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Today, the first of two programmes compiled from records by Vladimir Horowitz of the music of Chopin, including his 1950 recording of the Sonata in B flat minor: records

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Witt, formerly attrib. Beethoven 'Jena' Symphony MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MARC ANDREAE

9.32* Wolf Italian Serenade KELLER STRING QUARTET

9.40* Williamson Song-cycle: From a Child's Garden APRIL CANTELO (soprano) THE COMPOSER (piano)

9.58* Beethoven Piano Sonata in c minor, Op 111 (mono) SHURA CHERKASSKY

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Couperin's Music for the Church: by CHRISTOPHER HOG-WOOD.
The Outset of a Career: a conversation With JOHN ARNOLD , winner of the Lugano International Conductors' Competition.
Pasquale Amato: a centenary tribute to the Italian baritone by ALAN BLYTH.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICH

JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA BEKANY conducted by BERNARD HAITINK Part 1
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
Duparc Songs: L'invitation au voyage: La vie anterieure; PhidylS; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Au pays ou se fait la guerre

Dipak Nandy reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 11.10 am)

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c major
(A Promenade Concert broadcast on 4 August from the Royal Albert Hall , London)

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 10.20 am)

Quintet in g minor, Op 39 MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON gramophone record

A sacred music drama in three acts
Words and music by Wagner (sung in German)
Last year's Bayreuth Festival production
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master
NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by HORST STEIN
(Bavarian Radio recording) Act 1
3.40' At the Shrine of St Wagner ' In Parsifal there is a hermit named Gurnemanz who stands on the stage in one spot and practises by the hour. while first one and then another of the cast endures what he can of it and then retires to die ' - a sample of Mark Twain s observations on Bayreuth, 1891, read by PAUL MEIER.
3.55* Parsifal, Act 2
5.9* The First Performance of Parsifal
Personal reminiscences by Engelbert Humperdinck who helped Wagner with the preparations for the premiere in 1882. PETER BARKER reads ROBERT HARTFORD'S s translation.
5.10* Parsifal, Act 3 Preview: page 19

Fourteen Variations in a Sat major, Op 44
BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Isidore Cohen (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
(Recording from the 1977 Montreux-VeveyFestivalmade available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)

in Oedipus at Colonus by SOPHOCLES based on the translation by ROBERT FITZGERALD
Music specially composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS
In this play - Sophocles' ' Testament of Life ' - Oedipus, a wandering self-blinded exile, old and destitute, accompanied only by Antigone, draws near a sacred grove in the little township of Colonus, not far from Athens.
Before he reaches the end of life's pilgrimage he must go through more spiritual and emotional trials. But, in a magnificent scene about the mystery of death, he finally recovers his old majesty and powerful insight.
Sir Michael Redgrave who, as Oedipus, tackles one of the longest and most demanding parts of his distinguished career, will be 70 tomorrow.
People of Colonus:
ERIC ALLEN , GAVIN CAMPBELL
JOHN GABRIEL , MANNING WILSON MALCOLM GERARD , HAROLD KASKET Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
Music performed by the NEW CHAMBER SOLOISTS With MARTYN HILL (tenor) and MEMBERS or THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
(Mask or Face: 10.15 pm R4)

Words by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Additional verses by R. A. ACWORTH
Music by Elgar
TERESA CAHILL (soprano) KENNETH WOOLLAM (tenor) PETER GLOSSOP (baritone)
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR chorus-master EDMUND WALTERS ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader ALAN TRAVERSE conducted by VERNON HANDLEY Part 1
9.40" King Olaf the Godfather
Michael Alexander , Lecturer in English at Stirling University and translator of Beowulf, traces the tale of Olaf Trygg vason, the king who converted Norway and Iceland to Christianity and became the subject of Elgar's cantata.
10.0* Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf, Part 2
BBC Manchester

by Ray Gosling
Throughout the 1960s Ray Gos ling was deeply and turbulently involved in an upheaval typical of the period - the massive clearance and rebuilding of a slum area in Nottingham. In these talks he tells his personal story of the place, the people, the Ideals, the scandals, the achievements and disasters, what was gained and lost. 4: Losing the War

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Taubenpost JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
(From a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)