Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Beethoven Six Variations in D on a theme from The Ruins of Athens, Op 76
EMIL GILELS (piano)
8.12* Brahms Folk songs: Jungfraulein, soil ich mit euch gehn; Es steht ein Lind in jenem Tal; Mein Mädel hat einen
Rosenmund HERMANN PREY (baritone) KARL ENGEL (piano)
8.21* Schumann Stiicke lm
Volkston PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) JEAN FONDA (piano)
8.36* Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini JOHN LILL (piano)
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Cantata No 70: Wachet! Betet! INGEBORG REICHELT (soprano) SIBYLLA PI.ATE (contralto)
HELMUT KRETSCHMAR (tenor) ERICH WENK (bass)
CHOIR OF THE CHURCH OF THE THREE KINGS, FRANKFURT
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT THOMAS
9.32* Prelude and Fugue in A minor (s 543) ⓢ LIONEL ROGG (organ)
9.43* Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied AEOLIAN SINGERS Continuo:
MARTIN NEARY (organ)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello) conducted by SEBASTIAN FORBES gramophone records

A record request programme
Haydn Symphony No 69, in c major
PHILHARMONIA HUNCARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
10.17* Ravel Introduction and Allegro for flute, with clarinet, harp, and string quartet MELOS ENSEMBLE
10.30* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Vaughan Williams's central trilogy by MICHAEL KENNEDY René Maison (1895-1962) by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Full Score and Vocal Line book review by CHARLES OSBORNE 1 The best instrument of all ' by SIDNEY HARRISON
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Fourth in a weekly series of programmes in which all the sonatas are played by Alfred Brendel D major, Op 28
12.28* F major, Op 10 No 2
12.46* c major, Op 2 No 3

SIMON PRESTON (organ) with an instrumental ensemble directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) Part 1
Handel Organ Concerto No 2, in B flat
Albinoni Sonata a cinque in G minor, Op 2 No 1
Handel Organ Concerto No 11.
I in G minor

Kodaly Serenade in F major, Op 12
SYDNEY HUMPHREYS (violin)
RAYMOND KEENLYSIDE (violin) MARGARET MAJOR (viola)

Part 2
Handel Organ Concerto No 6, in B flat
Albinoni Sonata a cinque in a, Op 2 No 3
Handel Organ Concerto No 4, in F
(A concert given in Hlllington; Church during this year's King's Lynn Festival) †

An introduction by DERYCK COOKE followed at 3.15 by a performance of the work from the Royal Festival Hall, London, given hv
Nurma rrocier (contralto)
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR director of music
RUSSELL BURGESS
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS (Repeated: Monday, 9.50 am)

Tragedie lyrique in one act Text by COCTEAU
English version by JOSEPH MACHLIS
Music by POULENC
THE PARK LANE GROUP ORCHESTRA leader SUZANNE ROZSA conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON Produced by ANTHONY BESCH Scene: a lady's bedroom
(The Park Lane Group production from the 1970 Camden Festival)

by DR R. A. WEALE , Reader in Physiological Optics, University of London.
From the vantage point of his own interest in problems of vision Dr Weale speculates on the way in which some Italian Mannerist painters such as Pontormo and Parmigianino may have arrived at the distortions of space which are such a feature of their painting.

Duo in A major (D 574)
Fantasia in c major (i) 934) played by GYORGY PAUK (violin)
PETER FRANKL (piano)

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with Ian McKellen and Anna Calder-Marsball and Patricia Routledge Robert Eddlson Ronald Pickup
Margaret Tyzack David Weston
Joseph O'Coner
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
(A shorter edition of this production was broadcast on Radio 4 on 6 April in mono)
(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player)
During the interval 8.40*-8.50* Rossini Variations in c major JACQUES LANCELOT (clarinet) I SOLISTI VENETI gramophone record

Variations on a theme from
Silvana JACQUES LANCELOT (clarinet) ANNIE O'ARCO (piano) gramophone record

Stravinsky Credo ; Ave Maria: Pater noster
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD conductor ANDREW PARROTT
Christou Praxis for 12 (first broadcast performance in this country)
LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted from the piano by DAVID ATHERTON
Stravinsky Elegy for J.F.K., for contralto and three clarinets
Wolf, arr Stravinsky Herr , was tragt der Boden hier; Wunden tragst du. mein Geliebter (Spanisches Liederbuch) SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) LONDON SINFONIETTA conductor DAVID ATHERTON Gerhard Gemini
YFRAH NEAMAN (Violin) DAVID WILDE (piano)
(From a public concert in St John's, Smith Square, London, during the 1970 English Bach Festival)

by JAMES DALTON from the Queen's College Chapel. Oxford
Bull Fantasia: Prelude and Carol: Laet ons met herten reijne
Lockc Voluntary in A
Bach Chorale Preludes: Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' (s 664); Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (s 666)
Vivaldi-Bach Concerto No 2, in a minor