Ropartz Prelude, marine et chansons, for flute, string trio and harp MELOS ENSEMBLE
7.12 Schumann Allegro de concert with Introduction in D minor, Op 134
PASCAL DEVOYON (piano) NEW PO/GUSCHLBAUER

7.35 Strauss Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op 60 (1947 recording)
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
8.02 Chausson Viviane , Op 5 TOULOUSE CAPITOLE/PLASSON
8.15 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1: MIKHAIL PLETNEV (piano) Records

(two pianos)
Howard Ferguson Partita Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances (R)

Brahms Tragic Overture PHILADELPHIA ORCH/MUTI
9.44 Marais Couplets de folie: MARION VERBRUGGEN (recorder): TRIO sonnerie
9.54 Faure Requiem
(original orchestration) AGNES MELLON (soprano) PETER KOOY (baritone)
LA CHAPELLE ROYALE CHOIR
LES PETITS CHANTEURS DE
SAINT-LOUIS; ENSEMBLE MUSIQUE OBLIQUE/
PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE
10.32 Mulet Carillon-sortie PAUL DERRETT (organ)
10.37 Spohr Clarinet Concerto No 1
EMMA JOHNSON (clarinet) ECO/GERARD SCHWARZ
10.59 Beethoven
Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 STEPHEN BISHOP
KOVACEVICH (piano)
11.18 Rossini La calunnia (II barbiere di Siviglia) SAMUEL RAMEY (bass).
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA/ JACQUES DELACOTE
11.23 Kalinnikov Symphony No 1
USSR STATE ACADEMIC SO/ YEVGENY SVETLANOV Producer JAMES JOLLY

First of six programmes, including the set of string quartets which the 17-year-old Mozart composed in Vienna in the summer of 1773. GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
String Quartet in A (K 169) String Quintet in c minor (K406) with KENNETH ESSEX (viola)

(piano)
Brahms Three Intermezzi , Op 117
Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1 (R)

Carmen Bizet 's four-act opera, with libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC halevy , after PROSPER MERIMEE'S novel. Recitatives by Guiraud. (sung in French)
Her friends:
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
AND CHILDREN'S CHORUSES. PETITS CHANTEURS DE
VERSAILLES
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA/ THOMAS BEECHAM Records: 1958/9

NO STRINGS ATTACHED Purcell Fantasia No 4 Absil Quartet for clarinets, Op 132
Hayes Early Thought trad, arr D. Rye Two Eastern European Folk songs

with Peter Clayton

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich, now 80, is the author of some 20 books, including his famous The Story of Art, but his curiosity ranges far beyond the confines of art history into music, history, literature, philosophy, perceptual psychology and science. Frank Whitford, Tutor in the Department of Cultural History, the Royal College of Art, presents a documentary appreciation of his achievement.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (R)

First of five programmes. Last year, the BBC
Singers made a three-week visit to Brazil with their director John Poole. Anthony Burton introduces extracts from their opening concert in Rio de Janeiro.
Bach Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf (Bwv 226)
Giles Swayne Missa tiburtina
(Presented in April 1988 by the British Council, in association with Varig Brazilian Airlines)

Peter Porter reviews the first volume of the projected definitive edition of W.H. Auden 's work. Edited by Edward Mendelson , it contains all of Auden's dramatic writings from the 1930s, including collaborations with Isherwood and his scripts for radio and film.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Royal Liverpool PO, led by Malcolm Stewart, conducted by Libor Pesek

Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

8.10 My Homeland
John Tyrrell on Smetana's nationalistic tone poems, and the disparities in their programmatic interpretation.
Reader Joe Dunlop

8.30 Smetana Vltava; Sarka; From Bohemia's Woods and Fields; Blanik (Ma Vlast)

by RICHARD HAYTON.
The first of four plays from Radio 4's 1988 Young Playwrights' Festival.

Without a job and without a girl, Mazeguy tries to lose himself in the abandon of a provincial city's Friday night.
With LOLLY COCKERELL. ZELAH CLARKE,
KEN CUMBERUDGE ,
CAROLINE GRUBER , PHILIPPA HOWELL. ANTHONY JACKSON ,
IAN MICHIE and RICHARD PEARCE. Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER (R)

led by ROLF WILSON conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Gluck Symphony in G
Honegger Pastorale d'ete Mendelssohn Sinfonia for string orchestra No 12 (R)

THE KRONOS QUARTET play White Man Sleeps by Kevin Volans , inspired by the traditional instruments of South-East Africa, and Music of the Fair by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas ; with music from Southern
Africa and the sounds of the Mexican fiesta.

Second of six programmes presented by Chris Parker With HOWARD RILEY (piano)