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Quilter A Children's Overture LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN Sullivan My Dearest Heart
Haydn Wood A Brown Bird Singing
FELICITY PALMER (soprano) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
Two unexpected arrangements of pieces by Dvorak Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by KAZUHIRO KOIZUMI gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Autumn boxed sets: first of two reviews by EDWARD GREENFIELD. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Schubert Moments Musicaux (D 780)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Berwald Grand Septet in D flat NASH ENSEMBLE gramophone records

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conductor PAAVO BERGLUND FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale
Ravel Sheherazade
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Concert Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No in BBC Bristol

'... Mummers come without warning and the characters they represent are sometimes non-human. Their plays don't make sense and they contain elements which are distinctly frightening. Described like that. the Mummers Play sounds as formal as a Japanese Noh Play.'
In the first of two programmes Harry Thompson looks at the Mummers Play and asks why something so apparently inept could survive for so long.

(piano duet)
Schubert Variations on an original theme in A flat (D 813) Schumann Bilder aus Osten: Three Impromptus, Op 66: No
4 in B flat minor; No 2 in D flat major; No 1 in B flat minor Barber Souvenirs: Ballet Suite, Op 28
BBC Manchester

David Buckle spends his days grappling with the problems of the car industry: he's District Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union for the area that includes the assembly plant at Cowley. But he's also a member of the Arts Council, and this afternoon, with the aid of a personal choice of records. he talks about these twin aspects of a life that began with the severe discipline of a Kent orphanage.

with the NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS conducted by COLIN DAVIS Part 1 Roberto Gerhard
Symphony No 4 (New York)

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
Susan Bradshaw on Composer and Performer Today.

Part 2 Berlioz
Tristia: Sara la Baigneuse; Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Philip Oakes (in the Chair), talks with Richard Cork , Claire Tomalin and Marina Warner Producer PHILIP FRENCH

A violin and piano recital from the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in which LEVON CHILINGIRIAN and CLIFFORD BF.N-SON play Prokofiev's Cinq Mel odies and Beethoven's Sonata in A, Op 47
BBC Manchester

direct from the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels Jill Gomez (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor Brian Wright
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Part 1 (conducted by Brian Wright )
Bruckner Motets: Locus iste, for four part choir: Afferentur regi, for four part choir and trombones: Os justi, for eight part choir: Christus factus est. for four part choir: Ecce sacerdos. for seven part choir. trombones and organ

Throughout the 30 years of its life. the World Council of Churches has lived at the centre of controversy. Today, the Council's involvement in social and political issues, ranging from racism to nuclear energy, draws fire from political as well as religious bodies. Ronald Preston, Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, examines the Council's record and asks whether it can survive the tensions.
BBC Manchester

Part 2 i conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky )
Bruckner Mass No 3, in F minor (Grosse Messe)

John Warrack talks about the operatic climate in Germany before Weber and examines the conditions that gave rise to German romantic opera.
(A shortened version of a paper read to the Royal Musical Association earlier this year)

f piano
Brahms Three Intermezzi. Op 117
Liszt Vallée d'Obermann (Années de pelerinage, Premiere année: Suisse); Sonnetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pelerinage. Deuxième année: Italie); Hungarian Rhapsody, No 12 in c sharp minor

Of all the new British bands to emerge in the late 1970s, BRAND x is among the most fascinating. Formed by Genesis drummer, Phil Collins. as an alternative outlet for his music-making, it is now -minus Collins - a major band in its own right. Derek Jewell tonight plays from their new album. Masques. and looks at the latest work of two other important forces in rock today: BOSTON and LEO SAYER. Reggae is represented too, and he also notes the flood of jazz re-issues which mark the contemporary record scene with music by ERROLL GARNER. JEAN L'JC PONTY and LEE KONITZ. gramophone records

Handings Liebeswerbung
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) gramophone record
BBC Music Guide: Schubert Songs, by Maurice Brown , 75p, from bookshops