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Fester, arr Harris Camp-town Races: PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.8* Gershwin An American in Paris (mono) RCA VICTOR SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. conducted by NATHANIEL SHILKRET
8.24* Virgil Thomson Parallel Chords; Ragtime Bass: Eubie Blake Troublesome Ivories ROGER SHIELDS (piano)
8.30* Dvorak The Americar Flag: JOSEI'H EVANS tenor), BARRY MCDANIEL (bar), ST HEDWIG 'S CATHEDRAL CHOIR, RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR, BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS : records

ROBIN HOLMES reads from poets who have loved the English countryside. iRpt)

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Revel's Piano Concerta for the left hand, by CHRISTOPHER PALMER .
ROBERT HENDERSON introduces the first of five summer retrospects: chamber music and song. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

BESFORD COLLIERY BAND
Conductor HOWARD SNELL Strauss Festmusik
Holst A Moorside Suite BBC Birmingham

leader BELA DEKANY conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Brahms Serenade No 1. in D major
(Given before an invited audience in Maida Vale Studio 1 on 13 October 1978) (Repeat)

directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
Biber Sonata a 9 ( St Polycarp)
Handel Suite in F (Water Music)
Bach The Musical Offering Biber Sonata a 7 gramophone records

RAINA KABAIWANSKA (Sop) RUZA BALDANI (mezzo-sop) VERIANO LUCHETTI (tenor) BONALDO GIAIOTTI (bass)
CHOIRS OF NORTH AND SOUTH GERMAN RADIO, chorus-masters ALEXANDER SUMSKI and MARINUS VOORBERG
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT. conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
(Hess Radio recording)

with Peter Clayton

In a special Edinburgh Festival edition. Philip French (in the Chair). talks with Owen Dudley Edwards . John Elsom . Derek Malcolm and Marina Vaizey about Jonathan Miller's production of La Traviata, exhibitions of work hy Degas and Kandinsky, new plavs by Tom McGrath and Billy Connolly, some Festival films, and other offerings.

FRANK WIBAUT (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in c. 0P) 53 (Waldstein)
BarUk Sonata 11926) BBC Birmingham

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
John Scott (organ)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, leader CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN, conductor Bryden Thomson
Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 101. in D major (The Clock)
Hoddinott Organ Concerto

A special performance of T. S. ELIOT 'S unfinished play Introduced by Professor Graham Martin Producer PAUL KAFNO
(First broadcast by the Open University)

Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Suite No 3 in G major

Some arguments, for and against, are considered by Richard Swinburne. Professor of Philosophy at Keele University, in two talks, based on the Wilde Lectures given at Oxford in 1976 and 1977. 1: The arguments from the existence and order of the universe i The problem of evil: tomorrow 4.45 pin)

ALBAN BERG
STRING QUARTET
Mozart Quartet in E flat major (K 428)
Berg Lyric Suite
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John's. Smith Square, London, on 17 April 1978)

LINDA FINNEY (contralto) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Purcell, real Britten Three Divine Hymns
Hoist Four Vedic Hymns Op 24
Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs