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Gluck Overture: Alceste
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.13* Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in d minor (K 466)
YVONNE LEFEBURE BERLINPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.42* Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Listeners' record requests
Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini : LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHEStra, conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
9.15* Fauré Piano Quartet No 1, in c minor, Op 15 JEAN HUBEAU (piano)
RAYMOND GALLOIS-MONTBRUN
(violin), COLETTE LEQUIEN (viola) ANDRE NAVARRA (CellO)
9.46* Bizet Chanson d'avril JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
9.48* Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in c minor
ANITA PREIST (organ)
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1640: by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER.
Titta Ruffo (1877-1953): memories of the Italian baritone, by HENRY PLEASANTS.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCU with RALPH HOLMES (violin) Part 1
Britten Violin Concerto

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 12.5 pm)

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 2. in c minor (ed Nowak)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)

United Kingdom Rounds (6) Contemporary Choirs
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CHAMBER CHOIR, conductor ROY WALES CHAPTER HOUSE CHOIR conductor
ANDREW CARTER LONDONCHORALE conductor ROY WALES
Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARDSALL GILES BRYANT , RICHARD BUTT
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results.

VERMEER STRING QUARTET MURRAY PERAHIA (piano) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-
IN-THE-FIELDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Mendelssohn Four Pieces for string quartet, Op 81
Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47

Music from the Garret Joyce Rathbone muses on art and affluence.

Part 2 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20

A dramatic cantata. Words by HARRY ARBUTHNOT ACWORTH Music by Elgar
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR chorus-master EDMUND WALTERS
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor SIR CHARLES GROVES Part 1
3.55* Interval Reading
4.5* Caractacus Part 2
(Presented by the BBC in association with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society) BBCManchester
(Elgar's King Olaf: tomorrow
3.0 pm VHF only)

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 10.10 am) followed by an interlude

An analysis by RICHARD BEBB of the five surviving recordings of the greatest of Victorian actresses, made for the Victor Company in 1911. ' Ellen Terry is the most beautiful name in the world. It rings like a chime through the last quarter of the 19th Century. 1 (BERNARD SHAW ) ' There are three qualities never absent from any of her performances. They are beauty, inspiration, and buoyancy.' (PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY) The programme includes speeches from: The Winter's Tale, Act II Sc 1; The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Sc 1; Much Ado about Nothing, Act II Sc 1; Romeo and Juliet, Act IV Sc 3; Hamlet Act IV Sc 5
Producer BENNETT MAXWELL
(The Voice of Henry Irving: 18 June)

GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS conducted by HELMUT WINSCHERMANN
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F major (BWV 1046)
Frederick II (King of Prussia) Symphony in G major, for strings and continuo
Bach Suite No 3, in D major (bwv 1068)
(SFB, Berlin recording)

or The Merited Triumph of Zebediah Grimpot Es. A nice family play with music and a moral.

BBC Manchester

Opening Concert: Royal Albert Hall
Silver Jubilee Week Part 2
BBC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANT cunaucied by Sir Adrian Boult direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Schubert Symphony No 9, in c
(Part 1 of this concert is on Radio 4 at 7.30 pm)

Two years ago the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces took Saigon. Dennis J. Duncan-son. Reader in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Kent, reflects on the final stage of the war in Vietnam in the light of The Victory in Spring, the recently published memoirs of General Van Tien Dung who was the commanding General of the victorious People's Army.

HOWARD SHELLEY (piano) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS
Brian Elias Proverbs of Hell
Anne Boyd As I crossed a bridge of dreams
Copland Variations for piano
10.30* Interval Reading
10.35* Concert Part 2
George Crumb Cancer, Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn (Makrokosmos Vol 1, for amplified piano) Anthony Payne First sight of her and after
Michael Finnissy Cipriano
(first broadcast performances of the Elias, Boyd, Payne and Finnissy works: Radcliffe Music Awards)
(Given before an invited audience in the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol)