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this week features ' Four of a Kind ': with the Serenade in D for four orchestras by Mozart, Beethoven's Equali for four trombones, Franeaix's Saxophone Quartet and George Malcolm 's Variations on a theme by Mozart for four harpsichords: records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, in E minor, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
New releases reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Sor Fantaisie élégiaque ALICf. ARTZT (guitar)
Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude: Pensées des morts; Fantasy and Fugue on BACH
ALFRED BRANDEL. (piano): records

ROBERT DOCKER (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by ROBERT FARNON Part 1
Bliss March: Things to come
MacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Addinsell Warsaw Concerto
Farnen Lady Barbara (Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN)
Bernsteia Symphonic Dances (West Side Story)
12.10* pm Interval Beading
12.15* Newcastle Festival Concert Part 2
Eric Coates March: The Dam Busters
Farnon A la claire fontaine Richard Bodney Bennett Theme from Murder on the Orient Express
Arnold English Dances (Set 2) Walton Two pieces for strings (Henry V) arr Faraen Sounds Familiar
(A concert presented in the City Hall on Saturday 17 June by Newcastle Festival) BBC Manchester

After the Outbreak of the First World War
A series on press reaction to famous events
Written and presented by George Walton Scott
Narrator John Holmstrom
'The gravity of the struggle allows no room for incompetence or recklessness in our rulers or frivolity in our masses.' (DAILY NEWS)
' Without trie consent of the British people, against the feeling of the overwhelming mass of the nation, we are pledged into a European war ...'
(SAILY HEBJLD)
Producer RAYMOND ESCOFFEY

Scbubert Quartet-movement in c minor (D 703)
Schoenberg Quartet No 1

Roy Shaw is now Secretary-General of the Arts Council. He grew up in Sheffield, and soon became immersed in Yorkshire musical life. This afternoon, with the aid of a personal choice of records, he talks about his career and invites you to share his enjoyment of music ranging from Benjamin Britten , via Show-boat and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, to Der Rosenkavalier and Mozart,

Bach Sarabande (Partita No 2, In D minor) (mono)
WILFRED LEHMANN (violin)
<: 1961) Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale. Op 56a VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Bach, transc Busoni Chaconne (transcribed for piano from Violin Partita No 2)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) (gramophone records)
Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet No 1, in c minor. Op 25 BIRUN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HIROSHI WAKASUGI (1977 Berlin Festival recording from RIAS Berlin)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

This week:
Paul Bailey (in the Chair), talks with Margaret Drabble. Edward Lucie-Smith and Derek Malcolm.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

An opera in four acts
Libretto by CIUSEPPE GIACOSA and LUIGI ILLICA after Scenes de Boheme by HENRI MURGCR Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
CLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master NICHOLAS CLEOBURY (Children's chorus appear by kind permission of the head-masters of Ringmer School and St Peter 's, Seaford)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DAVID NOLAN conducted bv NICOLA RESCIGNO
The action takes place in Paris about 1830. Acts 1 and 2

Reflections on current affairs
Philip Reynolds , Professor of Politics and Pro-vice Chancellor of the University of Lancaster, and author of various studies of International Relations, gives the first of four fortnightly talks.

-the Irish Fiddle played by TOMMY POTTS gramophone records

Josef Holbrooke was born 100 years ago. Harold Truscott. who believes Holbrooke's music to be unjustly neglected, draws attention to his remarkable orchestral sense, the high quality of his chamber music, and the sustained mastery of his trilogy The Cauldron of Annwn, which he considers one of the greatest glories of British opera.

Acts 3 and 4

leader BARRY WILDE conducted by DAVID ATHERTON with DAVID HASLAM (flute)
Mozart Overture: Mitridate, Re di Ponto
Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1
Thea Musgrave Orfeo II, for flute and strings
Haydn Symphony No 47. In a BBC Manchester

A new album from the Moody Blues, those masters of polished suburban romanticism, is an event. Derek Jewell assesses their first album for five years, Octave, as well as glancing at the condition of the current Soft Machine. Music also from THE ALBION BAND and SUSANNAH MCCORKLE. gramophone records

Die Sterne (Wie blitzen die Sterne): Ian Partridge (tenor) Jennifer Partridge (piano) gramophone record