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A series of record programmes covering the career of the great violinist.
Prokofiev, arr Heifetz Gavotte, Op 32 No 3; March, Op 12 No 1
Handel Sonata in D, Op 1 No 13 both with EMANUEL BAY (piano) Brahms Concerto in D, with the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SERGE KOUSSEV ITZKY

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Beethoven Trio in E flat, Op 11 GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) JACQUELINE DU PRE (cello) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
9.23* Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra JULIUS KATCHEN LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
9.42* Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks: concerto for chamber orchestra
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS

Introduced by Michael Oliver
John Taverner , 14951545, organist, composer and secret agent ...: by JEREMY NOBLE.
A Dual Role: DANIEL CHORZEMPA talks about his life as an international pianist and organist. The Linleys and the Duenna: by ROGER FISKE.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Aeneas at Troy and Carthage A 17th-century double-bill
The Trojan Prince you know is bound
By fate to seek Italian ground.
(NAHUM TATE: Dido and Aeneas)
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris ltaliam fato profugus Lavinaque venit Litora ...
(VIRGIL: Aeneid)
Francesco Cavalli La Didone, Act 1 edited by JANE GLOVER
Libretto by FRANCESCO BUSENELLO translated by ANNE RIDLER
BBC SINGERS directed by GORDON KEMBER Continuo:
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
COURTNEY KENNY (harpsichord) RICHARD WEBB (cello)
JAMES TYLER (archlute)
NIGEL NORTH (chitarrone) MARK CAUDLE (cello) BAROQUE STRINGS led by DUNCAN DRUCE conducted by Jane Glover
12.10* Opera Translated: a talk by ANNE RIDLER.
12.25* Bound by Fate, Part 2
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Libretto by NAHUM TATE edited by LAURIE and DART
BBC SINGERS, BAROQUE STRINGS Continuo:
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
JAMES TYLER , NIGEL NORTH
(archlutes), MARK CAUDLE (cello) conducted by JANE GLOVER Introduced by ALVAR LIDELL
(Jane Glower conducts Eritrea: 28 March)

Eleanor Bron
(Repeated: Thursday 11.50 am)

COMPOSERS STRING QUARTET Schuller Quartet No 1
Ravel Quartet in F major

Four anthologies of prose and verse compiled by Ian Norris and Chrys Salt.
Readers Chrys Salt, Denis Goacher, Denis McCarthy
Producer Terence Tiller

Part 2 Mendelssohn
Quartet in A minor. Op 13
BBC Manchester

leader ELI GOREN conductor RUDOLF KEMPE direct from the Dome, Brighton (in association with Brighton Philharmonic Society)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan

David Mackay , who has lived in Barcelona for 16 years, reflects on Spain after Franco.

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 4, in E minor

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.40 am)

Eighth of 13 programmes. Much of this week's music reveals the influence of the Orient. ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) accompanied by DAVID WILLISON ; and MALCOLM BINNS (piano solo) perform music by six different composers: Glinka, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Cui.
Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE

Crime and Punishment by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY dramatised by BILL MORRISON based on a translation by CONSTANCE GARNETT
Part 1
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN (Part 2: Tuesday 9.30 pm)

Last of four programmes given by the BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
Fayrfax Magnificat Regali Hacomplaynt Salve Regina S.25* Interval Reading
9.35* Concert Part 2
Taverner Missa Corona spinea

In this specially extended edition of Derek Jewell 's weekly look at the world of pop music, there is candid comment on BOB DYLAN 'S latest album, Desire, plus two long extracts from it: pieces from A Trick of the Tail, the first GENESIS album without Peter Gabriel : and a song from DAVID BOWIE 'S new album. Station to Station. Featured too are encores from recent records by PEGGY LEE , RALPH TOWNER and the SINGERS UNLIMITED.

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