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anon Symphonia in laudem summi regis: CLEMENCIC CONSORT directed by RENÉ CLEMENCIC
7.7* Kreisler Concerto in the style of Vivaldi
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH
7.20* Voelker A Hunt in the Black Forest
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES WALKER
7.27' Dvorak Four Slavonic Dances, Op 46 Nos 5-8
MICHEL BEROFF and JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano duet)
7.41* Reynaldo Hahn Suite: Le bal de Beatrice: MEMBERS OF THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT : records
Grieg Overture: In Autumn, Op 11 'mono): ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.16* Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini AGUSTIN ANIEVAS (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
8.38* Ibert Divertissement
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records
Rachmaninov's formidable reputation as a pianist and composer of piano music has tended to overshadow his few purely orchestral works. In this week's programmes five of these orchestral works, including the three symphonies, are played by Russian orchestras under Russian conductors.
Symphony No 1, in D minor (1895): USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV gramophone records
Last of four programmes of their piano music played by NINA MILKINA
C. P. E. Bach Sonata In A major (Wq 55 No 4)
Mozart Variations in P major (K Anh 138a): Sonata in A minor (K 310)
Sixth in a series including music by Sir Lennox Berkeley , 75 this year. Today's programme includes one early and one more recent chamber work, together with a piece by one of his manv pupils. LONDON OBOE QUARTET
Berkeley String Trio (1944)
Richard Stoker Polemics , for oboe and string trio
Berkeley Oboe Quartet (1967)
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The Second Test In the Cornhill Insurance series. England v New Zealand
Commentary from Trent Bridge on the fourth day's play
1.35* News
1.40* Your Letters Answered
The Commentators answer points raised in listeners' letters.
2.9* Lunchtime scoreboard
2.10*-6.40 Commentary: teatime and close-of-play summaries
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Home and Family
6.40 Your Everyday Drugs 6: A Good Night's Sleep
BILL BRECKON explores the chemistry of sleep.
7.0 Household Pets (2)
Seven programmes about the choice and care of pet animals. Presented by JOHN HOLMES
direct from the Royal Albert Hall Margaret Marshall (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
London Philharmonic Choir conductor JOHN ALLDIS
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conductor Bernard Haitink Mahler Symphony No 2
Eight years ago, scholars gathered in Addis Ababa to plan the shape of a General History of Africa. One of its editors, the political scientist All Mazrui of Michigan University, argues that the project is a refutation of the Hegelian view of Africa as a continent without history, and discusses some of the central issues facing those involved in writing this major new work. BBC Manchester
Sonata in b minor
GERHARD OPPITZ (piano)
(sdr Stuttgart recording from the 1978 Schwetzingen Festival)
Canalctto at Warwick Castle
David Piper. Director of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. talks about one of the two most famous views of Warwick Castle which Canaletto painted in about 1749 during his ten-year stay in England. Both. until recently threatened with being exported, are now being acquired by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Nineteenth in a series of 28 programmes devised and introduced by Basil Lam
With Willaert and his successors the Netherlanders were predominant in Italy until the later ascendancy of Palestrina. The programme includes motets by them and other members of the Franco-Flemish school.
Martindale Sidwell Choir, James Lancelot (organ), director Martindale Sidwell
Derek Bailey
Introduced by Charles Fox
Nachtviolen
FLORA NIELSEN (mezzo-soprano) FREDERICK STONE (piano)
