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BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
7.15* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B ftat
With STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICB
7.45* Beethoven Overture: Egmont: records

The programmes this week are centred on the four elements and include each day one of the Ritual Dances from Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage. Today: Earth
Jean-Ferry Rebel Overture (Le Chaos) from the Ballet: Les Elements: ORCHESTRE lyrique OF FRENCH RADIO conducted by ANDRÉ jouve
8.12* Tippett Ritual Dance: The Earth in Autumn (The Midsummer Marriage)
ORCHESTRA Of THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
8.20* Mahler Der Einsame im Herbst; Wo der Schonheit (Das Lied von der Erde)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.38* Stravinsky L'Adoration de la terre (Le Sacre du printemps): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO : records

1659-1695 The
Semi-Operas Purcell was only once given the opportunity to write an all-music opera - that was Dido and Aeneas; his other stage music consists of incidental music to plays, and the five semi-operas, excerpts from which we hear this week. The Masque in Dioclesian
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) HONOR SHEPPARD (soprano)
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano) / MAX WORTHLEY (tenor) PHILIP TODD (tenor)
MAURICE BEVAN (bar), CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCENTUS
MUSICUS, VIENNA conducted by ALFRED DELLER
9.43* Incidental Music for the' play Dioclesian: ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCENTUS MUSICUS, VIENNA Conducted by ALFRED DELLER gramophone records

Antony Hopkins

IDA HAENDEL (violin)
RONALD TURINI (piano)
Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat (K 378)
Franck Violin Sonata in A

leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN with PETER FRANKL (piano)
MacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Mozart Piano Concerto No 9. in E flat major (K 271)

Alan Blyth has a look at The Problem of Authenticity in 19th-Century Music: why confine our need for authenticity to ' old ' music?

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 7. in D minor
(A public concert given in the City Hall, Glasgow, on 25 Jan) BBC Scotland

direct from
St John 's, Smith Square Bartok String Quartet Peter Komlos (violin)
Sandor Devich (violin) Geza Nemeth (viola) Karoly Botvay (cello)
Bartok String Quartet No 6
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (The Lark)
(A series of public concerts from St John 's, Smith Square, London SW1. Tickets: 80p at the door)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Borodin Overture: Prince Igor Johann Strauss Waltz: Vienna Blood
Percy Grainger Colonial Song Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1
Sibelius The swan of Tuonela Chabrier Rhapsody: Espana

Last of five programmes from the second London Organ Week. presented by the London Association of Organists
A recital by KEITH JOHN , winner of the organ playing competition, at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
Bach Chorale Prelude on Wir glauben all' an einen Gott (Bwv 680)
Guillou Sinfonietta
Vierne Lamento (Pieces de fantaisie); Finale from Symphony No 1

ELI GOREN and PETER THOMAS (violins)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES TZIPINE
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Bach Concerto in D minor, for two violins and string orchestra Franck Symphony in D minor BBC Wales

THE CWS (GLASGOW) BAND conductor NIGEL BODDICE
Shipley Douglas Mephistopheles Martin Dalby Music for Brass Band
Gilbert Vinter Symphony of Marches. BBC Scotland

Atarah Ben-Tovim explores the different sounds of musical instruments in serious music. pop, rock and jazz. Each week she talks to a child who is learning an instrument.

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

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Home and Family
6.30 States of Mind
Five programmes on mental health, presented by JUNE ROSE 4: Pull Yourself Together
It is not uncommon to experience varying degrees of depression. When do ' the blues ' become a serious illness, and how can the sufferers and their families and friends best cope with depression?
7.0 pm In and Out of School
Eight programmes on aspects of education, presented by ANNE-MARIE MCNAMARA 7: Assessment
How children's difficulties are identified and assessed and the place exams, homework, continuous assessment have.

direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Opera in three acts. Libretto-by FRIEDRICH KIND. Music by Weber (sung in German;
This new production of Der Freischutz (1812) - not seen here in the last decade - marks the Royal Opera's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Weber's death which occurred in London in June 1826.
Peasants, huntsmen, invisible spirits, bridesmaids, courtiers ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA BOUSE, leader JOHN BROWN conducted by Colin Davis Producer GÖTZ FRIEDRICH
The action takes place in Bohemia shortly after the end of the 30 Years* War,
Act 1: An open space in the forest, in front of a tavern
Act 2 Sc 1: A room in Cuno's house; Sc 2: The Wolf's Glen

by Kenneth Clark
Contrasting his personality and his artistic genius with those of his contemporary Michelangelo, Lord Clark looks at the great variety of Titian's achievements at different stages of his immensely long creative career.

Act 3 Sc 1: Agathe'sroom; Sc2: The Hunters' Meet in the forest (This production is made possible by a donation from the Dresdner Bank)
(Der Freischiitz is featured in In Repertory: Wed 2.0 pm)

Concertino for 12 instruments
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS: records

Two Traditions of English Conservative Thought by Anthony Quinton.
Fellow of New College, Oxford 1: Definition and Beginnings
In the first of his four 1976 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, recorded last October at the University of' Kent, Anthony Quinton distinguishes between the secular and religious branches of conservative thought and examines the origins of the latter in the writings of the Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker.