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Twelfth of 14 weekly programmes
Six nocturnes for three singers and bassett-horns (mostly 1783): Luci cari, luci belle: Piii non si trovano; Mi lagnerd tacendo; Due pupille amabili; Ecco quel fiero instante; Se lontan, ben mio, tu sei (mono)
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) GEORGINA DOBREE
ALFRED WALLBANK
STEPHEN TRIER (bassett-horns) (BBC 1966 recording)
Violin Sonata in a flat major (K 454: 1784) (mono)
NORBERT BRAININ (violin) LILI KRAUS (piano)
(BBC 1965 recording)
Porgi amor (The Marriage of Figaro) (mono)
TIANA LEMNITZ (soprano)
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO SEIDLER-WINKLER
(gramophone record: 1938)
Masonic Funeral Music (K 477: 1785)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER (gramophone record)

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Bach Partita in B minor (bwv 831)
ELIZABETH DE LA PORTE (harpsichord)
S.29* Weber Concertino in a minor, for horn and orchestra HERMANN BAUMANN VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DIETFRIED BERNET
9.45* Debussy Ariettes oubliees SUZANNE DANCO (soprano)
GUIDO AGOSTI (piano) (mono)
10.1* Poulenc Suite: Les antmaux modèles
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRETRE

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Guido Cantelli : portrait of a conductor by BERNARD KEEFFE.
Speaking of textual fidelity ... some thoughts from CLAUDIO ARRAU.
How good was Paganini really?: FRITZ SPIEGL investigates.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

The first in a series of three programmes compiled from recorded concerts in which the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA was conducted by GUIDO CANTELLI. During the programme Manoug Parisian talks about this brilliant young conductor who was killed at the age of 36. Brahms Symphony No 3, in F
Roussel Sinfonietta, Op 52 for string orchestra
Berlioz Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
(From a concert given in Carnegie Hall, New York, in December 1951, originally broadcastintheusa:Voiceof America recording)

Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) Part 1
Paaufnlk String Quartet (including first performance of Postlude)
Mozart Quartet in t minor (k 421)

The philosopher D. H. Mellor reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 2.40 pm)

Part 2 Ravel
String Quartet
BBC Birmingham

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.55 am)

Romantic opera in three acts. Words and music by Richard Wagner
Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 7 December 1977
(sung in German)
CHORUS OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE chorus-master JOHN BACON
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA led by SANTIAGO BRAVO conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
The action takes place in Antwerp in the Brst half of the tenth century.
Act 1 A meadow on the banks of the Scheldt
3.30* Interval Reading
3.40* Lohengrin
Act 2 The citadel at Antwerp
5.5* Interval Reading
5.15* Lohengrin
Act 3 Sc 1: The bridal chamber; Sc 2: The banks of the Scheldt

A Moon for the Misbegotten by EUGENE O'NEILL with Sarah Badel , Ian Hendry and Nigel Stock
A darkly claustrophobic play, set in Connecticut in 1923. in which O'Neill displays a masterly understanding of the destructive forces motivating his characters.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS followed by an interlude

LADIES OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DAVID NOLAN
LESLIE PEARSON (organ) conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI Part1VaughanWilliams
Symphony No 4, in F minor

by J. E. mcguire , Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Did Isaac Newton 's belief in God influence his scientific thinking? Professor McGuire argues that Newton's most significant publication - The Principa Mathematica , heralded as the standard of the new rationality in the 18th century, curtains the theological key to Newton's attempt to make the workings of the universe intelligable to man.

Part 2 Holst The Planets, Op 32 (A concert given earlier this evening at the Royal Festival Hall, London in association with Commercial Union)

Change in British Society 4: The Rise of Party
Dr A. H. Halsey. Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford, argues that the full story of the rise of party organisation along class lines in 20th-century Britain must also comprehend the beginning of its displacement from the centre of party politics and perhaps its apparent demise.

Nacht und
Triiume LEO SLEZAK (tenor) with piano
(gramophone record recorded in 1929)