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Bach, arr Walton Ballet Suite: The Wise Virgins: CITY OF
BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS
FREMAUX Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani ITZHAK PBRLMAN (Violin) SAMUEL SANDERS (piano)
Grainger Scotch Strathspey and Reel: AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Saint-Saens, arr Godowsky The Swan: SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano) Poulenc Suite franchise (after Claude Gervaise ): THE paris ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE : records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Summer Retrospect 2
Contributed by EDWARD GREEN-FIELD and ROBERT HENDERSON

Granados Piano Quintet in G minor: THOMAS RAJNA (piano) ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
Massenet Pitchounette; Elle s'en est allée: HUGUETTE TOURANGEAU (mezzo-soprano)
RICHARD BONYNGE (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 101 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) gramophone records

Songs for mixed voices, commissioned from leading British composers to mark the Queen's Coronation, first performed at the Royal Festival Hall on 1 June 1953, at a concert of music for the Eve of Coronation Day.
ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS, conductor RICHARD HICKOX , perform the music and ROBIN HOLMES reads the poems. Arthur Bliss Aubade
Arnold Bax What is it like to be young and fair?
Michael Tippett Dance , Clarion Air
Vaughan Williams Silence and Music
Lennox Berkeley Spring, at this hour
John Ireland The
Hills Herbert Howells Inheritance
Gerald Finzi White flowering days
Alan Rawsthorne Canzonet Edmund Rubbra Salutation

presents a weekly selection of popular classics on record.

8: Playwright
' Most playwrights in the theatre spend most of their time being state employees of one kind or another.'
Robert Cushman with David Edgar and John Russell Brown

ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
Mozart Quartet in c (Dissonance) (K 465)
Dvorak Quartet in r (American), Op 96

Francis Tombs , Chairman of the Electricity Council, introduces his choice of records.

Schumann Overture: Genoveva Cello Concerto in A minor
MISCHA MAISKY
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PINCHAS STEINBERG Schubert In the Spring (Im Frtihling)
Schumann Far from home; In a strange country; Lovely foreign lands (Eichendorff Songs. Op 39)
Brahms Theresa ; Cradle-song (Wiegenlied)
(sung in English: translations by LESLIE MINCHIN )
FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PINCHAS STEINBERG

Introduced by Peter Clayton

The Rider Victory (settings of four poems by EDWIN MUIR ) APRIL CANTELO (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
String Quartet Nol: DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET: records

the Russian-born constructivist sculptor, in conversation with David Thompson.
Gabo disd last month at the age of 87, the last survivor of that band of artists who developed their revolutionary art during, and later in spite of, the Russian Revolution. In this conversation, broadcast last year, he talked of his new fountain for London and his general ideas on art and life.

Raag Abhogi Kanada ; Bajan MADHUR1 CHATTERJEE (violin, zither)
SANKHA CHATTERJEE (tabla)
PRAKRITI MAZUMDER (singer) KRISHNA BOTH (tanpura)
SIEG-BERT BOHMER (tanpura)
(rias Berlin recording from the Metamusik Festival 1976)

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Constable (piano), Halle Orchestra, leader Michael Davis, conductor James Loughran

Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro

Divertimento in D (K 136)

Concert Aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te (K 505)

Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

Three talks in which Richard Mayne gives some impressions of recent cultural changes in France and Italy.
1: France into English
The ways in which France is beginning to resemble Britain. ( Next programme : Mon 7.55 pm

Part 2 Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die
Fledermaus Josef Strauss Polka: Eingesendet
Johann Strauss (son) Csardas (Die Fledermaus); Waltz: The Blue
Danube Josef Strauss Polka: Plappermaulchen
Johann (son) and Josef Strauss Pizzicato Polka
Johann Strauss (son) March (The Gypsy Baron)
(Part 2 of this concert is on BBC'l tomorrow 10.20 pm)

talks to PETER HEYWORTH about his early years and his creative career in the immediate post-war period up to his move to Italy in the mid-1950s. (cbc recording)

This week Derek Jewell plays more of the contrasting compositions of the Italian band, PFM; discovers a new group, MEAL TICKET, whose British roots don't prevent them from singing almost exclusively about America: and welcomes the return of the ex-Traffic star, STEVE WINWOOD : records