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Continuing the series devoted to Vivaldi and his Venetian contemporaries. Today a motet by Vivaldi probably written for one of his pupils at the Ospedale delta Pieta. There are also works by Bonporti, who had much of his music published in Venice, and Benedetto Marcello , a lawyer and councillor in the city. Both men described themselves as ' dilettanti di musica' which in those days simply meant that they composed music for pleasure and not for money.
Vivaldi Concerto in A, for strings (RV 158)
BENEDETTO MARCELLO ENSEMBLE
8.13* Bonporti Violin Concerto in D, Op 11 No 8 WILLY BUSCH
BENEDETTO MARCELLO ENSEMBLE
8.25* Vivaldi Motet: Canta In prato (RV 623)
ANNA MARIA BONDI (soprano)
LES solistes DE PARIS, directed by HENRI CLAUDE FANTAPlE
8.34* Vivaldi Flute Concerto In c minor (RV 441)
WILLIAM BENNETT , ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.45* Benedetto Marcello Intro duction, Aria and Presto
BENEDETTO MARCELLO ENSEMBLt gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Satle Le fils des étoiles UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL
9.14* Franck String Quartet in D LOEWENGUTH STRING QUARTET
10.1* Poulenc Sept répons des ténèbres
BRUSSELS PROTESTANT CHOIR LIEGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZHOYOIS

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The paradox of the Prix de Rome by JAMES HARDING.
A conversation with CLAUDIO ABBADO.
John Cage - a reassessment by PETER DICKINSON.
Producer Christine HARDWICK

leader Felix Kok, conducted by Kurt Sanderling

Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)

Patricia Beer. poet and critic, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 1.45 pm)

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 4, In E fiat (Romantic)
BBC Birmingham

The sixth of ten programmes in which 26 amateur choirs compete for the honour of representing the United Kingdom.
6: Equal Voice Choirs (2)
FRONCYSYLLTE MALE VOICE CHOIR
SEVEN TOWERS MALE VOICE CHOIR JERSEY LADIES CHOIR
SKELMANTHORPE MALE VOICE CHOIR BEADING MALE VOICE CHOIR
Adjudicators CHARLES BEARDSALL Noel COX and IAN CARSON
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the Class winners.

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated, Monday 10.55 am)

Comedy with music in three acts
Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
A recording made following a stage production of the opera by Netherlands Opera in the 1976 Holland Festival.
(sung in German: records) also with HENK SMIT , WOUTER GOEDHARDT , MATTHIJS COPPENS , ADRIAAN VAN LIMPT , ANGELA BELLO , MARIANNE DIELEMAN , THEA VAN DER PUTTEN, RENtE VAN HAARLEM. FRANS FISELIER , PAUL BINDELS , AD KOOIJMANS. WILHELM HUISMAN and RUDOLF VEDDER
CHORDS OF NETHERLANDS OPERA ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDO DEWAART . Act 1

selects, reads and talks about some of William Blake 's poems in the first of two programmes. Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX

Act 2
4.50* Interval Reading
4.55* Der Rosenkavalier Act 3

In this shortened version of his key speech to the 1977 Edinburgh Television Festival Marcel Ophuls criticises certain current attitudes to ' naturalism ' in film and television and enters a strong plea for the literate imagination.

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
Part of a concert given during the 1976 iscm Festival in Boston John Cage Renga with Apartment House 1776
Seymour Shifrin Chronicles SETH mccoy (tenor)
GREGORY REINHART (baritone) DAVID ARNOLD (bass-baritone) NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
CHORUS director LORNA COOKE DEVARON
(first broadcasts in this country) Recording made available by the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust)

Council, Commission and Parliament
A discussion of some of the key constitutional questions in the development of the European Community at the start of the year leading to the direct elections to the European Parliament. with Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst. former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Garret Fitzgerald. former Foreign Minister of Eire; John Mitchell. Professor of European Institutions. University of Edinburgh: Christopher Tugendhat. British Member of the European Commission. Producer JOHN GRAY BBC Scotland

The third of four programmes of music from the Islamic world, from recordings made by Deben Bhattacharya.
3: Music of the Mevlevi Der vishes of Turkey
An excerpt from a ceremony recorded at Konya in 1974,

Piano Concerto No 2, in G WERNER HAAS
NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA OF MONTE CARLO, conducted by ELIAHU INBAL : record

A radio comedy for graduates by Jonathan Raban.
With David Buck as Gavin Trotman, Stephen Murray as Alec Grace

Trotman: 'Pass. P. Sans honour of any kind. By the way, I think Griffith's mark may be affected when he hears that Arkell can't even spell "Leavis". In his Lawrence answer he dropped the A throughout.'
The tutors of a provincial university are gathered round a conference table to decide the final degrees of their students, Running the moderns course is the cynical and promiscuous Trotman.
(Repeat)

The Wanderer (Der Wanderer) (Ich komme vom Gebirge her) (English translation by M. x. HAVES): ROBERT RADFORD (bass) with piano
(gramophone record: 1911)