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Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5 JUILLIARD QUARTET
Mozart Piano Concerto No 6. in B flat (K 238) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Kuhlau Incidental Music to Elf Hill, Op 100
ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA conducted by JOBAN RYE-KNUDSEN
9.35* Schumann Kreisleriana, Op 16
VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano)
10.7* Ireland A Downland Suite
BESSIS 0' TH' BARN BAND conducted by IFOR JAMES

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Lord Berncrs - composer, painter, diplomat, author and wit: a portrait by PETER DICKINSON.
A conversation with the harmonica player TOMMY REILLY.
The musician's bookshelf: a review of some recent publications. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

KATHLEEN BATTLE (Soprano) BEVERLEY WOLFF (mezzo-sop) CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS prepared by MARGARET HILLIS
(WFMT Chicago recording)

' Don't just look at the ball, watch it,' says Derek Robinson. In another in a weekly series of tips and hints.
Pro Celebrity Squash in Grandstand: Monday 1.30 pm BBC1

Antony Hopkins

The second of 12 programmes in which 34 amateur choirs compete for the honour of representing the UK in this annual competition.
2: School Choirs (2)
SCHOOLS OF ST MARY AND ST ANNE'S CHOIR. ABBOTS BROMLEY, RHYL HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR CHOIR, CHETHAM'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHAMBER CHOIR, LATYMER MADRIGAL GROUP (Latymer School, Edmonton)
ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL CHOIR, EDINBURGH
ST ANNE'S CONVENT SCHOOL CHOIR, SOUTHAMPTON
Adjudicators DR EDGAR BOUCHER, NOEL COX , GARETH WALTERS
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe

MEMBERS OF THE ALBERNI STRING QUARTET, CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano), KEITH MARJORAM (double-bass)
Mozart Duo in G, for violin and viola (K 423)
Schubert Quintet in A (D 667) (The Trout)

Michael Hurd. Rutland Boughton 's biographer, examines the history of The Immortal Hour and its record-breaking run in London in the 1920s.

Music-drama in two acts by Rutland Boughton (1914). Libretto adapted from the play and poems Of FIONA MACLEOD
Cast in order of singing:
BBC SINGERS, chorus-master GORDON KEMBER BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Repetiteur SIMON JOLY
Technical presentation ANTONY ASKEW
Producer ELAINE PADMORE Act 1
4.20* The Strange Case of Fiona MacLeod
... who was really William Sharp. Michael Hurd considers the dual personality of Boughton's author and the Celtic myths that inspired him/ her.
4.30* The Immortal Hour Act 2
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Last year the artisiic director PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin and viola) was joined for a Saturday night concert of chamber music by his wife EUGENIA ZUKERMAN (flute), LYNN HARRELL (cello), CARLOS BONELL (guitar) and MARK NEIKRUG (piano)
Schubert Introduction and Variations on ' Trock'ne Blumen ' from Die schbne Mullerin (D 802) Paganln] Romance; Trio. Op 66

Professor John Frnnell , who holds the chair of Russian at Oxford University. reflects on Leonard Schapiro 's biography of the enigmatic Russian writer.

Part 2
Kreutzer Trio
Sor Fantasia Eleglaca
Schubert Quartet in c (D 96).

Social Welfare by BARRY BERMANGE
Three people in a bright exterior scene' are trying to decide what to do about ' the man trapped in the tree '. The play considers the notions of private and collective responsibility,
Directed by ALEC REID

conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
EDITH PEINEMANN (violin)
Walton Capriccio Burlesco Stravinsky Violin Concerto
9.39* Interval Reading
9.35- BBC Northern SO. Part 2
Hlndemith Concert Music for string orchestra and brass
Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice. BBC Manchester

1978-79
Last of a series of six concerts.
Introduced by Arnold Whlttall
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
LONDON SINFONIETTA, COnducted by ELGAR HOWARTH and HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Birtwlstle Prologue (first broadcast performance) conducted by THE COMPOSER Nicholas Sackman Doubles

A short story by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI
Read by Ben Kingsley
Producer LIANE AUKIN

Part 2
Birtwistle Epilogue (first broadcast performance) conducted by THE COMPOSER Stravinsky Canticum sacrum