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Listeners' record requests Elgar Serenade in E minor
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.18* Berlioz The Song of the Flea; Mephistopheles' Serenade (The Damnation of Faust)
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) PARIS OPERA CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS
7.22* Grofe Grand Canyon Suite
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL

Part 2
Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK (pianos), with instrumental ensemble
8.27* Glazunov Meditation (mono)
JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) ARPAD SANDOR (piano)
8.31* Grieg Symphonic Dances
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND

Gesange der Fruhe, Op 133 No 5, in D
PETER FRANKL (piano)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust: Part 2
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, PETER PEARS, JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK, JENNIFER VYVYAN, FELICITY PALMER, MERIEL DICKINSON, PAULINE STEVENS, JENNY HILL, JOHN ELWES, MARGARET CABLE, NEIL JENKINS, JOHN NOBLE
ALBEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN

(gramophone records)

played by Thomas Trotter in St Nicholas Church, Newbury
Reger Toccata and Fugue, Op 59 Nos 5 and 6 Bach Two Chorale Preludes on Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (bwv 709 and 655) Durufle Prelude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain
(Part of a public recital given during the Newbury Spring Festival, presented in association with Wheelers of Newbury) BBC Bristol

Jesu salvator saeculi; Western Wind Mass; In manas tuas III; Filiae Jerusalem; Christi virgo dilectissima; In manas tuas II; Laudem dicite; The Lords Prayer; Gaude, gaude, gaude
THE CLERKES OF OXENFORD conductor DAVID WULSTAN (A public concert given in Feb 1979 in St John's, Smith Square, London)

JOHN MCINULTY (cello) DUFF BURNS (viola)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIMON RATTLE Sibelius Symphony No 4, in A minor
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Midday Concert Part 2 Strauss Don Quixote
(A public lunchtime concert given on 30 April in the City Hall, Glasgow)

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation, direct from Broadcasting House, London
John Butterworth (horn) Peter Hamburger (tuned percussion) Ian Brown
(piano and celesta)
Jacques Delecluse Drums -tee I, for tuned percussion and piano (1967)
Thomas Pitfield Sonata for marimba (1967)
Peter Anthony Monk Appeelkins, for horn and percussion (first performance)
Hindemith Sonata for horn and piano
Deldcluse A la maniere de ..., for percussion and piano (1972)
Richard Gipson Prayer; for marimba
Rudy Starita Over the Sticks, for xylophone and piano (1938)
(Given before a studio audience. Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bar) KENNETH MOBBS (piano) CANZONA WIND ENSEMBLE
Mary Chandler Trio for oboe, clarinet and horn
Adrian Beaumont Song-cycle: The Pale Horizon
Frank Bridge Divertimenti for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon BBC Bristol

conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK
LESLIE HOWARD (piano) Ravel La valse
Liszt Totentanz , for piano and orchestra
Honegger Symphony No 3 (Liturgique)
BBC Manchester

Michael Berkeley introduces the programme of music for early evening. medium wave and mono only from 6.20

A Time for Benjamin Britten
Paul Griffiths examines. the image of this composer and his works, and asks Graham Johnson , Hans Keller , Wilfrid Metlers and Donald MitcheU if it is now time for the due process of the devil's advocate.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN

Symphony No 9 ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES : record

PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (Violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)

The past glories of Wittenberg. The gloominess of Lutheran churches. A more pleasant visit to Leipzig where ' goddesses are gregarious'. Tobacco and the exquisite suffocation of smoking. Edward Holmes also encounters a trombone player of surprising mastery. Read by Richard Briers : records

First of three editions reflecting the London Sinfonietta's recent series at St John's, Smith Square, London, in which new works were programmed with some of the most admired music of recent years.
Ligeti Chamber Concerto Giuseppe Sinopoli Souve nirs a la memoire (first complete UK performance) ELAINE SMITH (soprano) PAMELA SMITH (soprano) JOHN ALLISON
(counter-tenor)
LONDON SINFONIETTA, COnducted by ELGAR HOWARTH and GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI

Novellette in F sharp. Op 21 NO 8: YOURI EGOROV (piano): record