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Last programme in the series Quartet in G, Op 9 No 3 Sonata in D (H xvi 33)
RUDOLF BUCHBINDER (piano) Quartet in G, Op 17 No 5
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET: records

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Berlioz Overture: Les francsjuges: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, cond by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.18* Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht
ANNELIES BURMEISTEO (contralto) EBERHARD BUCHNER (tenor) SIEGFRIED LORENZ (bass) LEIPZIG RADIO CHOIR
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT MASUR
9.49* Spohr Concertante No 1
HANSHEINZ SCHNEEBERGER (Violin) URSULA HOLLIGER (harp)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER-LUKAS GRAF
10.13* Schoenberg Song of the Wood Dove, for soprano and chamber orchestra (Gurrelieder): ANNA REYNOLDS LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The techniques of musical detective work by ROGER FISKE.
'Harmoniums be miserable things for such a divine thing as music': GORDON REYNOLDS questions Grandfather Wil liam's dismissal.

MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by ELIANU INBAL Part 1 Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor

Frederic Raphael
(Repeated: Thursday 11.55 am)

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 10, in E minor (Hess Radio recording)

given by Konrad Ragossnig
Besard Air de Court; Branle; Guillemette; Volte
Ballard Branles de Village
Dowland The Earle of Essex Galiard; Sir John Smith , his Almain
Bach Suite in G minor (awv 995); Fugue in G minor (bwv 1000) (South German Radio recording of a concert at this year's Schwetzingen Festival)

MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Piano Trio in F minor, Op 65
Five Bagatelles, Op 47, for two violins, cello and harmonium

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by BERNARD HAITINK direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Malcolm Arhold Philharmonic Concerto (Commissioned by Commercial Union Assurance: world premiere)
3.30* Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491)

by Geoffrey Grigson
3: The Idea o/ a Border

Part 2 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Is one of today's leading French historians, a man whose work has reached a wide public on account of his versatility, his eclecticism and his evocative flair as a writer. ROBIN BRIGGS , Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, assesses the work of Le Roy Ladurie and, in particular, his important recent work Montaillou, Village Occitan.

MARGHERITA RINALDI (soprano) AMERAL GUNSON (contralto) UGO BENELLI (tenor)
JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) JULES BASTIN (bass)
BBC SINGERS, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT HANDT : records

A series of seven programmes presented by Dr Martin Bax 5: Towards Language
Crying is the first act of the infant that has an impact on the environment. Between then and the acquisition of true language, the baby produces long streams of sounds and sequences of gestures that play an important Tole in eliciting parental responses. Are these gestures a form of pre-speech? Contributors include: DR JUDY DUNN , DR KEVIN MURPHY , DR PETER OSTWALD , DR MARTIN RICHARDS and DR COLWYN TREVARTHEN

at the organ of Blackburn Cathedral
Durufle Toccata (Suite, Op 5) gramophone records

Narrow Road to the Deep North A comedy by EDWARD BOND adapted for radio by THE AUTHOR with Michael Aldridge
John Rowe. Gillian Martell and Nigel Hawthorne
In Japan about the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries, the poet Basho witnesses the triumph and becomes involved in the downfall of Shogo, the dictator who builds up the city in his own image, before being destroyed by barbarians who fight with cannons and Christianity.
Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Lynn Harrell (cello)
Michael Isador (piano)
Mendelssohn Sonata in D, Op 58 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor
9.50* Interval Reading
S.55* Music from Pebble Mill: part 2
Debussy Sonata in D minor
Bach Suite No 1, in G, for cello (BWV 1007)
Tchaikovsky Pezzo Capriccioso Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brillante
(Given at the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, on 22 October) BBC Birmingham

Derek Jewell this week features the music Of MANFRED MANN 'S EARTH BAND, from their seventh and latest - and in his opinion their finest - album, The Roaring Silence. There is music too, from the quasi-symphonic keyboard soloist VANGELIS, and from LINDA RON -STADT: records