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Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by willi ROSKOVSKY
7.15* Johann Amon Quartet in F HERMANN BAUMANN (horn) JAAP SCHRODER (violin) WIEI. PETERS (viola) ANNER BYLSMA (Cello)
7.28* Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 2 (Antar)
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL gramophone records

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Schubert Symphony No 6, in c BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
8.38* Elgar Concert Overture: In the south (Alassio)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

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Busoni Elegies
MARTIN JONES (piano) gramophone records

Second of a series of three programmes including Schumann's three Quartets and Mendelssohn's Op 44 set written five years earlier.
Today: Schumann's Quartet in F major, Op 41 No 2, and Mendelssohn's Quartet in E flat major, Op 44 No 3
WISSEMA STRING QUARTET Nella Wissema (violin) Fay Campey (violin)
Ludmila Navratil (viola) Paul Ward (cello)

(piano)
A public recital given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in May 1973 Part 1
Beethoven Sonata In c minor, Op 13 (Pathgtique)
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel

A talk by Anthony Quinton

Part 2
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit: Ondine: Le gibet; Scarbo
Scriabin Etude in c sharp minor, Op 2 No 1
Balakirev Oriental Fantasy: Islamey
Rachmaninov Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32 No 12

PHILIPP HIRSHHORN (violin) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by URI SEGAL Part 1
Weber Overture: Oberon
12.30* Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in D (K 218)

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Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5, in E minor
(Given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Llandaff, on 28 March before an invited audience)

MORAG NOBLE (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Robert Franz Was pocht mein Herz so sehr?; Abends; Ich lobe mir die Vbgelein Schumann Die Meerfee;
Meine Rose : Singet nicht in Trauertonen
Liszt Mignons Lied; In Liebeslust; Die Loreley

String Sextet in G major BARTOK STRING QUARTET Peter Komlos (violin) Sandor Devich (violin) Geza Nemeth (viola) Karoly Botvay (cello) with GYORGY KONRAD (viola) EDE BANDA (Cello)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)

SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SERGIU CELIBIDACHE
Cherubini Overture: Anacréon Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
(Recording made available by South German Radio)

Terry Riley Kevboard Studies
Tim Souster Waste Land Music (first broadcast performance in this country)
Introduced by THE COMPOSER INTERMODULATION
Peter Britton. Roger Smalley Tim Souster , Robin Thompson

The best of present-day jazz on records
Introduced by CHARLES FOX

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6.30 Working the System
Three three-part case-studies in the relations between pressure groups and the parliamentary process.
1: Abortion Law Reform (II)
In the second of three programmes GEORGE JONES traces the progress of David Steel 's private member's bill up to its successful second reading.
7.0 pm Eminently Victorian People and Opinions
Nine biographical studies 1: Robert Owen by JOHN F. C. HARRISON , PrOfessor of History at the University of Sussex With RICHARD BEBB Series producer
MICHAEL STEPHENS

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
An opera in four acts
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (sung in Italian)

A concert version of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production
Perhaps the greatest comic opera ever written, Figaro is a story about masters and their servants, and the complications arising out of their relationships with one another.

Glyndebourne Chorus, chorus director Peter Gellborn
Martin Isepp (harpsichord continuo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, co-leader Dennis Simons, conducted by John Pritchard

Acts 1 and 2

9.0* A Question of Class?
Bernard Williams, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a passionate Mozartian, discusses the social and emotional complexities of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

9.20* Proms 74: part 2
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Acts 3 and 4

(This Week's Proms: page 9)
(Another Mozart opera at the Proms: La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by Colin Davis - Tuesday, 3 September)

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad, followed by an interlude

Three works for solo cello recorded for the BBC by the celebrated German cellist for whom they were written. Siegfried Palm also introduces the programme,
Xenakis Nomos alpha
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Vier kurze Studien
Isang Yun Glissées

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