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Minkus Music from La Bayadère
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by richard BONYNGE
7.16* Beethoven Abscheulicher - Komm, Hoffnung (Fidelio)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.24* Field Piano Concerto No 2, in A flat
RENA KYRIAKOU (piano)
BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by c. A. BUNTE

Dvorak The Golden Spinning-wheel, Op 109 - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Istvan Kertesz

8.31* Saint-Saens Caprice-valse: Wedding-Cake - Maria de la Pau (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Fremaux

8.38* Prokofiev Arise, ye Russian People; The Battle on the Ice (Alexander Nevsky) - London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn

Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Midweek Choice, BBC, [address removed]

Machaut
' Douce dame jolie ', ' Ma fin est mon commencement ', and other secular pieces performed by the EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW and the CAPELLA LIPSIENSIS directed by DIETRICH KNOTHE gramophone records

by ROGER FISHER at Beverley Minster
Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in c minor
Bossi Scherzo in G minor
Pachelbel Chaconne in F minor Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat (St Anne) (Bwv 552) BBC Manchester

GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
With KENNETH ESSEX (viola) Mozart Quintet in D (K 593)
10.45* Dvorak Quintet in E flat, Op 97
BBC Manchester

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them
John Rushby-Smith , composer and studio manager, views broadcast music with a musician's and a technician's ear,

conducted by GYÖRGY LEHEL With MIKLOS PBRENYI (cello) Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129

John Sparrow , Warden of AH Souls College, Oxford, reflects on some of the things we say,

Part 2 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in c minor, Op 78 with janos SEBESTYEN (organ) (Hungarian Radio recording)

A weekly series given by artists of the younger generation direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Judith Hall Trio
Judith Hall (flute)
Haflidi Hallgrimsson (cello) Stephen Rails (piano)
Haydn Trio in F (H xv 17)
Weber Trio in G minor, Op 63
Damase Sonate en concert, Op 17
(Given before an invited audience. Applications for tickets to: Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Faust
Alan Blyth discusses the recordings of Gounod's opera, with illustrations by VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES, NICOLAI GEDDA , HEDDLE NASH , LAWRENCE TIBBETT , MARCEL JOURNET , ALEXANDER KIPNIS and NICOLAI GHIAUROV.

(piano)
Scriabin Sonata No 6, Op 62
Richard Meale Coruscations (first broadcast performance in this country)
Debussy Danseuses deDelphes; Voiles
Prokofiev Sonata No 7, in B flat, Op 83

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by ALAN SUTTIE
Suppe Overture: Morning, Noon. and Night in Vienna Massenet Suite: Le Cid
Gabriel Piern6 Viennoise Grieg Air (Holberg Suite)
Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812

from the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Introit: We will rejoice in thy salvation (Rose)
Versicles and Responses (Rose) Psalms 69 and 70 (Selby. Walford Davies, Varley Roberts, Fletcher)
Lessons: Isaiah 25, vv 1-9; 1 Peter 2, vv 1-10
Canticles (Stanford in cY
Anthem: Most glorious Lord of lyfe (Armstrong Gibbs) Director of Music:,
ANDREW FLETCHER
Assistant organist:
ARTHUR HILYER. BBC Birmingham

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Language and Communication
6.30 Voci dall' Italia
Cinque programmi basati su interviste con personaggi italiani
2: Pietro Annigoni, ritrattista famosa, parla dei suoi ritratti e di Firenze.
Presentato da silvia STEWART
7.0 Faraway Food
Four programmes presented by JOHN TIDMARSH
2: Indo-Pakistani Cuisine
The British have had a long association with the South Asian sub-continent, but how much do we know about the cuisine, its development, and the rituals and customs that surround it?
Book £1.70, from bookshops

Records of the Hungarian pianist introduced by DAVID WILDE

Janis Martin (soprano) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE BBC CHORAL SOCIETY conductor BRIAN WRIGHT BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Pierre Boulez direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Schoenberg Erwartung

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Part 2
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

At a distance of 600 years, the best-known work of Guillaume de Machaut raises basic questions of performance practice. Do we know whether solo voices, or choir, or both were intended? Should instruments be used and, if so, which ones and where? Do we really know anything at all about the pitch standards Machaut may have had in mind? Can we even be sure of the notes themselves? Andrew Parrott examines the various assumptions made and differing solutions adopted ?.n several gramophone recordings made during the last 20 years. (A complete performance of Machaut's La Messe de Notre Dame: Friday 9.5 am)

playsmusic for unaccompanied viola
Geminiani Adagio and Fugue (first performance) Biber Passacaglia
Stravinsky E16gie (1944)
Vieuxtemps Capriccio , Opposth (first performance)
Reger Suite No 3, in F minor, Op 131d