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A series marking his 75th birthday with records made in the last 60 years, including all Bach's unaccompanied violin works and a group of romantic French sonatas. Franck Sonata in A with BROOKS SMITH (piano)
Elgar La capricieuse with ANDRE BENOIST (piano)
Bach Partita in b minor, for violin

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Tchaikovsky Symphonic Ballad: The Voyevode
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FÛRST
9.16* Litolff Concerto symphonique No 4, in D minor, Op 102 GERALD ROBBINS (piano)
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by EDOUARD VAN REMOORTEL
9.54* Brahms Alto Rhapsody JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
10.6* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Water Sprite
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Manuel de Falla : a centenary tribute by MARTIN COOPER.
The pleasure of playing piano duets: ANNE SHASBY and-RICHARD MCMAHON talk to MICHAEL OLIVER , JOHN CULSHAW reviews a new book on Rachmaninov by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Opera in two acts Libretto by ELISKA KRASNOHORSKA Music by Smetana (sung in Czech)
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO CHOIR
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA chorus-master LADISLAV CERNY conducted by ALOIS KLIMA (Czech Radio recording) Act 1

Ian Robinson , author of The Survival of English.
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.0 noon)

Act 2

Sonata in F minor, for two pianos: PETER WALLFISCH and MICHAEL FREYHAN
(Brahms's version for piano quintet: tomorrow 1.5 pm)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

MELOS ENSEMBLE
With HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
Mozart Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola and piano (K 498)
Richard Rodney Bennett Oboe Quartet (King's Lynn Festival commission: first performance) Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
3.45* Interval Reading
3.50* Concert Part 2
Schubert Quintet in A (The Trout)
BBC Birmingham

Mussorgsky. orch Rimsky-Korsakov Prelude (Khovanshchina)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
4.41* Rimsky Korsakov Piano Concerto in c sharp minor
IGOR ZHUKOV , MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
4.57* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Golden Spinning-wheel LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records

La clemenza dt Tito by W. A. Mozart
La clemenza di Tito was first performed for the Coronation festivities of the Emperor Leopold II, on 6 September 1791, three months before Mozart's death. Christopher Raeburn examines the conflicting evidence about the writing of the opera and argues that its recent revivals mark the overdue recognition of a masterpiece.
With GEOFFREY BEEVERs as Mozart Other parts played by GARARD GREEN, SIÔN PROBERT. KERRY FRANCIS, DAVID SINCLAIR and ANN BOLTON. Musical illustrations taken from the recording conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
(La clemenza di Tito; direct from Covent Garden, Friday
7.30 pm)

. Fourth of 13 programmes. This week: piano duets and songs. NIGEL WICKENS (baritone)
With PETER PETTINGER (piano)
Dargomizhsky Eastern Romance; The
Miller Tchaikovsky At the ball: The Cuckoo: Child's Song: Christ in his garden; Everybody says, ' you fool '
Balakirev Everybody says, ' you fool '
Mussorgsky Savishna : Callistratus; The seminarist; The magpie: The feast: The goat; By the Don a garden grows Balakirev The Vision interspersed with Russian folk songs arranged by Balakirev and Tchaikovsky for piano duet, played by ANNE shasby and RICHARD MCMAHON.
Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE

Angle by RHYS ADRIAN with Freddie Jones as Angle Peter Woodthorpe as John Gerald Cross as The Landlord
Angle, nearly 50 and feeling that time is running out, is forced by the pestering landlord to share his room with John, a man who has left Yorkshire and a wife to make his fortune in London. Outside the room Mrs Crane 's hen clucks: inside he has his wine. a violin he tries to play and 31 volumes of his diary - ' a record of the times we live in.' The cellist OLGA HEGEDUS
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

died 19 February 1975
First of two programmes, originally broadcast as a single concert on the composer's 70th birthday, in which he introduced a chronological survey of his music from 1934 to 1971. 1934-5: Six Choruses to texts by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (second series) TIFFIN SCHOOL CHOIR LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
1936-7: Tre Laudi: APRIL CANTELO (soprano), LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES 1942-3: Sonatina Canonica
1952: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: DAVID WILDE (piano) 1953: Goethe- Lieder JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
MARTIN RONCHETTI , THEA KING , STEPHEN TRIER (clarinets) directed by EDWARD DOWNES

Michael Norton recalls life in Hanover in 1925. For him, Weimar Germany was not exactly a 'land of anthroposophy. psychoanalysis and expressionist drama.'

Derek Jewell 's weekly survey of popular music discovers COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN in nostalgic mood, reveals voices who may be here to stay in SHARON FORRESTER and RONEE BLAKLEY, and examines lOcc's preoccupation with the telephone. Another look at the major folk-rock compilation, Electric Muse, features the work of FAIRPORT CONVENTION, GRYPHON, DAVEY GRAHAM , JOHN RENBOURN and BERT JANSCH : records

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