Vaughan Williams Overture: Henry V
LONDON BRASS VIRTUOSI; DAVID HONEYBALL

7.18* Monteverdi Ballo: Tirsi e
Clori ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) PATRIZIA KWELLA (soprano) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

7.32* Vivaldi Concerto in D (RV 428) (Il gardellino)
MICHALA PETRI (recorder)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by IONA BROWN

7.42* Chopin Mazurkas: in A minor. Op 68 No 2; in f. Op 68 No 3
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)

7.47* Hoist St Paul's Suite, Op 29
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONlETTA
GEORGE HURST

8.00 World Service News

8.10 Offenbach Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
BERLIN PO HERBERT VON KARAJAN

8.20* Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 JORGE BOLET (piano)

8.31* Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos LPO KLAUS TENNSTEDT Records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Debussy's Jeux by Stephen Walsh.
Joan Chissell on recent releases of Brahms's chamber music. Peter Dickinson reviews records of American music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 MURRAY PERAHIA
MEMBERS OF THE AMADEUS QUARTET George Perle Pantomime, Interlude and Fugue
MICHAEL BOIUSKIN (piano)
Howard Hanson Symphony No 2 (Romantic)
ST LOUIS SO LEONARD SLATKIN George Perle Short Sonata MICHAEL BORISKIN (piano) Records

conducted by RICCARDOCHAILLY RADU LUPU (piano)
Ives The Unanswered Question Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in flat (K 595)
Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish) (SF Berlin recording)

The third of seven programmes reflecting an international competition organised by Austrian Radio for the European Broadcasting Union, and held last autumn at the Mozarteum.
Suk Quartet Movement in B flat
Brahms Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No
SPOHR QUARTET (German Federal Republic)
(Austrian Radio recording)

The first of two programmes spanning Ernest Chausson's development from barrister and musical apprentice to mature composer.
Student Days: 1879-82
Le Charme; Les Papillons;
La Derniere Feuille; Serenade italienne; Le Colibri (Op 2) Maturity: 1886-98
Les Couronnes, Op 27 No 3; L'Aveu, Op 13 No 3: Dans la foret, Op 36 No 2; Le Temps de lilas, Op 19; La Cigale, Op 13 No
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano)
FREDERIC MEINDERS (piano) (Netherlands Radio recording)

on the 15th anniversary of his death
Havergal Brian Symphonic variations on 'Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?'
LUXEMBOURG RSO LEOPOLD HAGER John Dowland Galliard to Lachrimae; A Fancy JULIAN BREAM (lute)
Havergal Brian Prelude: John Dowland 's Fancy PETER HILL (piano)
Havergal Brian Lacryma (The Tigers)
LUXEMBOURG RSO LEOPOLD HAGER Delius Sea Drift
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
RPO RICHARD
HICKOX Havergal Brian Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia tragica) LPO MYER
FREDMAN Elgar Elegy , for strings LPO ADRIAN BOULT Records

Two masterworks for voice and chamber ensemble
Chanson perpétuelle, Op 37; Concerto in D, Op 21
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) RAINER KUSSMAUL (violin) FREDERIC MEINDERS (piano) SCHOENBERG STRING QUARTET (Netherlands Radio recording)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Nigel Andrews (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Frayling , Helen McNeil and Sheridan Morley. This week's subjects:
Waiting for Godot by SAMUEL BECKETT at the National Theatre; Big Words, Small World, a documentary by DAVID LODGE and IAN POTTS on Channel 4: Fernand Leger : The Last 25 Years at the Whitechapel
Gallery, London: Time Bends, the autobiography of ARTHUR MILLER ; DAVID MAMET 'S film House of Games.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Francis Tregian compiled the great Fitzwilliam Virginal Book during the ten years he was held in London's Fleet Prison. Music from this collection, by Sweelinck, Gibbons, Farnaby and others, is played on the harpsichord by TON KOOPMAN.

The novelist Allan Massie reflects on tradition and continuity in the Borders of Scotland, a region which seems very different from the Highlands or the industrial belt of that diverse nation.

led by MALCOLM STEWART conducted by CHARLES GROVES LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR chorusmaster IAN TRACEY SUZANNE MURPHY (soprano) CURTIS WATSON (baritone) direct from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Parti
Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) David Blake Rise Dove

imagination is the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Jane Grayson contrasts Vladimir Nabokov 's challenging response to a threatened creative imagination with that of his Soviet contemporary, the novelist YuryOlesha.

Part 2

Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

(Presented by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society in association with Applied Micros)

BBC Manchester

lannis Xenakis celebrated his 65th birthday during a festival of his music held in Glasgow last May. Raymond Monelle introduces the first of four major concerts.
PARAGON ENSEMBLE directed by DAVID DAVIES Varese Octandre Xenakis Epei
Varese lonisation Xenakis Phlegra
MessiaenEtexspecto resurrectionem mortuorum BBC Scotland

String Quartet in D FlTZWILLIAM QUARTET Record

First Test
Pakistan v England
Ball-by-ball commentary from
Lahore on the fourth day's play. MW only from 6.55