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Listeners' record requests J. S. Bach , arr Walton Bal let Suite: The Wise Virgins CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
7.24* J. C. Bach Clavier Concerto in B flat, Op 13 No 4: INGRID HAEBLER
(fortepiano), VIENNA CAP-ELLA ACADEMICA , conducted by EDUARD MELKUS
7.41. Shostakovich Movements from The Gadfly USSR CINEMA SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EMIN KHACHATURIAN
8.0 News
8.5 Your Midweek Choice Part 2
Leopold Mozart Toy Symphony: WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JÖRG FAERBER
8.14* Schubert Impromptu in E flat (d 946 No 2)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
8.24* Loewe Der Nock
KARL RIDDERBUSCH (bass)
RICHARD TRIMBORN (piano)
8.31* Suk Serenade for strings, in E flat
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER : records

Britten
Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op 15 MARK LUBOTSKY
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER Mazurka Elegiaca , Op 23 No 2: VERA AND VLASTIMIL LEJSEK (two pianos)
Hymn to St Cecilia, Op 27 CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
(treble solo RICHARD CROSS) conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : records

played by Stuart Campbell in the Chapel of Glasgow University
Orlando Gibbons Prelude No 2, in G
Peter Philips Fantasia
Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (Bwv 582)
Brian Ferneyhough Sieben Sterne (1970) (first performance in this country)
(A public recital given on 13 October) BBC Scotland

MAURICE BOURGUE (Oboe) COLETTE KI. ING (piano) Poulenc Sonata
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, for oboe
Schumann Three Romances, Op 94
(Part of a public concert recorded at the Pittville Pump Room. Cheltenham, in July) BBC Birmingham

OLEG KAGAN (violin)
NATALIA GUTMAN (Cello)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GERD ALBRECHT Part 1 Brahms
Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello and orchestra

Donald Mitchell on Britten and Parody.

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 8, in c major
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1979 Vienna Festival)

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Susan Kessler (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Grieg 1m Kahne: Zwei braune Augen; Mit einer Wasserlilie; Mit einer Primula veris; Erstes Begegnen; Letzter Fruhling ; Weihnachts Wiegenlied ; Zur Johannisnacht
Brahms Zigeunerlieder , Op 103 arr Roger Quiller Barbara Allen; Charlie is my darling; Ca' the yowes to the knowes; Ye banks and braes; Over the mountains

Introduced by Michael Oliver

ROSEMARY HARDY (soprano) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA guest leader
WILLIAM ARMON conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT Brian Chapple Cantica
Robin Orr Symphony in one movement

Wilhelm Melcher (violin) Gerhard Voss (violin) Hermann Voss (viola) Peter Buck (cello) GEORG HORTNAGEL
(double-bass)
HOMERO FRANCESCH (piano) Schubert String Quartets: in D (D 94); in E (D 353)
4.15* Interval Reading
4.20* Melos Quartet of Stuttgart, Part 2
Schubert Quintet in A (The Trout) (D 667)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1979 Hohenems Schubertiad)

Carla Rodrigues (violin), who is just 16, and Mary Wu (piano), who is 14. play the Second Violin Sonata by Dellus.

5.45-5.50 News

Presented by Jack Brymer Sonatas Great and Small MANOUG PARIKIAN and MALCOLM BINNS play Schubert's Sonatina in A minor and Brahms's Sonata in A, Op 100, and ALAN FEN-TAYLOR performs Scarlatti sonatas on the harpsichord.

EARL WILD (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Gordon Crosse Epiphany Variations
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor

Presented by Ian McDougall

Part 2 Janacek Sinfonietta (A concert given by the BBC in the Free Trade Hall on 12 October)

Songs from the cradle to adolescence, performed andintroducedby
DINAH HARRIS (soprano) GORDON STEWART (piano)
Wolf Wiegenlied im Sommer
Warlock Robin and Richard; There was a man of Thessaly; Arthur O'Bower Schumann Sandmann Strauss Muttertandelei Wolf Die Kleine
Poulenc Le petit garcon
Debussy Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons Ives The greatest man Wolf Knabentod
Poulenc Berceuse
Wolf Erstes Liebeslied eines Madchens

The Nobel Prizes
In the past 20 years the prospect of a trip to Stockholm in December to receive a Nobel Prize has become a spur to scientific achievement - almost an end in itself for some researchers. John Maddox looks at Nobel Prizes, past and present, and asks if the institution of prize-giving in science distorts the pursuit of knowledge. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)

'...and he's bound to appear,' they say.
A seasonal anthology on the life and times of HRH the Prince of Darkness, conjured for radio by Brian Sibley and read by Robert Eddison, Judy Parfitt and Brian Carroll