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Listeners' record requests Scarlatti Sinfonia in B flat
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
7.10* Soler Concerto No 3, In G, for two organs MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN
LUIGI-FERDINANDO TAGLIAVINI
7.19* Boccherini, arr Grlitzmacher Cello Concerto in B flat JACQUELINE DU PRE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
7.42* Verdi Stabat Mater PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI

Part 2
Liszt Concert Paraphrase on the Miserere from Verdi's II Trovatore
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
8.14. Elgar Serenade In a minor, for string orchestra ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.26 Strauss Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 8 ULF HOELSCHER
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
Requests,onpostcardsplease, to: Your Midweek Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Tchaikovsky
Quartet in B flat (1865)
9.19* Quartet No 1, in D, Op 11 BORODIN STRING QUARTET gramophone record

led by COLIN SAUER conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Handel Overture: Alexander's Feast
Bliss Music for strings
Haydn Symphony No 43. In I flat (Mercury). BBC Bristol

SUSAN MCGAW (piano)
JANET HILTON (clarinet) KEITH swallow (piano) Part 1
Haydn Sonata in c (H xvi 48)
Busoni Elegy , for clarinet and piano
Paul Patterson Conversations, for clarinet and piano

Andrew Sinclair , the novelist and historian, reflects on some of the things we say and write.
(B'cast on Christmas Sunday)

Part 2 Debussy Five Etudes
Brahms Sonata No 2. in * flat, forclarinetandpiano
(Given in the Theatre Workshop, University of Liverpool, in February) BBC Manchester

ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor SIR CHARLES GROVES Part 1
Elgar Overture: Froissart
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

Part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
BBC Manchester

ANTHONY ROLFE-JOHNSON (tenor) with DAVID WILLISON (piano) Part 1
Quilter Where be you going?; Through the sunny garden; The valley and the hill; In the highlands; Spring is at the door; Over the land is April
1.58* Howard Ferguson Dis covery: Dreams melting; The freedom of the city; Babylon; Jane Allen ; Discovery

Penelope Feather , an amateur musician and professional studio manager, reflects on the problems created by the modern differentiation between amateurism and professionalIsm.

Part 2 Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel: The vagabond; Let beauty awake; The roadside fire; Youth and love; In dreams; The infinite shining heavens; Whither must I wander?; Bright Is the ring of words: I have trod the upward and the downward slope BBC Birmingham

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES Dvorak Overture: Carnival Sibelius Valse triste
Ravel Suite: Le tombeau de Couperin
Delius A song before sunrise
Bryan Kelly Improvisations on Christmas carols
Lehar Overture: The Merry Widow

Haydn Quartet in E, Op 54 No 3 Mozart Quartet in A (K 464) DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET

from Wakefield Cathedral

Introit: How Far is it to Bethlehem (John Turner)
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 142, 143 (Bayley, Lloyd)
Lessons: Isaiah 49, vv 1-6; Philippians 3, vv 1-6
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: Verbum caro factum est (Shepherd)
Hymn: Hark, the herald angels sing (Carols for Choirs, 14)

BBC Manchester

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL with artists on records

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Language and Communication
6.30 Punti di vista
The second of three revision and holiday programmes 2: In giro per Firenze
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA
Script by MARIA LAURA FRANCIOSI
7.0 Sur Ie vif
SpGcial-Vacances 2
Le deuxieme de trois programmes de revision avec ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER et GILLES DATTAS
Script par ANNE GRUNEBERG

ROGER WOODWARD (piano) SNO CHORUS
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader EDWIN PALING conductor ALEXANDER GIBSON Wagner A Faust Overture
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3. in c

R. W. Burchfield , Editor of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that Webster's Third New International, attacked for permitting a fall in standards when it was published in 1961, and issued this year with a supplement of new words and meanings, has not affected usage in the way critics think.

Part 2 Liszt A Faust Symphony (A public concert given in the City Hall, Glasgow, on 10 April) 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 tittle 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 (Revised repeat) followed by an interlude

The fourth of six programmes recorded at the new Schubert festival, given in the Austrian town of Hohenems in May MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
Quartet-Movement in c minor (D 703); Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the Maiden) (Austrian Radio recording)

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