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Hofstetter Cassation in c, Op 3 No 6
MICHAEL SCHAFFER (lute) EVA NAGORA (violin) THOMAS BLEES (cello)
7.17* Beethoven Sextet in E flat, Op 71
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS
7.34* Sibelius Symphony No 7, in c
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL

Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 32, in G (Overture in the Italian Style) (K 318): ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.14* Schubert Moderato from the Quartet in G (from Matiegka's Notturno, Op 21) (D 96) OSCAR GHIGLIA (guitar) BRUNO PASQUIER (viola) PAUL BOUFIL (cello) 8.22* Chabrier Joyeuse marche
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
8.26* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 5, in F
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT TOULOUSE CAPITOLE ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHEL PLASSON gramophone records

Beethoven
Arrangements and Transformations
String Quintet in E flat, Op 4 (Beethoven's reworking of his Octet for wind instruments) ENDRES STRING QUARTET
With SIEGFRIED MEINECKE (Viola) gramophone record

2: Hanover Square Rooms
First part of the history of a building which was at the centre of London's concert life for a century, including music associated with the Bach-Abel subscription concerts and Haydn's visits to this country.
J. C. Bach Symphony No 2, in B flat, for wind instruments LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER
9.50* Abel Concerto in B flat PIERRE FEIT (oboe) DIETER KLÖCKER (clarinet) JAAP SCHRODER (Violin) directing the CONCERTO AMSTERDAM 10.8* Haydn Symphony No 94, in G (Surprise): LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGEN jochum : records

played by CHRISTOPHER HERRICK at Westminster Abbey
Guilmant Grand choeur, in E flat
Mathias Toccata giocoso
Liszt Ave maris stella; Fantasy and Fugue on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam

NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA with MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG (piano) Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 8, in F major
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Concert Part 2
Rachmaninov 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
(North German Radio recording)

Leslie Howard (piano) direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Liszt Scherzo and March; Prelude on Bach's Weinen, Klagen; Variations on Bach's Weinen, Klagen; Harmonies poétiques et religieuses; Mephisto Waltz No 2
(Given before an invited audience. Applications for tickets to: [address removed])

Opera in three acts, with words and music by THE COMPOSER
Joplin's simple folk tale of the foundling girl who leads her people from the darkness of ignorance and superstition into the light of humanity and reason.
Her adopted parents:
Conjurors:
Orchestrations and arrangements by GUNTHER SCHULLER who conducts the original cast, chorus and orchestra of the Houston Grand Opera production: records

Concerto in F major, for harpsichord and strings EDOARDO FARINA
I SOLISTI VENETI directed by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Salzburg Festival)

In the last 30 years there has been an awakening of interest in music for student wind bands, and their proficiency has sparked off commissions from leading composers.
This is the first of two programmes devoted to this new, lively contemporary music.
Kabalevsky, arr Walter Beeler Overture: Colas Breugnon ITHACA COLLEGE BAND conducted by WALTER BEELER
4.0* Persichetti Symphony No 6, Op 69: NEW ENGLAND
CONSERVATORY WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by FRANK L. BATTISTI
4.16* Virgil Thomson A Solemn Music (mono)
4.24* Gould West Point Symphony (mono)
4.46* Barber Commando March (mono): EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by FREDERICK FENNELL gramophone records

from Portsmouth Cathedral
Introit: Omnes de Saba venient (Handel)
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 65 (Hanforth); 66 (At-kins); 67 (Lloyd)
Lessons: Isaiah 63, v 15 to 64, v 5; Ephesians 5, vv 1-14
Canticles (Armstrong in D minor)
Anthem: Behold I make all things new (Rose)
Hymn: 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
Organist and Master of the Choristers CHRISTOPHER GOWER Assistant Organist HUGH DAVIS BBC Bristol

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Language and Communication
6.30 Punti di vista
A second-stage course by JOHN INSOLE and MARIA LAURA FRANCIOSI 11: Pasta e vino
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA
(Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
Book 80p, 2 LPs (or 2 cassettes) fl-20 (12.81) each, from bookshops
7.0 Sur le vif
Une série de programmes basés sur des interviews faits en Bretagne
11: J'habitais une petite ville Présenté par GILLES DATTAS et ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER
Script par ANNE GRUNEBERG (Rptd: Sun 3.0 pm R4 VHF)
Book 2 £1.25, Record 2 £1.73, Cassette 2 f2.81, from bookshops

direct from
St John 's, Smith Square SZYMON GOLDBERG (violin) JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) ANNE COLLINS (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN pools BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN POOLE
Haydn Symphony No 95, in c minor
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in D major (K 218)

Some 200 drawings have recently been discovered on the walls in and below Michel angelo 's Medici Chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, some of them thought to be by Michelangelo's own hand. John Shearman , Professor of the History of Art in the University of London, considers their potential importance to Michelangelo studies.

Part 2 Mozart
Vesperae de Dominica (K 321)
(Tickets, price £l.00, are available from lbbs and Tillett in advance, or at the door)

When Time Began
Introduced by John Maddox
According to one theoretical model of the universe, about 10,000 million years ago, when all the material in the universe was in a compact, dense form. there was a stupendous explosion - the ' big bang ', Why did it take place? How did it give rise to the galaxies and stars? Professor Martin Rees , Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, discusses some of the fundamental questions presently being asked in cosmology.
Editor MICHAEL BRIGHT followed by an interlude

Music from three decades of this Greek composer (1904-1949) Sonata for violin (1925)
From the 32 Piano Pieces (1940): Passacaglia; Katastrophe auf dem Urwald: Intermezzo: Vierstimmiger kleiner
Kanon Andante and Scherzo (Duo for violin and cello. 1947)
Little Suite No 1. for piano (1936)
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin)
AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello)
ALEXANDER ABERCROMBIE (piano)
(first broadcasts of the last three piano pieces and the suite)