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including listeners' record requests for music by Vranicky and Berlioz associated with the French Revolution
Cimarosa Overture: I Traci amanti
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.10* Haydn Lyra Conceito No 5. in F: HUGO RUF directing a CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
7.23* Vranicky Grande symphonie caracteristique pour la paix avec la République francaise
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK

Part 2
Berlioz Hymne des Marseillais SOLOISTS, BOYS' CHOIR
PARIS OPERA CHORUS, THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT
8.13* Chopin Ballade No 3, In A flat, Op 47
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
8.21' Berlioz Symphonie funebre et triomphale: JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR. LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by COLIN DAVIS

Schoenberg
Three Pieces for chamber orchestra (1910); Serenade, Op 24, for chamber ensemble with voice: JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar) LONDON SINFONiETTA. conducted by DAVtt) ATHERTON: records

from Wells Cathedral played by JOHN BISHOP
Parry Toccata and Fugue (The Wanderer)
S. S. Wesley Larghetto in F sharp minor
Bairstow Sonata in E flat BBC Bristol

Suppe Overture: Pique Dame DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by OTMAR SUITNER
10.40* Lalo Symphonie espagn-Ole: YAN PASCAL TORTELIER (violin), CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX

gives the first of two recitals in which he plays piano sonatas by Hummel and Schubert. Hummel Sonata in E flat, Op 13 Schubert Sonata in A (D 959)

conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADET with YITKIN SEOW (piano)
A concert given on 23 January in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. Llandaff. to mark the 70th birthday of Grace Williams earlier this year. Part 1
Wagner Prelude to Act 1 (Lohengrin)
12.24* Mozart Piano Concerto No 21, in c (K 467)

Part 2
Grace Williams Symphony No 2 BBC Wales

1: Offenbach in America
In the first of the new series, Michael Hardwick talks about Offenbach's only visit to America in 1876 and plays excerpts from some of his operettas heard there: records

(piano)
Tchaikovsky Romance in F, Op 51 No 5; Un poco di Chopin, Op 72 No 15: L'Espiègle. Op 72 No 12: Reverie du soir. Oo 19 No 1: Chanson triste, Op 40 No 2: Menuetto scherzoso, Op 51 No 3: Valse de salon in A flat
Rachmaninov Moment musical in c. Op 16 No 6; Romance in F minor, Op 10 No 6; Mélodie, Op 3 No 3: Polichinelle, Op 3 No 4: Etude-tableau in E flat minor. Op 33 No 6: Polka de WR
BBC Birmingham followed by an interlude

Second of eight programmes juxtaposing Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with music by the foremost proponents of the "neo-classical" style - to include the complete Kammermusik series by Hindemith.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F: Munich Bach Orchestra, conducted by Karl Richter
Hindemith Kammermusik No 1, for 12 instruments
Concerto Amsterdam
Stravinsky Concertino for 12 instruments: Boston Symphony Chamber Players: records

(Stereo)

from Guildford Cathedral Responses (Morley)
Psalms 73. 74 (Soaper. Smart. S. S. Wesley, Crotch. W. Morley ) Lessons: Deuteronomy 7, vv 6-11; Hebrews 4, vv 11-16 Canticles (Dyson in D)
Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks (Herbert Howells)
Organist and Master of the Choristers PHILIP MOORE
Sub-organist ANTHONY FROGGATT

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY KRIPS with artists on records

(continued)

Language and Communication

6.30 Starting Chinese: Part 2: Speaking Chinese
Programme 5: Introduced by Lucia Liu and Terry Chang
Script by David Pollard
(Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)

7.0 Euromagazine II: Sechs Sendungen uber das heutige Leben in den deutschsprachigen Landern: 1: Trauben, Flaschen und Glaser
Am Mikrophon Michael Mellinger: Regie Rodney Mantle

Opera in two parts by HansvWerner Henze Text by EDWARD BOND) direct from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
(first broadcast performance)
Henze's first opera since The Bassarids of 1965 (and the playwright Edward Bond 's first-ever libretto) is set in an imaginary Empire torn by revolution. The action takes place on an enlarged stage divided into three areas, each housing its own orchestra.
Soldiers, madmen, madwomen. attendants, officers, victims, ministers, ladies, young ladies. young girls, whores, assassins, officials, gentlemen: SOLOISTS of THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN, MEMBERS OF THE ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON Producer HANS WERNER HENZE Assisted by DAVID POUNTNEY Part 1

by Seamus Heaney
An edited, studio version of a lecture given by the Irish poet to the Royal Society of Literature in October 1974.

Part 2

Richard Feynman , Nobel prize-winner and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, in conversation with John Maddox about his life and the current fervour in high energy physics.
Editor THELMA RUMSEY

plays Chopin Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat, Op 22 gramophone record