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Listeners' record requests
Handel Concerto in F, for four horns, two oboes, bassoon and strings
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.9* Tartini Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill)
EDUARD MELKUS (violin)
LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord) WALTER SCHULZ (cello)
7.21* Goldberg Harpsichord Concerto in D minor
ELIZA HANSEN .
PFLAZ ORCHESTRA, LUDWIGSHAFEN conducted by CHRISTOPH STEPP

Part 2
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL
8.12* Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G (K 216)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA directed by DAVID OISTRAKH (violin)
8.37* Hoist Egdon Heath LONDONSYMPHONYORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Midweek Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Janacek
Theme and Variations
9.14* On an overgrown path (Book 1)
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano) gramophone records

played by DESMOND HUNTER in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
Widor Allegro Vivace (Symphony No 5, in F minor, Op 42) Messiaen Le banquet celeste Vierne Hymne au soleil; Feux follets; Clair de lune: Toccata (Pieces de fantaisie, deuxieme suite, Op 53)
BBC Northern Ireland

F sharp minor. Op 25 No 5 B flat major. Op 24 No 2 G minor. Op 7 No 3 played on a Stodart grand piano of 1784 by ALAN CUCKSTON who introduces the programme

lead,er ELI GOREN conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT Part 1 Berwald
Sinfonie singuliere, in c major

Anthony Thwaite , poet and editor, reflects on some of-the things we say and write.

Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 2, in c minor (original version)

direct from
St George's, Brandon Hill Tunnell Piano Trio
Haydn Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26)
Dvorak Dumky Trio (A series of concerts from St George's, Brandon Hill, Charlotte Street, Bristol. Tickets: 75p ait the door) BBC Bristol

In the last programme of this series the tenor Jose Carreras sings music from 19th-century Italian opera, including arias byVerdi, Donizetti, Mercadante and Ponchielli, with the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by ROBERTO BENZI : records

ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
WINID ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Neil Black (oboe)
James Brown (oboe) Thea King (.clarinet)
Julian Farrell (clarinet) Anthony Halstead (horn)
Christian Rutherford (horn) Martin Gatt (bassoon) Ian Cuthill (bassoon) Howard Etherton (contra-bassoon)
Krommer Octet-Partita in F major, Op 57
Elisabeth Lutyens Rape of the Moone (first broadcast performance): conducted by CHRISTOPHER NICHOLLS d'Indy Chanson et Danses

NETHERLANDS RADIO LARGE CHOIR conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH with ROBERT HOLL (bass)
Mussorgsky A night on the Bare Mountain Berlioz La mort d'Ophelie
3.45* Interval Reading
3.50* Concert Part 2
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 13
(Netherlands Radio recording)

from Leeds Parish Church Responses (Donald Hunt )
Psalms 73, 74 (Cook, Lindley, Barnby)
Lessons: Numbers 21, vv 4-9; Philiippiams 2, vv 5-11 Canticles (Darke in F)
Hymn: The royal banners forward go (EH 94)
Anthem: Praise to thee, Lord Jesus (Schiitz)
Master of the Music
SIMON LINDLEY
Sub-organist TOM CORFIELD BBC Manchester

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Language and Communication
6.30 Introduction to Arabic
Programme 13
Introduced by BAHA ESSAID with NADIA TAWFIQ and AKRAM SILIH Script by t. f. MITCHELL and D. BARBER
7.0 Der arme Millionar Nach dem Roman von ERICH
KÄSTNER Drei Manner im Schnee 18: Vier Gäste reisen ab
Mil SABINE MICHAEL, DIETER GEISS -LER, LILLY KANN , ANGELIKA SAHLA, ROLF RICHARDS , PAUL HANSARD
Script und Regie EDITH BAER (Repeated: Sun 3.0 pm R4 VHF)

direct from the Royal Albert Hall Paul Schenly (piano)
Rotterdam Phiiharmonic Orchestra leaders GERARD HETTEMA and JACQUES HOLTMAN conductor Edo de Waart Part
Tristan Keuris Sinfonia (UK premiere)
Tristan Keuris was born in Holland in 1946. The form of his Sinfonia corresponds to that of the classical symphony but with the music playing coritinuously. Mozart Piano Concerto No 23, in A major (K 488)

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 1, in D major

by V. S. PRITCHETT
Read by David March
' One night of his life, Don Juan slept alone ... There was not even a maid, for his host was served only by a manservant, being unable any longer to bear the sight of women.' (First broadcast on Radio 4)

GYÖRGY PAUK, MICHAEL ISADOR Brahms Scherzo in c minor
John Rushby-Smith Violin Sonata Gerard Schiirmann Serenade for violin
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major, Op 12 No 3

Second of three programmes in which this young Japanese soprano is heard in settings of the Mignon poems from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. with Hartmut Holl (piano)
Schubert Kennst du das Land?; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt ; Heiss' mien nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen
(South German Radio recording) (Wolf Mignon Songs: 20 Sept)