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Preludes I and III t.Die Moistersinger)
8.20* Siegfried Idyll
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.37* Good Friday Music (Parsifal)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.47* Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records

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Glazunov Autumn (The Seasons): MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN
9.14* Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
9.32* Mozart Quintet in E flat, for piano and wind instruments (K 452): MELOS ENSEMBLE
9.56* Lalo Symphony in G minor: NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA OF MONTE CARLO, conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA : records

Introduced by Michael Oliver

Purcell and the Anthem: by Denis Arnold.

Memories of Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskill: by Fernande Kaeser.

The Music of Arthur Honegger: by Robert Henderson.

SHLOMO MINTZ (violin)
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by eliahu INBAL Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 2, in D major

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 11.40 am)

Part 2
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, In g minor
Respighi Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome
(Hess Radio recording)

United Kingdom Rounds (9) Contemporary Class Final
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CHAMBER
CHOIR conductor ROY WALES LONDON CHORALE conductor ROY WALES
Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARDSALL GILES BRYANT , RICHARD BUTT
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks,' and announces the results.

given by JEAN-BERNARD pommier Bach Toccata in c minor (bwv 911)
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2
Schumann Abegg Variations, Op 1 (1830)
1.50* Interval Reading
1.55* Recital Part 2
Chopin Sonata in B minor, Op 58 BBC Birmingham

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

Choral and orchestral concert direct from
The Maltings,
Snape FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) fAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) EDWARD FOX (narrator)
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA Conductor PETER ASTON Part 1
Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo (Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597)
Gesualdo Three Motets: 0 vos omnes; Ave, dulcissima Maria; Tribulationem et dolorem (Sacrae Cantiones 1603)
Stravinsky Mass for chorus and double wind quintet

Canon David Jenkins of the William Temple Foundation argues that unless theology is put to work in a realistic encounter with life there is no chance of discovering the truth of faith.
BBC Manchester

Part 2 Honegger
King David (1921) BBC Birmingham

The second of three talks by Peter Calvocoressi , wartime intelligence officer at the Government Codes and Ciphers School.
During the last war British Intelligence listened to coded German wireless messages and then deciphered the information with their own copy of an Enigma machine. How was this done, how often and with what effect?

String Quartet in B flat (The Hunt) (K 458)
QUARTETTO ITALIANO: record

Dead Soldiers by PHILIP MARTIN with David Brierley as Michael Mallory and Tom Watson as Robbie Burns
Commuting home, by London Underground, Michael Mallory meets a drunken pseudo-Scots-man, with some apocalyptic results.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY followed by an interlude

Romeo and Juliet: a symphony for solo voices, chorus and orchestra. Op 17, by Berlioz anne howells (mezzo-soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) ROBERT LLOYD (bass)
NEW PHILHARMONIA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARL PINI conducted by Andrew Davis Part 1

The first of four talks
The great Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens , was born 400 years ago this month. Dr David Freedberg of the Courtauld Institute, London, considers today's prejudices against the artist and reassesses the value of his contribution.
(Dr Elizabeth McGrath talks about Rubens' Political Art: tomorrow 8.55 pm)

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet Part 2

Jean-Francois Revel. French writer and columnist of L'Express, in conversation with writer David Caute
In La tentation totalitaire, published in France last year, M Revel, himself a man of the French Left, criticised the attitudes of many European Socialists towards Communism. The principal obstacle to the realisation of true Socialism in many parts of the world, he implied, is Communism and not Capitalism.

As a prelude to next week's broadcast of Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang this programme presents his most successful symphonic work and excerpts from his only dramatic work to have a happy ending.
Chamber Symphony for 23 sole instruments
ENSEMBLE KONTRAPUNKTE conducted by PETER KEUSCHNIG
Three excerpts from Irrelohe: Prelude (Act 1); Love Duet between Eva and Heinrich (Act 2); Finale (Act 3)
GRAZ PRO ARTE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL ERNST HOFFMANN
(Austrian Radio recordings from the 1976 Styrian Autumn Festival)

Sonatas in E minor and a major (Kk 263-4) played by GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) gramophone record