The last of eight programmes Ireland Symphonic rhapsody: Mai-Dun
LPO/ADRIAN BOULT
Britten The Choirmaster's
Burial (Winter Words, Op 52) (Mono: 1954)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
THE COMPOSER (piano) anon Fairy Dance; Tink a Tink MELLSTOCK BAND
Hoist Egdon Heath, Op 47 LPO!ADRIAN BOULT
Finzi Childhood Among the Ferns (Before and After Summer, Op 16)
STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Britten Suite on English folk tunes: A Time There Was...., Op 90
CBSO.SIMON RATTLE. Records Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

The second of two programmes Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K563) Record

Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder (Mono: 1938)
BBC SO ARTURO TOSCANINI
Barber Melodies passageres (Mono)
PIERRE BERNAC (baritone) FRANCIS POULENC (piano) Bach Sonata in E minor (BWV 1034)
ELAINE SCHAFFER (flute)
AMBROSE GAUNTLETT (viola da gamba)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
Gounod Salut demeure (Faust) (Mono): JOSEPH HISLOP (tenor)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRAl
EUGENE GOOSSENS
Franck String Quartet in D PRAGUE QUARTET. Records

Presented by Michael Oliver Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams :
Michael Kennedy contrasts their careers and reputations.
A conversation with trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger.
Peter Phillips discusses the music of his 17th-century namesake.
Setting Thomas Hardy:
Michael Hurd considers the problems and rewards. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow a 2. 00pm)

(cello and piano)
Beethoven Variations in F on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' from Mozart's 'Die Zauberflote' Elliott Carter Sonata
Schumann Fantasiestiicke , Op 73 (A re-broadcast of last
Monday's 's BBCLunchtime Concert)

The industrial historian John Sparry reflects on language. (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.35pm)

Aldeburgh Festival
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) JEREMY MENUHIN (piano) THEA KING (clarinet)
Mozart Variations in F (K 54); Sonata in D (K 576);
Das Veilchen (K 476);
Die Verschweigung (K 518); Als Luise die Briefe (K 520);
Das Lied der Trennung (K 519); Abendempfindung (K 523)
1.00* Interval Reading
1.05* Schubert Impromptu in F minor (D 935 No 4);
Impromptu in g flat (D 899 No 3); Friihlingsglaube (D 686);
Der Schmetterling (n 633); Nacht und Traume (D 827);
Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen (D 239); Erster Verlust (D 226);
Lachen und Weinen (D 777); The Shepherd on the Rock (D 965) BBC Pebble Mill

led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Walton Overture: Scapino Delius Piano Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No 1 in c BBC Manchester

(piano)
Bach, transc Busoni Toccata,
Adagio and Fugue in c (bwv 564) Schumann Kreisleriana, Op 16

Gershwin Three Preludes
Johann Strauss (son), arr Godowsky Wine, Woman and Song
Including encores by Debussy, Rachmaninov, Sinding and Chopin (R)

led by ZDENEK DEJMEK
Janacek Suite for strings Mathias Prelude, Aria and Finale. BBC Wales

Ronald Hayman presents an assessment of the Swedish film-maker's work and methods.
With Erland Josephson , Harriet Andersson , Gunnar Fischer ,
Sven Nykvist , Lennart Olsson andEvaFroling.
Producer SAM COLLYNS (R)

The Secular Music of Renaissance Italy
Luca Marenzio's earliest madrigals were written in Rome in the 1580s. He also maintained connections with the northern courts of Mantua, Ferrara and Florence.
The CONSORT OF MUSICKE, directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY , Perform madrigals from his first collections for five and six voices.

Quartet in D (K 499)
(Hoffmeister); Quartet in E flat (K 428): ENDELLlON STRING QUARTET BBC Pebble Mill (R)

The first of four BBC Birtwistle Festival concerts direct from the Barbican Hall, London JANE MANNING (soprano) SARAH LEONARD (soprano)
TRACEY CHADWELL (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MARIE ANGEL (soprano)
JEAN RIGBY (mezzo-soprano)
ETHNA ROBINSON (mezzo-soprano) MGEL ROBSON (tenor)
IAN DEARDEN (sound projection) BBC SINGERS chorusmasters JAMES WOOD and GREGORY ROSE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH. PAUL DANIEL and JAMES WOOD
Birtwistle The Fields of Sorrow; Nenia: The Death of Orpheus; On the Sheer Threshold of the Night
8.25* The Birth of Orpheus
Andrew Clements talks about Harrison Birtwistle 's musical development, and in particular about his long involvement with the myth of Orpheus.
8.45* Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus: Act 2
Senes producer ROGER WRIGHT
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5: Slavery
('Gulbeyaz. on Thursday 9. 30pm)

Suite No 3 in c
PHILIDOR ENSEMBLE. Record

recorded in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Introit: Mater ora filium (trad. arrOrley)
Responses (Reynolds)
Office hymn (AMR 70): Earth has many a noble city Psalm 122 (Martin) First lesson: Job 28
Canticles: Walford Davies in G (Festal); Second lesson: I Corinthians 1, vv 18-25
Anthem: Say, where is he born? (Mendelssohn)
Hymn (AMR 75): Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Organ voluntary: Stella maris (Organ Symphony) (Weitz) Organist and Master of the Choristers MICHAEL SMITH
Assistant organist MICHAEL HOEG BBC Wales

Two nocturnes: in F, Op 15 No 1; in D flat, Op 27 No 2;
Fantasy in F minor, Op 49 MARIA BUJANSKA (piano) (R)