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Listeners' record requests
Mozart Divertimento No 4, in B flat (K 186)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
7.17* Mendelssohn Three pieces for string quartet, Op 81: Tema con varazioni; Scherzo:
Capriccio GABRIELI QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
7.32* Hummel Concerto in c, for violin, piano and orchestra SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER
MARTIN GALLING
STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER PAULMULLER

Part 2
Chabrier Habanera
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
8.9* Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 5. for soprano and eight cellos MADY MESPLE
MEMBERS OF
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL CAPOLONGO
8.21* Albeniz orch. Arbos Movements from Iberia
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Midweek Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Vaughan Williams
Five Tudor Portraits
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE (Contralto) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
BACH CHOIR
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records

Messiaen L'ascension played by STUART CAMPBELL
BBC Scotland

Loewe Saul vor seiner letzten Schlacht: Saul und Samuel
Mendelssohn Keine von der Erde Schonen ; Schlafloser Augen Leuchte
Wolf Sonne der Schlummerlosen: Keine gleicht von alien
Schonen Schumann Ratsel ; Aus den hebraischen Gesangen; Die Tochter Jephthas: An den Mond; Dem Helden
CAROLE ROSEN (contralto) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) with some of the poems read by PETER BARKER

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conductor PAAVO BERGLUND with WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Schubert Symphony No 4 (Tragic I
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Concert Part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 6 BBC Bristol

A weekly series of Concerts given by artists of the younger generation This week:
Homero Francesch (piano) Mozart Sonata in c (K 309)
Schumann Kinderscenen , Op 15 Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets to: [address removed])
(Homero Francesch is the soloist in Friday's Midday Prom)

Symphony No 2, in c minor (Resurrection!
NORMA BURROWES (soprano) ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) CBSO CHORUS chorus-master PETER JAMES
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader FELIX KOK conductor LOUIS FRÉMAUX Part 1
2.19* Tony Church reads from the correspondence between Mahler and Max Marschalk following the first performance of the Resurrection Symphony in 1895. 2.29* Mahler Part 2
(Tony Church is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
BBC Birmingham

Introduced and directed by David Munrow with James Bowman (counter-tenor)
A second chance to hear the Robert Mayer Concert given in the Royal Festival Hall on 23 November 1974

A Renaissance Festival

Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo)

Anthony Holborne The Fairie Round from Pavans, Galliards, Almaines and other Short Aeirj (1599)

Schein Padouana from the Banchetto Musicale (1617)

Giorgio Malnerio Caro Ortolano from Il Primo Libro di Ballo (1578)

Praetorlus Bransle Double from Terpsichore (1612)

Hans Leo Hassler Intrada VI from the Lustgarten (1601)

anon. English 16th-century Le rossignol from the Jane Pickering Lute Book

Byrd Fantasy in four parts

anon. 16th-century La Volta

Giovanni Gabrieli Canzona XIII in twelve parts

Monteverdi Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Salve Regina

Monteverdi Arnalta's Lullaby (L'Incoronazione di Poppea)

Morley Lute song: It was a lover and his lass

Susato Seven Dances from the Danserye (1551): La Mourisque: Branle: Quatre Branles; Allemaine and recoupe; Basse danse: Bergeret sans roch and reprise: Pavane: Mille Regretz; Ronde; Pavane: La Bataille

(Repeat)
(There are still some tickets available for the 1976/77 Season of Robert Mayer Concerts. For further details please write, enclosing SAE to: [address removed])

from Liverpool Cathedral
Introit: Jesu. grant me this I pray (Percy Whitlocki
Responses (Bernard Naylor )
Psalms: 32 (Henley); 33 (Martin)
Lessons: Job 19. W 14-27; Acts 20, vv 1-16
Canticles (Sumsion in c)
Anthem: Jubilate Deo (Giovanni Gabrieli)
Organist ERNEST PRATT
Choirmaster RONALD woan BBC Manchester

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

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6.30 Punti di Vista: 1: La vita del quartiere
A second-stage course of 20 lessons by John Insole and Maria Laura Franciosi based on interviews recorded in Italy.
Introduced by Silvia Stewart and Aldo Bevacqua
(Repeat)
(Book 80p, 2 records (or 2 cassettes) £1.20 (£2.81) each, from bookshops)

7.0 New series Sur le vif: 1: Etes-vous de Poitiers?
A second-stage French course to follow Ensemble. Twenty programmes based on real-life recordings made in France.
Presente par Gilles Dattas et Anne-Marie Pelletier
Script par Anne Gruneberg Realisatrice Susan Paton
(Repeated: Sunday 3.0 pm Radio 4 VHF)
(Book 1 £1.25, Record 1 £1.73; Cassette 1 £2.81, from bookshops)
(medium wave only)

A concert recorded in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 3 September
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM Part 1: Mozart
Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)
Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
(Stereo)

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad,

Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (K 551)
BBC Scotland

The second of two programmes in which Alan Ryan. Fellow of New College, Oxford, seeks to test the validity of some of Mill's ideas in our time. 2: Mill - The Manifold A Symposium
Speakers: DR JOHN BARRELL , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, author of books on Coleridge; SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, historian of Ideas; SIR PETER MEDAWAR , biologist and philosopher of science; PEDRO SCHWARTZ , Spanish economist, author of a work on Mill's economics.
Producer LEONIE COHN

A recording from the BBC Sound Archives of an early recital given by Jacqueline du Pre aged 16.
Bach Suite No 1, in G

Will our summers continue to be long and warm or are we in for another ice age?
John Maddox introduces a report on current work in climate prediction, illustrated by interviews he obtained during a recent visit to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Editor MEG SHEFFIELD

Birthday song: Come ye sons of art away
MARGARET RITCHIE (soprano) ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) BRUCE BOYCE (baritone)
RUGGERO GERLIN (harpsichord)
ST ANTHONY SINGERS
OISEAU LYRE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS

(gramophone record)