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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Sonata in D major (x 284) WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Quartet in E flat major (K 428) (mono)
BARTOK STRING QUARTET
and Quartet in b flat major (K 458)

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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them, by telephone, the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller is John McCabe. who at 10.0* introduces the Concerto funebre, for violin and strings, by Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
You can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or by sending details on a postcard

Introduced by Dominic Gill
' My earliest musical experiences were singing and playing the record-player - still an important instrument for me,' says ALFRED BRENDEL talking about his career.
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD reviews recent books on early music.
HAROLD TRUSCOTT discusses the seldom played original version of Schumann's Symphony No 4, in D minor.
Producer KEITH HORNER

La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur JSsus Christ YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
LEONHARD WALLISCH (cello) PAUL PAZMANDl (flute)
OTTOKAR DRAPAL (clarinet)
KURT FRANSCHE (vibraphone)
KEIKO FROMME (marimbaphone) FREDVARD MULHOFER (xylorimba) VIENNA AND SALZBURG CHORUSES
OF AUSTRIAN RADIO
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILTIADES CARIDIS (Austrian Radio recording)

KingsleyAmis reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.25 am)

A fortnightly series
MALCOLM BINNS (pianO) c minor (Kk 22); G (Kk 454); B minor (Kk 497); B minor (Kk 498); E (Kk 395); F minor (xk 466); F minor (Kk 467)

International Rounds 9: Mixed Voice Class
Finland: SEKAKUORO KAIKU United Kingdom:
LONDON CHORALE
USA: YOUNGSTOWN STATt UNIVERSITY CONCERT CHOIR Holland:
STUDENTEN KAMERKOOR UTRECHTS Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

in Brighton leader ELI GOREN conducted by Colin Davis direct from The Dome
Part 1 Mozart Symphony No 36 (Linz) (K 425)

Naturalist and Eccentric
GILBERT PHELPS, who has recently edited a new edition of Waterton's Wanderings in South America, talks about the author's unusual life and personality.

Part 2 Elgar Symphony No 2
(Given by the BBC in association with the Brighton Philharmonic Society)

(Details as Monday, 9.50 am)

Pfnelope
Lyric poem in three acts by RENÉ FAUCHOIS. Music by Faure (sung in the original French)
Faure's only full-length opera retells the classic Greek legend of Ulysses' homecoming to his faithful wife. and his routing of the importunate suitors who have clustered round her. WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ANTHONY HOSE BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES Repetiteur ALEXA MAXWELL Producer JULIAN BUDDEN
Act 1
C.15* Faur6 at the Operatic Crossroads
NORMAN SUCKLING talks about Pénélope, and how it fits into the French operatic tradition and into Faure's own output. S.30* The French Opera: Ptnelope, Acts 2 and 3

Hans Kohlhaas by JAMES SAUNDERS
Taken from the story by HEINRICH VON KLEIST in the translation of MARTIN GREENBERG , and adapted for radio by THE AUTHOR with James Saunders's ' Brechtian ' study in self-interest portrays a 16th-century horse dealer's search for justice.
' The story starts with a groschen, and from this comes violence, pillage, arson, murder, high and low diplomacy, the orphaning of children and the beginning and end of a revolution. and Special music composed and conducted by HANS HEIMLER KENNETH HEATH (Cello)
HAROLD NASH (alto trombone) ERIC CREES (tenor trombone)
PETER HARVEY (bass trombone) JOHN SMITH (tuba)
ANNE COLLIS (percussion)
HANS HEIMLER (harpsichord and chamber organ)
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

A series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s
Piano Sonata in B flat major (H xvi 41)
Piano Trio in E flat major (H xv 30)
Fantasy in c major (H XVII 4) STEPHEN SAVAGE (piano) OROMONTE PIANO TRIO Perry Hart (violin)
Kenneth Heath (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)

MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) CLIVE LYTHGOE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by JOHN CAREWE Part 1
Prokofiev Symphonic Suite: Lieutenant Kij6
10.27* MacDowell Piano Concerto No 1, in A minor

LESLIE STOKES reads extracts from the writings of Bernard Shaw.

Part 2 Arnell
Symphony No 5