Chabrier Overture: L'etoile
LYONS OPERA ORCHESTRA/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

Delius A song before sunrise BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/NORMAN DEL MAR

Stanford Drake's Drum (Songs of the sea) BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, NORMAN DEL MAR

Debussy, arr Graham Sheen Three pieces from Children's Corner: ECO WIND ENSEMBLE

Lambert Elegiac blues RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (piano)

Two Brazilian songs KATHLEEN BATTLE (soprano) CHRISTOPHER PARKENING (guitar)

Vivaldi Concerto in F (rv 442) MICHAEL COPLEY (alto recorder) CAMERATA BERN directed by THOMAS FURI

Suk Ballade and Serenade, Op 3 MAREK JERIE (cello) IVAN KLANSKY (piano)

Spohr Concerto in G HANSHEINZ SCHNEEBERGER (violin) URSULA HOLLIGER (harp) ECO/PETER-LUKAS GRAF

Schubert, arr Graham Sheen Sixteen German Dances (D 783) ECO WIND ENSEMBLE

Liszt, orch Tchaikovsky Concerto in the Hungarian Style CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/EUGENE ORMANDY

(records)

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Schumann's Liederkreis, Op 39, by John Steane. Barry Fox talks about digital audio tape.
Gordon Reynolds reviews recent records of choral music by Bach, Handel, Franck and Kokkonen.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Bach Motet: Komm, Jesu, Komm (bwv 229)
COLLEGIUM VOCALE. GHENT
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CHAPEL
ROYAL. PARIS/PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE Handel Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110): HILLEVI MARTINPELTO (SOP)
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER (contralto) STOCKHOLM BACH CHOIR
DROTTNTNGHOLM BAROQUE
ENSEMBLE/ANDERS OHRWALL
Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227): AGNES MELLON (sop) GRETA DE REYGHERE (soprano)
VINCENT DARRAS (counter-tenor) HOWARD CROOK (tenor) PETER KOOY (baSS)
ORCHESTRA OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL.
PARIS/PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE: records

Tippett Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli; Symphony No 2 - Cleveland Orchestra conducted by The Composer

12.20* Interval Reading

12.25* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor - Leonard Rose, Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis

(WCLV recordings from concerts given in Severence Hall and at Blossom)

ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano) ELYSIAN WIND QUINTET (R)

(violin)
Paganini Violin Concerto No 1, in D major, Op 6
With PHILHARMONIA/
LOVRO VON MATACIC : record

Second of 12 programmes in a complete cycle given by MARTINOTIRIMO
Sonata in E major (D 459) Sonata in A minor (D 784)
(Third programme next Saturday)

Today is a Soviet public holiday. A sequence including one of Rachmaninov's Russian Songs record and Prokofiev's Ode to the End of the War (Soviet Radio recording)
3.40* Ippolitov-Ivanov Quartet No 1: HANSON QUARTET
Mikhail Bronniev Overture for Orchestra
MOSCOW STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by FUAT MANSUROV (Soviet Radio recording)
Tikhon Khrennikov Violin
Concerto No 1: VICTOR PIKAlZlEV
MOSCOW STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by FEDOR GLUSHENKO Vladislav Agafonnikov Symphony in memory of Shebalin
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV (Soviet Radio recordings)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with Blake Morrison , Philip Oakes and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
Doris Dome 's film Men; the Rodin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery; P.H. Newby 's novel Leaning in the Wind; Stranger than Fiction, a documentary about Mass
Observation on Channel 4; The Archbishop's 's Ceiling by Arthur Miller at the Pit in the Barbican. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Second of two programmes played by SIMON LINDLEY on the organ of Leeds Town Hall
Joseph Jongen Deux pieces, Op 53: Chant de Mai; Menuet Scherzo
FIor Peeters Variations on an original theme, Op 58
Joseph Jongen Sonata eroica, Op 94. BBC Manchester

5: Whiffs of Gramarye
An anthology of poetry and music on the theme of 'Smell' compiled and performed by The Barrow Poets

Opera in four acts Text by V.I.BILSKY
Music by Rimsky-Korsakov (sung in Russian)
Fevronya, a child of nature, is discovered in the forest by Vsevolod. They fall in love, but their wedding festivities are cruelly interrupted by the Tartar invasion. Kitezh is saved by a miracle, but Vsevolod is killed and Fevronya captured.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteur PHILLIP THOMAS
Language coach VTTYA BOROVSKY Technical presentation IAN PARR Producers CHRIS DE SOUZA and CUVE BENNETT Actl

Helmut Bonheim , Professor of English at Cologne University, reflects on the long tradition of South American monsters in European literature.

Act 2

An anthology of poems on the reaction of writers to the devastation of the First World War, compiled by PETER ORR Readers Ronald Pickup
Marion Bailey and Peter Orr Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol (R)

Act 3

Serenade in D minor, Op 44
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE/ ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER : record

During concert intervals this week, Douglas Reith reads from GILBERT AD AIRS 'dazzling dissection of British life and culture', Myths and Memories (published by COLLlNS/FLAMINGO)