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Carl Stamitz Wind Quartet in E flat, Op 88 No 2 ALBION ENSEMBLE
7.09* Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes )
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN/COLIN DAVIS
7.30 News
7.35 Finzi Grand Fantasia and Toccata: PETER KATIN (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA
VERNON HANDLEY
7.50* Ravel Sheherazade RÈGINE CRESPIN (soprano)
ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE/
ERNEST ANSERMET
8.05* Faure Barcarolle No 3 in G flat
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano)
8.12* Walton Suite: Henry V
LPO AND CHORUS/CARL DAVIS. Records Producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill

The first of three programmes of late Haydn trios
Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26); Trio in c (H xv 27)
LONDON FORTEPIANO TRIO BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Douglas Reith Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review Building a Library: Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto by Bryce Morrison. John Steane reviews recent vocal discs. Lionel Salter on new chamber music releases.
10.40* Record Release Puccini Morire?; Inno a Diana; Menti all'avviso ROBERTA ALEXANDER (soprano) TAN CRONE (piano)
10.55* Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34 EDUARD BRUNNER (clarinet) HAGEN STRING QUARTET
11.20* Ginastera Five Argentinian popular songs RAUL GIMENEZ (tenor) NINA WALKER (piano)
11.30* William Mann reviews Songs on Record, Volume 2, edited by ALAN BLYTH.
11.45* Beethoven Piano Trio, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost) KARL ENGEL (piano) SANDOR VEGH (violin) PABLO CASALS (cello) '
12.16* Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) RPO/ANDREW LITTON
12.36* Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 EMERSON STRING QUARTET Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review ' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2.00pm) FM only from 10.55

England v West Indies Second Comhill Test at Lord's
Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day's play by BRIAN JOHNSTON
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS
HENRY BLOFELD and TONY COZIER. With expert comments from TREVOR BAILEY and MIKE SELVEY Scorer PETER BYRNE
1.05 News
1.10 A View from the Boundary Brian Johnston 's guest is actor Robert Powell.
1.30* County Scoreboard
1.40* Commentary with further county scores in the tea interval

with Robert Hewison Producer DAVID PERRY

In National Style (2) Hungarian Rhapsody No 5 in E; Hungarian Rhapsody No 7 in D minor; Three Apparitions; Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Prelude after Bach); Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in c sharp minor played by LESLIE HOWARD (R)

The first of five concerts from the NASH ENSEMBLE'S winter season at the Wigmore Hall, London 1: The Salons of Paris With PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (soprano) and SUSAN TOMES (piano) conducted by LIONEL FRIEND Francaix Serenade Sauguet La Voyante Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Stravinsky Sonata for solo piano (1924); Suite: The Soldier's Tale

Second of nine programmes ULSTER ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 4 (Given on 21 April in the Assembly Hall, Belfast) BBC Northern Ireland

Introduced by Charles Fox

Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Cook , Anthony Curtis and William Feaver. Richard Lowenstein 's film Dogs in Space: French paintings from the USSR at the National Gallery; Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry at the Apollo Theatre, London; The Ascent of F6 by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood on Radio 3; Collected Poems
1943-1987 by John Heath-Stubbs . Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Incidental music by Edward German for an 1892 production of Shakespeare's play, and the ballet from
Saint-Saens's Shakespearean opera. Records

live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Donizetti's tragic opera based on the crisis in one of Henry VIII 's marriages.
With Joan Sutherland as Anne Boleyn , the queen whom Henry condemns to death
John Pascoe 's new production is sung in Italian. (bass) (mezzo-soprano) (tenor) (bass) (tenor)
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS
Chorus director ROBIN STAPLETON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN led by HUGH MAGUIRE conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE Act 1, scenes land 2
7.50* Royal Whore or Romantic Heroine?
Dr David Starkey , of the Department of International
History of the London School of Economics, looks at contemporary opinion, as well as at later interpretations in opera, film and television, of Anne Boleyn 's rise and fall. With contributions from PROFESSOR ERIC IVES and JEFFREY RICHARDS Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
8.05* Act 1, scene 3
8.35* The Case against Anne: Dr David Starkey examines the arrest, process and condemnation of Anne Boleyn. With Rosalind Shanks as the Queen
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
8.50* Act 2
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Organ pieces by members of the Bach family, played in the Parish Church of Magadino,
Switzerland, by Roland Muhr. (Swiss Radio recording)

Follow the Girls-Leading Ladies The first of 12 programmes in which Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals, with songs from original-cast recordings, some familiar, some less well-known. Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE (R)