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(piano) The last of a weeklv series of records of the Austrian pianist playing the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Sonata in G, Op 79
Sonata in F sharp, Op 78 Sonata in c minor, Op 111

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Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade: March for string quartet and piano: MEMBERS OF THE LONDON SINFONIETTA
9.10* Smetana Piano Trio in c minor: SUK TRIO
9.40* Schoenberg Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder)
ANNA REYNOLDS (mezzo-soprano) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
9.54* Glazunov Symphony No 5, in B flat. Op 55
USSR RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KONSTANTIN IVANOV

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Shostakovich Symphonies by HUGH OTTAWAY.
MOGENS ELLEGAARD , virtuoso aCcordionist, talks about his work
How faithful should you be to the score? BERNARD KEEFFE considers some of the problems. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

from Austria
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (Violin) HUNGARIAN NATIONAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK Brahms Violin Concerto in D
11.50* Interval Reading
12.0* Concert Part 2
Schubert Symphony No 9, In c (Austrian Radio recording from the 1975 Carinthian Summer Festival)

Ian Robinson , author of The Survival of English, reflects on some of the things we say and write, and on the raw material we use to make them - words. (Repeated: Friday 11.15 am)

Motet: Ave Christe immolate
Mass: Pange lingua (preceded by the plainsong hymn on which it is based) SCUOLA DI CIHESA conductor JOHN HOBAN

ANNE SHASBY , RICHARD MCMABON (piano duet)
GARETH MORRIS (flute)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
Aria and variations, for string quartet
Balliol Dances, for piano duet
Variations on a theme of Gluck, for flute and string quartet

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano) JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) ROBIN LEGGATE (tenor) PAUL HUDSON (bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BROWN conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Part 1
Stravinsky Pulcinella
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491)

by Edward Norman , Lecturer in Modern History and Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Prompted by DANIEL JENKINS 'S book The British: Their Identity and Their Religion, Dr Norman re-examines the question of ' social consciousness among the clergy of Victorian England and today.

Part 2
Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Op 20

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.40 am)

Opera in two acts Music by Massenet
Libretto by JULES CLARETIE and HENRI CAIN
(sung in French: records)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
The action takes place in the late 1870s in a village square near Bilbao.

Lord ChaUont. Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1964-70. who has recently returned from an extensive tour of China and of South-East Asia. argues that the Sino-Soviet conflict now dominates economic and political life in the area.

Poeme, for violin and orchestra
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records

The Front Room Boys by ALEXANDER BUZO
The story of a year in an Australian office, month by month.
Piano played by MARTIN GOLDSTEIN
Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Fourth in a series ofsix programmes featuring Priaulx Rainier 's music. The works are introduced by the composer. LONDON OBOE QUARTET Janet Craxton (oboe) Perry Hart (violin)
Brian Hawkins (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) Part 1
Rainier Quanta, for oboe and string trio
Mozart Duo in B flat (K 424), for violin and viola

5: Lust
Poems by Shakespeare, Chaucer. Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Symons, Graves and Betjeman. Selected and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE
Read by GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Part 2 Rainier String Trio
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F (K 370)

A Bengal sketch by A. N. BANERJEE
Reader SAM DASTOR

Derek Jewell 's weekly survey of popular music features QUEEN, with a remarkable long composition from their album A Night at the Opera, and the multicoloured electronic sounds of HERBIE HANCOCK set against the stark improvisations of the reunited DAVE BRUBECK and PAUL DESMOND. There are songs, too, by HARRY CHAPIN and THE FOUR SEASONS. gramophone records

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