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Listeners' record requests Vorisek Symphony in D NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL BIALOGUSKI
7.33* Smetana Sárka: From Bohemia's woods and fields (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

Part 2
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 3, in E flat GABRIEL TACCHINO RADIO LUXEMBOURG
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT
8.33 Bizet Duet: Au fond du temple saint (The Pearl Fishers) (mono) JUSSI BJÖRLING (tenor)
ROBERT MERRILL (baritone) RCA VICTOR ORCHESTRA conducted by RENATO CELLINI
8.3d Massenet Scenes pittoresques
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX

Puccini Glanni Schicchi
A comic opera in one act Libretto byGICVACCHINO FORZANO
Other parts sung by ALFREDO MARIOTTI. ADELlO ZAGONARA
. LIDIA MARIM-PIETRI,
CLAUDIO CORNOLDI . SATURNO MELETTI , PAOLO MONTARSOLO , FERNANDO VAL-ENTINI . GIULIANA RAYMONDI
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROME
OPERA HOUSE conducted by GABRIÉLE SANTINI gramophone record

A recital on the new instrument at Netherthong Parish Church in Yorkshire. played and introduced by Keith Jarvis.
Stanley Voluntary in c, Op 5 No 1
10.13* Bach Trio-Sonata No 3. in D minor (BWV 527)
10.26* Hindemith Sonata No 3. in A flat (1940)
BBC Manchester

The last of five weekly programmes
Peter Schidlof (viola) Ernest Lush (piano)
Schumann Marchenbilder Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN Part 1
Schubert Overture In e major (D 591)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major GERHARD OPPITZ
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Vienna Festival 1978 Part 2
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25. in c major (K 503) PAUL BADURA-SKODA
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation. Christopher Kite (harpsichord)
John Boyce (cello)
Richard Nunn (piano) Fauré Elégie
Couperin Dix-septième Ordre
Rameau Les Tourbillons: L'Entretien des Muses; Les Cyclopes
Kodaly Sonata for cello and piano. Op 4
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets available from Ticket Unit. BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)

MARLYN HILL (tenor) BARRY WILDE (violin) SINPONIA CHORUS chorus-master
ALAN FEARON
NORTHERN SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA led by CLIVE LANDER conducted by BKYDEN THOMSON
Robert Walker Requiem. for tenor, chorus and chamber orchestra (first broadcast performance)
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in (; minor
Paul Patterson Partita (tirst broadcast performance)
BBC Manchester

The second of eight programmes. each to include a work by Frank Bridge. leading chronologically from the turn of the century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Todav. two works from 1909, together with the original piece that 30 years later inspired Britten's Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge.
Bridge Three Idylls for string quartet
GABRIELI QUARTET
Ireland Violin Sonata No 1, in D minor
YFRAH NEAMA\N (violin) ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 1. in G minor MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON gramophone records

.JOHN LADE introduces excerpts from the performance of Bizet's Carmen, recommended by Rodney Milnes in last Saturday's Record Review.

A sequence of music for the early evening.

Presented by Jack Brymer
Guido Cantelli conducts Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony preceded by Rossini Overture: The Siege of Corinth
Recordings, being broadcast for the first time in this country, made at concerts given in Carnegie Hall in 1953 and 1954. (Voice of America re-cording)

1917-1963
Simon Trussler reassesses the plays of John Whiting , whose early work he considers among ' the most considerable bodies of dramatic writing of any postwar playwright ', and looks at Whiting's theatre as conscious art in search of a public. He is joined by Anthony Curtis and David Jones in a studio discussion, chaired by Hallam Tennyson , of this highly original, enigmatic playwright, who has remained virtually unperformed since his death. Producer ANTHONY VIVIS
(Conditions of Agreement, Whiting's first play, is repeated tomorrow at 7.30)

JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) STUART BURROWS (tenor) JULES BASTIN (bass)
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master JOHN CURRIE
(Stereo)

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad.
'Broadcast on Tues at 1.5)

Berlioz The Damnation 1 Faust Part 2
(Recordrd in the Usher Hail, Edinburgh, on 22 August)

' It was the imperial confidence of France and. of course, its centralisation on Paris which protected that country from the invasion of Italian music for longer than any other country in Europe.'
Christopher Hogwood describes the eventual arrival and assimilation of the Italian form of the Trio-Sonata in France, and introduces performances of the Sonata ' La Steinkerque ' and the ' Sonade en trio' from ' L'Apothéose de Lully ' by Couperin. the Sonata in E minor, Op 37 No 2 by Boismortier, and the Sonata in c; major. Op 2 No 3. by Mondonville I.ECOLE D'ORPHEE
Stephen Preston (flute) John Holloway (violin) Ingrid Seifert (violin) Charles Medlam (bass viol)
Anthony Pleeth (cello) John Toll (harpsichord)

An (lie Freunde
DIETRICH FISCIIER-DIESKAU (baritone)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN I piano)
I Recorded at a public concert given at The Maltings. Snape, in June 1972)