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Listeners' record requests
Stanley Concerto in 8 minor, Op 2 No 2
HURWITZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin)
7.19* Handel Duet: Per le porte del tormento (Sosarme, Act 2)
MARGARET RITCHIE (Soprano)
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) ST CECILIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS
7.29* Telemann Recorder Con- ' certo in c
FRANS BRÜGGEN
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS
7.45* Mozart Divertimento No 9. in B flat (K 240)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER

Part 2
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2 (mono)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GUIDO CANTELLI (who died 20 years ago) 8.21* Liszt, with Thalberg. Pixis, Herz, Czerny and Chopin Hexameron: grandes variations de bravoure on the March from Bellini's I Puritani SYLVIA KERSENBAUM (piano)
8.44* Lalo Prélude and Valse de cigarette (Ballet: Namouna) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Midweek Choice. BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Nielsen
Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice,
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTECT gramophone records

hugh BEAN and DAVID PARKIIOUSE
Brahms Scherzo (FAE. Sonata) Debussy Sonata in G minor
Elgar Sonata in E minor, Op 82 (From the Library Theatre. Bradford. One of a series of concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC) BBC Manchester

played by DENNIS TOWNHILL
Rheinberger Sonata No 4, in A minor
Franck Pastorale in E Leighton Paean
Buxtehude Prelude and Fugue in G minor
BBC Scotland

1786-1826
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
MARGARET CABLE (contralto) ADRIAN DE PEYER (tenor) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
WORCESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR ACADEMY OF THE BBC led by FELIX KOK conducted by DONALD HUNT Part 1
Jubel Overture
11.37' Mass in G (J 251)
12.5. Intenal Reading
12.10* Weber Part 2
Jubel Cantata (J 244)
BBC Birmingham
(Weber's Piano Sonata No 3, in D minor: Friday 4.35 pm)

A weekly series given by artists of the younger generation direct from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House, London John Bimson (horn)
Richard Nunn (piano) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
David Owen Norris (piano)
Cherubini Sonata , for horn and piano
Finzl Song-cycle: To a poet
Hindemith Sonata , for horn and piano
Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
(Given before an invited audience. Applications for tickets to: [address removed])

Die Mcistersinaer
' One must definitely listen to Wagner's opera as spoken drama, not notice the music.' Furtwangler's statement forms the starting point of ALAN BLYTH 's discussion of recordings of Die Meistersinger. He includes the voices of Schumann, Schwarzkopf, Melchior, Wolff, Domingo, Evans, Schorr, Hotter and Bailey, gramophone records

Josef Suk (violin)
Josef Chuchro (cello) Jan Panenka (piano) Part 1
Haydn Trio in D (H xv 16)
3.16* Brahms Trio in b, Op
3.45* Interval Reading
3.50* Concert Part 2
Schubert Trio in E flat (D 929)
(A public concert given in the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, on 27 February)
BBC Birmingham

The ninth programme In a series of various composers' arrangements and variations of the early Portuguese dance tune ' La Folia '
Sanz Suite espanola: Folias NARCISO YEPES (guitar)
Frescobaldl Partita sopra l'aria di Folia LISEDOR PRAETORIUS (harpsichord) Pasquini Variations on La Folia
E. POWER BIGGS (organ) gramophone records

from Durham Cathedral
Responses (Thomas Ebdon )
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Sale, Wesley, Eden)
Lessons: Zephaniah 3, w 11-20; Revelation 21. vv 1-7
Canticles (Robert Cooke in c)
Anthem: Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? (S. S. Wesley)
Organist and Master of the Choristers Richard LLOYD
Sub-Organist ALAN THURLOW BBC Manchester

A two part sequence of music for the early evening.

(continued)

Language and Communication
6.30 Puntl dl vista
A second-stage course of 20 lessons by JOHN insole and maria LAURA FRANCIOSI based on interviews recorded in Italy
10: Una lamiglia fiorentina
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA (Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
Book 80p, 2 LPs (or 2 cassettes) £1.20 (£2.81) each, from bookshops
7.0 Sur le vif
Twenty programmes based on real-life recordings made in France
10: Racontez-moi comment vous avez gagné votre médaille
Présenté par GILLES DATTAS et ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER
Script par ANNE GRUNEBERG
(Rptd: Sunday 3.0 pm R4 VHF) Book 1 £1.25 Record 1 £1.73, Cassette 1 £ 2.81, from bookshops

WREN CONSORT
Antony Ransome (baritone) David Roblou (harpsichord)
Timothy Mason (baroque cello) Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata:
Oloferne Domenico Scarlatti Cantata: Amenissimi prati

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
TAMAS VASARY (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by GÛNTER HERBIO Part 1
Tadeusz Baird Four Essays for Orchestra
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, In E minor

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Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 3, in F

An anthology of poems about musiccompiledby
Terence Tiller
Readers JANE KNOWLES
MICHAEL HARBOUR
TIMOTHY BATESON

First of seven programmes, including all Copland's published chamber music, together with a selection of works by Martimu. GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) KEITH PUDDY (clarinet) JOHN STREETS (piano)
Copland Two pieces, for string quartet (1928)
Copland Sextet (1937)
Martinu String Quartet No 5 (1938)
Introduced by ANTHONY BURTON
(Aaron Copland conducts in Youth Orchestras of the World: Friday 2.50 pm)