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A series to include the complete sets published as Op 9 and Op 17
String Quartet in D, Op 17 No 6 TATRAI QUARTET
Sonata in c minor (H xvi 20) RUDOLF BUCHBINDER (piano)
String Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6 TATRAI QUARTET gramophone records

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Schubert Eight Waltzes and Landler WILLI BOSKOVSKY (violin) directing the BOSKOVSKY ENSEMBLE
9.12* Schumann Davidsbiindlertanze. Op 6
MI'RRAY PERARIA (piano)
9.42* Mozart String Quintet in E flat (K 614)
AMADEUS QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
10.5* Debussy Trois chansons de Charles d'Orleans
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
10.11. Martin Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion and string orchestra
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET

This week John Amis talks to Sir Michael Tippett about Welsh National Opera's new production of A Midsummer Marriage, and to Graham John son who disputes the view that song recitals are at best only a handful of jewels without a setting, and maintains that this old concept can be transformed without any artistic concessions into a new musical event.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Dmitri Shostakovich died on 9 August 1975. That evening at America's Berkshire Music Festival
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH conducted the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In a programme of Russian music.
Tchaikovsky Fantasy: Francesca da Rimini
Shostakovich Symphony No 5. in D minor
(Recording from the Music Shed, Tanglewood, made available by courtesy of the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust)

Dannie Abse. the poet. reflects on some of the things we say. (Repeated: Friday 11.30 am)

International Choral Competition. 11: Semi-finals Youth Class: Match 1
Norway: SCHOLACANTORUM
Canada (cbc Toronto): ONTARIO YOUTH CHOIR
Equal Voice Class: Match 2 Bulgaria: SOFIA
Hungary: FEMALE CHOIR OF the PECS TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
Producer MICHAEL MOORES
(Let the Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC under the auspices of the EBU)

with Michael Evans (cello)
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (The Rider)
1.27* Berg Quartet. Op 3

Bar-lines Do Not a Prison Make Paul Hamburger talks about the time-honoured problem of metre.

Part 2
Schubert Quintet in c (D 956)
(A Music from Pebble Mill Concert, given before an invited audience at the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, last May) BBC Birmingham

Romantic opera in three acts
Music by Carl Maria von Weber Libretto by HELMINA VON CHÉZY (sung in German: records)
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI
Act I Sc 1: A hall in the Royal Castle; Sc 2: The garden of the Castle of Nevers
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Euryanthe
Act 2 Sc 1: The garden of the Castle of Nevers; Sc 2: The Hall of Columns in the Royal Castle
5.0* Interval Reading
5.5* Euryanthe
Act 3 Sc 1: A barren ravine; Sc 2: A clearing in front of the Castle of Nevers

The Order of the Middle Movements: a discussion between Denis Matthews and Andre Tchaikowsky both illustrating at the piano - followed by a performance at

Eleventh in a series of programmes in which Peter Frankl and André Tchaikowsky play all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.
This week ANDRÉ TCHAIKOWSKY plays Sonata in B Sat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
(27 September: Op 13 and Op 109)
(Edith Vogel plays the Hammerklavier tomorrow at 9.45 am)

The Jerusalem Journey by LOUISE COLLIS
...shared a place at the top end of the spectrum of excellence ... An account of Margery Kempe's 15th-century pilgrimage based on her ' Book' and other contemporary sources ... The narrative was a delight: the circumstances of the pilgrimage came vividly to the imagination.
The pilgrims are played by TIMOTHY BATESON , MICHAEL DEACON WILLIAM EEDLE , EVA HADDON
MALCOLM HAYES , PETER WOODTHORPE and God by JOHN RYE
The music made a splendid complement to the script.
Music specially composed and directed by DAVID CAIN
The soloist is MARTYN HILL
Musicians: MARTIN NICHOLLS
ROGER BRENNER. JOHN MITCHELL
When a production comes off so well. it has much to do with the quality of technical assistance. (THE TIMES) Technical assistants PETER novii ANTHEA DAVIES , ENYD CLOWES Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

In January last year COLIN DAVIS performed Sibelius 7th Symphony with the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and also made a commercial recording of the work with the same orchestra. Tonight the concert performance.
I Recording from the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust) (Tomorrow 9.0 pm: the record)

2: The Revival of Materialism by J. J. C. Smart
'There is nothing in the universe over and above the entities postulated by physics.' 4 Repeat)

for two pianists, by Roger Smalley
Introduced by him and played by him and STEPHEN SAVAGE
' So I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate to try and add another large-scale work to a not overburdened repertoire-more useful than writing another symphony or string quartet, for example. It plays uninterruptedly for just over 45 minutes, and is thus by a short head my largest piece to date. The title is to emphasise that the work was conceived very much in terms of a two-sided discussion - not an argument-which begins with a few very simpte ideas and then proceeds to extend, develop and elaborate them in a quite complex way, until at the very end unanimity is finally achieved - the " accord ". of the title.'

In this week's look at contemporary popular styles, Derek Jewell plays songs from JAMES TAYLOR 'Salbum In the Pocket and one of the most intriguing paiirings of modern times - between the Swedish coloratura soprano ALICE BASS and DUKE ELLINGTON, an album now available again after first betng recorded in 1963. There are encores, too, from the modern virtuoso of the bass JACO PASTORIUS and JOHN DAVID SOUTHER: gramophone records