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Schumann Overture: Genoveva
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER
7.15* Beethoven Song-cycle: An die feme
Geliebte PETER SCHREIER (tenor) WALTER OLBERTZ (piano)
7.30* Berwald Symphony in I flat (1845)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING

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Mozart Concerto in f, for three pianos and orchestra (k 242) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
DANIEL BARENBOIM (directing) FOU TS'ONG
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.30* Poulenc Sinfonietta
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRtTRE

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Berlioz
Overture: King Lear
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
9.22* Lyric Scene: La mort de Cieopatre
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON gramophone records

played by LUCIAN NETIISINGIIA from Exeter Cathedral
S. S. Wesley Choral Song and Fugue
Flor Peelers Two Chorale Preludes: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Op 68 No 5: Wie schbn leuchtet der Morgenstern
Bach Prelude and Fugue in I flat (St Anne) BBC Bristol

KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) with PAM. HAMBURGER (piano)
Schumann Song-cycle: Dichterliebe. Op 48
Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Op 22
(From the Library Theatre. Bradford. One of a series of concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC) BBC Manchester

IONA BROWN (violin)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Part
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
11.20' Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major

Eleanor Bron

Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 5, in E flat major (A public concert presented in the Town Hall, Leeds, on 3 April by the BBC in association with the Leeds City Council Leisure Services Committee) BBC Manchester

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Shoshana Rudiakov (piano)
Scriabin Fantasy'in B minor, Op 28
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Rachmaninov Variations on a theme by Corelli. Op 42
(Before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets from: Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

This week: The Four Seasons and music from Verdi operas Choreography
KENNETH MACMILLAN
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Introduced by Cormac Rigby

played by the GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in c major, Op 50 No 2
Mozart Quartet in B flat major (K 589)

Berlioz Song-cycle: Les nuits d'été; JANET BAKER (mezzo-sop) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
4.37' Debussy, orch Busser Symphonic Suite: Printemps SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

from Gloucester Cathedral
Introit: 0 Lord, my God (S. S. Wesley)
Versicles and Responses (Byrd) Psalm 55 (Lloyd. Smart. Gauntlett)
Lessons: Lamentations 3. vv 40-51; Hebrews 9. vv 11-15
Office hymn: Drop, drop. slow tears (EH 98)
Canticles (Thomas Tomkins , Fifth Service)
Anthem: Wash me throughly (S. S. Wesley)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN SANDERS Assistant organist ANDREW MILLINGTON BBC Birmingham

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(continued)

Language and Communication
6.30 Starting Chinese
Part 1: Introduction to Chinese Programme 4: Introduced by LUCIA i.iu and TERRY CHANG
Script by DAVID POLLARD who adds some comments about ways of conveying emphasis and moods in Chinese speech. (Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
7.0 So You're Learning a Language
A discussion between teachers, students and programme makers on learning and teaching a foreign language using broadcast courses, and a look at some of the forthcoming foreign language series to be broadcast in Lifelines. Producer ALAN WILDING

Second programme in a 13-part series in which David Attenborough considers the variety and purposes for which music is used throughout the world.
2: Music of Bali and Java Producer MADEAU STEWART

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
LONDON PHII.HARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND Part 1 Brahms
Tragic Overture
Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 1, in c minor

Jack MacGowran reads poems by Beckett
The late Jack MacGowran (1918-1973) took part in two programmes of Beckett's poetry. first broadcast in March and November 1966. On the occasion of Samuel Beckett 's 70th birthday which he celebrated on 13 April, we are broadcasting a selection from these two programmes - which were recorded in the presence of Samuel Beckett. who in some cases amended the text, which therefore differs slightly from the published versions.
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Last of six monthly concerts in St John's, Smith Square
Gesualdo Responsories: Tenebrae factae sunt; Vinea mea electa: Tristis est anima
Anthony Payne A little Passiontide Cantata (first public performance)
Aaron Copland In the beginning (mezzo-soprano, PATRICIA PRICE)
Bach Motet: Komm, Jesu. komm! (bwv 229) BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN poole with cecii. JAMES (bassoon) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
FRANCIS BAINES (double-bass) TIMOTHY FARREI. L (organ)

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