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Rossini Overture: Tancredi
NATIONAL PO/RICC ARDO CHAILLY
7.07* C. Stamitz Concerto in c, for flute, oboe and orchestra AURELE NICOLET (flute)
HEINZ HOLUGER (oboe): ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN THEFIELDS/SILUTO
7.30 News
7.35 Copland Danzon Cubano DALLAS SO/EDUARDO MATA
7.43* Gershwin, arr Evans
Gone, Gone, Gone; Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
MILES DAVIS (trumpet) with orchestra/GIL EVANS
7.49* Barber Summer music
BERGEN WIND QUINTET
8.00* Weill My Ship (Lady in the Dark)
JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
8.04* Rodrigo Concierto-
Serenata: NANCY ALLEN (harp) RPO/ENRIQUE BATIZ . Records

Beethoven
Please be kind enough to ask
Streicher to prepare a pianoforte especially adapted to my weak hearing: I want the tone to be as strong as possible.
(BEETHOVEN: letter to Frau Streicher, 1817)
Overture: Egmont
HANOVER BAND directed by MONICA HUGGETT (violin)
Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein) MELVYN TAN (Adlam fortepiano after Streicher, 1814) Symphony No 8 in F
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS/ ROGER NORRINGTON. Records

MARILYN DALE (SOpranO) NICHOLAS DANIEL (oboe) JULIUS DRAKE (piano)
Paul Mounsey La Cigale et la fourmi
Saint-Saens The Nightingale
Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee
Saint-Saens The Swan
Daniel Chua Fish in Water
Britten Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
Madeleine Dring The Cuckoo Chausson Les Papillons; Le Colibri; Les Cigales
Michael Head Bird Song BBC Bristol (R)

Beethoven Quartet in c, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)
Shostakovich Quartet No 4 in D, Op 83
BBC Manchester (R)

led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 27 in G Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G (K453)

(Presented by The City of Cardiff on 13 October in St David's Hall, Cardiff, in association with Peacocks Stores Ltd)

live from St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol TAKASHI SHIMIZU (violin) GORDON BACK (piano)
Mozart Sonata in B flat for violin and piano (K 454)
Ravel Sonata for violin and piano
(Presented by St George Music
Trust. Tickets available at the door) BBCBristol

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV
Borodin Polovtsian March (Prince Igor)
MOSCOW RADIO SO/FEDOSEYEV
Balakirev Oriental fantasy:
Islamey: ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano) Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia: SOVIET STATE so/ EVGENY SVETLANOV. Records

Donizetti's opera of 1824 is set in the mountains near Liverpool. The occupants of an overturned carriage, among them Emilia's vile seducer, are rescued by a tattered stranger who, it transpires, is her father, bent on avenging the death of his wife whose demise was brought on by shame at her daughter's immorality.
Sung in Italian
GEOFFREY MITCHELL CHOIR
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/ DAVID PARRY. Records

led by JOHN LUDLOW conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Haydn Symphony No 85 in B flat (La Reine)
Seiber Besardo Suite No 2
Rawsthome Divertimento (R)

Presented by Brian Kay Producer GARETH WALTERS

Michael Hall in conversation with the pianist Emanuel Ax , who came to prominence after winning the first Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition in 1974. Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

The American composer, arranger and keyboard player Gil Evans died in March.
The concert which he was to have given with his New York Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in May went ahead in spite of his death and became a tribute to this much-loved musician. Charles Fox introduces a recording of that concert in which the soloists included
LEW SOLOFF (trumpet)
CHRIS HUNTER (alto saxophone)
GEORGE ADAMS (tenor saxophone) HIRAM BULLOCK (guitar) and Gil's son, MILES (trumpet)
8.10-8.20* During the interval, extracts from conversations between Charles Fox and Gil Evans in 1978 and 1983.

The first of two programmes about nuclear winter. In 1983, Toon, Turco,
Ackerman, Pollack and Sagan alerted the world to the danger of nuclear winter: that nuclear war might kill more people by its effects on the climate than by blast and radiation.
Colin Tudge teases out the details of their predictions and compares them with those of the scientists who prefer to think of nuclear autumn. Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

The first of three invitation concerts featuring contemporary music given in Studio 1, Maida Vale, London by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN John Woolrich The Barber's Time-Piece
Peter Lieberson Drala (first UK broadcast)
Colin Matthews Fourth Sonata (first UK broadcast)
(Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Bizet
L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1; Variations chromatiques; Pastel; La Chanson du fou; L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2