Science: The Question Why

First of six programmes
J. C. Bach Overture in D: Orione
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
Abel sonata in A, up y NO i, for violin, cello and continuo MEMBERS OF LONDON BAROQUE Stanley Concerto Grosso in G major, Op 2 No 3
THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Thomas Arne To soften care; The singing club; Sigh no more ladies: HILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER
J. C. Bach Concerto in G major, Op 1 No 4: INGRID HAEBLER
(fortepiano), VIENNA CAPELLA ACADEMICA directed by EDUARD MELKUS : records

First of five programmes celebrating the 90th birthday of the great British oboist
A. Marcello Oboe Concerto in c minor (mono)
PHILHARMONIA STRING ORCHESTRAl WALTER SUSSKIND
Schumann Three Romances, Op 94 (mono) with GERALD MOORE (piano) Mozart Oboe Concerto in c major (K 314): SINFONIA OF LONDON/SIR COLIN DAVIS : records

Haydn Symphony No 11, in E flat L'ESTRO armonico directed by DEREK SOLOMONS (violin)
Mozart Sonata in F major (K 547) OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin) ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 CBSO/SIMON RATTLE : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver J. S. and J. C.: some reflections on a musical relationship by George Pratt.
In his natural element: a conversation with the composer Kurt Schwertsik. Rebel with a cause?
John Deathridge assesses the music of Hanns Eisler. A well-planned concert:
William Mann considers the ever-changing view of what this has meant.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
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Songs from the Italian and Spanish Songbooks
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) TOM KRAUSE (baritone) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
(A re-broadcast of last Monday 's BBCLunchtime Concert)

leader BELA DEKANY conductor Sir John Pritchard Natalia Gutman (cello)
Oliver Knussen Symphony No 3 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
1.5* Interval Reading
1.10* Scriabin Symphony No 3 (Given on 26 March in the Leningrad Philharmonic Hall)

SMETANA QUARTET
RUDOLF FIRKUSY (piano)
Martinu String Quartet No 4 Smetana Macbeth and the witches; Czech Dances: Polka; Furiant
2.50* Interval Reading
2.55* Dvorak Piano Quintet in a, Op 61
BBC Pebble Mill (R)

by SUSAN CAMPBELL
Read by Finlay Welsh Producer GREGOR GRAHAM BBC Scotland (R)

HESPERION xx directed by JORDI SAVALL (treble viol)
Monserrat Figueras (soprano) Sergi Casademunt (tenor renaissance viols)
Roberto Gini (bass renaissance viols)
Bruce Dickey (cornetto) Charles Toet (sackbut)
Lorenzo Alpert (flute/dulcian/ percussion)
Jose Miguel Moreno (guitar/ vihuela)
Romances and dances of the Moors; Love songs and instrumental variations
4.40* Interval Reading
4.45* Villancicos and dances to sing and play BBC Pebble Mill

Last of eight documentaries about diplomacy over the Falkland Islands from the mid-1960s until 1982

"What the hell's the point in having a navy if you aren't prepared to do anything with it?" (Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry Leach)

Michael Charlton examines why, in the end, there was no arbiter other than war in the long struggle for the Falklands.

With Rear Admiral Gualter Allara, Sir Nicholas Henderson, Admiral Sir Henry Leach, Admiral Lord Lewin, The Rt Hon Richard Luce, Sir Anthony Parsons, Javier Perez de Cuellar, The Rt Hon Francis Pym and Sir Anthony Williams

Third of four programmes Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2; Six pieces, Op 118

Opera in three acts, based on the drama by GEORG BÜCHNER
Text and music by Alban Berg (sung in German)
A new production direct from the Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera Chorus chorus-master
HELMUTH FROSCHAUER
Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado
(In collaboration with Austrian Radio)

(died 16 June 1986)
Fourth of five programmes Suite for organ, Op 5 played by WALTER HILLSMAN : record
BBC Manchester
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A personal selection of Indian poetry presented by Prabhu Guptara
3: Necklaces of Silence
Poems read in the original by Bhasker Patel ,
Gautam Sachdev and Mujib Siddiqui , and in English by Michael Jenner and Deborah Maclaren. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Trio in E flat (K 498), for clarinet, viola and piano
Piano Quartet in G minor (K 478)
11.0* Interval Reading
11.5* Wind Quintet in E flat (K 452)
NEIL BLACK (oboe)
THEA KING (clarinet)
ROGER BIRNSTINGL (bassoon) TIMOTHY BROWN (hom) PERRY HART (Violin)
BRIAN HAWKINS (viola) KENNETH ESSEX (Viola) MICHAEL EVANS (cello)
NINA MILKINA (piano) (R)

L'invitation au voyage ELLY AMELING (soprano)
SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART Extase; Phidyle;
Serenade florentine
GERARD souzay (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano) Chanson triste
ELLY AMELING (soprano)
SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART