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'Music of a kind that is very superior in my opinion to that of the operas, is that of the scuole. Every Sunday, motets, which are composed and directed by the greatest masters in Italy, are performed in barred-off galleries solely by girls. I can conceive of nothing as voluptuous, as moving, as this music... ' (J.J. Rousseau)

An example of this music is the Stabat Mater, the principal work this morning.

Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, for strings RV 153) - Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood

8.11* Vivaldi Stabat Mater (RV 621) - James Bowman (counter-tenor) Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood

8.30* Vivaldi Cello Sonata in B flat (Rv 47) - Anner Bylsma (cello) Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Hermann Hobarth (cello continuo)

8.42* Albinoni Violin Concerto in flat, Op 9 No 1 - Felix Ayo, I Musici

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Georg Monn Harpsichord Concerto in D, arranged as a Cello Concerto by Schoenberg LAURENCE LESSER
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROBERT CRAFT
9.23* Schubert String Quartet in c. (0887)
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
10.10* Bernstein Chichester Psalms
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor)
CHOIR OF KING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by PHILIP LEDGER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The World of the Moon: Haydn's comic opera introduced by ERIC SMITH.
Angel Voices: the church castrati by ELSA SCAMMELL.
Jasper Rooper : an 80th birthday tribute from a pupil and fellow composer, GEOFFREY BUSH.

conducted by WILLIAM MATHIAS JANET CUAXTON » oboe)
GERVASE de PEYER (clarinet) JOHN GLICKMAN (violin)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
Part 1 Beethoven Overture: Prometheus Bach Concerto in D minor, for oboe, violin. strings and continuo (BWV 1060)
Mathias Dance Variations (first broadcast performance)

Denis Donoghue, Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, reflects on some of the things we say and write.

BBC Manchester

Part 2 Mathias Clarinet Concerto (first broadcast performance)
Mozart Symphony No 36, In c major (Linz)

The ninth of ten programmes 9: Large Choirs and Contemporary Music Choirs READING PHOENIX CHOIR
SILVER RING CHOIR OF BATH THE DURHAM SINGERS
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SINGERS, BANGOR
Adjudicators CHARLES BEARDSALL NOEL COX , IAN CARSON
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks and announces the Class winners.

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.

A comic opera in three acts Libretto by CARLO GOLDONI Music by Haydn (sung in Italian)
Fifth in a series of Haydn operas presented by the European Broadcasting Union
MEMBERS OF THE SUISSE ROMANCE CHORUS chorus-master ANDRÉ CHARLET Continuo:
PABLO I.OERKENS (cello)
FRITZ WIDMER (double-bass) ANTAL DORATI (harpsichord) LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted bv ANTAL DORATI assistant conductor MARIO SALERNO
The action takes place in the 18th century. Act 1
3.20* Interval Reading
3.25* II mondo della luna Acts 2 and 3

Thomas Kakuska (violin) Tomislav Sestak (viola) Wilfried Rehm (cello)
Schoenberg Trio, Op 45
Mozart Divertimento in flat (K 563)

Sixth of an occasional series of programmes featuring the music of Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davics. LONDON SINFONIETTA conductor ELGAR HOWARTH
Nicholas Sackman Doubles (BBC Commission: first performance)
Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia

by FRANK WEDEKIND in the English adaptation by PETER BARNES with and Derek Godfrey , Joe Melia John Rye . Francis De Wolff
Hugh Burden and Dilys Laye Frank Wedekind s famous, and in its own time. scandalous, play about the rise and fall of the archetypal seductress, which also is the basis of Alban Berg 's opera. Originally planned for two evenings, Peter Barnes 's adaptation contracted the huge work into a highly successful play of normal length.
Ludwig Schon , a newspaper tycoonDEREKGODFREY
Alwa Schon , his son JOHN RYE Schwarz, a portrait painter
PETER WOODTHORPE
Schigolch, an old tramp
JOE
MELIA Countess Geschwitz ...DILYS LAYE Rodrigo, ' The Strongest Man in the World...FRANCIS DE WOLFF
Castl-Piani... HUGH BURDEN GOll MALCOLM HAYES Ringmaster ....... STEPHEN THORNE Escherich, a reporter
NIGEL LAMBERT
Prince Escermy ....... DAVID RYALL Alfred Hugenburg , a schoolboy
SION PROBERT
Ferdinand, the butler
KERRY FRANCIS
Jack the Ripper
PETER
WOODTHORPE Bob ..................... JOHN BULL Kunga Pobl PAUL GAYMON Hunidei.............. DAVID ERICSSON Dr Helti MICHAEL DEACON and the voices of LIANE AUKIN CAROLE BOYD , KATE COLERIDGE EMILY RICHARD , HECTOR ROSS
Music composed and conducted by BANS HEIMLER
Directed by MARTIN ESSLIE

Peter Wallfisch and Martin Freyhan

Sonata for four hands

Sonata for two Pianos

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A panorama of people, places and things, factual and fictional, in the traditionalist French-speaking culture of 1850 to 1950.
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb , Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. 7: Blood and Soil
This series could be sub-titled L'histoire des petites gens. ' L'histoire ' - the witness of both fact and fiction, ' petites gens' - a loving celebration of the quartier, the café des habitues, Jacques Tati country; everything threatened by the New France of technocracy.

leader EDWIN PALING conductor SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON NORMA BURROWES (soprano) ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) SNO CHORUS
Mahler Symphony No 2, In c minor
(A Promenade Concert given in the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow. in June 1976) BBC Scotland

Wohin? (Die schone MUUerin) ELENA GERHARDT (meZZO-SOp) ARTHUR NIKISCH (piano)
(gramophone record 1911)