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Offertorium: Insanae et vanae curae
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
8.12* Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)
ERNA SPOORENBERG (Sop) BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto)
JOHN mitchinson (tenor) TOM KRAUSE (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by GEORGE GUEST gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Bach French Suite No 5, in G: BLANDINE VERLET (harpsichord)
9.22* Haydn Scherzando No 3, in D (H n 35) PIEDMONT CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA: conducted by NICHOLAS HARSANYI
9.30' Lipinski Violin Concerto No 2, in D (Military) (mono) IGOR IWANOW
WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAW WISLOCKI
S.57* Poulenc The Story of Babar ELEANOR BRON (narrator) SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano)

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Debussy, the Wagnerian: ROBIN HOLLOWAY explores the links between Parsifal and Pellets.
The Rock: EDWIN ROX-BURGH introduces his new choral work.
Cornucopia: a preview of the first British Horn Festival. Producer
CHRISTINE BARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)

HELEN WATTS (contralto) BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS (women's voices) conductor BRIAN WRIGIIT PHILHARMONIA CHORUS (women's voices) chorus-master SIMON JOHNSON SOUTHEND BOYS' CHOIR director MICHAEL CRABB
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN
Mahler Symphony No 3

Quartet in A minor (.D 804) EDER QUARTET
Pal Eder (violin)
Erika Toth (violin) Zoltan Toth (viola) Gyorgy Eder (cello)

PHILIP SMITH
Howells Sonatina
Liszt Après une lecture du Dante (Annies de pelerinage; deuxieme annge)

Opera in five acts
Music by Claude Debussy Libretto by MAURICE MAETERLINCK
(sung in French: records)
CHORUS OF DEUTSCHE OPER, BERLIN
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Acts 1, 2 and 3

Pelllas, grandson of - RICHARD STII.WELL (bar)
Mllisande, wife of Golaud - FREDERICA VON STADE (soprano)
Golaud, grandson of jose - VAN DAM (baritone)
Arkel, King of Allemonde - RUGGERO RAIMONDI (bass)
ter, mother of Pelleas and Golaud - NADINE DENIZE (mCZZO-SOp)
Yniold, Golaud's son by his first marriage - CHRISTINE BARBAUX (sop)
Shepherd/Doctor - PASCAL THOMAS (bass)

Robert Tear reviews the week's music broadcasting on radio.
BBC Manchester

Acts 4 and 5

For almost 25 years Chinese Christians have been virtually cut off from the Church in the rest of the world.
Kwang-Hsun Ting , a native of Shanghai and an Anglican priest, returned to China from the west shortly after the Communist revolution in 1949. He was later consecrated Bishop of Chekiang, and remained in Nanking as Principal of the Theological College throughout the Cultural Revolution. He is now Vice-President of Nanking University, and a member of the National People's Congress.
In this first conversation to be broadcast in Britain. Bishop Ting talks to John Gardner, of the University of Manchester. about the experience of Chinese Christians during these years.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester

HEATHER HARPER (soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSEPH FROHLlCH conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
Frank Bridge Berceuse for soprano and orchestra (1901); Lament for strings (1915)
Britten Four French Songs (1928)
Peter Sculthorpe Lament for Strings (1976); Port Essington (1977)
(All first broadcast performances except the Bridge Lament)

(piano)
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 570)
Schumann Kinderscenen gramophone records

by LEONAKD MAGUIRE" with Leonard Maguire as Samuel Taylor Coleridge The action is set in an extension to Dr James Gilman 's house in High-gate, an eyrie where the poet might work and think in quiet, and sometimes ... fall asleep.
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland followed by an interlude

MUNICH PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN
BRIGITTE FASSBAENBER (mezzo-soprano)
EDITH PEINEMANN (violin) Pfitzner Five songs
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 34

The whole point about any sport is that it's a match, a test of personal ability. Give one side superior equipment, and it ceases to be a match, so the outcome proves nothing about the contestants.
Derek Robinson draws pictures of a variety of true sports in Britain and abroad.

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5, in D minor, Op 47 (Bavarian Radio recording)

A personal memoir of the French composer by Everett Helm. who last met him during his American years.

Three equali (WoO 36) PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
Octet in E flat, Op 103 LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER gramophone records

Three part-songs for late-night listening, sung by the HUNGARIAN JEUNESSES MUSICALES CHOIR, conductor GABOR UGRIN Longing for peace; The gypsy eats curd; Evening song.