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A weekly series of pieces based on all kinds of dance forms. including this week: English Dances by Malcolm Arnold , Chabrier's Quadrille on themes by Wagner. Corelli 's Oboe Concerto (arr BarbirollU. the Polonaise de Concert by Wieniawski, and some of Skalkottas's Greek Dances. gramophone records

Mendelssohn Overture: Athalia NEW PIIILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
9.16* Glazunov Chant du Ménestrel, for cello and orchestra
9.21* Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
9.56* Respighi Trittico Botticelliano
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Smetana Quartet with Josef Palenicek (piano) Part 1
Smetana: String Quartet No 1, in E minor (From my life)
Martinu: Piano Quintet No 2

George Malcolm talks about the performer's role in creation.

Part 2 Shostakovich
String Quartet No 3, in F, Op 73 (Czech Radio recording)

presents a selection of records, familiar and unfamiliar.

Some perennial characters poetically illustrated and introduced by Michael Schmidt 12: A Plain Country Fellow Readers: DAVID MAHLOWE and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Miriam Fried (violin)
Clifford Benson (piano) in the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House. London
Bach Sonata in B minor (Bwv 1014)
Ravel Sonata in G
Mozart Adagio in E major (K 261)
Bartok six Romanian Folk Dances

Franco Zeffirelli , director, presents his personal choice of records.

Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812 (with chorus): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Haydn Variations on the Imperial Hymn (slow movement of String Quartet in c. Op 76 No 3): AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Hamlet
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV Haydn Unfinished string quartet in B flat major and D minor, OP 103: AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Romeo and Juliet
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Two Chopin Pianists
JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE introduces recordings by two pianists whose reputations as Chopin interpreters had their beginnings in the 19th century: Vladimir de Pachmann and Moritz Rosenthal

Eight programmes written and presented by Ian Mclntyre
6: Books Will Speak Plain - Anglo- American Relations in Literature
Speakers: DANIEL J. BOORSTIN , MALCOLM BRADBURY , OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS. ANDREW HOOK, JESSICA MITFORD , ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR , STEPHEN SPENDER and LARRY ZIFF. Producer MICHAEL MASON (First broadcast on R4)

Vivien Townley (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Francis Egerton (tenor), Paul Hudson (bass) Richard Rodney Bennett and Susan Bradshaw (pianos), Anne Shasby and Richard McMahon (pianos), James Holland, Terence Emery, David Johnson, Kevin Nutty, John Chimes, Peter Greenham (percussion)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis

direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Part I

Stravinsky: Les noces (sung in Russian)

Stephen Koss , Professor of History at Columbia University, gives a single talk in this series. Professor Koss is a specialist in modern British political history, and the author of Asquith, a political life, published this week.

Part 2 Brian Chapple
Scherzos for four pianos (World Premiere)

2: Once Across the Channel.... Michael Norton introduces the travel handbooks of John Murray, most of them dating from the 1830s. Reader JOHN RYE Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

Part 3 Hoist The Planets

John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, first met the Poet Laureate in Oxford more than 50 years ago. He talks about the life and verse of his old friend, who celebrates his 70th birthday today.
( Betjeman revisits places of his Childhood in Summoned by Bells- BBC1 tomorrow
10.10 pm)

died 28 August 1676
The first of three programmes introduced by HUGH KEYTE
Requiem Mass a 7: BBC SINGERS CECIL JAMES (bassoon)
ANDREW PARROTT (organ) conductor KERRY WOODWARD