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Berlioz Overture: Waverley
7.15* Spohr Clarinet Concerto in c minor: gervase de peyer
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.35* Wagner Siegfried Idyll
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

arr Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.9* Berkeley Divertimento in B flat
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.28* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records

1732-1809
The early 1770s were years of fundamental change as far as Haydn's compositions were concerned. An increase in emotional content, drama, thematic concentration, contrapuntal ingenuity and technical mastery in general - all these are features of his music during this time. Links have often been drawn between this sudden maturing of Haydn's genius and the simultaneous climax of the German Romantic literary Sturm und Drang movement. Symphony No 39, in G minor ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.22* Quartet in c minor, Op 17 No 4: AEOLIAN QUARTET
9.45* Symphony No 47, in G
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI : records

What is Interpretation? A distinguished pianist, Edith Vogel , examines the time-honoured question, illustrating her observations at the piano.

Part 2 Chopin Ballade in A flat major, Op 47; Etude in c sharp minor, Op 25 No 7; Etude in B minor, Op 25 No 10 Stockhausen Klavierstiick IX Wagner, transc Liszt Overture: Tannhauser BBC Manchester

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)

Robin Holmes reads from poets who have loved the English countryside.

Part 2 Mozart Symphony No 35, in D (Haffner) (K 385); Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550) (Austrian Radio recording from the 1977 Salzburg Mozart Week)

Stan Tracey , the pianist and composer, talks to CHARLES FOX about his long career on the British jazz scene. He worked in the bands of Ronnie Scott and Ted Heath before becoming house pianist at Ronnie Scott's Club in 1960. The many pieces he subsequently composed for his own quartet include his famous suite based on Under Milk Wood. The programme is illustrated with some of his many gramophone recordings.

A dramatic cantata. Words by LONGFELLOW and HARRY ARBUTHNOT ACWORTH , based on the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in Heimskringla. Music by Elgar LONDON CHORAL SOCIETY conductor LEON LOVETT NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN JONES conducted by BRYAN FAIRFAX Part 1
3.40* King Olaf the Godfather Michael Alexander , Lecturer in English at Stirling University and translator of Beowulf, traces the tale of Olaf Trygg vason, the king who converted Norway and Iceland to Christianity.
4.0* King Olaf Part 2

GUS (KETTERING) BAND conductor GEOFFREY BRAND Philip Sparke Concert Prelude Paul Patterson Count Down (first broadcast performances) Elgar The Severn Suite

Richard A. Baker delves into the origins of some music-hall songs. Including the recorded Voices Of MARIE KENDALL , LILY MORRIS , CHARLES OOBORN , CARUSO, ALBERT CHEVALIER and PETER SELLERS Producer ALAN OWEN

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Charles Mackerras Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano) Part 1 Bizet Symphony in c Ravel Piano Concerto in 0

Fraser Harrison. author of a forthcoming book on Victorian sexuality, argues that by idealising the female figure in his first significant neo-classical work, Venus Disrobing for the Bath (1867), Frederick (later Lord) Leighton helped reinforce the late-Victorian status quo by gratifying the masculine thirst for superiority.

Part 2 Debussy Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No 2 (Given at the Royal Albert Hall on 3 June;

Bartok String Quartet direct from the Assembly Rooms. Bath Part 1 Beethoven
Quartet in A minor, Op 132

A selection of poems compiled and introduced by Patric Dick inson. Readers: TIMOTHY BATESON and JOHN ROWE. Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in c major, Op 59 No 3 (Arranged by the Bath Festival Society Ltd in assoc with Marks and Spencer Ltd) BBC Bristol

Country Boy Made Good?
When Newton died 250 years ago. he had a most extraordinary reputation as a scholar. Was this popular image justified?
Dr D. T. Whitrside , Reader in the History of Mathematics. Cambridge University. has recently completed a monumental study, occupying 22 years of research, on Newton's published and unpublished papers. He discusses with John Maddox the stature and image of Newton that has emerged from his research
Producer DAVID PATERSON

No 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt: EDITH MATHIS (sop)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by karl richter : record