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A survey of the string quartet in the Romantic era, including at least one example by almost every composer of note who tackled the form.
Brahms Quartet No 2, in A minor, Op 51 No 2 AMADEUS QUARTET
8.35* Berwald Quartet in E flat BENTHIEN QUARTET: records

Strauss Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra MANFRED WEISE ,
WOLFGANG LIEBSCHER , DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA, conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
9.24* Weber Aria: Ocean, thou mighty monster (Oberon)
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) BERLIN OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER
9.33* Elgar Symphony No 1, in A flat, Op 55: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Schubert's Other Unfinished: the Oratorio Lazarus, discussed by GERALD ABRAHAM.
A Name to Conjure With: NICHOLAS KENYON examines the potentialities of BACH.
Recollections of the pianist ADELA VERNE on the occasion of her centenary,

Recorded in February 1966, including a Busoni rarity - in celebration of his centenary, Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 8, in r

Julian Mitchell , writer and critic

Part 2 Busoni Piano Concerto in c: with PIETRO SCARPINI (piano) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS
(male voices) (Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)

NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHOIR with WERNER SCHRÖTER (piano) HANOVER BOYS' CHOIR director HEIN HENNIG conducted by HELMUT FRANZ
Reger Three Choruses, Op 6, for mixed voices and piano
Strauss An den Baum Daphne, for nine-part chorus (1943)
Last in a series made available by an EBU exchange scheme
(North German Radio recording)

Antony Hopkins

Opera in four acts
(sung in Italian: records)
How far will a man go to follow a girl he loves? In this pre-Boheme opera, based on the PRÉVOST novel, Des Grieux accompanies Manon to America on a convict ship; but even this chance of a new life together fails to bring them happiness,
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI Acts 1 and 2

The year 1867 saw the first-unsuccessful - attempt at persuading Parliament to extend the vote to women. In the same year, Frederick (later Lord) Leighton painted his first significant neo-classical work - Venus Disrobing for the Bath.
Fraser Harrison , author of a forthcoming book on Victorian sexuality, argues that by idealising the female figure Leighton helped reinforce the late-Victorian status quo by gratifying the masculine thirst for superiority.

Acts 3 and 4

Presented by Dr Martin Bax 4: The Competent Infant
The first six months of life for the infant human are characterised by an astonishing rate of learning of skills-proportionately greater than at any other time during the individual's life. The infant uses these skills to manipulate the relationship it develops with the adults around him, Contributors include:
DR T. BERRY BRAZLETON.
DR AIDAN MACFARLANE. DR COLWYN TREVAR-THEN, PROF H. R. SCHAFFER and DR MARY SHERIDAN
An abridged version of this series appeared in THE LISTENER. Back numbers or offrprints as available, price £1.75 (inc postage), from' [address removed]

Fifth of six programmes MEDICI QUARTET with ALAN HACKER (clarinet)
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate letters)
Lutyens Tre, Op 94, for clarinet; Mare et Minutiae, for string quartet (first performance)
6.25* Interval Reading
6.30* Concert Part 2 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A (K 581)
BBC Manchester

First of three programmes Music for voices and viols
How art thou thralled; The silver swan; Nay, let me weep; Do not repine, fair sun CONSORT OF MUSICKE director ANTHONY ROOLEY

by Karel and Josef Capek
Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver and adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax
Adapted for radio by Ian Cotterell; Music by David Cain
[Starring] Anthony Jackson as The Tramp
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on R4)

direct from the New Theatre,
Cardiff Anne Edwards (soprano)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra guest leader JULIAN CUMMINGS conductor Boris Brott
Mahler Symphony No 4
(Given in conjunction with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales

Hugh Trevor-Roper , Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, suggests that the argument about devolution is an argument about the end of the Act of Union. This would involve an historic change; yet almost all the present discussion has turned on immediate tactics, divorced from their historical context. followed by an interlude

George Malcolm on The Performer's Role in Creation - the theme of tomorrow's EBU Concert at 7.30 pm.

167: Ihr Menschen, ruhmet Gottes Liebe: IRENE SANDFORD (soprano)
BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) FRANK PATTERSON (tenor)
WILLIAM YOUNG (bass), GUINNESS CHOIR, NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, leader MARY GALLAGHER conducted by JOHN BECKETT
(A public concert in St Ann 's Church, Dublin, in Feb 1975)