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Mozart Divertimento in D (K 131) VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
7.40* Chopin Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ELIAHU INBAL

Part 2

Bridge Rhapsody: Enter Spring ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES

8.26* Bax Northern Ballad No 1
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

8.36* Edward German Welsh Rhapsody
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON

Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Midweek Choice, [address removed]

Verdi
La Traviata
Act 2 Sc 1; Sc 2 (excerpt)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLOS KLEIBER gramophone records

for young people Brush with Music
The intrepid Basil Brush returns to the forest in search of animal life determined not to be foxed by musical disguises.

First of three weekly programmes including all six of Antonio Soler 's Concertos for two organs, together with music from various periods for two players on one and two instruments.
COLIN TILNEY
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Soler Concerto No 2, in A minor
Carleton Praeludium (reconstructed by Bernard Rose ); A Verse for two to play
Tomkins A Fancy for two to play
Soler Concerto No 5, in A

Crosse Ariadne. Op 31 SARAH FRANCIS (oboe)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE, conducted by MICHAEL LANKESTER : record

conducted by ZDENEK MACAL with LEONARD HOKANSON (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 91, in E flat major
Martinu Piano Concerto No 4 (Incantation)
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Part 2
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Janacek Rhapsody: TarasBulba (Hess Radio recording)

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Roberto Bravo (piano)
Jacqueline Currie (soprano) Stephen Rails (piano)
Chopin Polonaise in c minor, Op 40 No 2; Waltz in A flat major, Op 69 No 1; Waltz in A flat major, Op 34 No 1
Messiaen Poemes pour Mi
Chopin Scherzo No 3, in c sharp minor, Op 39
(Given before an invited audience. Tickets available from Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Overture: The Canterbury Pilgrims; Funeral March (Becket); Clarinet Concerto in A minor; Irish Rhapsody No 4, in A minor: BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by ALAN suttie with JACK BRYMER (clarinet)

Schubert Quartettsatz in c minor (D 703)
Ravel Quartet in F
3.50* Interval Reading
3.55* Chilingirian Quartet Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1
(A Music from Pebble Mill concert given at the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, in April) BBC Birmingham

JOHN LADE introduces the version of Bartok's Concerte for Orchestra recommended by Stephen Dodgson in last Saturday's Record Review.

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Language and Communication
6.30 Kontakte
Combined television and radio course for beginners in German.
10: Sechzig Pfennig pro Wort Introduced by LUTZ LIEBELT and liane RUDOLPH
Script by EDITH BAER
(Television programmes: Sun
10.50 am; Wed 12.5 pm BBC1)
7.0 Allez France!
Un cours, bas6 sur des interviews enregistr^s en France, destine a ceux qui connaissent assez bien Ie francais.
10: Les Français et le francais
(Part 2). Présenté par GILLES DATTAS et ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER
Script par JOHN ROSS
(Rptd: Sun 3.0 pm R4 VHF)

by EDMUND SPENSER , abridged in 13 episodes by TERENCE TILLER Reader Gary Bond
11: The Legend of Sir Calidore, or of Courtesie (Part 1)
The Blatant Beast, representing Malicious Calumny, has hurt the Lady Serena and Prince Arthur's squire, Timias. It is only the wisdom of an old hermit that can cure such bitter wounds.
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK
Other voices ELIZABETH BELL
HUGHDICKSON,JOHNRYE and GARY WATSON
Producer DAVID SPENSER

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by Pierre Boulez Part 1
Wagner Das Liebesmahl der Apostel
(The Holy Supper of the Apostles) (sung in German) with the BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT

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Part 2 Schoenberg Prelude to Genesis
Oratorio: Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) (sung in German)

A series of programmes in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared.
Joan Chissell talks about Brahms's First Piano Concerto as recorded by Arrau, Backhaus, Barenboim, Brendel, Cliburn, Gilels, Katchen, Kempff, Lupu, Rubinstein, Schnabel, Serkin, Solomon and Woodward.
BBC Music Guide: Brahms Orchestral Music, by John Horton , 45p from bookshops

RICHARD JACKSON (baritone) DAVID FANSHAWE (cantor)
HAROLD LESTER
(piano and percussion) JOHN LAMBERT (piano) who also conducts the AQUARIUS SINGERS
Lambert Five Songs of Po-Chiii, for baritone and piano (first broadcast performance)
Fanshawe Salaams , for cantor, singers, piano, percussion and Bahrain Tapes (first broadcast performance)