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Rimsky Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVICH
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor: DAVID OISTRAKH , London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LOVRO VON MATACIC : records

Gluck Chaconne
STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
8.15* Handel Organ Concerto No 14, in A: DANIEL CHORZE ;MPA CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by JAAP SCHRODER
8.33* Reicha Symphony in E flat PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Wagner
Love Duet (Tristan und Isolde, Act II) (mono): KRISTEN FLAGSTAD (sop), LAURITZ MELCHIOR (tenor) RCA VICTOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductedbyedwinmcarthur
9.22* Prelude (Parsifal, Act III) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.30* Final Scene (Parsifal, Act III)
BAYRiEUTH FESTl VALORCHESTRA conducted by HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH : records
(Tristan und Isolde, live fr.om Bayreuth: Sunday afternoon)

conducted by MARCUS DODS Holst Suite de Ballet Moeran Sinfonietta
BBC Northern Ireland

ROGER SMALLEY (piano)
MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-sop) PETER DICKINSON (piano) Part 1
Charles Ives Songs: A Sea Dirge; Yellow Leaves; Peaks; The Ome Way
Morton Feldman Piano pieces: Vertical Thoughts 4; Intermission 5; Piano Piece (1955); Extensions 3
Elliott Carter Songs: Dust of Snow; The Rose Family; Voyage

Why Write Symphonies Today? Benjamin Frankel answers the question whether the form is out-dated - in a talk recorded in October 1972, four months before his death.

Part 2 John Cage The Perilous Night, for prepared piano
Aaron Copland Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
(Given in April 1975: part of an American Music Conference arranged by Keele University )

DAVID WILDE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Bruckner Overture in G minor Bartok Piano Concerto No 2

A personal preview by robin HOLMES of plays and features on Radio 3 and 4 next week.

Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 1. in c minor (Linz version, 1866). BBC Manchester

BBC Northern Singers conductor Stephen Wilkinson

Last of three programmes in which the BBC Northern Singers give bwo performances of a contemporary choral work.

Peter Pears introduces Sacred and Profane by Benjamin Britten and contrasts with it three madrigals by Wilbye.

BBC Manchester

Myslivecek Sinfonia No 6. in B flat: CZECH CHAMBER SOLOISTS
Schubert Sonata in c (Grand Duo) (D 812): BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR (piano duet)
Schumann Symphony No 4, in D minor
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA

The third of ten programmes The flautist Stephen Preston discusses with Christopher Hogwood the content and importance of tutors by Hotteterre, Quantz, Corri and others, and illustrates their instructions regarding ornamentation, phrasing and articulation, and their relevance to music by Vivaldi, Bach and Blavet.
Producer CLIVE BENNETT

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Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Looking at Claudius 3: Claudius on Television
DÐREiK JACOBI , SIAN PHILLIPS , HERBERT WISE and ROBERT BR'SKINE talk to SHERIOAN MORLEY. Series producer EDITH BAER
(I, Claudius: BBC2 10.25 pm)
7.0 Weather Outlook
Introduced by margaret COOK 3: Who Has Seen the Wind!
... Neither you nor I

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London in the presence of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent first of three Jubilee concerts BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE BBC CHORAL SOCIETY conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS director RICHARD HICKOX
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by Andrew Davis
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 of Part 1
National Anthem (arr Britten)
Tippeti concerto for double string orchestra
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music: WENDY EATHORNE (Sop) LINDA ESTHER GRAY (soprano) MARGARET MARSHALL (Soprano) JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
CYNTHIA BUCHAN (mezzo-soprano) ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) ANNE COLLINS (contralto) ORIEL SUTHERLAND (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
KEITH ERWEN (tenor) NEIL MACKIE (tenor) ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) PETER KNAPP (baritone) BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) DAVID THOMAS (bass-baritone) PAUL HUDSON (bass)
Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances

A series of five talks
4:William Shakespeare and Richard III
Charles Ross. Reader in Medieval History, Bristol University, considers the hostile Tudor attitude to Richard Ill 's reign and compares it unfavourably with some modern interpretations.

Walton Belshazzar's Feast:

John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)

(Paul Hudson broadcasts by permission of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Four talks by Professor Christopher Thorne of the University of Sussex
1: World War II and the Decline of the West
In August 1945 the Japanese accepted what seemed to be a crushing defeat by the Allies. Is it possible, however, that Japan did not lose the war in the Far East but ' won ' it? followed by an interlude

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor (K 546) Bliss String Quartet No 2 : records

is the main work in this third programme of music by Faur6 Prison (VERLAINE); Soir (ALBERT SAMAIN); La chanson d'Eve (song-cycle to poems from CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE 'S COlleCtion): ROSANNE CREFFIELD (mezzo-SOp) PETER PETTINGER (piano)