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More music by Vivaldi and his Venetian contemporaries.
Vivaldi Concerto in G. for strings (rv 151) (Alia Rustica) AMSTERDAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTHON VAN DER HORST
8.9* Vivaldi Oboe Concerto In A minor (rv 463)
JÜRG SCHAEFTLEIN (oboe) VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICI 'S conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
8.18* Benedetto Marcello Aria: Col pianto e coi sospiri PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
PETER ZIMMERMANN (Cello)
ROBERT KŌBLER (harpsichord)
8.23* Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in c (RV 443)
FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder)
AMSTERDAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ RIEU
8.34* Vivaldi Chamber Concerto in A minor (rv T05) FRANS BRÜGGEN i recorder) ALICE HARNONCOURT
WALTER PFEIFFER (Violins)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (cello)
8.41* Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E (rv 270) (II Riposo)
ANNA MARIA COTOGNI (Violin) I MUSICI: records

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Couperin Concert Royal No 4 ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
9.21* Brahms Piano Quintet In F minor, Op 34: RUDOLF SERKIN BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Rubbra the symphonist by HUGH OTTAWAY.
Stravinsky's homage to Apollo by NOËL GOODWIN .
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Schubert Year
The 1978 Vienna Festival features the music of Schubert who died 150 years ago.
This morning in the main hall of the Musikverein Eugen Jochum conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in a Haydn-Schubert concert. Part 1 Haydn
Symphony No 98, In B flat

Ovid Among the Scythians by Anita Brookner
In 1859. towards the end. of his life, Delacroix painted a scene which sums up his rather tragic philosophy. Dr Brookner. Reader in History of Art. Courtauld Institute. London, places this painting in the National Gallery in London against the background of Delacroix's experience as an artist.

Part 2 Schubert
Mass in E flat (D 950)
HELEN DONATH (Soprano)
JULIA HAMARI (mezzo-soprano) WERNER HOLLWEG (tenor) HORST LAUBENTHAL (tenor) WALTER BERRY (bass)
CHORAL SOCIETY OF THE GESELL-SCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE IN WIEN

Grosvenor High School, Bishop Fox Madrigal Group, Choir of Howell's School, Llandaff, Market Harborough Upper School Choir, Choir of Wirral County Grammar School, St Bernard's Convent Choir
Adjudicators Charles Beardsall, Noel Cox, Ian Carson
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the Class winners.

EMMANUEL AX (piano)
Mozart Sonata in D (K 311)
Beethoven Fifteen Variations and Fugue in E flat on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35

Patricia Beer

Part 2 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimtntales
Chopin Three Mazurkas, Op 59: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.55 am)

LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in c, Op 54 No 2 Hugh Wood Quartet No 3 (first performance)

In Eastern Europe, the church is the joker in the ideological pack - an alternative view of life. Peter Hebblethwaite of Wadham College. Oxford, examines the relationship between church and state in Poland and the GDR in the light of the Helsinki Agreement and argues that in defending the rights of religion, the churches are also defending the human rights of all their fellow citizens. BBC Manchester

Part 2 Schubert Quartet In D minor (Death and the Maiden) (Arranged by the Bath Festival Society Limited, in association with the UBM Group Limited, from the Assembly Reoms, Bath, on 31 May) BBC Bristol

KATHRYN LUKAS (flute) OLE BÖHN (violin)
PETER wiECOLD (electronics)
Ib Norholm Sonata quasi varlazioni, for unaccompanied violin (first broadcast performance in this country)
Peter Wiegold The soft complaining flute, for flute and tape (first broadcast performance)
Niels Viggo Bentzon Sonata No 1. for unaccompanied violin (first broadcast performance in this country) BBC Bristol

The poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) is little-known outside America; the novelist Paul Bailey introduces a selection of his work and argues that he has been unjustly neglected.
Reader JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS BBC Manchester

Another programme in which the identity of each work is announced only after it has been heard.
Apologies by Robert Simpson A sonata for violin and piano JEAN HARVEY (violin)
ALEXANDER KELLY (piano) A string quartet
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET A piece for orchestra on a gramophone record

The Center for Advanced Study In the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford, California, is one of the most distinguished of America's ' think-tanks '. Anthony King. Professor of Government at Essex University, who is spending the current academic year at the Center. chairs a special seminar on the relationship between academic study and government policy formation and on the contribution theoretical research can make to the solution of the problems of government.

Mass No 3. in F minor
JUDITH BECKMANN (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ADALBERT KRAUS (tenOD GÜNTHER REICH (bass)
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, STUTTGART conducted by HELMUTH RILLING
(South German Radio recording)

Sir Charles Tennyson died on 22 June 1977 at the age of 97. In this programme, recorded at the time of his 95th birthdav. he talked with his son Hallam. and grand-daughter Rosalind, about his memories of a Victorian childhood and commented on the changes in social and family attitudes that he had lived to see.
(An extended version of the programme broadcast on R4)

Concerto Grosso
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR gramophone record

Drifting by ERLAND JOSEPHSON translated from the Swedish by ALAN TAPSELL and IAN RODGER
The study of a failing marriage where the thrifty husband brings his sick wife on an expensive trip to London.
Language Consultant SUSAN LJUNGGREN
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Klärchens Lied (Freudvoll und leidvoID: LILLI LEHHANN (SOp) with piano (record: 1905)