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Weber Overture: The Ruler of the Spirits
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.11* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor (mono): DINU LIPATTI
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA
7.42* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hamlet: PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER: records

Schubert Minuet and Finale in F: NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.15* Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM gramophone records

ROBIN HOLMES reads from poets who have loved the English countryside.

The Benda Family
Georg Benda Excerpt from the melodrama: Ariadne on Naxos MARIE TOMASOVA (reciter) ARS REDIVIVA OF PRAGUE conducted by MILAN MUNCLINGER
9.8* Georg Benda Concerto in F minor, for harpsichord and strings: JOSEF HALA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
9.27* Georg Benda Solo Cantata: Benda's Lament jANA JONASOVA (soprano) ARS REDIVIVA OF PRAGUE conducted by MILAN MUNCLINGER gramophone records

leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
Light music by British composers
MacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Delius Summer Evening
Gareth Walters A Gwent Suite
Ethel Smyth Two Interlinked French Folk Melodies
John Rutter Suite for Strings
Norman Fulton Symphonic Dances

FOU TS'ONG (piano)
Schubert Sonata in B flat (D 960)
11.25* Interval Reading
11.30* Recital Part 2
Debussy Suite: Pour Ie piano Chopin Etudes. Op 25
BBC Birmingham

STEPHEN MANES (piano)
MAURICE MURPHY (trumpet) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by JOHN CAREW Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture! The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
12.36* Shostakovich Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra

A personal preview by PETER BARKER of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead

Part 2 Arnell
Symphony No 5
BBC Manchester

JUDITH NELSON (soprano)
JANE RYAN (viola da gamba) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (liarpsichord)
Monteclair La Badine (1709)
Mondonville Pourquoy mon ame; Esp6rez en Dieu Rameau L'Impatience
Handel Sept Airs Frangoii

DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) KERRY CAMDEN (bassoon) JAMES DIACK (horn)
NIGEL AMHERST (double-bass) Part 1
Schubert Octet in F (D 803)

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them
Lionel Salter asks What Use are Programme Notes?

Part 2 Wellesz Octet
(A public concert given in the Great Hall, Dartington, on 30 November 1975)

Depart, depart....
For the last programme before the holiday break Christopher Hogwood presents an anthology of Adieux, Abschiede, Farewells and Departures, with instrumental contributions from Beethoven (Les adieux) played on his own Broadwood piano, Farnaby (Loth to depart), Haydn (Farewell Symphony), and vocal departures from Dufay, Josquin, Rossini, Tom-kins, Mendelssohn, Purcell and the Swingles. gramophone records
(The Young Idea returns in October)

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by GLYN BRAGG and JAMES STOBART
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL with artists on records

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Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Music Hall
The last of four programmes 4: The Decline and After
What killed the halls? And does anything of them still live?
Written and presented by tom VERNON. Readings by DAVID NEAL and ANTHONY SMEE. Series producer ALAN WILDING
7.0 Arthur's Folk
Six programmes in which DAVE ARTHUR gives a personal account of folk music of all kinds. 6: Tamlin
The magical story of a head-strong girl who lost her honour in the woods and battled with supernatural forces to win back her lover - retold in a new folk-rock-radiophonic setting. Series producer DAVID EPPS

Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Chabrier Souvenirs de Munich
GENEVIEVE JOY and JACQUELINE ROBIN-BONNEAU (piano duet)
Tchaikovsky Florentine Song: Pimpinella
IRINA ARKHIPOVA (mezzo-sop) SEMYON STUCHEVSKY (piano)
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence: NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by DAVID ZINMAN : records

English collectors were often critical of Rubens' works.
Professor Michael Jaffe ", Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reflects again on the painter's relationship with the Court of Charles I and on the personal taste of the King.

FIRES OF LONDON director PETER maxwell DAVIE with JANET CRAXTON (oboe) TIMOTHY WALKER (guitar)
16th-century, arr Peter Max well Davies Psalm 124, for ensemble (first broadcast performance
Peter Maxwell Davies The Door of the Sun, for viola (first performance); The Seven Brightnesses, for clarinet; Dark Angels, for soprano and guitar (first broadcast performances i
10.0* Interval Reading
10.5* Concert Part 2
Elliott Carter Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord
Peter Maxwell Davies The Kestrel Paced Round the Sun, for flute (first performance)
16th-century, arr Peter Max well Davies Scottish Dances, for ensemble (first broadcast performance)
(Given before an invited audience at ihe University of Surrey, Guildford in March 1976)

The last of the present series. This week: Before ' The Ice Break ' - a conversation with Sir Michael Tippett
IntroducedbyJohnAmis Producernataliewheen
(Music Now returns on Sunday morning 7 August)