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Boyce Overture to the New Year's Ode, 1758
7.9* Avison Concerto No 1. In c, minor
7.20' Haydn Concertante In » flat
7.43* Britten Simple Symphony gramophone records

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Boyce Overture to the New Year's Ode. 1772
8.14* J. C. Bach Oboe Concerto in F
8.38* Mozart Divertimento In E flat (K Anh 226): records

Robin Holmes 's monthly selection of bird poems.

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Rossini Excerpts from L'ltaliana in Algeri: records

direct from the Main Hall of the Musikyerein, Vienna
The traditional annual concert of Viennese music given by the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led and conducted by Willi Boskovsky
(Part of this concert will be shown on BBC2 at 7.45 pm) at 10.50* Interval Readings followed by an interlude

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Four late piano sonatas played by ALFRED BRENDEL E minor, Op 90; A, Op 101
1.40* Interval Reading
1.45* Beethoven Sonatas Part 2 E, Op 109; c minor, Op 111
(A recital given as part of the 1975 Brighton Festival)

(Original 1857 version)
Opera in a prologue and three acts; Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
Music by Verdi (sung in Italian) First modern performance
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN MATHESON Repetiteur ALISTAIR DAWES
Italian coach UBALDO GARDINI Producer JULIAN BUDDEN Prologue and Act 1
(1881 version: 4 January)
3.55* Julian Budden talks about the first version of the opera.
4.15* Simon Boccanegra Acts 2 and 3

A short story by the Sicilian writer CARMELO CICCIA , translated by ALFRED ALEXANDER Producer
ADRIAN JOHNSON

David Munrow investigates the character of Harlequin, and some of the spectacular harlequinades which led to our modern pantomime.

Piano Trio in G minor. Op 8
Sonata for cello and piano, Op 65: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON

For those studying at home for the Third Degree course in Comedic Appreciation, with idiotic instruction from Timothy Davies, Chris Emmett, Christine Ozanne, Nigel Rees
Research compiled by ANDREW MARSHALL, JOHN MASON and DAVID RENWICK
Course producer SIMON BRETT

leader CHAIM TAUB conductor ZUBIN MEHTA
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) Mozart Symphony No 34, in c (k 338)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
8.5* Interval Reading
8.10* Concert Part 2 Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps
(A public concert in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 4 Sept)

Derek Mahon discusses the work of the Northern Irish writer. Brian Moore , in the light of his recently published novel The Great Victorian Collection.
Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE

An evening with CLEO LAINE and the JOHN DANKWORTH QUARTET

3: Envy
Poems selected and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE
Read by GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Part 2
(A public concert given as part of the 1974 Brighton Festival)

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