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The third of seven programmes to include Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues, played on the harpsichord by Ralph Kirkpatrick, and Corelli's 12 Violin Sonatas, Op 5 No 12, with Eduard Melkus as soloist.

Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book 1: Preludes and Fugues, Nos 17-20

Corelli Violin Sonata in D minor 'La Folia', Op 5 No 12

Bach Preludes and Fugues, Nos 21-24

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Mozart Divertimento in D (K 136): ACADEMY OF
ST MART1N-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.20» Liszt Vallee d'Obermann (Premiere annde de pèlerinage: Suisse): PASCAL ROGÉ (piano)
9.35* Meyerbeer Act 4 Duet: Tu l'as dit ... plus d'amour (Les Huguenots)
MARTINA ARROYO (soprano) ANASTASIOS vRENios (tenor)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by Richard BONYNGE S.40* Dukas Symphony in c
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Wagner Opera Cycle: CHARLES OSBORNE begins at the beginning with some thoughts on Die Feen.
PETER RACINE FRICKER talks about his Fifth Symphony to be premiered on Wednesday.
The Royal Festival Hall: a 25th birthday comment from PAUL JENNINGS.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

ERICH URUENBERG (Violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT and DAVID ATHERTON Part I conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Gerhard Violin Concerto

John Weightman reflects on some of the thincs we say. (Repeated: Wed 10.40 am)

Part 2 conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D major
(David Atherton broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator of Royal Opera House. Covent Garden)
(Given on 4 August 1975 in the Royal Albert Hall )

As a prelude to this year's competition. Radio 3 presents a programme given by two former prize-winning choirs POLYTEKNIKKOJEN KUORON conductor HEIKKI SAARI
(Finland: 1974 Winners)
OLIVE QUANTRILL SINGERS conductor OLIVE QUANTRILL (UK: 1975 Winners)
(Part of a concert given at Lavenham Parish Church, Suffolk, on 21 April)
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les adieux)
Brahms Sonata in r sharp minor
2.15* Interval Reading
2.15* Concert Part 2
Debussy Suite: Pour le piano Schumann Carnaval , Op 9
(Given in the MacRobert Centre, Stirling, for the Bridge of Allan and District Music Club in Feb 1973) BBC Scotland

Neil Gunn was the son of a Caithness fisherman, brought up in the little fishing village of Dunbeath, and he wrote almost exclusively from within that world.'
It was through the novels of Neil Gunn that the Gaelic society of Scotland found a voice in English fiction. But does that unique voice have the breadth of appeal to overcome the neglect Gunn's work has encountered?
Ian Grimble presents his own assessment
Reader TOM FLEMING
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Die Feen (The Fairies) (sung in German)
The first programme in a unique series of all the Wagner operas to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth. Wagner's first opera - a fable of the triumph of true love - will be receiving what is probably its first complete performance.
Messenger.JOLYON DODGSON (bar) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteur JEFFREY TATE German coach HILDE BEAL
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON Act 1
5.251 Interval Reading
5.35* Die Feen Act 2

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

Die Feen Act 3
(Teresa Cahill and Paul Hudson broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden) (Duplicated German/English libretto available, price 90p, Including postage, from: Wagner Libretti, BBC, Manchester M60 ISJ)
BBC Manchester

On a Day in Summer in a Garden by DON HAWORTH with and Julie Hallam as Jack Dock A play by the radio master ... superbly realised. (FRANCIS DILLON, The Listener)
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY followed by an interlude

Piano Concerto No 2, in G (original version): IGOR ZHUKOV MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
(Soviet Radio recording)

Daniel Bell. Professor of Sociology at Harvard, and the author of The End of Ideology and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, considers the traditional belief that America is different from other societies. How does this belief stand up in the year of the American Bicentennial?

for 1724
Cantata No 104: Du Hirte Israel, hbre
PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MANFRED CLEMENT , ROBERT ELISCU (oboes d'amore)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record

Derek Jewell 's weekly survey features two compositions by Chick Corea 's innovative quartet RETURN TO FOREVER, from their new album Romantic Warrior. Despite criticisms of Corea's use of rock electronics, Jewell believes this is ' possibly one of the albums of the year.' There's a glance at the changing face of bossa nova through the work Of JORGE BEN; at the emergence of a new interpreter for Burt Bacharach's songs, STEPHANIE MILLS; plus contributions from SALENA JONES and an exciting new singer, AL JARREAU: records