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A series of record programmes to mark the 75th birthday of the great violinist; including Bach's unaccompanied violin music and a group of romantic French sonatas.
Faurl Sonata in A with EMANUEL BAY (piano)
Mendelssohn. transc Achron On wings of song with ISIDOR ACIIRON (piano)
Bach Partita in D minor

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Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER S.10* Handel Cantata: Lucrezia JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD S.31* Ravel String Quartet in r QUARTETTO ITALIANO
10.5* Copland Suite: The Tender Land : BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
John Blew , organist, choirmaster and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, by LIONEL SALTER. PHYLLIS TATE talks about her work as a composer.
Music holidays: FRITZ SPIEGL investigates the opportunities. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

in c minor (ed Nowak)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT
(Boston Symphony Orchestra Transcription Trust recording)

Ian Robinson , author of The Survival of English, reflects on some of the things we say.
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.0 pm)

Fourth of six monthly concerts in St John's, Smith Square
Monteverdi Motets: Cantate Domino (a 6); Christe adoramus te (a 5); Domine ne in furore tuo (a 6); Adoramus te (a 6) Poulenc Mass in G
Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BBC SINGERS conducted by KERRY WOODWARD JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello) FRANCIS BAINES (double-bass) TIMOTHY FARRELL (organ)
(A public concert given on 26 January. Tickets for the concerts, which start at 6.30 pm, available from [address removed], or at the door, 80p. Next concert: 16 February) followed by an interlude

Last in a series of six programmes featuring Priaulx Rainier 's music. The works are introduced by the composer, PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) PATRICIA LYNDEN (flute) JANET CRAXTON (Oboe) PERRY HART (violin) OLGA REGEDUS (cello)
ALAN HARVERSON (harpsichord)
Handel Trio-Sonata No 3. in E flat, for oboe, violin and continuo
Rainier Pastoral Triptych, for oboe
Handel Sonata in D, Op 1 No 13. for Tiolin and continuo Rainier The Bee Oracles

AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with ANTONY PAY (clarinet) direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London Quartet in B flat (The Hunt) (K 458)
Clarinet Quintet in A (K 581)

6: Sloth
Poems by Whitman. Langland, Spencer, Herbert, Coleridge, Watts. Davies, Kipling, Waley and Graves. Selected and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Read by GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Part 2 Quartet in c (Dissonance) (k 465)

Antony Hopkins

Opera in one act by Edward Harper
Fanny...JANE MANNING (soprano) Sergeant Troy
ROBERT BISHOP (baritone)
Presenter ROGER SAVAGE
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY OPERATIC SOCIETY CHORUS
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER BBC Scotland

and the Woman Question
An Imaginary Conversation
Written by PATRICIA BEER
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Third of 13 programmes examining the relationship of Tchaikovsky as man and musician to other leading composers in 19th-century Russia. This week: Tchaikovsky and Borodin. LINDA BUSTANI (piano)
ORIEL SUTHERLAND (contralto) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Tchaikovsky Variations, Op 19 Borodin The Sleeping Princess; Queen of the Sea
Tchaikovsky Six Songs, Op 6: Do not believe, my friend; Speak not, my beloved; Painfully and sweetly; Ah. weep no more; Why?; None but the weary heart
Borodin Dissonance; Your native land
Borodin Petite Suite
Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE

Margie by CHERRY POTTER (right)
In this young writer's first play for radio, the central character is a West Indian woman, determinedly coping with the problems of pregnancy and divorce. The play has been recorded on location in London.
Technical presentation LEO FEORD CEDRIC JOHNSON , JULIAN WALTHER Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Norman Beaton is in 'The Black Mikado ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London; Cleo Sylvestre is a member of the Young Vic Company) followed by an interlude

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GAETANO DELOGU Sibelius Symphony No 5 (Part 1 on R4 at 8.0 pm) BBC Wales

The Story of a Friendship, with Joss Ackland as Edward Elgar Narrator Stephen Thorne
The friendship between Elgar and A. J. Jaeger , ' Nimrod ' of the Enigma Variations, lasted 12 years. When it began Elgar was 40 and little known. When it ended, with Jaeger's death in 1909, Elgar was ' Sir Edward.' and world-famous. Written by PERCY YOUNG Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Joss Ackland is in 'A Little Night Music ' at the Adelphi Theatre. London)

Derek Jewell 's weekly survey features four compositions from the new album by lOcc, How Dare You.', and begins an extended look at the four-album Electric Muse: the Story of Folk into Rock, with music by JACK ELIOT , ALAN LOMAX AND THE RAMBLERS, and RAY and ARCHIE FISHER. Pianist and guitarist RALPH TOWNER 'S album, Solstice, is also to be heard.

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