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Debussy Suite: Children's Corner
8.18* Chopin Waltzes: E flat, Op 18; A flat, Op 34 No 1; A minor, Op 34 No 2; F, Op 34 No 3: G flat, Op 70 No 1
8.35* Schumann Kinderscenen , Op 15: records

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Bruckner Overture in G minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ELYAKUM SHAPIRRA
9.16* Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1, in D, Op 11 SMETANA QUARTET
9.41* Albert, Prince Consort Klage der Liebe; Abendruhe
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano)
9.44* Brahms Piano Concerto No 2. in B flat (mono) SOLOMON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ISSAY DOBROWEN

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
Living with Berio, by CATHY BERBERIAN ; LUCIANO BERIO talks to JEREMY NOBLE; and City Music Trail, by HANNAH HOROVITZ. Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT

A programme based on concerts given in 1957 and 1962. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH Part 1
Bassoon Concerto In B flat major (K 191) with SHERMAN WALT
Symphony No 38, in D major (Prague) (K 504)

Mary Goldring , economist, reflects on some of the things we say and write.
(Repeated: Wednesday 12.5 pm)

Part 2
Piano Concerto No 25, in c major (k 503)
With CLAUDE FRANK
(Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recordings)

International Amateur Choral Competition (8)
Equal Voice Class: Match 1 Sweden:
ADOLF FREDRIK 'S GIRLS' CHOIR West Germany: ERNST SENFF WOMEN'S CHAMBER CHOIR
Equal Voice Class: Match 2
Ireland: PAST PUPILS' CHOIR OF ST MARY 'S COLLEGE, ARKLOW Bulgaria: LUBOMIR PIPKOV WOMEN'S CHAMBER CHOIR
Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
(Let the Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)

from the Berlin Festival 1976 Fourth of seven programmes WILANOW STRING QUARTET Tadeusz Gadzina (violin)
Pawel Losakiewicz (violin) Artur Paciorkiewicz (viola) Wojciech Walasek (cello)
Schubert Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) Crumb Black Angels
2.20* Interval Reading
2.30* Quartets Part 2 Ravel Quartet in F
(Recording made available by courtesy of SFB, Berlin)

Machaut De fortune me doy plaindre; En cuer ma dame une vipere maint; Honte, paour, doubtance (two versions); 11 m'est avis; Hoquetus David
Solage Le basile
Senleches Fuions de ci
De Perusio Le greygnoir bien MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON John Elwes (tenor)
Robert Cooper (fiddle, rebec) Peter Davies
(flutes, cornemuse)
Timothy Davies (mandora, lute)

Lewis Mumford in the last of seven conversations with Malcolm MacEwen
Patrick Geddes , that ' most unsettling person ', as his recent biographer called him, was a biologist, a founder of town planning and one of the first ' ecologists' - a man in several ways before his time. Lewis Mumford had a close but stormy professional relationship with him.

Fifth of seven programmes in which all of Olivier Messiaen 's music for piano is played. Catalogue d'oiseaux (Books 1-3): YVONNE LORIOD
PIERS BURTON-PAGE reads his translation of Messiaen's own introduction to this work. The series is presented by ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON
(Messiaen and His Pupils: Proms 77 tomorrow 9.30 pm)

Li'le Jimmy Williamson by David Pownall
The life and times of the Lancaster lino millionaire Li'le Jimmy Williamson You won't let me down. You're the only reason I can live in this town.
If it wasn't for your factory I'd be out on the road, Dying with the flowers
When the summer grass is mowed...
Music composed and arranged by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester followed by an interlude

The Festival's own production, direct from the King's Theatre
Opera in four acts
(sung in French)
Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC HALEVY after MERIMEE Music by Bizet (based on the FRITZ OESER edition)
GEORGE WATSON 'S BOYS' CHOIR chorus director
PATRICK CRISSWELL
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
JOHN CURRIE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by Claudio Abbado Producer PIERO FAGGIONI
The action takes place in and around Seville in the 1820s, Act 1: A square in Seville
8.30* Festival Comment ... in which performers, critics and personalities in Edinburgh this week have their say about the Festival. Tonight: Carmen Presented by ELAINE PADMORE
8.50* Carmen Act 2: The tavern of Lillas Pastia

Reminiscences by the Scottish singer who created the role of M61isande in Debussy's opera. (BBC Sound Archive recording, 1961)

Act 3: A desolate part of the mountains
Act 4: Outside the bullring in Seville

reads selections of French poetry: records. Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON