Science: Elements in the Balance

(piano)
First of six programmes
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat (K 595)
VIENNA PO/KARL BOHM
Brahms Cello Sonata No 1, in E minor, Op 38
With PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) records. Producer MURRAY KHOURI

directed by Reinhard Goebel Carolyn Watkinson (soprano) First of six programmes
Marais La sonnerie de Saint-Genevieve du mont de Paris
Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna Handel Trio-Sonata in G, Op5No4
Bach Contrapunctus 8 (The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080)
Telemann Concerto in A minor records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Haydn Symphony No 22, in E flat major (Philosopher)
PHILHARMONIA HUNG ARIC A/DORATI
Purcell In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)
CONCERTO VOCALE
Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico: IVAN DAVIS (piano)
Zelenka Sonata in G minor HEINZ HOLUGER (oboe)
MAURICE BOURGUE (oboe)
KLAUS THUNEMANN (baSSOOn)
LUCIO BUCCARELLA (double-bass) CHRISTIANE JACCOTTET (harpsichord)
Viotti Violin Concerto No 22, in A minor: ARTHUR GRUMIAUX AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/EDO DE WAART: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver Britten and Shostakovich Compared: by Calum MacDonald.
A conversation with the violinist John Holloway.
Who was George Thomson ? Nicholas Kenyon explains. 'Yours is an Old Testament theatre; you need a saviour':
David Kimbell examines Verdi's contribution to operatic reforms.
Producers ANDREW LYLE and GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

(baritone and piano)
Schubert Schwanengesang (D957)

Last of three concerts
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) PENELOPE WALMSLEY-CLARK (soprano)
JOHN TOMLINSON (baSS) CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA leader ANDREW WATKINSON conducted by RICHARD HICKOX Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo, Op 11, for string orchestra
Britten Cantata: Phaedra
12.40* Interval Reading
12.50* Shostakovich Symphony No 14
(Given on 2 April in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London, in association with John Laing Construction Ltd)

Gorgeous
Glenda Second of three diversions for radio featuring television in the background
Written by CHRISTOPHER HOPE
(R)

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in c minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) Bartok Sonata
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Chopin Sonata in B flat minor, Op 35
Prokofiev Sonata No 7, in B flat (Given in 1982 in the Elmwood Hall Queen's University, Belfast) BBC Northern Ireland

led by JOHN LUDLOW conducted by Maurice Handford Mozart Symphony No 33, in B flat (K 319)
Vorisek Symphony in D, Op 24

Jack Brymer and Ian Lake (clarinet and piano)

Weber, Grand duo concertant, Op 48; Neville Bower, Evocation; Joseph Horovitz, Sonatina.

BBC Pebble Mill
(R)

Eight documentaries by Michael Charlton about diplomacy over the Falkland Islands from the mid-1960s until 1982
2: Islands Surrounded by Advice 'Leave this poisoned chalice alone.'
With these words, written in 1974, the new Foreign Secretary James Callaghan withdrew proposals for joint Anglo-Argentine sovereignty, following almost a decade of failed attempts to resolve the Falklands question. But increasing pressure forced
Britain to restore sovereignty to the agenda. With Ministers and their Foreign Office advisers of the time, including
The Rt Hon Julian Amery , mp,
The Rt Hon James Callaghan , mp, Ted Rowlands , mp, Hugh Carless , Robin Edmonds , Lord Greenhill, and The Hon Henry Hankey Producer CATHY WEARING

MALCOLM BINNS (piano) ULSTER ORCHESTRA leader RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by JONATHAN DEL MAR Stemdale Bennett Piano
Concerto No 2, in E flat (1833) Haydn Symphony No 96, in D BBC Northern Ireland (R)

Whatever bad luck Russia may have had in this century, it has been extraordinarily lucky with its poetry. Ratushinskaya 's poems confirm that the luck holds. (JOSEPH BRODSKY) Irina Ratushinskaya introduces and reads previously unpublished verse composed during her imprisonment and written since her arrival in the West. English translations by ALAN MYERS and DAVID MCDUFF Read by CAROLINE JOHN Producer FRANK Williams

Opera in three acts
Libretto by ANTONIO SOMMA , after the libretto Gustave III by AUGUSTIN EUGENE SCRIBE
Music by Verdi (sung in Italian) A recording from the Vienna State Opera conducted by Claudio Abbado with Luciano Pavarotti as King Gustav,
Piero CappucciUi as Ankarstroem and Gabriele Lechner as Amelia
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. For full details sec page 31.

Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 PARIKIAN-MILNE-FLEMING TRIO BBC Pebble Mill

MELVYN TAN (harpsichord) MARGARET CABLE (contralto) RAGLAN BAROQUE PLAYERS leader ALISON BURY director NICHOLAS KRAEMER (harpsichord/organ)
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D (Kk 29); Sonata in D minor
(Kk 89, third movement); Sonata inD(Kk21)
Charles Avison Concerto grosso No 6, in D
Scarlatti Salve Regina (R)