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Pyramids and Pharaohs
Exhumations and experiments in the Egyptian style from Tutankhamun's Trumpet and Mozart's Thamos, King of Egypt, to Saint-Saens's Egyptian Concerto and Johann Strauss 's Egyptian March. Record requests from listeners under 20. Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Chopin's Four Ballades, by Christopher HEADINGTON.
Recent opera records: reviewed by RODNEY MILNES.

Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in A minor (P 83): MILES ZENTNER LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by ZUBIN meiita J. C. Bach Quartet in c
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) EUGENIA ZUKERMAN (flute) PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) CHARLES TUNNELL (CellO)
Mozart Piano Concerto in E flat (K 271): NINA MILKINA ORCHESTRA OF
ST JOHN 'S SMITH SQUARE conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
Weber Overture: Abu Hassan
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK gramophone records

ALFREDA HODGSON fCOntralto) PALI. HAMBURGER (piano)
Berkeley Three Greek Songs
Brahms Standchen (Der Mond steht iiber dem Berge): Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer;
Blinde Kuh
Seiber Four Greek Folk Songs Dvorak Gypsy Songs, Op 55

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Robin Ray 's Review: page 70

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Poems of character, selected and introduced by Michael Schmidt
4: A Discontented Man. Readers
DAVID MAHLOWE. PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Peter Frankl and Tamas Vasary (piano duet)
Schubert Fantasia in F minor (D 940)
Mozart Sonata in F (K 497)

Sir John Pilcher , former British Ambassador in Manila, Vienna and Tokyo, introduces his personal choice of records,

HALLE ORCHESTRA leader Michael DAVIS conductor JAMES loughrah with annie Fischer (piano) Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in d minor (K 466)
Borodin Symphony No 2
(A concert given in the Free Trade Hall. Manchester, on 7 March) BBC Manchester

Introduced by Peter Clayton

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Adagio from string quintet (arr Keller/Seaman) Symphony No 7

This week:
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with JANET ADAM SMITH ROBERT CUSHMAN and BRYAN ROBÐRTSON
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

AMADEUS STRING QUARTET direct from the Assembly Rooms, Bath Part 1
Haydn Quartet in flat. Op 64 No 6
Beethoven Quartet in c major, Op 59 No 3

Three talks by Andrew Shon field. Director. Royal Institute of International Affairs 3: Trade Union Reform
MR SHONFIELD maintains that without a revolutionary change in the habits of organised labour, there is no chance of national recovery; what are the prospects?

Part 2 Haydn
Quartet in G. Op 77 No 1
(Arranged by the Bath Festival Society Ltd, in association with John Harvey and Sons Ltd)

Lord Berners was not only a composer but an author who at the turn of the century spent some time on the continent being educated in preparation for the Diplomatic Service. In the third and as yet unpublished volume of his autobiography written in the 1940s he gives his impressions of life in Dresden in 1900. Philip Lane , author of a forthcoming study of Berners. introduces some excerpts from this chapter.
Reader LESLIE STOKES

A chamber opera. Music by Reginald Smith Brindle
Words by sophocles, EURIPIDES and THE COMPOSER
(first broadcast performance) JOSEPHINE NENDICK (meZZO-SOp) MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone) alvar lidell (speaker) EVELYN FRANK (flute)
PAUL "rutherford (trombone) BARRY GUY (double-bass)
JOHN DONALDSON (peTCUSSiion) JULIAN DAWSON-LYELL (piano) conducted by THE COMPOSER

Bevis Hillier discusses the writings of the infamous Northern Irish novelist. Reader roisin donaghy Producer JOHN SCOTNEY

Music by J. C. F. Fischer , Eberlin, Krebs and Gottlieb Muffat played by GUSTAV LEONHARDT at the organ of the Cistercian Church. Stams (Tyrol) gramophone record

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