Bax Roscatha
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON
7.16* Suk Suite: A Fairy Tale, Op 16
JOSEF suk (violin)
PRAGUE SO/JIRI BELOHLA VEK
7.46* Rossini Variations for oboe and chamber orchestra HEINZ HOLUGER (oboe)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/DAVID ZINMAN
8.0 News
8.5 Guillemain Sonata a 4 in A minor, Op 17 No 6 MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE
8.19* Respighi Trittico botticelliano
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FEELS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
8.38* Schumann Konzertstiick , Op 86, for four horns and orchestra
GERD SEIFERT , NORBERT HAUPTMANN
CHRISTOPH KOHLER , MANFRED KLIER (horns)
BERLIN PO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT records

Mendelssohn
The Neo-classical Romantic:
There is an enormous difference between the composer of those hardly intelligible overtures which mean to be 'fantastic', and the composer of 'St Paul ';for he is in both spirit and form a truly classic composer.
(WIENER THEA TERZEITUNG, 1839)
St Paul , Op 36
(Part 1: Overture and Nos 1-15) HELEN DONATH (soprano)
HANNA SCHWARZ (contralto) WERNER HOLLWEG (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (baritone)
WUPPERTALEN KURRENDE BOYS' CHOIR
DUSSELDORF STADTISCHE
MUSIKVEREIN CHOIR
DUSSELDORF Sol
RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS: records

ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) David Roth (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)
With PATRICK IRELAND (viola)
Parry String Quintet in E flat Dyson Rhapsody No 2 BBC Bristol (R)

(piano)
Faure Ballade , Op 19
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux, Op 33
BBC Birmingham (R)

Introduced by Ian McDougall

conducted by Nicholas Cleobury

Holst St Paul's Suite

Edward Harper Fantasia V, for chamber orchestra: Passacaglia on EH3 7DC (first broadcast) (commissioned by the Scottish Post Office Board)

Peter Maxwell Davies Sinfonia Concertante

(Given in June 1985 in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney Islands, as part of the St Magnus Festival)

BBC Scotland

direct from
Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham Bernard Roberts (piano)
Debussy Studies, Book 1
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2
BBC Birmingham

Sibelius The Tempest: Prelude and Suite No 1
RLPO/SIR CHARLES GROVES Symphonic poem:
The Oceanides, Op 73
GOTHENBURG SO/NEEME JAR VI The Tempest: Suite No 2 RLPO/SIR CHARLES GROVES records

Sonata for viola, Op 25 No 1 NOBUKO MAI
BBC Manchester (R)

directed by Ton Koopman Bach Suites: No 4, in D
(BWV 1069); No 1, in c (BWV 1066)
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Bach Suites:
No 2, in B minor (BWV 1067); No 3, in D (BWV 1068) BBC Wales (R)

Presented by Brian Kay
Producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Birmingham

GUILDHALL SYMPHONIC WIND BAND conducted by ADRIAN LEAPER Bernard Stevens Overture: East and West
Anthony Milner Concerto for symphonic wind band (R)

WILLIAM BENNETT (flute) LONDON MOZART PLAYERS leader JOHN GLICKMAN conductor JANE GLOVER
Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orphee et Eurydice)
Thea Musgrave Orfeo n (R)

Sonata in E minor (D 566); Rondo in E (D 506);
Sonata in A minor (D 845) MARTIN ROSCOE (piano) BBC Manchester

Opera-comique in three acts
Libretto by BARBIER and carre, based on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister
Music by Ambroise Thomas (sung in French) direct from the Theatre Royal, Wexford as part of the Wexford Festival.
Wexford Festival Chorus chorus-master IAN REm
RTE Symphony Orchestra leader AUDREY PARK conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier Act
The courtyard of a German inn

India's sprawling epic was composed in the third century before Christ. Professor P. Lal of Calcutta University retells three Mahabharata stories and, through them, reflects on India in the 1980s.
1: The Drop of Honey
(R) (Tomorrow at 8.15* pm: 'The Lota of Water?

Act 2: A dressing-room; The conservatory at Rosenberg Castle

A selection of Gustave Flaubert 's letters translated by JOANNA RICHARDSON In 1870 the Prussians attacked France. The occupation and eventual declaration of the Republic had a particularly marked effect on Gustave Flaubert. In a series of letters to the young Princess Mathilde he describes his sense of outrage and impotence and laments the passing of the Empire. Read by Hugh Dickson Producer PETER KAVANAGH

Act 3: The gallery of an Italian country castle
BBC Northern Ireland