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Verdi Quartet in E minor ITALIAN QUARTET
8.27* Borodin Quartet No 2, in D GABRIELI QUARTET: records

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Schumann Andante and Variations: JOHN OGDO. N and BRENDA LUCAS (pianos)
9.18* Barber Violin Concerto
ISAAC STERN , NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
9.41* Britten Spring Symphony JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) NORMA PROCTER (contralto)
PETER PEARS (tenor), ORCHESTRA
AND CHOIR OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, BOYS OF THE EMANUEL SCHOOL, WANDSWORTH conducted by THE COMPOSER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Vaughan Williams and Bunyan, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON. HOW Does It Go? BERNARD KEEFFE discusses some of the problems of reading between the notes. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Debussy Prélude a l'après-midi d'un flaune; La mer

John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)

Opera in one act. Libretto by Bela Balazs (sung in Hungarian)

(Given on 1 Sept 1976 in the Royal Albert Hall, London)

7: Earl Hines

given by VALERY GRADOV with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3
Ysaye Sonata No 3, in D minor (Ballade), for violin
Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D, Op 94a

(Susanna'sSecret)Intermezzo in one act. Music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Libretto by ENRICO GOLISCIANI (sung in Italian)
A smell of tobacco in a house where nobody smokes. Or do they? Surely it can't be Susanna. In that case it must be another man - a lover ...
Count Gil......BERND WEIKL (bar) Countess Susanna, his wife
MARIA CHIARA (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI : records

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)

(piano)
Schubert Three Clavierstiicke (d 946)
Fantasia in c (The Wanderer)
4.35* Interval Reading
4.45* Concert Part 2
Schubert Sonata in D (D 850)
BBC Scotland

Switzerland has four national languages and a multiplicity of flourishing local dialects. How do the Swiss live a normal life and maintain a sense of national identity in the presence of what Francis Bacon saw as ' the second gen-
I eral curse of mankind '? Jonathan Steinberg examines the confusion of tongues. He reflects on the contribution made by language. in its social. political and cultural setting, to the concept and stability of the nation

Swiss
Sopranos
LISA DELLA CASA and EDITH MATHIS in music by Mozart, Brahms and Strauss: records

' A play for radio by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT translated and adapted by STANLEY WILLIAMSON
' I've laid low the most fearful monsters; I've borne the sky on my shoulders and I've descended to the depths of the Underworld. And now I'm expected to muck out the land of a man who can only count up to three and isn't even a king, just a president. Never! ' Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY

with VIVIENNE TOWNLEY (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
MALCOLM KING (bass-baritone) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by Erich Schmid
Frank Martin Overture: Athalie
8.11* Honegger Monopartita
8.25* Othmar Schoeck Vom Fischer un syn Fru

Some aspects of the British love affair with the Alps Chosen and presented by Peter Arengo-Jones

If Switzerland did not exist, said a television satirist, ' you would not need to invent it.'
Brian Beedham , Foreign Editor of The Economist, disagrees, and argues, with evidence drawn from conversations recently recorded in the country, that the Swiss have evolved social and political structures which not only serve them well, but are of considerable interest to the rest of us in the circumstances of today*

Over the last few years Klaus Huber , one of Switzerland's leading composers, has been increasingly preoccupied by mysticism. His music has become correspondingly inward-looking and separated from the mainstream of European development. This programme contrasts a fully composed work from 1958 with a freer, more recent piece based on Dido's Lament (from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas)
Auf die ruhige Nacht-Zeit, for soprano, flute, viola and cello (mono): MARY THOMAS
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE Ein Hauch von Unzeit III, for variable instrumental forces 20TH-CENTURY MUSIC ENSEMBLE,
VIENNA conducted by PETER BURWIK (Saar Radio recording)

By the Treaty of Paris in 1815, the Powers recognised that ' the neutrality and integrity of Switzerland and her independence from any foreign influence are in the true interests of Europe as a whole.'
This doctrine is still the basis of Swiss foreign policy. But has it any significance or justification in the modern world?
Jacques Freymond , Director of the Graduate Institute of International Studies at Geneva, discusses the pressures and constraints to which Switzerland is subjected in preserving its neutral status.

' In Switzerland the trains are on time, the hot water tap delivers hot water, the telephone system runs perfectly ... '
' Old people in Switzerland are very nasty to children, they think they're the rulers and the children are a kind of slave ...'
Nigel Douglas discusses with some of his Swiss friends. young and old, the pros and cons of life in Switzerland,

arranged by ELGAR HOWARTH for the PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE gramophone records