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Listeners' record requests
Boyce Overture to the New Year's Ode. 1758
LAMOUREUX CONCERTS ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS
7.9* Bach Cantata No 50: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR
CHORUS VIENNENSIS
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
7.13* Mozart Piano Concerto No 9, in E flat (K 271)
ALFRED BRENDEL , ZAGREB SOI.OISTS conducted by ANTONIO JANIGRO
7.47* Corelli Concerto Grosso No 3, in c minor: ACADEMY or ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER

Part 2
Massenet Meditation (Thais) STEVEN STARYK (violin)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.11* Chabrier Souvenirs de Munich: RENA KYRIAKOU and WALTER KLIEN (piano duet)
8.17* Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3. in B minor. Op 61 HENRYK SZERYNG , MONTE CARLO
OPERA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDUARD VAN REMOORTEL
8.44* Prokofiev Excerpts from the Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDO DE WAART

Prokofiev
Quintet in G minor, Op 39 PETER GRAEME (oboe)
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass)
9.24* Piano Concerto No 4 (for the left hand). Op 53
RUDOLF SERKIN , PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY : records

from the Metropolitan Pro-Cathedral. Dublin, played by the Titular Organist, GERARD GILLEN
Bach Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi. Op 3 No 11 (BWV 596) Franck Grande Piece Symphonique. BBC Northern Ireland

with Kenneth Essex (viola)
Mozart String Quintets in c minor (K 406) and D (K 593)
(One of a series of concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in association with. the BBC) BBC Manchester

Their Treatment of Similar Subjects
Roger Green (piano)
Ravel Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)
Debussy Ondine (Preludes, Book ii)
Ravel La vallee des cloches (Miroirs)
Debussy Cloches a travers les feuilles (Images, Series n)
Debussy La puerta del vino (Preludes, Book it)
Ravel Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
BBC Wales

leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON with JOHN LILL (piano) Part 1 lain Hamilton Aurora
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G

Part 2 Balaklrev
Symphony No 1, in c
(A public concert given in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on 15 January)
BBC Manchester

6: Franz Lehar 's Autumn Harvest
MICHAEL HARDWICK talks about some of the successes in Lehir's later years and plays excerpts from Frederica and The Land of Smiles. gramophone records

A further hearing of a recital given by CHRISTOPHER BUNTING (cello) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Christopher Bunting Elegy for cello and piano
Francis Routh Sonata for cello Reger Sonata in A minor, Op 116, for cello and piano )

director LEONARD FRIEDMAN
Boyce Symphony No 3, in c
Mudge Concerto No 4, in a minor
Avison Concerto in E minor
Locke Overture and Interlude (Psyche)
Purccll Chaconne in G minor BBC Scotland

Fourth in a series of five weekly programmes featuring the sounds of leading folk singers and instrumentalists from different regions of Czechoslovakia.
Today's programme is of love songs from Southern Bohemia, performed by the singers EVA PECKOVA
HANA HANEREROVA
JIRI POSPISIL
VERA ROZSYPALOVA with the CHOREA BOHEMICA ENSEMBLE and the PILSEN FOLK ENSEMBLE
(Recording made available by courtesy of Czech Radio)

from Norwich Cathedral Versicles and Responses (Morley)
Psalms 108 and 109 (Elvey, Smart. Hylton Stewart)
Lessons: Proverbs 4, vv 10-19; Acts 14. vv 8-23
Canticles (Howells in B minor) Anthem: 0 Lord. arise into thy resting place (Weelkes)
Organist and Master of the Choristers MICHAEL NICHOLAS
Organ Scholar THOMAS CORFIELD BBC Birmingham

A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.

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Language and Communication
6.30 Starting Chinese
Twenty-five programmes for beginners in spoken Mandarin. Part 2: Speaking Chinese
Programme 14: introduced by LUCIA LIU ami TERRY CHANG
Script by DAVID POLLARD
Book, Parts I and 2, 60p; Record, 97p, from bookshops (Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
7.0 You Said It
Six programmes on how we speak English. 5: Grammar
Is it really wrong to split your infinitives or to say ' He's bigger than me '? FRANK PALMER looks at the grammar of everyday speech.

leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by JANOS FÜRST with KYUNG-WHA CHUNG (violin) Berg Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E fiat major (Eroica) BBC Scotland

When the Sun Lost its Spots Introduced by John Maddox
For the past thousand years a regular feature of solar activity has been the 11-year sun spot cycle, except for a 70-year period at the end of the 17th century when astronomers reported very little sun spot activity. PROFESSOR JOHN EDDY , an astronomer on the Special Project Staff of the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, believes that the record indicates a period when solar activity all but stopped, and that this is unlike the regular and repeatable behaviour of the sun which we have come to accept as normal.
Editor MICHAEL BRIGHT

String Quartet in r, Op 135 HUNGARIAN QUARTET gramophone records
BBC Music Guide: Beethoven String Quartets in two volumes, 70p each from bookshops

A hundred years ago George Eliot wrote her last great novel. Throughout the work music plays an essential part in the plot.
Marghanita Laski investigates the sources from which George Eliot drew her inspiration, and Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson re-create the music, both real and fictional, of the novel.

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad. followed by an interlude