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Beethoven
Overture: Prometheus
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARI.ES munch
7.10* Symphony No 6, in P (Pastoral)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ REINER gramophone records

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ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DIIKES .
Butterworth Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
8.14* Leigh Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra
NEVOLLE DILKES (harpsichord)
8.24* Moeran Two pieces for small orchestra
8.38* Harty A John Field Suite gramophone records

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A programme of anthems
0 sing unto the Lord a new song: Roger parker (treble)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) Wilfred BROWN (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone) CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN TOE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST
0 God. thou hast cast us out; Blow up the trumpet in Zion JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE.
CAMBRIDGE, LEONHARDT CONSORT conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS My beloved spake
CHARLES BRETT ( counter-tenor) ROBERT teir (tenor)
Christopher BEVAN (baritone) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST gramophone records

played by david lumsden from New College Oxford
Couperln Messe pour les paroisses

Quartet No 6
KREUZBERG STRING QUARTET
(Recording from the 1972 Berlin Festival made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio)

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader BARRY Griffiths conducted by Maurice handford Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
11.57* Mozart Symphony No 13, in F major (K 112)
12.14* Berlioz Symphony: Harold in Italy
(viola PAUL CROPPER)

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Manoug Parikian (violin) Barry Tuckwell (horn) Malcolm Binns (piano)
Brahms Scherzo (FAE Sonata), for violin and piano
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op 70, for horn and piano: Abegg Variations, Op 1, for piano
Brahms Trio in E flat major, Op 40
(Given in St John's, Smith Square, London. SW1. Tickets 40p, obtainable at the door)

In the last programme of Royal Repertoire CORMAC RIGBY introduces the first complete broadcast performance in stereo of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. as performed at Covent Garden for the production by kenneth MACMILIAN
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Producer GARETH WALTERS Part 1
3.0* Reading
3.5* Romeo and Juliet: part 2

Fritz Spiegl looks at some amusing sidelights on Hitler's attempts to purge the arts of Jewish influences, with examples from captured Nazi documents.

BAND OF THE IRISH GUARDS conducted by MAJOR E. G. HORABIN Director of Music
The programme includes Schoenberg s Theme and Variations, Op 43a

Talcs and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow : records Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by ASHLEY Lawrence BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by alun FRANCIS and HAVELOCK NELSON with artists on records

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6.30 Starting German: Reiseburo Atlas: Hamburg bei Nacht
A special holiday programme in which Ilse Singer and Jorg Sorensen talk about Hamburg, and introduce some of its songs
Producer GILLIAN INCE
(Rptd: Sunday. R4 VHF)
(Part 3 of Reiseburo Atlas begins on 30 April)

7.0 Introduction to Arabic: Programme 2
Fifteen lessons in spoken Arabic for complete beginners
Introduced by Baha Essaid with Nadia Tawfiq
(Rptd: Sunday, R4 VHF)
(Tomorrow evening at 6.30: The Arab Heritage)
For publications see page 14

and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with the RIAS CHAMBER CHORUS
Pfitzner Three Preludes (Palestrina)
7.50* Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
8.61 Bruckner Mass No 2, in E minor
(Recording made available by courtesy of rias. Berlin)

TIMOTHY BATESON reads EDGAR ALLAN POE 'S celebrated poem

at The Round House
CATHY BERBERIAN (soprano) NOURIZA MATOSSIAN (mime) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN
The items are introduced by LUCIANO BERIO and DIEGO MASSON in conversation with JOHN amis Part 1 conducted by Diego Masson Berio Chemins 2c
(bass-clarinet HARRY sparnaay) Carlos Roque Alsina Schichten , Op 27, for chamber orchestra (piano HAROLD LESTER ) (first performance in this country)

Asa Briggs , Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History at the University of Sussex, reflects on the changing role of the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

Part 2 conducted by Luciano Berio
Berio Recital I: theatre-piece for soprano, mime and chamber orchestra (first performance in this country) (People: page 5)

DR WALTER OAKESIIOTT , Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in conversation With LAURIE JOHN
The haunting medieval figures in the ruined monastery of Sigena are unlike anything else in Spain. Can the Winchester Bible unlock their centuries-old secret?

for Voice and Viols james bowman (counter-tenor) JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS