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Listeners' record requests Shostakovich Festival Overture: CZECH PHILHAR
MONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL
7.11* Prokofiev Toccata (mono)
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (piano)
7.15* Dvorak Symphony No 4, in D minor
LONDON SYMFHONYORCHESTRl conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ

Part 2
Haydn Symphony No 94, in G (Surprise)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.27* Schubert Andantino varie in B minor (D 823)
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH and JUSTUS FRANTZ (piano duet)
8.36* Tchaikovsky Suite: The Nutcracker
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH

Delius Song of the high hills
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES Three Preludes
MARTIN JONES (piano)
Paris: The Song of a Great City
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

played and introduced by Alan Cuckston
The Snetzler chamber organ in Scremby Parish Church was built in 1775 and on it ALAN CUCKSTON plays a Voluntary in A minor by Albertus Bryan (died c 1668), a Toccata in A by Purcell, and an unpublished Voluntary in c by John Stanley.
The organ in Brocklesby Church was built two years earlier by Thomas Knight , and on this instrument ALAN CUCKSTON plays the Concerto from Handel's Judas Macca baeus in the composer's own arrangement for solo organ. BBC Manchester

String Quartet in B flat, Op 67 gramophone record (1949)

Fin de Siecle
The first of two programmes devised and introduced by Peter Dickinson MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
PETER DICKINSON (aCCOmpanist and solo piano) ISABEL BEYER and HARVEY DAGUL (two pianos) Chabrier Trois valses romantiques, for two pianos Reynaldo Hahn Chansons grises
Chabrier Les cigales: L'isle heureuse; Ballade des gros dindons
Satie Poudre d'or, for piano; La Diva de I'Empire (Chansons de Cate-Concert) Producer
ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENI

leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with JEAN-JACQUES KANTOROW (violin) Part 1
MacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c (A public concert presented by the BBC on 24 March in the Corn Exchange in association with the Bedford Society)

The final programme of a series in which the complete cycle of string quartets has been heard in conjunction with chamber music by some of Shostakovich's Soviet contemporaries.
Schnittke Prelude to the memory of Dmitri Shosta kovich
GIDON KREMER (violin)
Shostakovich String Quartet No 15, in E flat minor, Op 144
FITZWILLIAM QUARTET gramophone records

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
After Shostakovich's String Quartet No 15 Robert Layton talks about Shostakovich as a Symphonist

led by Hugh Bradley conducted by Janos Forst
Bernadette Greevy (contralto)

Vorisek Symphony in D major
Lennox Berkeley Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila
Blomdahl Sisyphos

BBC Scotland

given by JANE MANNING (soprano) with RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (piano)
Beethoven Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op 48
Richard Rodney Bennett The little ghost who died for love
Ravel Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Walton Three songs (Sit-well settings): Daphne; Through gilded trellises; Old Sir Faulk
(A recital given in the Library Theatre, Bradford, on 3 November 1977) BBC Manchester

Caroline Dearnley (cello) plays the first movement of the Sonata by Shostakovich, and Faure's Apres un reve with Jane Dodd (piano)

A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.

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Archie Camden (1888-1971) The renowned English bassoonistdiedtwo months ago. A chance to hear his playing in a wide range of solo and chamber music, together with some personal reminiscence* from Jack Brymer.

A historic recording made in 1934 by a pianist particularly associated with this composer.
Twelve Etudes, Op 25 ALFRED CORTOT (piano) gramophone record

Four readings for Easter, 2: A sermon on ' Belief by MGR RONALD A. KNOX Read by Gary Watson

Parts 1 and 2

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London

BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Brian Wright
Southend Boys' Choir, director Michael Crabb
BBC Symphony Orchestra, guest leader Desmond Bradley
conducted by Michael Gielen

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad.

Part 3

I I don't believe Nature in her formulation of fundamental laws of physics uses non-beautiful pieces.' Professor Chen Ning Yang, now of the State University of New York, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for his work on elementary particles. He talks to John Maddox about the physicists' dogma - that they are not merely chasing chaos, but a set of simple and beautiful mathematical rules which will describe the Universe. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN followed by an interlude

Why did Bach write two books of Preludes and Fugues in all the major and minor keys? What instrument should they be played on? In the first of three illustrated talks Dr Peter Williams suggests answers to these and other questions about The Well-Tempered Clavier, using instruments in the Russell Collection of Keyboard Instruments at Edinburgh University,