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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Mozart Sonata in A major (k 3311 (mono)
Schubert Impromptu in G flat major (D) 899 No 3) (nwmo) PAUL DADURA-SKODA (piano)
Mozart Quartet in c major (K 465)
BARTOK STRING QUARTET Peter Komlos (violin) Sandor Devich (violin) Geza Nemeth (viola) Karoly Botvay (cello)
(Part of a BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's. Smith Square, in February 1972)

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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests. and at
10.0* talks to today's special guest Claudio Arrau about his concert choice, EDWIN FISCHER playing
Mozart Also in today's programme:
Debussy, arr Stokowski La cathedrale engloutie
Boito Prologue: Mefistofele conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI Schumann Oboe Romances, Op 94
LEON GOOSSENS. GERALD MOORE
Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Written requests for future programmes to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW, together with reasons or interesting musical information for possible inclusion in the programme. Your Concert Choice will no longer be making use of the phone-in method.

John Morehen assesses the music of the Elizabethan composer Thomas Weelkes on the 350th anniversary of his death. Alan Tyson reviews a new book on John Field, creator of the nocturne.
Luciano Pavarotti speaks about his career. "I tell you, if you are not ambitious you cannot be a singer."

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by ZDENEK MACAL Part 1
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
11.54. Martinu Symphony No 1

Kingsley Amis reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.0 am)

Part 2
Debussy Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune
12.46* Mozart Symphony No 38. in d major (Prague) (K 504)

International Rounds Programme 13
Equal Voice Class: Semi-Final 2 Hungary: BUDA TEACHERS FEMALE CHOIR
Bulgaria: CHOEUR DE CHAMBRE DE DAMES PRES LE FOYYER SlNDICAL DE LA CULTURE - GARA ISKAR, BULGARIE
Mixed Voice Class: Semi-Final 2 Holland: UTRECUTS
STUDENTEN KAMERKOOR Hungary ; BARTOK CHOIR or THE MINISTRY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILFOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

From the Old and New World String Quintets from the beginning of Dvorak's career and from the time of his successful stay in America almost 20 years later. Quintet in G
Quintet in c flat played by MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET gramophone records

direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London
Claude Helffer (piano) Part I Beethoven
Sonata in B flat. Op 106 (Himmerklavier)

Simon Harcourt-Smith recalls an exotic incident with the poet in post-war Italy.

Claude Helffer (piano) Part 2 Boulez Sonata No 2

Antony Hopkinsdiscussesa work or theme of current interest. Producer DAVID EPPS
(Rptd: Monday. 9.45 am) followed by an interlude

Das Rheingold
A music-drama in four scenes by Wagner
(sung in German)
In the first chapter of Wagner's epic Alberich steals the Rhine-gold, only to have it stolen from him by Wotan to pay the giants for the building of Valhalla.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN
(Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)
(Die Walkiire: 9 December. Tannhauser from Bayreuth: Thursday, 2.0 pm)

Examples from the experience of Peter Churchill , Carl Jung Bertrand Russell
Arnold Schoenberg
James Buchan and Paul Tillich
CARL JUNG
Producer CHRIS BARLAS
(Recordings from the BBC Sound Archives)

in o major, Op 123
1 am that which is. What is, what was, what will be. He is only and solely of Himself. and to this Only One all things owe their existence
(Ancient Egyptian inscription which Beethoven kept framed on his writing table)
Vom Herzen. Moge es wieder zu Herzen gehen
(Beethoven's superscription in the manuscript of the Missa)
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) MARGA HÖFFGEN (contralto) WALDEMAR KMENTT (tenor) MARTTI TALVELA (bass)
NEW PHILHARMONIA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records

Catholics by BRIAN MOORE with Joseph O'Conor as the Abbot and Peter Marinker as Fr Kinsella
The Abbey of Muck stands on an island off the coast of Kerry. Ireland. Such is its isolation, that many of the Church's newer ideas would seem not to have reached its small community. One day. however, the Abbot is confronted by a visitor from Rome, a young American priest with plenipotentiary powers to correct any irregularity ...
The prize-winning novel adapted and produced by RICHARD IMISON

Professor R. D. Smith , Head of Liberal and Contemporary Studies at the new University of Ulster. talks about personal beliefs with David Rudkin
Elisabeth Lutyens and Monty Woodhouse , MP
Producer RICHARD IMISON

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