecchi) Gustave Charpentier Depuis Ie jour (Louise) Rossini Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Respighi Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome (WFMT recording: overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Cigna Worldwide Inc)

JOHN ANDERSON (oboe) RICHARD NUNN (harpsichord/piano) Maconchy Three Bagatelles Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Dring Three-piece Suite

COULL STRING QUARTET Roger Coull (violin) Philip Gallaway (violin) David Curtis (viola) John Todd (cello) with ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) Beethoven Quartet in F, Op 135 Reger Clarinet Quintet in A, Op 146. BBC Wales

Written and read by John Stevenson (R)

Operetta in three acts Libretto by CARL HAFFNER and RICHARD GENEE after meilhac and HALÉVY Music by Johann Strauss (son) (sung in German) mono records (1950) No better conductor could have been found for this delectable score than Clemens Krauss ; he handles the detail with as much care as though it were by VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS VIENNA PO/CLEMENS KRAUSS

Introduced by Peter Clayton

John Spur ling (in the Chair) talks with John Carey, Robert Cushman and Helen McNeil. This week's subjects: Ourselves Alone by Anne Devlin at the Royal Court Theatre, London; The Monocled Mutineer, a four-part television play by ALAN BLEASDALE (Sundays, BBC1); Margarethe von Trotta 's film Rosa Luxemburg ; Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-45 at the Camden Arts Centre, London; and Too Much: Art and Society in the 60s by Robert Hewison Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Pavane pour une infante defunte; Le tombeau de Couperin; Valses nobles et sentimentales KUN woo PAIK (piano) BBC Birmingham (R)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Maurice Bourgue (oboe) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Sibelius Symphony No 3, in c Mozart Oboe Concerto in c (K 314)

The poet E. A. Markham reflects on his recent stint as media coordinator in Papua New Guinea. (R)

Part 2
John Maxwell Geddes Voyager Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)

The Care of Bees
Last of four programmes in which John Franklyn-Robbins reads VIRGLL'S poem in the translation by ROBERT WELLS Music by MICHAEL BALL
BERNARD O'KEEFE (cor anglais)
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester (R)

Quartet No 2, in c, Op 37 MEDICI STRING QUARTET
Paul Robertson (violin) David Matthews (violin)
Ivo-Jan van der Werff (viola) Anthony Lewis (cello)

Symphony No 6 (1954)
SWEDISH RSO/NEEME JARVI: record

Charles Fox introduces the seventh of 11 recordings from the 1985 International Piano Event at Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire. The British pianists
Howard Riley and Keith Tippett Play their own improvisation 'From two pianos'.