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Donizetti Overture:
Robert Devereux LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
7.11* Mompou El combat del somni
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOp)
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTONIO ROS-MARBA
7.20* Liszt Sonata in B minor LAZAR BERMAN (piano)

Part 2 Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 YEHUDI MENUHIN
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER

A further monthly selection of poetry chosen and read by Robin Holmes.
Producer BRIAN COOK

Overture: Oberon
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
9.14 Clarinet Concerto No 1, in F minor
Gervase de Peyer
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos

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played by Peter King at Lichfield Cathedral
Rheinberger Introduction and Passacaglia (Sonata No 8, in E minor)
Stanley Voluntary in E minor, Op 7 No 7
Bach Chorale Prelude: Komm. heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (BWV 651)
Vierne Impromptu (Pieces de Fantaisie. Op 54)
Mulet Carillon-Sortie BBC Birmingham

JAIME LAREDO (violin) LYNN HARRELL (cello)
RICHARD GOODE (piano) Part 1
Haydn Trio in B flat (n xv 20) Brahms Trio No 3, in c minor, Op 101
11.0* Interval Reading
11.10* Piano Trios
Part 2 Ravel Trio in A minor
BBC Manchester

leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by SIMON RATTLE IAN CALEY (tenor)
DAVID FLACK (horn)
Wagner Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra
Schumann Symphony No 2, in c BBC Scotland

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation
Nigel Kennedy (violin) Melvyn Tan (piano)
Schubert Duo in A (D 574) Franck Sonata
(Before an invited audience)

the Romanian Pan Pipes gramophone record

DENNIS O'NEILL (tenor) RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Bellini Torna , vezzosa Fillide
Liszt Petrarch Sonnets: Pace non trovo: Benedetto sia'l giorno; I vidi in terra angelici costumi

Leader John Bradbury, conducted by Vernon Handley
James Gourlay (tuba)

Part 1
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Tuba Concerto

Before the broadcast of Elgar's Second Symphony, Colin Mawby assesses the composer's stature against his musical and social background.

Part 2 Elgar
Symphony No 2, in E fiat
(Given in Birmingham Town Hall in October last year) BBC Birmingham

sung by the SALTIRE VOCAL QUARTET
Patricia Clark (soprano)
Margaret Cable (mezzo-sop) Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Frederick Westcott (bass) With ROBERT SPENCER (lute) who also introduces the programme
Jean Planson La rousée du joly mois de may
Pierre Guedron Si Ie parler et le silence
Gabriel Bataille Ma bergère, non légère
Guedron Quel espoir de guarir anon Un jour que ma rebelle
Antoine Boesset Amarillis , bel astre de mes jours
Bataille Amour victorieux
Francois de Chancy Faut-il mourir
Bataille Baisant un soir une mignarde
Boesset Objet dont les charmes si doux
Guédron Vous que le bonheur r'appelle

John Lade introduces a selection of records of music by Arnold Bax reviewed in last Saturday's Record Review by Andrew Keener.

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Language and Communication

6.30 Kontakte: 18: Welche Grosse tragen Sie?
Introduced by LUTZ LIEBELT and LIANE RUDOLPH
Script by IRIS SPRANKLING
(Television programmes: Sun 10.50 am, Wed 12.5 pm BBC1)

7.0 Allez France!
18: Puylaroque en fete et en musique
Presente par GILLES DATTAS et ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER
Script par JOHN ROSS
(Repeated: Sun 3.0 pm R4 VHF)

Thus ran the headline in the college newspaper at Bryn Mawr, when Dylan Thomas went there to read his poems, and the search for a lost happiness runs like a thread through his life and work.
Russell Jackson. Lecturer in Drama at the University College of North Wales, traces variations on this theme that appear in his writings, with the aid of recordings of some of the many broadcasts Dylan Thomas made: records

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Charles Rosen (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Charles Mackerras Part 1
Stravinsky Symphony In three movements
Elliott Carter Piano Concerto
CONCERTINO: Bela Dekany (violin) Harry Danks (viola) Ross Pople (cello)
Gerald Brinnen (double-bass) David Butt (flute)
John Wolfe (cor anglais) Anthony Jennings (bass clarinet)

by Louis Allen , Senior Lecturer in French in the University of Durham. Until November 1942 France was cut in half: a military occupation by the Germans in the north and west and the rule of Marshal Petain from Vichy in the south Louis Allen looks at Roderick Ked ward's new book Resistance in Vichy France which is published tomorrow and which studies the problems of resistance under the Vichy regime.

Part 2 Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra

Professor Gwyn Jones discusses the past and present relationship of the two literatures of Wales.
The greater the number of Welsh readers the better: the greater the number of readers in translation the better. For after the writers, readers are all.
(The BBC Wales Annual Radio Lecture recorded before an invited audience at Broadcasting House, Llandaff, in November 1977)
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales

A programme of blues and blues singers.
CHARLES LOVE, BLIND ARVELLA GRAY, SPECKLED RED and JOHN LEE HOOKER talk about their lives and music, with songs from B. B. KING , LIL JOHNSON , BLIND WILLIE MCTELL and ROBERT JOHNSON.

Schwestergruss
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano) gramophone record