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Fourth of 14 weekly programmes
Mozart Violin Sonata in A major (K 305; composed in Mannheim early in 1778) NORBERT BRAININ (Violin)
LILI KRAUS (piano)
Aria: Ah, lo previdi (K 272; composed in Salzburg the previous year for the Bohemian soprano Josepha Dusek ; Aloysia Weber, coached by Mozart, studied this aria in Mannheim)
MAGDA LASZLO (soprano)
VIENNA STATE OrERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ARGEO QUADRI (gramophone record)
Mozart Symphony No 31, in D major (K 297; the Paris symphony composed for a concert there in June 1778)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
(gramophone record)

Listeners' record requests Haydn Cello Concerto in D
FREDERIC LODEON BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA , conducted by THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER
9.32* Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 25: JAMES GALWAY (flute) JOHN GEORGIADIS (Violin) BRUN HAWKINS (Viola)
9.57* Robert Simpson Symphony No 1 (mono)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Grace Williams : a portrait of the Welsh composer who died earlier this year.
Beecham's Delius: by PETER DODD.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

A music drama in three acts by Wagner
(sung in German)
The third part of the controversial production which was mounted for last year's centenary and repeated this summer. Siegfried leaves the 19th-century industrial world where Chgreau locates the rest of the cycle. It is instead a magical tale in which Wotan conjures a machine to the stage to forge Siegfried's sword, and the dying dragon turns again into the giant Fafner.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by pierre BOULEZ Act 1

Roy Fisher , poet. reflects on some of the things we say and write.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 3.55 pm)

NoveIlettes: in G major, Op 17 No 1; in c minor, Op 17 No 2
Fairy Tales: in c minor, Op 42 No 2; in G major, Op 51 No 6
Sonata-Ballade in F sharp major, Op 27 played by BERNARD ROBERTS (piano)

A personal view of the popular music of the 1920s in five Sunday lunchtime programmes 4: 1926 and 1927 with PAUL WHITEMAN
EDYTHE BAKER , JOE VENUTI
THE SAVOY ORPHEANS GERSHWIN, CROSBY, FRED WARING and others on disc*

Act 2

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 11.20 am)

Act 3
(Recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)

' The only great spirit of our time,' wrote Camus of the French philosopher and mystic, Simone Weil , who looked on herself as ' a badly cut-off piece of God '.
Louis Allen considers her life and writings in the light of Simone Pftrement 's biography, which is now published in an English translation.

The Songs of Francis Poulenc
A 13-programme retrospective covering the whole of Poulenc's song-writing career, and borrowing for its title the name of the diary in which Poulenc recorded comments about all his songs, with performances by young artists as well as historic archive recordings.
Written by the accompanist Graham Johnson , produced by Elaine Padmore and presented jointly by both, with Philip lonnet reading Poulenc's own words.
8: Fleurs
Poulenc and women. Settings of poetry by his favourite poetess Louise de Vilmorin, and songs inspired by female singer friends.
Poulenc Soirees de Nazelle; Huit chansons polonaises; Trois poemes de Louise de Vilmorin; Fiançailles pour rire; Les animaux modeles; Metamorphoses
FELICITY PALMER (soprano) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
ANNE MARIE RODDE (soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) and on records: MARIE BLANCHE DE POLIGNAC
, LOUISE DE VILMORIN JACQUES FEVRIER , PIERRE BERNAC and FRANCIS POULENC

Four talks by Christopher Thorne. Professor of International Relations in the University of Sussex.
4: Strategy and Politics in the War Against Japan
It has often been asserted that, whereas Britain's military strategies during the Second World War were greatly influenced by long-term political considerations, the United States fought that war on the simple, even naive, basis of seeking victory in the shortest possible time. But was the contrast in fact so simple and so complete?

A recording from this year's Schwetzingen Festival of the first performance of the String Quartet No 4 played by the CONCORD QUARTET
(South German Radio recording) (The Concord Quartet's first performance of Henze's Fifth String Quartet: 22 December)

What do thenT how meet beauty?
Merely meet it: own,
Home at heart, heaven's sweet gift; then leave, let that alone.
An enquiry into the current reputation of Gerard Manley Hopkins conducted by Christopher Ricks and Hallam Tennyson
With contributions from
GEORGE BARKER
PROFESSOR BERNARD BERGONZI
PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS
PROFESSOR ROY FULLER
PROFESSOR D. W. HARDING
PROFESSOR GEOFFREY HILL
THE REV FR MARTIN
JARRETT-KERR, CR
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
PADDY KITCHEN
GERALD ROBERTS
PROFESSOR W. W. ROBSOK
GRAHAM STOREY
THE REV ALFRED THOMAS , SJ
PROFESSOR JOHN WAIN
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON (Hopkins Translated; next Saturday)

Symphony No 9, in c
TONHALLE ORCHESTRA, ZURICH conducted by GERD ALBRECHT
(Swiss Radio recording from this year's Zurich Festival)

The Force of Habit by THOMAS BERNHARD translated by NEVILLE PLAIC1 AND STEPHEN PLAIC1
In these twenty-two years we haven't succeeded one single time in completing the Trout quintet without making a mistake let alone making a work of art There is always someone who ruins everything through carelessness or vulgarity.
The first broadcast on Radio 3 of a play by this Austrian writer who was awarded the Buchner Prize in 1970 for his novel The Chalk Works.
Directed by RONALD MASON