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Mozart Overture: II re pastore ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.8* Shankar Sitar Concerto (fourth movement) RAVI SHANKAR LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
7.23* Khachaturyan Dances from the ballet: Spartacus LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Part 2 Mozart, arr Anthony Baines Divertimento No 14, in B flat IK 270) (mono)
DENNIS BRAIN WIND ENSEMBLE
8.14* Britten Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes ): NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.38* Tomasl Trombone Concerto: MICHEL AMBACH
ORTF CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN DOUSSARD

Stravinsky and the Ballet The Rite of Spring
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

played by HARRISON OXLEY at St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Bach Prelude and Fugue in a minor (bwv 544)
Duruflé Prelude. Adagio et Choral Varie sur Ie theme du Veni Creator
BBC Birmingham

The six Bartok quartets, with quartets by Schubert, played in six programmes by the MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART Bartok Quartet No 1
Schubert Quartet in G major (D 887)

sung by SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Ives In the Alley; At the River
11.33* Poulenc Three Metamorphoses (Louise de Vilmorin); Three songs of Garcia-Lorca
11.42* Ives Autumn; Nature's Way; Two little flowers
11.48*PoulencFourpoemsof Guillaume Apollinaire
11.52* Ives The Side Show; The Circus Band
BBC Manchester

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GILBERT AMY Webern Passacaglia, Op 1
12.18* Debussy Nuages; Fêtes (Nocturnes)
12.35* Mozart Symphony No 25, in G minor (K 183) BBC Manchester

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London
Aweeklyseriesofrecitals given by the younger generation Jana Frenklova (piano)
Janacek Sonata lx 1905, in E flat minor
Schumann Fantasie in c. Op 17 Smetana Concert Study: On the Seashore

The Rackett
DAVID MUNROW directing the EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON gramophone record

conducted by KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER ESTHER GLAZER (Violin)
Fauré Suite: Pellgas et Mélisande
Berg Violin Concerto
Schumann Symphony No 4, in D minor. BBC Scotland

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Lutyens Vision of Youth
Mozart Little German Cantata (K 619)
4.0* Interval Reading
4.5* York Festival 1976 Part 2
Birtwistle Death of Orpheus Janacek Children's Rhymes
. BBC Manchester

JOHN LADE introduces excerpts from the performance of Verdi's Macbeth recommended by Alan Blyth in last Saturday's Record Review.

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Language and Communication C.30 Kontakte
25: Wohin fahren Siet
Introduced by LUTZ LIEBELT and LIANE RUDOLPH Series producer
IRIS SPRANKLING
7.0 Tal como es
Un curso de segundo afio basado en conversaciones con espanoles grabadas en Valladolid y Madrid.
1. Pepe Machado habla con unos Madrileiios con ELOISA DiEZ y PABLO SOTO Realizaci6n ALAN WILDING

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, to honour the musical lifetime of a pianist and writer who was for 14 years BBC Controller. Music.
Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat major (K 493)
WILLIAM GLOCK (piano) MEMBERS OF THE
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Debussy Trois chansons de Bilitis (texts by PIERRE LOUYS): La flûte de Pan; La chevelure; Le tombeau des naiades
Robert Saxton (born 1953) Brise Marine (text by MALLARMÉ: first performance and broadcast in this country)
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) JOHN FRASER (piano)

Part 2 Boulez
Le marteau sans maitre: cantata to texts by RENE CHAR
JAN DEGAETANI (mezzo-soprano) MEMBERS OF THE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, With MARIE-THÉRÈSE GHIRARDI (guitar) conducted by THE COMPOSER (Chief Conductor. BBC Symphony Orchestra 1971-1975,
Principalguestconductor1975-1978)
This work appeared in the first of the BBC's Thursday Invitation Concerts (initiated by William Glock ) in 1960, sharing the programme with Mozart chamber music.

' We like to think that our job in theoretic physics is to try to explain why nature is the way it is in terms of a very few fundamental principles. I wish we had a theory that told us definitely what to expect-how many quarks, how many leptons, but I'm afraid we are not in that position.'
Quarks and leptons are two classes of the subatomic forms of matter that at present appear to be elementary - elementary in the sense that physicists have not yet succeeded in explaining them in terms of anything else.
Steven Weindberg , Higgans Professor of Physics at Harvard University, talks to John Maddox about the ' tribal ' relationships between the various forms of matter.
Editor GEOFF DEEHAN

1854-1928
In the year marking the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, a historic performance of his liturgical masterpiece, conducted by his foremost pupil.
Glagolltic Mass
LIBUSE DOMANINSKA (soprano) MARIE JURENOVA (contralto) JOSEF VALKA (tenor)
JAROSLAV HROMADKA (bass)
VACH CHOIR OF MORAVIAN WOMIN TEACHERS
MORAVAN ACADEMIC CHOIR
BRNO RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by BRATISLAV BAKALA gramophone records

H. Colin Davis examines a few of the views - the Victorian hymnwriter's endless noonday or Sydney Smith's pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets; Monica Furlong 's celestial extension of the Norfolk countryside, or Edward Lear 's of Corfu where cherubs do the cooking....
Readers ROSALIND SHANKS and DAVID DAVIS
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Sehnsucht (Ach, aus dieses Tales Griinden, second setting) JOSEF GREINDL (bass)
HERTHA KLUST (piano): record