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Schubert Ballet No 2, in G (Rosamunde)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.10* Beethoven VioMn ConcertoinD:YEHUDlMENUHIN
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Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon - Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner

9.9* Franck Sonata in A - David Oistrakh (violin) Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

9.40* Mendelssohn Ave Maria - John Elwes (tenor) Heinrich Schutz Choir and Chorale, Gillian Weir (organ) conducted by Roger Norrington

9.48* Brahms Concerto in a minor, Op 102 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) Janos Starker (cello), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay

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Introduced by Michael Oliver
Hindemith, a Forgotten Composer?: by CHRISTOPHER GRIER.
It Sounds Quite Different from Here (7): The Leader.
Clementi, His Life and Music: CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD reviews LEON PLANTINGA 'S new book.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDDWICK

in B flat major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Herbert von Karajan
(Recording from this year's Salzburg Easter Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

P. J. Kavanagh , novelist and poet, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words
(Repeated: Wednesday 12.5 pm)

United Kingdom Rounds (8)

Large Choirs Final
READING PHOENIX CHOIR conductor NORMAN MORRIS
BANGOR PARISH CHURCH CHOIR conductor IAN HUNTER

Youth Choirs Final
ARRAN GIRLS' CHOIR conductor RAYMOND BRAMWELL
BULMERSHE GIRLS' CHOIR conductor GWYN ARCH

Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARCSALL, GILES BRYANT, RICHARD BUTT

Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results.

led by Clive Lander, conducted by George Malcolm, who is the soloist in the concerto

Purcell, transc Malcolm Fantasia, No 1, in G minor; Fantasia No 8, in G major; Fantasia on one note

Frank Martin Concerto for harpsichord and small orchestra

Handel Suite in F major (The Water Music).

BBC Manchester

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

given by JOANNA MILHOLLAND with HILARY MACNAMARA (piano) Bach Sonata No 1, in G (BWV 1027)
Dohnanyl Sonata in B flat, Op 8 Janacek Pohddka (A Tale)

A Fairy Tale by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE translated by SUSANNE FLATAUER adapted for radio by MARTIN ESSLIN. Music by HANS HEIMLER
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the major figures of German and world literature. One of his most mysterious, and to out eyes strikingly modern, works is this fairy tale. In its imagery it foreshadows the poetry of surrealism.
Directed by MARTIN ESSLIN

A live relay of a double-bill of Poulenc and Janacek La voix humaine
Tragedie lyrique in one act Text by COCTEAU
Music by Poulenc (sung in French)
Elle...GRAZIELLA sciutti (soprano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by CALVIN SIMMONS Producer GRAZIELLA SCIUTTI
(The Cunning Little Vixen: 7.55)

Eight programmes examining the changes tha,t have occurred in British musical life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. 2: Operatic Life
Harold Rosenthal , Editor of the magazine Opera, presents a personal view of how and why our operatic Mfe has altered. A quartet of distinguished opera administrators - LORD HAREWOOD, JOHN TOOLEY , PETEiR HEMMINGS and GEORGE CHRISTIE-add their comments ; the views of a trio of sin gens - DAME EVA TURNER , DAlME JANET BAKER and REGINA RESNIK-and the conductor JOHN PRITCHARD can also be heard. The musdc, on records, is taken from operas that were watersheds tn the history of this period: Verdi Don Carlos ; Wagner The Ring (in the E.NO's production); Berlioz The Trojans and Glyndeboume's Rossani. Producer CLIVE BENNETT

The Cunning Little Vixen
An opera in three acts by Janacek after the stories by RUDOLF TESNOHLIDEK
(sung in an English translation by NORMAN TUCKER )
Fox-cubs, hens, forest animals, forest voices
GLYNDEBOURNE CHORUS chorus-master
NICHOLAS CLEOBURY LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RICHARD LAYTON conducted by SIMON RATTLE Producer JONATHAN MILLER

Three talks by Peter Calvo coressl, wartime intelligence officer at the Government Codes and Ciphers School.
Enigma was the name given by the Germans 50 years ago to their new machine for enciphering their most secret wireless communications How did the Britisih acquire one of these German machines, and what use did we make of it during the last war?

by Petrassl played by SEVERINO GAZZELLONI
(flute, piccolo and alto flute) gramophone record

Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op 61
Waltzes: F major, Op 34 No 3; D flat major, Op 70 No 3
Mazurkas: c sharp mindir, Op 63 No 3; c major, Op 67 No 3; F major, Op 68 No 3; A minor, Op posth No 2
Etude in c sharp minor, Op 25 No 7
Scherzo in E major, Op 54
(Recording from the 1976 Helsinki Festival made available by courtesy of Finnish Radio)

talks to MARTIN JENKINS about her performance of Margaret of Anjou, now being heard in Vivat Rex on Radio 4.
(Vivat Rex is broadcast on Sundays 9.3 pm; repeated Tuesdays 3.5 pm)