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Walton Comedy Overture: Scapino: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
7.14* Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
ALLEGRI QUARTET, SINFONIA OF LONDON, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.28* Jacob Five Pieces
TOMMY REILLY (harmonica), ACA
DEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.42* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

Mendelssohn Symphony No 12. in G minor, for string orchestra LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT MASUR
8.26* Tchaikovsky Serenade in c, for string orchestra: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records

The Benda Family
Franz Benda Sinfonia in A
ARS REDIVIVA OF PRAGUE conducted by MILAN MUNCLINGER
9.16* Georg Benda Concert Aria: Se Ie nostr'al me in vita MARIE MRAZOVA (contralto) PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by LIBOR HLAVACEK
9.20* Georg Benda Excerpts from the Singspiel: The Village Fair
SOLOISTS, CZECH SINGERS CHORUS PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS VON BENDA gramophone records

Eleventh of 13 programmes
ELAINE PADMORE introduces quartets and piano duets written for the Russian parlour. GABRIELI STRING QUARTET play music performed in the house of Belaief, the millionaire timber-merchant turned music-publisher:
Rimsky - Korsakov, Lyadov, Borodin. Glazunov String Quartet on the name B-LA-F assorted composers Les Vendredis. Set No 2 and ANNE SHASBY and RICHARD MCMAHON (piano duet) play
Rubinstein Movements from Bal-Costumé, Op 103
Rimsky-Korsakov (and friends) Shutka Quadrille
Balakirev Suite

conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
A concert to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Church of St John the Baptist, Chester
Josquin des Pr6s Tulerunt Dominum meum
Schiitz Quid commisisti?
Alan Gibbs Four short motets (first broadcast performance) John Joubert Sleep canticle (first broadcast performance)
Josquin des Prés Tulerunt Dominum meum BBC Manchester

ARVE TELLEFSEN (violin)
HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by ARVID YANSONS Part 1
Violin Concerto No 1

Part 2
Symphony No 7, in c (Leningrad)
BBC Manchester

The last programme in this series includes music from The Magic Flute, conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER , along with the E flat major String Quintet (K 614) played by the AMADEUS QUARTET With CECIL ARONOWITZ : records

played by KLÁRA KÖRMENDI
Stockhausen Piano Piece No 9 Xenakis Herma
Cage Sonatas Nos 5. 13 and 11 (Sonatas and Interludes) Messiaen Cant6yodjaya
(Part of a recital from the 1975 Budapest Music Festival: recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)

COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet)
GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (baSSOOn) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by GARY BERTINI
Haydn Symphony No 89. in F major
Strauss Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and string orchestra
Hindemith Der Damon: Concert Suite from the ballet followed by an interlude

A two-part sequence of music for the early evening

(continued)

The Wider World
Get By in Spanish
An intensive language course in five weekly programmes for travellers on business or holiday.
3: Getting Around
Asking where places are and following the directions
With MARIA ANTONIA MARCOS and EDUARDO DELGADO
Course writer JANE FREELAND
(Study notes, price 50p each, from Brighton Polytechnic[address removed]Please enclose large SAE)

direct from the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden Opera in four acts
Libretto by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI Music by Verdi (sung in Italian)
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE conducted by RICCARDO MUTI Act 1

Dr Peter Cannon-Brookes , Keeper of the Department of Art, Birmingham City Art Gallery, puts forward a controversial view of Rubens' studio methods and argues a case for suggesting that the artist rarely touched a brush himself.
(Rubens and the Caroline Court: tomorrow 8.35 pm)

Act 2

Travel writer Leslie Gardiner describes his experiences of opera-going behind the Iron Curtain.

Act 3

Michael Holroyd , critic and biographer, investigates the origins and early development of the Fabian Society in the light of Norman and Jeanne Mac Kenzie's The First Fabians, published today. Dominated by Sidney Webb and Bernard Shaw , the group's missionary zeal, as Shaw called it, laid the groundwork for the Labour Party.

Act 4
(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H. This does not affect reception for listeners using stereo and mono receivers)

The Bargeman's Comfort by PETER TINNISWOOD
'It is a small pub, is The Bargeman's Comfort. It lies on the banks of the Grand Northern Alliance Canal. Coots call among the brickdust sometimes. It is about to be demolished.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester