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BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Grace Williams Castell Caernarfon
7.15* Mathias Celtic Dances
7.31* Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring. BBC Wales

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Delius Summer night on the river
8.12» Shostakovich Symphony No 5, in d minor. BBC Wales

c 1525-15'4
Giovanni Pierluigl (named Palestrina after his birthplace) spent his whole working life in or around Rome where he directed the music of several churches, including St Peter 's. Reared in the musical traditions long dominated by composers of the Franco-Flemish school, his name has become a symbol of the perfection attained by the polyphonic style in the late 16th century. Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : record

Antony Hopkins

played by the Canadian ensemble YORK WINDS
Hindemith Kleine Kammer musik
Bruce Mather Eine kleine Blasermusik (first broadcast performance in this country) Irving Fine Partita

A concert given in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in May 1976 by Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) with Raymond Leppard (piano) Part 1 Songs by Cavalli, Schubert and Liszt

In the interval of her recital Dame Janet Baker talks about The Uniqueness of the Individual

Part 2 Settings by Debussy and Fauré of poems by Verlaine, and Berkeley's Five Poems of W. H. Auden , Op 53
(Presented by the Forum Music Society in association with National Westminster Bank and the Hall* Concerts Society) BBC Manchester

direct from St John 's, Smith Square. London
Gabrieli String Quartet
Schubert Quartet in B fiat major<d112)
Webern Six Bagatelles. Op 9
Havdn Quartet in D major. Op 64 No 5 (The Lark)
(Tickets: 90p, available at the door)

The last programme from the Ninth International Organ Festival: a recital given by Michel Chapuis de Grigny Movements from the Organ Mass
Buxtehude Chorale Preludes: In dulci jubilo; Lobe Gott , ihr Christen allzugleich; Wir dank-en dir, Herr Jesu Christ ; Prelude and Fugue in G minor

BBC NORTHERN IHELANDORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON
Music by Balfe, Havelock Nelson , Scriabin, Kabalevsky, Vaughan Williams and Roger Quilter

(violin and piano)
Berkeley Sonatina in A, Op 17 Busoni Sonata No 2, in E (1899)

Boito Prologue: Mefistofele NICOLAI GHIAUROV (baSS)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS GUMPOLDSKIRCHNER SPATZEN
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

THE I'PPER NORWOOD BAND OF TB1 SALVATION ARMY conductor
MAJOR GEORGE
WHITTINGHAM Charles Skinner Tone Poem: Heroes of the Faith
Stanley Ditmer Elegy
Ray Steadman-Allen Suite: Lord of the Sea

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LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCUS DODS with artists on records

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Home and Family
6.30 Household Pets
Seven programmes about the choice and care of pet animals. Presented by JOHN HOLMES
2: ' If you buy a cute little mongrel, you've no idea what it's going to grow up like ... with a pedigree dog, you do,t
7.0 Your Everyday Drugs 2: A Nice Pick-me-up
Tea and coffee, two of our favourite beverages, contain the stimulant drug caffeine. BILL BRECKON looks at these two popular drinks and finds out why we enjoy taking caffeine.

direct from the Free Trade Hall On behalf of the European Broadcasting Union, the BBC presents this season's second concert of the Union's International String Quartet series. Probably for the first time in the history of its performance, Beethoven's Op 130 will be played with both the Grand Fugue and the Finale with which Beethoven eventually replaced it - thus solving a time-honoured controversy by having it both ways.
Amadeus String Quartet Part 1 Mozart
Quartet in G (k 156)

In spite of the increasing attention now given by historians to the Spanish Civil War, its impact on Latin America has been curiously neglected.
Alistair Hennessy , Chairman of the School of Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick, considers the nature and extent of this impact, and the light it throws on divisions within the Hispanic world in the 20th century.

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in b flat major, Op 130 with the Grand Fugue followed by the official Finale

Sixth in a series of 28 programmes devised and introduced by Basil Lam
Today's programme includes the four-part organum Viderunt omnes by Perotin, and virtuoso solo pieces by his predecessor Leonin.

Philip Langridge (tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) John Elwes (tenor)
Michael Morton (baritone) directed by Basil Lam (organ)

(Repeated: Tues 21 February)

This week, the first hearing in this country of Brian Ferney hough's Transit, for six solo voices and chamber orchestra. as given last November in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. with the composer conducting the London Sinfonietta. Before the performance he talked to the concert audience while holding a short open rehearsal; excerpts of this are included in the programme, which is introduced by Jonathan Harvey ROSEMARY HARDY (soprano
ELISABETH HARRISON (soprano)
LINDA HIRST (mezzo-soprano)
PETER HALL (tenor)
BRIAN ETHERIDGE (baritone) RODERICK EARLE ( haSS) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Auf dem Strom (mono) PETER PEARS (tenor) DENIS BRAIN (horn)
NOEL MEWTON-WOOD (piano)
Third Programme recital given in January 1953 Der Blumenbrief
ELLY AMELING (Soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano) (gramophone record) with at
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