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The last of seven programmes to include Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues, played on the harpsichord by RALPH KIRKPAT -RICK, and Corelli's 12 Violin Sonatas, Op 5, with EDUARD MELKUS as soloist. Records
Corelli Sonata in F, Op 5 No 4
Bach The Well-tempered Clavier. Book 2: Preludes and Fugues. Nos 21 and 22 , Corelli Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 5
Bach Preludes and Fugues, Nos 23 and 24 Corelli Sonata in E, Op 5 No 11

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Wagner Prelude to Act 1: Lohengrin: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
9.15 Monteverdi Sonata sopra Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (Vespro della Beata Vergine) Salisbury Cathedral Boys' Choir, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Monteverdi Orchestra, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
9.24* Liszt Symphonic Poem: From the Cradle to the Grave
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
9.39. Rachmaninov Suite No 2, for two pianos, Op 17: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andre Previn
10.3* Penderecki Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by The Composer

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Emmanuel Chabrier : HUGH MACDONALD talks about one of This Week's Composers.
Mozart and the Piano Sonata: by DKNIS MATTHEWS .
Producer CHRISTINE HLRDWICK

CHRISTA LUDWIG (contralto)
SINGVEREIN DER GESELLSCHAPT
DER MUSIKFREUNDE, chorus-mastir HELMUT FROSCHAUER
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Karl Bohm direct from the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein Brahms Part 1
Variations on the St Anthony Chorale: Alto Rhapsody

Presented by Nigel Douglas
Some English impressions of Austria and its capital in the 18th and 19th centuries. with the voices of DAVID MAHLOWE MARAH STOHL , GEOFFREY BANKS CYNTHIA MICHAELIS
Compiled by IAN BRADLEY BBC Manchester

Brahms Part 2
Symphony No 1, in c minor

United Kingdom Rounds (5) Contemporary Final
CWMBRAN BAROQUE SINGERS THE BROADLAND SINGERS Mixed Voice Choirs Semi-final
READING PHEONIX CHOIR
THE TOAD CHOIR, GREENOCK
Introduced by Bernard Keelfe

Christopher Diver.

Isidore Cohen (violin) Bernard Greenhouse (Cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
Second of four programmes

Haydn Trio in A flat (h xv 14)

Mendelssohn Trio in C minor, Op 66

Antony Hopkins

Rafael Kubelik conducts the English Chamber Orchestra, leader Jose-Luis Garcia, direct from The Maltings, Snape

Part 1

Dvorak Ten Legends, Op 59

Edward Albee's first play for radio, Listening, will be repeated this evening at 7.40.

Many listeners found it obscure and confusing at a first hearing: others found it brilliant and moving.

Hallam Tennyson introduces Anthony Curtis, Literary Editor of the Financial Times; Karl Schmidt, Director Earplay, and Richard Imison, Script Editor of Radio Drama, who discuss the play and some of its possible meanings.

Part 2

Schubert Symphony No 6, in C major

BBC Birmingham

Weber died in London on 3 June, 1826, following the successful staging of his opera, Oberon. A feature written and compiled by JOHN WARRACS from the composer's letters, diary and other contemporary sources. with with MICHAEL BERKELEY. DONALD PRICE Producer ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE (Death of a virtuoso: BBC2 9.5 pm)

GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RETER FRANKL (piano) Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 481) Brahms Sonata in A, Op 100

by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
Robin Holmes tells the story of how an eminent 19th-century English poet was laid low by an equally eminent 19th-century English critic - in one of the most splendidly devastating literary reviews of aU time....
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Sinfonietta
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO gramophone record

by EDWARD ALBEE
A repeat of the World Premiere of a new play specially commissioned for radio with Irene Worth as The Woman
Maureen Anderman as The Girl James Ray as The Man and the author as The Voice
' ... you don't listen; nobody listens anymore. Why does nobody listen ...? '
Directed by EDWARD ALBEE With JOHN TYDEMAN ft is o work which stretches the mind and in this production it seems to me to possess a depth and brilliance rare anywhere. (GILLIAN REYNOLDS)
Daily Telegraph)
(A co-production between the BBC and Earplay, the drama production centre for American public radio.)

In the second of two programmes Berthold Goldschmidt introduces two of Kleiber's recordings from the 1950s, the opening of the second act of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, With HILDE GUEDEN, SENA JURINAC and the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and Mozart's Symphony No 39, in & flat.

Seventh of 13 programmes In which Byrd's settings of the Mass Proper in his Gradualia are performed in liturgical sequence with settings of the Ordinary of the Mass by Byrd and by continental composers, Pentecost (Whit Sunday) Mass for Five Voices Mass Propers a S
Introit; Kyrie; Gloria; Collect: Epistle; Alleluias I, II; Sequence; Gospel; Credo; Offertory; Preface; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei ; Communion LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS
MARTIN NEARY (organ) conductor LOUIS HALSEY

This week Derek Jewell illustrates the vast range of modern popular music by contrasting the sophisticated 'orchestral' approach of the British band Gentle Giant with the abrasive reggae sounds of Bob Marley, whose Caribbean music demands social change and revolution. Songs from another black artist, Willie Hutch, and from the inventive American singer, Laura Nyro, are also featured.

(gramophone records)

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