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Handel Suite in G (Water MuSiC): ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.15* Danzi Sonata in c flat: BARRY TUCKWELL (hOrn) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.34* Hummel Mandolin Concerto in G: EDITH BAUER -SLAIS, VIENNA PRO MUSICA ORCHESTRA, conducted by VINZENZ HLADKY

Part 2
Copland Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid: PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.25* Joplin Maple Leaf Rag: The Entertainer: The Ragtime Dance
JOSHUA RIFKIN (piano)
8.36* Harris Symphony No 7 (mono): PHII.ADLLPHIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY : records

Scriabin
Three Preludes from Op 42 (1903)
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (piano)
9.12* Symphony No 3. in c minor, Op 43 (The Divine Poem) (1902-4)
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV : records

JOHN CLEGG
Mozart Sonata in A (K 331) Fauré Nocturnes: No 6, in D flat; No 7, in c sharp minor
Medtner Sonate-Idylle

BBC SINGERS, conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
Dvorak Five Songs of Nature. Op 63
Novak Five Songs. Op 71 (Repeal)

Works by Vaughan Wil liams, Herbert Howells. Edward Bairstow and Bach played by Harrison Oxley at St Edmundsbury Cathedral

leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by WALTER Sl'SSKIND
LYDIA MORDKOVITCH (violin) Smetana From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma vlast)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major

Part 2 Sibelius Symphony No 1. in E minor
(Gircn in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on 7 Jan)

Frederlca von Stade
' The character of Charlotte in Werther is very difficult - she doesn't reveal her emotions until it's too late. She's an iceberg. I didn't understand it musically until I heard the orchestra.'
So says the American mezzo-soprano, who talks to Alan Blyth about some of the roles in her repertory. With music on record by Massenet. Rossini, . Monteverdi and others.

JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS
RONALD LUMSDEN (piano)
Hugh Wood Three Choruses, Op 7: The hawk in the rain: Sirens: All we who make things transit'ry
Roger Smalley Missa Parodia 1, for piano
David Bedford The golden wine is drunk
BBC Birmingham

Second of three programmes. This week a performance recorded in 1950 conducted by one of Janacek's most devoted disciples.
Sinfonietta
CZECH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted bv BRETISLAV BAKALA : record

Michala Petri (recorders) David Petri (cello)
Hanne Petri (harpsichord) Telemann Fantasy No 11, in G, for unaccompanied recorder
Vagn Holmboe Trio, Op 133
Erling D. Bjerno Avessolares, for unaccompanied recorder
Vivaldi Concerto in c major (Rv 443 BBC Scotland

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Mahler Adagio from Symphony No 10

Hilary Punshon , a 17-year-old pianist from Seven-oaks, plays the Variations serieuses by Mendelssohn.

Part 2

Perlemuter Plays Chopin
A selection from the Nocturnes, and the B minor Scherzo.
Stanford String Quartet No 8. in E minor
London Quartet

2: The Boogie Boom
In December 1938 boogie suddenly became a craze right across the United States, following a Carnegie Hall concert given by Mead Lux Lewis. Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson. Commercialisation naturally followed. Introduced by Francis Smith : records

leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor
KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER RADU LUPU (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1. in c major
Schubert Symphony No 6. in c major. BBC Scotland

' feel that my engineering training was very useful because it gave me a practical outlook - I learned to tolerate approximations.' Professor
P. A. M. Dirac. in conversation with John Maddox. talks about his early academic training and how he came to work on the development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s - work that led to his Nobel laureate-ship in 1933. Producer GEOFF DEEILAN

Second programme Schubert Herbst
Pfitzner Im Herbst: Der Arbeitsmann
Reger Waldeinsamkeit; Einsamkcit
Flitzner Uber ein Stiindlein: Zum Abschicd meincr Tochtcr
Strauss Der Arbeitsmann Pfitzner Hussens Kerker PETER KNAPP (baritone)
ANTHONY SAUNDERS (piano)

Brahms Four Ballades, Op 10
Enesco Sonata in F sharp minor. Op 24 No 1
TAMAS VESMAS (piano)

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ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE
Salieri Armonia per un Tempio di Notte
THEA KING (clarinet)
Florent Schmitt Lied et Scherzo: ANTHONY HALSTEAD (horn)