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Spohr Double Quartet in z minor, Op 87
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
7.36* Weber Concertstiick in r minor, Op 79
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA gramophone records

Berlioz Overture: King Lear LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.21* Poulenc Piano Concerto
CRISTINA ORTIZ , CITY OF
BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FR ÉMAUX
8.41* Roussel Suite in F, Op 33 THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT gramophone records

Orlando Gibbons
Today's programme concentrates on his church music, including two of his best-known anthems, Hosanna to the Son of David and This is the Record of John. gramophone records

led by HUGH MAGUIRE conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring; Summer night on the river
Haydn Symphony No 93, in D
(A lunchtime concert given in St George's Church, Brandon Hill. Bristol, on 28 April)
BBC Bristol

A programme of special interest to amateur choralists in which the BBC SINGERS, conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY , perform music by Delius and Tippett.

BARRY GRIFFITHS (violin) JONATHAN GOODALL (horn)
CLIFTON HELLIWELL (piano)
Dukas Villanelle , for horn and piano
11.26* Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor (K 304)
11.37* Brahms Horn Trio in E flat major, Op 40
BBC Manchester
BBC Music Guide: Brahms Chamber Music, by Ivor Keys, 45p from bookshops

PHILIPP HIRSHHORN (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 32, in G (K 318)
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad
(Repeated: Wednesday 8.35 pm)

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 8, in G BBC Scotland

(piano) Part 1
Shostakovich Two Preludes and Fugues in c, major and D major Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op 101
Brahms Four Piano Pieces, Op 119
3.0* Interval Reading
3.10* Dmitri Alexeev Part 2 Chopin
Sonata in B minor, Op 58
BBC Manchester
(Dmitri Alexeev is in tonight's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert: 8.0 pm)

by Johann Strauss , Brahms. Czernik, Ziehrer, Massenet and Offenbach

Poglietti Toccatina sopra la Ribellione di Ungheria
ZSUZSA PERTIS (harpsichord) Buxtehude Suite in D minor
EDITH PICHT-AXENFELD
(harpsichord): records

The best of present-day jazz on records, with Charles Fox

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Work and Training
6.30 Nation at Work
Last week the government launched a series of conferences on the revival of small business in inner cities. Tonight PETER BARSBY investigates small business as a potential source of economic growth and employment, as well as the problems and prospects of small firms as seen by those who run them.
7.0 Reading after Ten
6: What is Comprehension*
It's not only a question of literal meaning.
Presented by COLIN HARRISON Book, 12.15 from bookshops

Antony Hopkins puts questions about music to Imogen Cooper Gareth Morris and Geoffrey Chard
Recorded in the Alington Hall , Shrewsbury School, at the invitation of the Shrewsbury Branch of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR Series producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol

leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Yuri Temirkanov with Dmitri Alexeev (piano) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1 Prokofiev
Symphony No 1, in D major (Classical)
Piano Concerto No 3, in c major

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

Part 2 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2, in E minor (complete)
(Presented in association with Hitachi)
BBC Music Guide: RachmaninovOrchestralMusic,by Patrick Piggott , 45p from bookshops

by IAN DOUGALL
' Into this bedlam that was the city as we understood it, and England as she appeared, came this scarecrow with a golden gift for words.'
A young Soho prostitute describes her feelings towards Thomas de Quincey. Using poetic licence for deliberate effect, Ian Dougall explores the nature of their relationship, based on the ' exalted incident ' chronicled in the famous essayist's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Grand Duo concertant IGOR OISTRAKH (violin)
IGOR TCHERNYSHEV (piano)
(Part of a recording from the Prague Spring Festival made available by courtesy of Czech Radio)