Mendelssohn String Symphony No I in c
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR
7.11* Chopin Polonaise in c minor, Op 40 No 2 EMIL gilels (piano)
7.17* Sibelius Tone Poem: Finlandia BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.30 News
7.35 Malcolm Arnold Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt
BOURNEMOUTH SO/THE COMPOSER
7.45* Weber Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat: PETER ROSEL
DRESDEN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
8.08* Britten Simple Symphony ECO/THE COMPOSER. Records

Mozart (1756-91) Duo in G (K 423)
FRANCO GULU (violin)
BRUNO GIURANNA (viola) (R) Bella mia fiamma (K 528) MARGARET PRICE (soprano) LPO/JAMES LOCKHART
Cosi dunque tradisci (K 432) DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) VIENNA HAYDN ORCHESTRAl REINHARD PETERS. Records
Piano Trio in B flat (K 502) PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) (R) Producer MISHA DONAT

played by EINAR JOHANNESSON and PHILIP JENKINS
Schumann Fantasiestucke , Op 73
Jon Thorarinsson Sonata BBC Wales (R)

led by MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by YANNIS DARAS RICHARD HOWARTH (violin)
Harty Overture: Proud Maisie Julius Harrison Rhapsody (Bredon Hill), for violin and orchestra
Bryan Kelly Symphony No 1 BBC Northern Ireland (R)

Set to music by Isaac Nathan , the Jewish composer who persuaded the poet to write this collection of verse on biblical and spiritual themes.
In the first of two programmes, Brian Gear reads from his anecdotes about Byron. ADRIAN THOMPSON (tenor) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Thy days are done; I saw thee weep; The destruction of the Sennacherib; Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom; Fame, wisdom, love and power (all first broadcasts) BBCBristol

Schubert Trio in B flat (D 898) BBC Pebble Mill (R)

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES PHILIP FOWKE (piano)
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Op 32
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 in F, Op 102
(Given on 7 November in St David 's 's Hall, Cardiff) BBC Wales

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
MALCOLM BILSON (fortepiano)
Haydn Sonata in A flat (H xvi 43) Mozart Fantasy in c minor (K 396)
C.P.E. Bach Fantasy in c (Wq59No6)
Haydn Fantasy in c (H xvn 4) Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 333) (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Tickets £2.50. available from 11.00am today, or in advance from the Box Office Tel: [number removed])

conducted by ANDRE PREVIN SIDNEY WEISS (violin)
RONALD LEONARD (cello) HEUCHIRO OHYAMA (viola) Schoenberg Five Pieces
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto
Strauss Don Quixote
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1987 Vienna Festival)

DAVID WILSON JOHNSON (bass-baritone)
DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano)
Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinée Kabalevsky Don Quixote 's Serenade (first broadcast) Ibert Quatre chansons ae Don Quichotte
Shostakovich Five Romances to words by Dolmatovsky, Op 98 (first UK broadcast)

Paure's Requiem was first Performed 100 years ago last Saturday. Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall jazz concert took Place on the same date 50 years later. Brian Kay celebrates these contrasting anniversaries and adds a few more.

played by CATHERINE ENNIS in Marylebone Parish Church, London
Vivaldi, arr Bach Concerto in D minor (Bwv 596) Messiaen Diptyque

Weekly conversations on the visual arts, conducted by Julian Spalding. This week, Neil MacGregor , the new Director of the National Gallery.
Producer HANS PIETSCH

SILVIA GREENBERG (soprano) LILLIAN WATSON (soprano) JADWIGA RAPPE (contralto) EZIO DE CESARE (tenor)
ROBERTO SCANDIUZZI (bass)
ITALIAN RADIO SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, ROME conducted by PINCHAS STEINBERG
Stravinsky Danses concertantes Dallapiccola Concerto per la notte de Natale dell'anno 1956
8.10* Musical Rome in the 1770s
Dan Zerdin reads from
CHARLES BURNEY 'S Present State of Music in France and Italy.
8.15* Pergolesi, arr Paisiello Stabat Mater
(Given on 11 January in the Foro Italico, Rome)

Sonata in E,Op 14 No; 1;
Bagatelles in c minor (WoO 52); in C (WoO 56);
Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2 ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) BBC Bristol (R)

by Robert Ferguson
with Robin Bailey as the Captain

A tale told by a captain, a soldier's tale, confused in the telling both in terms of incident and time. It touches upon some minor themes such as life, love, death, obsession, inspiration, beauty and, possibly, truth. Important is the need to smoke the ritual cigar.

A chance to hear one of the world's master-cellists (R)

Henry Purcell (c 1659-95)
Overture: Timon of Athens PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by PETER HOLMAN
Laudate Ceciliam : Ode for St Cecilia's Day, 1683 DELLER CONSORT directed by ALFRED DELLER Suite No 1 in G
COLIN TILNEY (spinet)
Three catches: Young John the Gard'ner; Once, Twice, Thrice I Julia Tried; Of All the Instruments: DELLER CONSORT directed by ALFRED DELLER Sonata No 1 in B minor (Sonatas in Four Parts) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (chamber organ)
Anthem for the Coronation of James II; My Heart Is Inditing CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF
WESTMINSTER ABBEY/SIMON PRESTON Records
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT (R)

Five nightcaps compiled by CAROLE ROSEN from the letters and journals in the LESLIE A. MARCHAND edition. With Jonathan Hyde as Lord Byron
1: The Stove of Society
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
('Bring Me the Chin of Napoleon tomorrow at 11.50pm)