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Purcell Overture in D minor - Leonhardt Consort

7.9* Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84 - John Ogdon, Allegri String Quartet

7.45* Vaughan Williams Symphonic Impression: In the Fen Country - New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

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Tchaikovsky Preghiera from Suite No 4 (Mozartiana), Op 61 SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.10* Glinka Variations on a theme of Mozart OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
8.15* Beethoven Variations on La ci darem from Mozart's Don Giovanni, for two oboes and cor anglais (WoO 28): MEMBERS OF THE DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA
8.25* Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart, Op 132: DRESDEN SACHSISCHE STAATSKAPELLE, conducted by HEINZ BONGARTZ : records

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Rimsky-Korsakov
' The cantatas won scant notice. Our audiences don't like them and don't know how to listen to them. Nor do the performers.* Cantata:
Svityezyanka ALEXANDRA YAKOVENKO (SOP) VLADIMIR MAKHOV (tenor) MOSCOW RADIO CHOIR
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE AKULOV
Chorus: May you grow like a mighty oak (Tsar Saltan) BOLSHOI THEATRE CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by MARK ERMLER
Cantata: The Song of Oleg the Wise: VLADIMIR PETROV (tenor) MARK RESHETIN (bass)
BOLSHOI THEATRE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN : records

given by JOACHIM GRUBICH
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor (bwv 543)
Brahms Three Chorale Preludes from Op 122: 0 Gott, du frommer Gott; Herzlich thut mich verlangen (2nd setting); O wie selig
Messiaen Le verbe; Les enfants de Dieu: Jésus accepte la souffrance, Dieu parmi nous (La nativité du Seigneur)
(Part of a recital given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 10 March)

BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) AD SOLEM ENSEMBLE
Butterworth Song-cycle: love blows as the wind blows, for baritone and string quartet Rubbra Piano Trio
Ivor Gurney Song-cycle: The Western Playland, for baritone, string quartet and piano (Poems by A. E. Housman )

SIGISWALD KUIJKBN
(violin and viola da gamba) LUCY VAN DAEL (Violin) WIELAND KUIJKEN (viola da gamba)
ROBERT KOHNEN (harpsichord)
Corelli Sonata da camera in a minor, Op 4 No 2, for two violins and continuo
Fontana Sonata No 11, for two violins and continuo
Buxtehude Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 3, far violin, viola da gamba and continuo
(Radio Bremen recording from the 1975 Pro Musica Antiqua)

Christopher Driver

Part of a concert given by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez

Ligeti Lontano

Bartok Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin

(RIAS Berlin recording)

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Capricorn
Anthony Lamb (clarinet) Monica Huggett (violin) Timothy Mason (cello)
Julian Dawson-Lyell (piano)
Haydn Piano Trio In c (H xv 27) Berg Adagio from the Chamber Concerto
Glinka, arr Hrlmalyi Trio pathetique in D minor
(Before an invited audience In the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets from: [address removed])

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by OIVIND BERGH
Music by Weber, Samuel Barber , Bryan Kelly , Svendsen and Prokofiev.

Arnold Whittall introduces the fifth of six programmes.
Mathias Piano Sonata No 2
David Harries Piano Quintet Mathias String Quartet
UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLE OF CARDIFF BBC Wales

Deirdre Lind (oboe)
Catherine Smith (oboe)
Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon) Harold Lester (harpsichord)
Music from Boyce to The Beatles

Slavonic Dances, Op 72: No 1, in B; No 2, in E minor; No 3, in F; No 5, in B flat minor; No 6, in a flat; No 7, in c
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : records

from Chichester Cathedral Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 114 and 115 (Byrd)
Lessons: Numbers 13, w 17-33; 1 Timothy 5, vv 1-16 (rsv)
Canticles (Walton Evening Service, revised version)
Anthem: Remember 0 Lord God (Walmisley)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN BIRCH , Assistant organist IAN FOX. BBC Bristol

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by LIONEL FRIEND
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA
conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND with artists on records

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Language and Communication
6.30 Starting Chinese
Twenty-five programmes for beginners in spoken Mandarin Part 2: Speaking Chinese
Programme 2: Introduced by LUCIA LIU and TERRY CHANG
Script by DAVID POLLARD
(Rptd: Sunday 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
7.0 Teaching Languages
Seven programmes offering guidance and suggestions.
5: What Shall We Do With the Language Labf
PROFESSOR ERIC HAWKINS , BRIAN PAGE and DAVID SMITH discuss the use of the language lab and other teaching aids,

conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN PIERRE AMOYAL (violin)
Walton Overture: Scapino
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in G minor
Beethoven Symphony No Si In c minor. BBC Scotland

talks to PETER HEYWORTH about his early years and his creative career in the immediate post-war period up to his move to Italy in the mld-50s,
(Recording by courtesy of cac) (Henze Retrospective concert: 1 July)

Patricia Sowden-Prici (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by John Poole

Tallis Motet in 40 parts: Spem in alium numquam habul

Taverner Magnificat a 6

John Tavener Ultimos ritos

(Given on 12 Sept 1975 in Westminster Cathedral)
(Proms 76 begin on 16 July. The prospectus is now available, 30p from bookshops)

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