The Civil Defence Controversy

for piano by Czerny and Chaminade, played by GUY DAGUL and DANIELLE LAVAL Records

led by JOHN LUDLOW conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat (K 319)
Vorisek Symphony in D, Op 24 (H)

Mozart Concerto No 5 in D (K 175)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Glazunov Symphony No 9 in D minor (Unfinished) USSR RSO/GAVRIL YUDIN
Beethoven Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
JACQUES THIBAUD (violin) ALFRED CORTOT (piano)
Cherubini Requiem in c minor AMBROSIAN SINGERS
PHILHARMONlAIRICCARDO MUTI Records

Presented by Michael Oliver Degrees of Musicianship: a visit to Salford College of Technology.
Method in His Madness:
Henry Zajaczkowski explores Tchaikovsky's musical forms. The Electrification of the Soviet Union: a conversation with the composer Nigel Osborne and the librettist Craig Raine. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 00pm)

the BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 in F minor led by ANDREW ORTON
Sibelius Symphony No 1 in E minor led by DENNIS SIMONS BBC Manchester

with Nicholas Penny , Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at
9.50pm)

(violin and piano)
Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35b
Lutoslawski Partita Janacek Sonata
(A re-broadcast of last Monday 's BBC Lunchtime Concert)

Weekly conversations with writers conducted by Paul Bailey. This week, the writer Muriel Spark , whose novel A Far Cry from Kensington is published this month.

played by DAVID CAMPBELL and ANDREW BALL Bax Sonata in D
Roger Steptoe Two Impromptus Alun Hoddinott Sonata , Op 50 BBC Wales

Opera in two acts Music by Bellini Libretto by CARLO PEPOU
(sung in Italian)
In response to a commission from the Teatro San Carlo. Naples, Bellini prepared a two-act revision of his last opera, adapted to the available singers - in particular Maria Malibran , the intended Elvira. But this revised version had to wait until 1986 for its first production, during which these records were made.
The action takes place in a Puritan fortress near Plymouth at the time of the Civil War. (tenor) (tenor) (soprano) (bass) (tenor) (bass) (mezzo-soprano)
CHORUS OF THE TEATRO PETRUZZELU. BARI; SICILIAN SO/GABRIELE FERRO

OLEG KAGAN (violin)
NATALIA GUTMAN (cello) Honegger Sonatina
Hindemith Sonata, Op 25 No 3, for solo cello
Isang Yun Konigliches Thema , for solo violin Ravel Sonata
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1987 Vienna Festival)

Three programmes about the origins of modern humans 3: That Animal Called Man
'We must not make the past a slave of the present.... we must look at ourselves as just another mammal, not as the crown of creation.' Hindsight and conceit have been the curse of thinking about evolution. Now a new body of theory is emerging which treats our origins strictly as Darwin would have wished.
Colin Tudge found participants at a conference in Cambridge willing to see our most sacred possessions - intelligence and creativity - as aids to our survival at home as well as in the wild.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

by Bach (BWV 971)
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) Record

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON SWANSEA BACH CHOIR (ladies' voices)
DONG SUK KANG (violin) direct from
St David 's Hall, Cardiff Parti
Alun Hoddinott The Sun, the Great Luminary of the Universe Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61

A sequence of poems about space and space travel
Compiled by Alan Bold
Readers Nigel Graham, Richard Derrington and Patricia Gallimore

(BBC Pebble Mill) (R)

Part 2 Hoist
Suite: The Planets BBC Wales

The last of three programmes Epiphanias; Schon Rohtraut ;
Love Must Be Gone; Last Days; She I Love
String Quartet No 6
Oh! quandje dors; Mon coeur se recommande a vous; Mon bras pressait ta taille frele;
Dream Pedlary; With Margerain Gentle; Song from the 'Cenci' IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano) EDINBURGH STRING QUARTET

recorded in Eton College Chapel sung by the Eton Choral Course
Introit: Drop, drop, slow tears (Spicer)
Responses (Tomkins)
Psalms 93, 94 (Ley, Wesley)
First lesson (AV): Jeremiah 31, vv l-14
Canticles: Rubbra in A flat
Second lesson (AV): John 11, vv 45-57
Anthem: Lo, the full, final sacrifice (Finzi)
Hymn (Eton Hymnbook 158): Love of the Father
Organ voluntary: Toccata in B flat minor (Vieme)

(oboe) withiMusici
A. Marcello Concerto in D minor Record

Erstes Liebeslied eines Madchens
EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano) Record