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Bernstein Overture: Candide
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHKSTKA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
8.10. Scott Joplin , arr Prrlman The Entertainer: Sol«ce; Pine Apple Rag
ITZHAK PERLMAN I violin) ANDRE PREVIN IpianOI
8.27* Gershwin Piano Concerto in k: andiie previn i piano) directing the London symphony orchestra. Gramophone records

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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Schumann's Symphony No 4. in 9 minor: by ROBERT PHILLIP
Miscellaneous new records: reviewed by RICHARD OSBOHNE

Conducted by Edward Downes

John Bintham (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
10.25* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1. in C major

A weekly survey of the more positive trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Donald Milner

Part 2 Debussy Poeme dansé: Jeux
11.34* Tchaikovsky Fantasy: Francesca da Rimini

Ravel Une barque sur l'ocean: Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs) DANIEl. ADNI (pianol
12 1 Faure Scherzo Piano Quartet in c minor. Op 15) ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
MCMSERSOFTHECUARNERIOAIARTET
12.23* Ravel Menuet antique
12.30* Ravel Gaspard de la nuit PASCAL rocje ipianoi. Records

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In today's programme of record requests from the under-20s CHRISTOPHER ho<;wooii considers two versions of Brahms's Variations in d minor - for string sextet. Op 18. and the composer's own transcription for piano; and Schumann's use of motto themes in the Symphony No 2. in c isuissn romande ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSEHMET).

Ian stoutzker, mi rchant banker and Chairman of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, says that music and the people who interpret it are inseparable in his mind. This thought is reflected in his choice of records. which includes his old music teacher. AI.BERT sammons, playing part of the Elgar Violin Concerto. KLEMPERER conducting the final chorus of Bach's St Matthew Passion, and jacwklim: bu PR* playing Dvorak's Silenl Woods.

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Svendsen, John Ire land. Norman Fulton , Smetena, Poulenc and Sullivan.

Litanies; Intermezzo; Suite marie-claire ALAIN at the organ of St Christopher's Basilica, Belfort. Records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

ITALIAN STRING TRIO
Beethoven Trio in E flat, Op 3 Schubert Trio in B flat (D 581)

Anthony Quinton (in the chair) With JOHN HIGGINS , EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH , GILLIAN TINDALL Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude

Tragedie lyrique in five acts
World premiere direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London Libretto attrib CAPUSAC Music by Rameau (sung in French)
Alphise, Queen of Bactria. is being pressed to marry one of the two Boriads, sons of the North Wind; but she herself is in love with Abaris, a stranger of royal descent.
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader NONA LIDDELL
Continuo JONATHAN HINDEN and trevor PINNOCK (harpsichords) MARILYN SANSOM (cello) conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Acts 1 and 2

Stuart Hampshire gives the third of four fortnightly talks.

Acts 3 and 4

Act 5

Sonata in F major, for piano duet (k 497): CHRISTOPH ESCHEN-BAOH and JUSTUS FRANTZ
(Finnish Radio recording from the 1974 Helsinki Festival)

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