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Schumann Quartet No 2, in F, Op 41 NO 2: ITALIAN QUARTET
8.25* Elgar Quartet in E minor, Op 83: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON QUARTET: records

Dag Wirén Serenade for strings, Op 11: BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
9.20* Sibelius Luonnotar , Op 70 GWYNETH JONES (soprano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
9.30* Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
9.53* Janacek Theme and Variations: RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano)
10.5* Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Op 20: MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Dietrich Buxtehude : PHILIP LEDGER talks about the man and his music.
It Sounds Quite Different From Here (6): The Flute.
A new look at Sullivan, by ARTHUR JACOBS.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Last programme of this series Johannes Brahms died 3 April 1897
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) TOM KRAUSE (baritone)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS
(Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording: April 1969)

John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, reflects on some of the things we say.
(Repeated: Wednesday 12.5 pm)

G minor, Op 2 No 8; E, Op 2 No 9
KENNETH SILLITO and BRENDAN O'REILLY (Violins) KEITH nARVEY (cello)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)

4: Bix Beiderbecke
Producer ALAN OWEN
(A portrait of Duke Ellington: Tuesday 10.5 pm R2 1500m)

Kinderscenen, Op 15; Fantaisie in c, Op 17
GABRIEL CHODOS (piano)

Parsifal
A sacred music drama in three acts
(sung in German)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE chorus-masternorbertbalatsch conducted by HORST STEIN
The action takes place in Northern Spain during the Middle Ages.
Act 1 Sc 1: A glade in the woods near the Castle of the Grail; Sc 2: A hall in the Castle of the Grail
4.15* At the Shrine of St Wagner ' In Parsifal there is a hermit named Gurnemanz who stands on the stage in one spot and practises by the hour, while first one and then another of the cast endures what he can of it and then retires to die ' - a sample of Mark Twain 's observations on Bayreuth 1891, read by PAUL MEIER.
4.25* Parsifal
Act 2 Sc 1: Klingsor's magic castle; Sc 2: Klingsor's magic garden
5.30* The First Performance of Parsifal
Personal reminiscences by Engelbert Humperdinck , who helped Wagner with the preparations for the premiere in 1882. PETER BARKER reads ROBERT HARTFORD'S translation.
5.40* Parsifal
Act 3 Sc 1: A pleasant landscape near the Castle of the Grail; Sc 2: The hall in the Castle of the Grail
(Bavarian Radio recording from the 1976 Bayreuth Festival)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

translated and adapted by VERA BLACKWELL with Harold Pinter as Ferdinand Vanek Audience with Peter Vaughan as the Head Maltster and Private View with Michael Bryant as Michael and Anna Massey as Vera Place: Czechoslovakia Time: the present
Ferdinand Vanek is a writer - but he works in a brewery. Audience takes place in the office of the Head Maltster of the brewery. In Private View Vanek accepts an invitation to visit Vera and Michael in their new apartment.
Audience: produced and directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI Private View: produced and directed by LIANE AUKIN
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
(Harold Pinter 's The Home-coming: Radio 4 18 April) Preview: page 21

in a concert given at the Thames Hall, Fulcrum Centre, Slough, in the presence of HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon with John Wilbraham (trumpet) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by Ivan Fischer Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in k flat major
Haydn Symphony No 83, in G minor (The Hen)

by John Ziman , Professor of Physics at Bristol University
In 1974 a young American biologist drew ink patches on the backs of some mice. In so doing he deliberately faked the results of experiments which, had they been genuine, would have produced a dramatic step forward in tissue transplantation. The story of the patchwork mouse, John Ziman argues, is a contemporary morality play set in a scientificlaboratory.

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 2, in D major

Three talks about the cross-roads of history
2: If I Had Been Kerensky in 1917 Harry Shukman, Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, considers how Kerensky, who headed the Russian government between the fall of the Tsar and the advent of Lenin, might have been able to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution.
(If I Had Been Dubcek in 1968, by Philip Windsor: 10 April) followed by an interlude

Dietrich Buxtehude
Seven Holy Week cantatas, devotions to the body of the crucified Christ
I: Ad pedes (The feet)
SARAH LEONARD (soprano) SUSAN VARLEY (soprano) FRANCIS THOMAS (baSS) BBC SINGERS
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH (baroque violin) POLLY WATERFIELD (baroque violin)
JANE RYAN (baroque cello) WALTER HILLSMAN (organ) conducted by KERRY WOODWARD