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Corelli Concerto Grosso In D, Op 6 No 1 : ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.20* Viotti Violin Concerto No 22. in A minor: ARTHUR GRUMIAUX AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
7.46* Wolf Italian Serenade I musici: gramophone records

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Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER

8.21* Purcell O sing unto the Lord a new song ROGER PARKER (treble) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by GEORGE GUEST

8.35* Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by COLIN DAVIS

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Ravel
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn: A la manière de Borodin; A la manière de Chabrier (mono) WALTER GIESEKING (piano)
9.13* Deux mélodies hébraiques GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
9.20* Chants populaires
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOP) GONZALO SORIANO (piano)
9.32* Valses nobles et sentimentales (mono)
WALTER GIESEKING : records

DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in D minor. Op 76 No 2
10.6' Metcalf Quartet
10.30* Interval Reading
10.35* Quartets: part 2
Mendelssohn Quartet tn r minor. Op 80
(Given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Ltandaff. on 2 March)

Faure Ballade Ravel Sonatina
GWEMNETH PRYOR (piano)

JANET PRICE (soprano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman
11.48* Haydn Cantata: Scena di Berenice
12.5* Beethoven Scena and Aria: Ah! perfido
12.21* Daniel Jones Symphony No 8
(conduoted by THE COMPOSER)

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CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano)
Haydn Sonata in B flat major (H XVI 17)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major, Op 31 No 3
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2. in c sharp minor.
(From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. Eleventh of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in assoc with the BBC)

The fifth of six programmes Handel Brockes Passion HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
MARGARET FIELD (soprano)
SHELAGH MOLYNEUX (mezzo-sop)
TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor) CHRISTOPHER BROWN (counter-tenor)
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone) Evangelist: IAN PARTRIDGE (ten) Jesus: JOHN NOBLE (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) RALPH DOWNES (organ) MARTIN GATT (bassoon)
BERNARD RICHARDS (Cello)
PHILIP SIMMS (double-bass) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader PETER BENSON conductor PAUL STEINITZ

Born 9 March 1875
Few composers have matched Martin Shaw's untiring efforts for English music: Purcell and folk song, Tudor music, hymnology, and the carol.
Dr Erik Routley, who recently completed a book on Shaw, pays tribute to this incandescent personality, whose versatility has obscured his own achievements as a composer.

Handel Brockes Passion, Part 2 (Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in March 1974 by the Steinitz Bach Players in association with the BBC)
(John Constable broadcast by permission of Covent Garden)
(13 March: Telemaon Lukas passion) followed by an interlude

David Munrow continues the gallant adyentures of Don Quixote , whose misguided exploits of chivalry only lead him into trouble.

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6.30 Foreign Correspondent Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
6.50 Context
The March Wind doth Blow ... BILL BRECKON investigates the causes and characteristics of the extreme forms - hurricanes and tornadoes - which in fact contain more energy than a hydrogen bomb.
7.10 The ABC of Education Presented by JOHN BROWN
6: Why aren'they sitting down to workt

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Cbopln Fantaisle In minor, Op 49: gramophone record

conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
Igor Oistrakh (violin) direct from the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict Martin Dalby The Tower of Victory
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2

Michelangelo was born on 6 March 147S at Caprese. not far from Florence.
PETER MURRAY, historian of Renaissance art and collector of Vasari editions, selects and reads from the famous passages in Lives of the Artists which Vasari devoted to his greatest hero.

Part 2 Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

A radio version in three part* based on the translation by SIR DESMOND LEE
Edited by DR D. A. REES
Adapted and produced by JOHN THEOCHAR [S with Leo McKern
3: The Imperfect Societies
Music composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS with JOHN LEACH (cimbalom) SERASTION BELL (flute)
ANNE COLLIS (percussion) followed by an Interlude

born 6 March 1475
Benjamin Britten 's setting of seven sonnets, sung by PETER PEARS , accompanied by the composer (record)
11.4* Other Sonnets
Read in English and Italian by HUGH DICKSON and ROBERT RIETTY

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