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Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat:
EDWIN FISCHER BERLINPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone record

Listeners' record requests
Haydn Symphony No 32, in C PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
9.20* Mozart Flute Quartet in D (K 285): WILLIAM BENNETT
GRUMIAUX TRIO
9.33* Beethoven Seven Variations on Bei Mannern (Mozart's Die Zauberflote) MAURICE GENDRON (cello) JEAN FRANÇAIX (piano)
9.43* Loewe Niemand hat's gesehen, Op 9 No 4
ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
9.45* Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Camille Saint-Saens , a Master Craftsman: by JAMES HARDING.
It Sounds Quite Different from Here (7): The cello.
Rudolf Serkin : a portrait by DAVID WILDE.
Producer CHRISTINE EARDWICK

BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Herbert von , Karajan
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Easter Festival)

A. S. Halford-MacLeod , former diplomat, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.55 am)

United Kingdom Rounds (5) Large Choirs
READING PHOENIX CHOIR conductor NORMAN MORRIS
SILVER RING CHOIR OF BATH conductor KELVIN THOMAS
BANGOR PARISH CHURCH CHOIR Conductor IAN HUNTER
Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARDSALL GILES BRYANT , RICHARD BUTT
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results*

MAX ROSTAL COLIN HORSLEY
Berkeley Sonatina in A, Op 17
Busoni Sonata No 2, in E (1899)

Gloriana
' This work is dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ii in honour of whose Coronation it was composed.'
An opera in three acts
Libretto by WILLIAM PLOMER after LYTTON STRACHEY
The Sadler's Wells production, given at the 1973 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall , London
Chorus of citizens, ladies and gentlemen of the household, courtiers, masquers, old men, pages and councillors
CHILDREN OF HENDON HIGH SCHOOL trained by CHARLES WESTERN Children's adviser PETER KAY SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE ROBERT SPENCER (gittem) SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA leader BARRY COLLINS conductor CHARLES MACKERRAS Act 1
3.0* William Plomer , the librettist of Gloriana, reminisces about the origins of the opera.
3.20* Gloriana Act 2
4.15* The Rain and The Wind
A selection of Elizabethan love lyrics read by DENYS HAWTHORNE ROSALIND SHANKS and TIMOTHY BATESON. Selected and produced by john SCOTNEY
4.35* Gloriana Act 3
(A Midsummer Night's Dream: 12 June)

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)

(piano) Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1 Brahms Four Pieces, Op 119
6.45* Interval Reading
6.55* Rudolf Serkin Part 2 Beethoven
Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op 120
(Given in the Royal Festival Hall in February 1975)

Vampirella by ANGELA CARTER
COUNTESS VAMPIRELLA: My demented and atrocious ancestors habitually sequestered themselves from the light of the sun; each one, man or woman, was a victim of the most terrible passion.... I scarcely dare speak its name. But love, true love, could free me from this treadmill, this dreadful wheel of destiny.
COUNT DRACULA: My daughter, the last of the line, through whom I now project a modest, posthumous existence, believes ... that she may be made whole by human.feeling. HERO: She is so beautiful she is pitiful.
This is a first play for radio by Angela Carter , novelist and poetess who has won the Somerset Maugham award and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her work, with Anna Massey as the Countess Vampirella and Elizabeth Ba'athory
David March as Count Dracula, Sawney Beane and Henri Blot Richard O'Callaghan as Hero Betty Hardy as Mrs Beane
Other parts played by DAVID GRAHAM and ELIZABETH LINDSAY Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
Miss Carter's fantasia on Count Dracula's daughter was a fine and gamey adventure in words and noises ... the action is less important than the scenes of exotica and erotica which are slotted into the sound-space like brilliant short cassettes. Writers like Miss Carter are using our new freedom of expression, and 'freedom from categories, in an exciting way. Anna Massey gave a splendid performance as the most gentle of heavy-breathing predators.
(PETER PORTER: NEW STATESMAN)

Clifford Curzon (piano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaders ELI GOREN (Part 1) BELA DEKANY (Part 2) conducted by James Loughran Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat major (K 595)

My Life and Architectural Times - in 22 Minutes being a broadcast version of Sir Joha's speech last year on receiving the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects...
With an introduction by MARK GIROUARD. John Summerson is Curator of the Sir John Soane Museum in London, and his many books include Georgian London.

Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 4. in E flat major (Romantic)
(Clifford Curzon is in Silver Jubilee Concert: Wed 7.30 pm)