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WALTER KLIEN (piano)
ELLY AUEUNG (soprano) JÖRG DEMUS (piano) Sonata in F (K 332)
8.23* Sei du mein Trost (K 391)
8.27' Sonata in c (K 545)
8.37* Das Veilchen (K 476)
8.40' Sonata in B flat (K 570) gramophone records

Listeners' record requests
Balahirev Symphonic Poem: Russia
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANSHEL BRUSILOW
9.18* Rimsky Korsakov Piano Concerto in c sharp minor, Op 30:
IGOR ZHUKOV MOSCOWRADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
9.33' Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
YVONNE MINTON (contralto)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLT !
9.50* Prokofiev Five Sarcasms, Op 17: GYÖRGY SANDOR (piano)
10.1* Martinu Symphony No 4 CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MARTIN TURNOVSKY

New Works at the Proms
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT talks about his Zodiac, BRIAN CHAPPLE about his Scherzos for four pianos: and NICHOLAS NABOKOV recalls his conversations with Stravinsky over Les noces. Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Bruno Leonardo Gelber (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat

Dannie Abse reflects on some of the things we say and write. (Repeated: Friday 3.35 pm)

Part 2.Sibelius
Symphony No 1, in E minor
(West Berlin Radio recording)

International Choral Competition
Mixed Voice Class: Match 7
Australia: CORINTHIAN SINGERS
Finland: CANDOMINO, YOUTH CHOIR OF THE OLARI PARISR, ESPOO Mixed Voice Class
West Germany: MONTEVERDI-CHOR HAMBURG
Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
Producer MICHAEL MOORES

Carl Dolmetsch (recorder and treble viol) has played at every Haslemere Festival and has for many years been the Artistic Director. He introduces and directs a programme of music by composers from the 16th to the late 18th centuries, reflecting the 1974 Golden Jubilee Festival. with ANGELA BBALE (soprano) JOAN BAVIES (fortepiano)
JOSEPH SAXBY (harpsichord) DOLMETSCH ENSEMBLE

TannhSuser
Opera in three acts. Libretto by THE COMPOSER. Performed in the revised Paris version of 1861 (sung in German: records)
VIENMA STATE OPERA CHORUS VIENNA BOYS' CHORR
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
The action takes place near Eisenach, Thuringia, in the early 13th century
Act 1 Sc 1: The interior of the Venusberg; Se 2: The valley in front of the Wartburg.

1: Childhood
Patrick Howarth reads from his unpublished verse autobiography: a witty and engaging picture of the rituals of the Home Counties between the wars.
A solemn instructional session was prescribed on the mysteries of procreation.
From this it appeared that the challenge of the sexual organs,
Like those of last bowling and the parallel bars,
Could be met by the application of right moral standards.
(Part 2: Thursday 8.35 pm)

Tannhauser Act 2: The minstrels' hall in the Wartburg.
5.15* Interval Reading
5.25* The Operas of Wagner
Tannhauser Act 3: The valley in front of the Wartburg.

The Hunter Gracchus by JOHN ROBINSON with Miriam Margolyes Margaret Robertson
Philip Oxman , Peter Marinker John Robinson is a young playwright living in California. In this play he ingeniously presents a parallel action: the myth in a young man's mind and the reality to which it corresponds. and the voices of: SHIRLEY DIXON , WILLIAM EEDLE
LESLIE HERITAGE , ANNC ROSENFELD JOHN ROWE and IRENE SUTCLIFFE Music composed and devised in the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop by MALCOLM CLARKE Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Opening concert direct from the Usher Hall
SHEILA ARMSTRONO (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) THOMAS ALLEN (baSS)
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CHORUS
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader EDWIN PALING , conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich Weber Overture: Oberon
Britten Cantata Academica (Carmen Basiliense ), Op 62

European holidays in the 19th century
1: Preparing for the Trip
Michael Norton introduces the travel handbooks of John Murray , mostly dating from the 1830s.
Extracts read by JOHN RYE Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN (Part 2: next Saturday)

Part 2 Dvorak Symphony
No 9, in E minor (From the New World) BBC Scotland

In Edinburgh in the 1920s Patrick Geddes, that 'most unsettling person', as his recent biographer called him, was a biologist, a founder of town planning and one of the first 'ecologists' - a man in several ways before his time. Lewis Mumford, who had a close but stormy professional relationship with him, talks to Malcolm MacEwen.

Trepak; The Field Marshal (Songs and Dances of Death) BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
DAVID WII,LISON (piano): records

Roadside Tombstones by ARSA JOVANOVIC
This programme evokes the unnamed dead - the voices of patriots, travellers, criminals, children - who die far from home and are commemorated In the roadside tombstones of Serbia and Bosnia.
HALLAM TBNlNYSON Introduces and explains the programme, submitted by Yugoslavia to recent Italia Prize.

This week Derek Jewell features an unusual marriage between symphonic and choral rock music and bizarre literature - musical representations of Edgar Allan Poe 's Tales of Mystery and Imagination by THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT. Also BRAND x. new British jazz rock band, featuring Genesis drummer PHIL COLLINS , and the latest BEACH boys album: records