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d'Indy Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
ROBERT CASADESUS (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.30* Johann Strauss Two Polkas franchises: Bitte schon; Sangerslust
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
7.38* Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem: La jeunesse d'Hercule THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX gramophone records

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Turina Danzas fantasticas
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.21* Ives Symphony No 1. in D minor: PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records

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Tanevev and Borodin
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia: BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
9.13' Taneyev Symphony in c minor: MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY gramophone records

(viola)
With MARGARET KITCHIN (piano) Hummel Sonata in E flat, Op 5 No 3
Busch Suite for viola
Hindemith Sonata, Op 11 No 4

BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON ERIC CHADWICK (organ)
Bach Prelude and fugue in G major (BWV541)
Motet: Jesu, meine Freude
Schumann Four fugues on BACH, Op 60 (Nos 2, 3, 5 and 6); Four songs for double choir. Op 141

Last of six programmes
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT Symphonic Rhapsody (1889) The Dream of Gunnar (1908) Symphony No 6 (1925)
(Danish Radio recording)

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MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-sop) PETER DICKINSON (piano)
Programme includes Gypsy Songs by Dvorak. Songs by Berkeley, including the first performance of his early Bridges setting ' So sweet love seemed '. Songs by Chabrier and Village Scenes by Bartok. (From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. Third of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in association with the BBC)

Beethoven Horn Sonata in f, Op 17 (mono) with DENIS MATTHEWS (piano)
2.13* Dukas Villanelle (mono) with GERALD MOORE (piano)
2.20* Strauss Horn Concerto No 2. in E flat with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH gramophone records

The Art of Fugue
In a new version by Sebastian Brown
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON leader WILLIAM ARMON conductor DAVID LITTAUR Part 1
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* The Art of Fugue Part 2
(Recording from a public concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 12 February)

1875-1937
The second of three programmes to mark the centenary of his birth. Ravel studied with Faure" and Delage was one of Ravel's few pupils. BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Faur6 L'horizon chimérique
Delage Trois Poemes désenchantés
Trois Melodies (first broadcast performance in this country)
Ravel Sainte ; Don Quichotte a Dulcinée

with David Munrow
From songs to symphonies: the brief yet productive composing life of Franz Schubert.

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The Wider World
6.30 Foreign Correspondent
A weekly study on a topic of current international significance.
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
6.50 Hawks and Doves by GEOFFREY BEST
5: Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN
The United Nations Organisation, Hammarskjold once said, ' reflects both aspiration and a falling short of aspiration, but the constant struggle to close the gap between aspiration and performance now, as always, makes the difference between civilisation and chaos.'

led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER ILANA VERED (piano)
Mendelssohn Symphony No 8a, in D major
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12, in A major (K 414)
Bizet Symphony in c

The Problem by A. R. GURNEY JR
Another comedy from the pen of this acid commentator on the absurdities of middle-class American life.
Producer DICKON REED
(Pat Starr is in ' Kennedy's Children ' at the Arts TheatTe, London)

SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader Jost LUIS GARCIA
RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord and director)
Purcell Sonata in D, for trumpet, strings and continuo (z 850)
Handel Concerto Grosso No 23. in B minor (Op 6 No 12)
Torelli Sonata a cinque No 1, in D, for trumpet, strings and continuo
Handel Italian Cantata: Lucrezia

1896-1974
The English poet. Edmund Blunden , was one of the most war-obsessed writers of our time and the echoes of the 1914-18 trench fighting are present in much of his later work. MARTIN BOOTH traces the pattern of these, illustrating the qualities of suppressed horror and poignancy they gave even to Blunden's more lyrical poetry.
Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Beethoven String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131 LENER QUARTET
Jeno Lener (violin)
Joseph Smilovits (violin) Sandor Roth (viola)
Imre Hartman (cello)

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