Purcell Symphony (Hail! Bright Cecilia): ENGLISH BAROQUESOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Purcell Music for a while (Oedipus) (mono: 1949)
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor)
WALTER BERGMANN (harpsichord) Handel March; Aria: The soft complaining flute (Ode for St Cecilia's Day)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D
(RV 93): PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS Liszt Symphonic Poem:
Orpheus: LPO/BERNARD HAITINK Gluck Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice) (mono: 1947)
KATHLEEN FERRIER (contralto)
Svendsen Romance in G, Op 26 ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin)
NEW PHILHARMONlA/EDO DE WAART Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (mono: 1938) 16 SOLO SINGERS
BBC SO/SIR HENRY WOOD
Britten Simple Symphony ECO'THE COMPOSER
Gounod Sanctus (Messe solennelle de Sainte Cecile) KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)
CHOIR OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
ECO/BARRY ROSE: records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat (D 960) by Jeremy Siepmann. Michael Kennedy reviews recent releases of British music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Bax Symphonic Scherzo RPO/VERNON HANDLEY Symphony No 3
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON: records

A Little Piano Sonata for Beginners (K 545) played by RUTH GEIGER (R)

Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227): RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by UWE GRONOSTAY
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Bruckner Symphony No 9, in D minor
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN (RIAS Berlin recording)

Music from 14-century Italy BBC Manchester (R)

Fourth of 12 programmes played by MARTINOTIRIMO Sonata in E minor (D 566); Sonata in c major (D 840)
(Reliquie) (completed Tirimo) (Fifth programme next Saturday)

(1799-1837)
Long will the people hold me dear For with my lyre I stirred their better selves. (1836) Music inspired by the great
Russian poet to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of his death.
LUDMILLA ANDREW (SOpranO) and GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) perform some of the best-known settings of Pushkin's poems; plus a rare recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salien, and excerpts on record from
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Rachmaninov's Aleko

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Blake Morrison (in the Chair) talks with Michael Coveney ,
Helen McNeil and Philip Oakes. This week's subjects:
David Byrne 's film True Stones; Mr and Mrs Nobody by Keith Waterhouse at the Garrick
Theatre; Vsevolod Vishnevsky s Optimistic Tragedy and Alexander Gelman 's A Man with Connections in the Radio 3 Russian Season; the Boyle Family exhibition at the Hayward Gallery; two collections of verse, Stet and Essential Reading, by Peter Reading.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Handel Concerto Grosso in c (Alexander's Feast)
Bach Concerto in A minor (Bwv 1065) (after Vivaldi) KENNETH GILBERT
LARS ULRIK MORTENSEN
NICHOLAS KRAEMER
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichords) Vivaldi Concerto in G (RV 516) With SIMON STANDAGE (Violin) ELIZABETH WILCOCK (violin)
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor (La follia) (after Corelli)
Boyce Symphony No 1, in B flat records

direct from the Wigmore Hall, London
Nash Ensemble . with Henry Herford (baritone) Parti Britten
Phantasy Oboe Quartet, Op 2;
Lachrymae, Op 48, for viola and piano; A Poison Tree (Blake)
(first performance); Songs and Proverbs of William Blake , Op 74

Stephen Games talks to
Tom McEverley , the New York art critic, about recent attempts to re-establish an intellectual base for art.
Producer SAM COLLYNS (R)

Part 2
Britten
Introduction and Allegro, for piano trio (first performance) Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor (K 478)

A celebration in verse, prose and music for St Cecilia's Day Compiled by ROGER FRITH Readers Sean Barrett , Rosalind Shanks and Hugh Burden
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol (R)

leader SOPHIE LANGDON conducted by Odaline de la Martinez Sophie Langdon (violin) Alexander Baillie (cello)
Alfred Schnittke Concerto No 3, for violin and chamber orchestra
Elena Firsova Concerto No 2, for cello and orchestra (first broadcast)

conducted by Nikolai Nekrasov Tatiana Erastova (soprano) Vladislav Pyavko (tenor) Artur Eizen (bass)
Russian folk music writ large in part of a concert given at the Usher Hall earlier this year during the Edinburgh Folk Festival. BBC Scotland

Paganini Studies: No 1, in G minor; No 2, in E flat
CÉCILE OUSSET (piano): record