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Parry Lady Radnor's suite LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted hy
SIR ADRIAN KOCLT
Chopin Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat
EMANUEL 4X (piano)
Sibelius Valse lyrique SCOTTISH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Britten Simple Symphony ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER: records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Bizet's Carmen, by RODNEY MILNES.
New chamber music records. reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat. Op 12
ORFORD STRING QUARTET
Berg Sonata for piano. Op 1: DANIEL BARENBOIM
Bartok First Quartet, Op 7 GUARNERI QUARTET gramophone records

BiRI.IN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Beethoven Concerto in c major. Op 56, for violin, cello, piano and orchestra: with an international trio of young soloists ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (violin: German)
Y) YO MA (cello: Chinese, living in USA)
MARK ZELISER ipiano: Russian. living in USA)
BBC Music Guide: Beethoven Concertos and Overtures, by Roger Fiske , price 75p

Melvin Harris takes a light-hearted look at the hassoon and illustrates his talk with some rare and perhaps unique recordings taken from his private collection. BBC Birmingham

Part 2
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
(Austrian Radio recording)

AURÈLE NICOLET (flute)
BORIS BERMAN
(harpsichord and piano)
Bach Sonata in A major (BWV 1032)
Berio Sequenza 1. for flute; Sequenza IV. for piano
Bach Sonata in E minor (BWV 1036)

. I much prefer broadcasting myself, to pontificating about it: So this afternoon not a word from Lord Annan about the BBC's future: Instead, he introduces his favourite musical performances in a programme built round a theme dear to him; The Virtuoso. As an academic, and as a reporter, he's always been concerned to get the best out of people, and hence his admiration for. among others. Maria Callas , Josef Lhévinne, and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, where he was the Provost for ten years.

GABRIELL STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel . (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) Part I
Mozart Quartet in E flat (K 428)
Szymanowski Quartet No2
4.0* Interval Reading
4.5* Music from Pebble Mill
Part 2
Beethoven Quartet in minor. Op 1:12
BBC Birmingham

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual aits. This week:
John Higgins 'in the Chair), talks with Stephen Bayley. Peter Porter and Gillian Reynolds.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

The 19th.century piano: an Indian summer. Late recordings by Elly Ney (1882-1968). presented by Jerrold Northrop Moore. <ikirn<tphtmcrecords

Denis Donoghue. Professur of Modern English and American Literature at University College. Dublin, gives the third of four talks in this series of reflections on current affairs. BBC Manchester

A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2
An opera in three acts
Libretto, adapted from SARDOU'S drama, by LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
Soldiers, police agents, ladies, nobles, citizens and artisans
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI
The action takes place in Rome around 1800.
Act 1: The church of Sant' Andrea della Valle Act 2: The Palazzo Farnese
Act 3: The Castel Sant' Angelo

' Poems can be misused - like power '
(REINERKUNZE)
Arrigo Subiotto. Professor of German at the University of Birmingham, shows how East German poets, including REINER KUNZE, GÜNTER KUNERT and HEINZ KAHLAU, cope with the all-pervasive ideology of the Communist state... Readers HUGH DICKSON and WOLF KAHLER
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

conducts the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Schubert Symphony No 4 (Tragic): record

Two singers with major reputations -ROBERTA FLACK and SARAH VAUGHAN - are featured tonight as Derek Jewell plays songs from their latest albums. During this 300th edition of the programme he also looks back to the heyday Of CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH, looks forward with the exotic tone-poems of JADE WARRIOR, and discovers in JACK TEMPCHIN another song-writer attempting to break through as a singer. gramophone records

All this week's songs are accompanied by Benjamin Britten
Die Stadt
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) (gramophone record: 1959)