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Overture: The Fair Melustne
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.15* Piano Concerto No. 1. in G minor
RUDQI.F SERKIN
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
9.36* Symphony No. 10, in B minor, for string orchestra ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin) gramophone records

Ninth of twelve weekly programmes including all his mature piano sonatas, many of the impromptus and smaller works, and some of the masterpieces for piano duet.
Andantino varié in B minor (D.823
No. 2) (Divertissement a la francaise)
9.53* Sonata in B Oat major
(D.617)
10.11' Fantasy in F minor (D.940I
played by EDITH Vogel and .JAMES GIBB (piano duet)
Next Monday: Sonata in C mmo* (Katharina Wolpe )

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Charles Koechlin
(born November 27, 1867)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Leader. Rodney Friend
Conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
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Felix APRAHAMIAN looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East during the coming weekend

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More music by Koechlin: Wednesday at 11.15 a.m

LONDON STUDIO Orchestra Leader. Reginald Leopold
Conducted by MALCOLM AIINOLD with ALAN CIVIL (horn)

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VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
William Bennett (flute) Thea Kine (clarinet)
Roger Birnstingl (bassoon) Eigar Howarlh (trumpet) Eric Allen (percussion) Kenneth Sillito (violin) John Tunnel ! (violin)
Claire Simpson (violin)
Philip Simms (double-bass)
MEMBERS OF the LONDON OCTET
Felix Kok (violin)
Jeffrey Wakffield (violin) Harry Danks (viola)
Alexander Kok (cello) with SUSAN McGaw (piano)
Vesuvius Ensemble broadcast on October 28. 1966: London Octet and Susan McGaw on Oct. 11. 1965

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COLIN SAUER (violin) PETER CARTER (violin) KEITH LOVELL (viola) MICHAEL EVANS (cello)
Broadcast on November 30. 1966

C.W.S. (MANCHESTER) BAND
Conductor, ALEX MORTIMER play a programme of original brass music by John Ireland
Comedy Overture
6.5* A Downland Suite

A series of twenty-one programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. A-Level examination in English. planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.
9; Othello and Desdemona
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter, Gilbert Phelps
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Repeated: Saturday at 11 a.m. (Radio 4)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge

A beginners' course planned jointly by the BBC and the University of Essex primarily for use In evening classes throughout the country
Lesson Nine
Written by L. M. O'Toole P. T. Culhane and P. S. Mirsky of the University of Essex
Given by L. M. O'ToOLE VICTOR GREGORIY
LYUBOV VOLOSSEVICH ALEXEI JAVDOKIMOV INA DE LA HAYE and MARINA RYAN
Produced by Dennis Simmons
Repeated: Friday, 6.30 p.m.*
A booklet is available

of the European Broadcasting Union on whose behalf the BBC presents the opening concert
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
- Part 1
Richard Adeney (flute) Norman Knight (flute)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Philip Ledger (harpsichord continuo)
English Chamber Orchestra (Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
Conducted by Benjamin Britten

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, in G major Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) - Bach
7.50* Quartet in C major. Op. 76 No. 3 (Emperor) - Haydn

Two meditations on the fiction of the Enlightenment by LAURENCE LERNER
2: Two-legged Houyhnhnms
Mr. Lerner examines the work of Benjamin Constant, Racine, and Swift. He argues that 'AH his life, Swift was haunted by the question whether man was a rational creature, or merely rationis capax, capable of reason. We see now that this was not his problem only. but that of his age.'

Norbert Brainin (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola)
Peter Pears (tenor)
English Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Benjamin Britten

Extracts from the ballad by Jose Hernandez
Translated for radio by DORITA y PEPE who also play the guitars with The Argentinian verse read by ALEC MARTINEZ
Others taking part:
Kevin McHugh. Peter King Grizelda Hervey and Tony Van den Bergh Arranged for radio and produced by FRANCIS DILLON
Third broadcast
Patrick Magee is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Sonata in D major, Op. 28 played by MARIA DONSKA (piano)
Broadcast on March 2"2