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Dvorak Overture: Carnival - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Istvan Kertesz

7.14* Brahms String Quintet in F, Op 88 - Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola)

7.39* Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture - Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski

Part 2
Haydn Symphony No 77. in B flat
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.23* Mozart Sinfonia Concert-ante in E flat (K Anh 9) KARL STEINS (oboe)
KARL LEISTER (clarinet) GERD SEIFERT (horn)
GUNTHER PIESK (bassoon)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM

Strauss Miinchen (Commemorative Waltz)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
9.15* Metamorphosen: study in C minor, for 23 strings: DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA, conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE : records

played by JAMES DALTON (organ) at the Queen's College, Oxford. Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 533); Concerto in c (bwv 594) (after Vivaldi); Prelude and Fugue in A minor (bwv 551). BBC Birmingham

Mozart Symphony No 31, in D (Paris) (K 297)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
10.38* Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1, in A minor
JACQUELINE DU PRE , NEW PHIL-HARMONIAorchestra:records (Virtuoso: Radio 4 10.30 pm)

Beethoven Violin Sonatas played by Gyorgy Pauk (violin) and Peter Frankl (piano) direct from the Pittville Pump Room Part 1
Sonata No 4. in A minor. Op 23 Sonata No 8, in G, Op 30 No 3

The Cultural Background
The second in a series of four talks given by John Warren. Head of German at the Oxford Polytechnic.
2: Revolution and Reaction
The birth of a new age, 1840-1865

Part 2 Beethoven
Sonata No 2, in A, Op 12 No 2
Sonata No 5, in F, Op 24 (Spring). BBC Birmingham
(Beethoven Cello Sonatas: Friday 11.0 am VHF)

leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by ALUN FRANCIS with THEA KING (clarinet)
Respighi Symphonic Poem: Fountains of Rome
Finzi Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra
Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
BBC Scotland

Six programmes to include excerpts from some o'f the best of recent recital records This week:
Janet Baker sings arias from operas by Gluck, including Che faro senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice; with the ENGLISH CHAMBEIR ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMONID LEPPARD

(piano)
Granados Los requiebros; Coloquio en la reja; El fandango de candil; Quejas 6 la maja y el ruiseftor (Goyescas, Book 1)
Chopin Nocturne in F sharp major, Op 15 No 2; Ballade in G minor, Op 23

Anthony Dorrell talks about Them and Us - our understanding of past art.

CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, conducted by JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC
Janacek Rhapsody : TarasBulba Smetana Cantata: Czech Song
(Czech Radio recording from the 50th Anniversary Concert of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Christopher Hogwood introduces and plays the collection of keyboard pieces devoted to music by William Byrd
The Barley-Break ; A Fancy; The Passing Measures; The Ninth Pavan and Galliard gramophone records

from Winchester Cathedral
Introit: I was glad (Alwyn Surplice)
Responses (Neary)
Psalms: 32 (Walmisley); 33 (Lloyd); 34 (Knight)
Lessons: Ezekiel 34, vv 17-31; Acts 8. vv 26-40
Canticles
Anthem: I will lift up mine eyes (Surplice)
Organist and Master of the Music: MARTIN NEARY
Sub-organist: JAMES LANCELOT BBC Bristol

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Language and Communication
6.30 Introduction to Arabic
Fifteen lessons in spoken Arabic for complete beginners Programme 4
Introduced by BAHA ESSAID with NADIA TAWFIQ. Script by T. F. MITOHELL and D. BARBER Book 90p, Record 97p, from bookshops
7.0 Der arme Millionar Nach dem Roman von ERICH
KÄSTNER Drei Manner im Schnee Zwanzig Programme fiir Horer, die schon etwas deutsch konnen 9: Ein gemutlicher Abend Mit SABINE MICHAEL ,
DIETER GEISSLER , IRENE PRADOR , RENE HALKETT und ROLF RICHARDS
Script und Regie EDITH BAER
Sprachberater DR L. LÖB

direct from
The Dome, Brighton Tamas Vasary (piano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra leader CARL PINI conducted by Simon Rattle Part 1
Strauss Don Juan Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad

Part 2 Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

First of four programmes
S6r6nade tosoane; Nell; Automne; Les roses d'Ispahan; Sérénade toscane (in Tuscan)
Nocturne No 1, in E flat minor; Impromptu No 2, in F minor
Spleen; La rose; Le parfum impérissable; Arpege
Theme and Variations in c sharp minor, Op 73
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) with ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
IMOGEN cooper (piano)

"I'm very fond of gossip - one of the finer means of communication."
John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer, has successfully evoked the narrowness of middle-class suburban life. On the eve of publication of his new novel Falconer, he talks to writer and critic, Paul Bailey, in New York where Cheever lives.

First of three programmes Quintet in A, Op 11 No 5 Quintet in D, Op 11 No 6 played by the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC SOLOISTS Karlheinz Zoller (flute) Lothar Koch (oboe)
Michel Schwalbé (violin)
Siegbert Ueberschaer (viola) Wolfgang Boettcher (cello) (Saar Radio recording)