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Wagner Overture: Die Feen LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI
7.18* Saint-Saens Danse macabre: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
7.25* Kuhlau Incidental music from Elf-Hill, Op 100: ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHAN HYE-KNUDSEN : records

Johann Strauss Overture: Die Fledermaus
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
8.13* Lanner Waltz: Der Romantiker, Op 167: JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA OF VIENNA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.211 Mozart Horn Concerto No 4, in E flat (K 495)
BARRY TUCKWELL , ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.37* Josef Strauss Waltz : Music of the spheres, Op 235
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.47* Schubert Hunters' Chorus (Rosamunde)
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHORUS
AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.49* Waldteufel Waltz: The Grenadiers: PRILHARMONIA PROMENADE ORCHESTRA, conducted by HENRY KRips : records

Guillaume de Machaut , vho died 600 years ago, was perhaps the greatest composer of the Middle Ages, as well as being a recognised poet. He was the first individual that we know of to compose a setting of the Mass ; but today's programme concentrates on his favourite secular forms: the Ballade, Rondeau, Motet and Virelai.
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW gramophone records

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
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MAX ROSTAL (violin)
COLIN HORSLEY (piano)
Recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on the occasion of Max Rostal s 70th birthday in October 1975
Debussy Sonata in G minor Busoni Sonata No 2, Op 36a 10.55* Max Rostal, in conversation with JOHN DOUGLAS TODD , looks back on his life and career.
11.10* Concert Part 2
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer); Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3
Brahms Scherzo (FAE Sonata)
(Max Rostal , viola: Wed 10.45 pm)

conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM with VERONICA JOCHUM (piano)
Werner Egk French Suite after harpsichord pieces by Rameau Bartok Piano Concerto No 3

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 4, In e minor, Op 98
(Bavarian Radio recording)

Teddy Wilson , the pianist and band leader, talks to Charles Fox about his long career in jazz. Early influences on his playing were Earl Hines , Fats Waller and Art Tatum. At the start of the 30s he worked in the orchestras of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Willie Bryant , before becoming one of the founder members of the Benny Goodman Trio. During that decade he organised many all-star recording sessions using musicians such as Lester Young, Johnny Hodges and the singer Billie
Holiday. Since leaving Goodman, he has led several of his own ensembles, ranging from a big band to trios. The programme is illustrated with records covering the various phases of his career.

Opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO PUTTINI Music by Haydn (sung in Italian)
The second in a series of Haydn operas presented by the European Broadcasting Union
LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Italian coach MARIO SALERNO Sound co-ordinator
HANS LAUTERSLAGER
Producer ERIK SMITH Act 1

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them
Eric Warr offers some thoughts on Equipping the Composition Student.

Acts 2 and 3 (Jessye Norman with the Scottish National Orchestra: Thursday 7.30 pm)

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, to share the problems and the pleasures.

Quartet No 1
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)

(piano)
Part 1 Mozart
Variations on Unser dummer Pobel meint, from Gluck's Pilger von Mekka
Sonata in E flat major (K 282)
Fantasia and Sonata in c minor .(K 475 and K 4S7)
7.10* Interval Reading
7.15* Recital Part 2
Bartok Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs
(Introduced by Lili Kraus )
Schubert Impromptu in E flat (D 899); Landler (D 145), Nos 1-11; Sonata in A major (D 959)
BBC Music Guide: Schubert Piano Sonatas, 35p Jrom bookshops

Some 200 drawings have recently been discovered on the walls in and below Michelangelo'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,;

Das Lied von der Erde
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) JAMES KING (tenor)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone record

A musical reconstruction of Pindar's famous Ode Olympian I
One important aspect of the original Olympic Games was the dedication by a poet of an ode celebrating a great victory. But how was it sung? What did it sound like? This programme gives one possible answer in an exciting version by Enno Dugend , embodying the rhythm and accents of the original in a haunting piece of music.
Readers: DENIS MCCARTHY
ANTHONY SMEE , ROGER SNOWDON Compiled and produced by JOHN THEOCHARIS

A sequence of late Renaissance music for two and three lutes played by KONRAD RAGOSSNIG JURGEN HUBSCHER
DIETER KIRSCH gramophone record

LIPA HORENSTEIN (baritone) sings and introduces Yiddish folksongs with BRUNO RAIKIN (piano)