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The fourth of five programmes celebrating the 85th birthday of the British pianist
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A major (K 488)
PHILHARMONIA/HERBERT MENGES Beethoven Piano Sonata in c minor. Op 111 Mono records

The fifth of six programmes Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano, Op 2 CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LPO/ELIAHUINBAL
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
ECO/THE COMPOSER. Records

Bach Cantata No 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit SABINE KIRCHNER (contralto) KARLHEINZ MULLER (bass) MANNHEIM BACH CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA/HEINZ MARKUS
Saint-Saens Fantasy: Africa PHILIPPE ENTREMONT (piano)
TOULOUSE CAPITOLE ORCHESTRA/
MICHEL PLASSON
Rachmaninov Symphonic poem: Prince Rostislav
USSR SO/YEVGENY SVETLANOV
Rebecca Clarke Two Pieces PATRICIA MCCARTY (viola) MARTHA BABCOCK (cello)
Spohr Liebe ist die zarte Blute (Faust, Act 1)
WOLFGANG ANHEISSER (baritone) BERLIN RSO/ROBERT HANELL Bax Symphony No 1
LPO/MYER FREDMAN. Records

Presented by Peter Paul Nash
This week: Milhaud by himself - archive echoes and readings from his autobiography about the ballets La Creation du monde and Le Boeufsur le toit (Saturday); a conversation with Rodney Friend - leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra - on Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1, in which he's the soloist on Tuesday night; and Roger Norrington and Kay Lawrence talk about the steps they've taken to recreate authentically the ballets by Lully and Gluck in Friday's Prom.
Reader JOHN SAMSON
Producers ANDREW KUROWSKI and CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. Opm)

Howard Ferguson Octet
11.40* Interval Reading
11.45* Schubert Octet BBC Pebble Mill (R)

(piano)
Bach Prelude and Fughetta in G major (BWV 902)
Stefan Wolpe Form IV (Broken Sequence)
Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch Messiaen Canteyodjaya
1.20* Interval Reading
1.25* Beethoven 33 Variations on a waltz by Diabelli, Op 120

BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by MARK ERMLER
IRINA ARKHIPOVA (mezzo-soprano) Rimsky-Korsakov Suite:
The Legend of the Invisible City ofKitezh
Mussorgsky, arr Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 BBC Scotland
(In association with House of Fraserplc)

String Quartet in A (K 464) SALOMON STRING QUARTET

COLIN LAWSON (clarinet) PETER HILL (piano) Busoni Elegie
Wellesz Two Pieces, Op 34 Schoenberg, arr Busoni Klavierstiick , Op 11 No 2 Berg Four Pieces, Op 5 BBC Manchester (R)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau made six commercial recordings of Schubert's Winterreise between 1955 and 1985, with GERALD MOORE , JORG DEMUS.
DANIEL BARENBOIM and ALFRED BRENDEL as the pianists.
John Warrack traces the development of the singer's interpretation of the song-cycle over this 30-year period. Producer PETER TANNER

(violin)
The sixth of seven programmes Kreisler Variations on a theme of Corelli 'in the style of Tartini' with CARL LAMSON (piano) (1910recording)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D (K 218)
LSO/LANDON RONALD (1924 recording)
Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in c minor, Op 45
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (piano) (1928 recording) Records

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) ENGLISH CONCERT led by SIMON STANDAGE directed by TREVOR PINNOCK Parti Bach
Suite No 3 in D major (BWV 1068) Handel Cantata Silete Venti

or A Poetical Concerto in Four Movements
A sequence of poems from the 18th and early 19th centuries, selected and compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON
Read by John Shrapnel and David Goodland
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER

Part 2
Vivaldi Concerto for strings in G major (RV 151) (Alia rustica) Handel Crudel tiranno Amor Bach Suite No 4 in D major (BWV 1069)

by Oskar Kokoschka, translated from the German by Anthony Vivis.
Read by Edward de Souza.
(Mono) (R)

directed by FRANCIS ROUTH Routh Concerto No 2
Thea Musgrave Elegy for viola and cello
Thomas Wilson Canti Nottumi BBC Scotland

The Art of the English Madrigal Thomas Weelkes Balletts and Madrigals to five voyces (1598) CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY (R)

The fifth of nine programmes led by ROGER HOWARTH conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON sian DAVIES (oboe)
NICHOLAS CARPENTER (clarinet) PETER KANE (horn)
PATRICK milne (bassoon)
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 297b) for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian) BBCBristol