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Ireland A London Overture: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.18* Leonardo Vinci Flute Sonata in D
ANDRE PEPIN (flute) RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
CLAUDE VIALA (cello)
7.28* Puccini Prelude; Aria: E lucevan le stelle (Tosca, Act 3)
WALTER BARRATTI (treble) LUCIANO PAVAROTTI (tenor) JOHN TOMLINSON (bass) NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NICOLA RESCIGNO
7.42* Sibelius Night ride and Sunrise
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA, conducted by HORST STEIN gramophone records

Monteverdi Madrigal: Questi vaghi
HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
WYN EVANS and JOHN ELWES (tenors)
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ CHOIR and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
8.13* Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat GERVASE DE PEYER
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS
ENSEMBLE
8.39* Grainger Suite: In a Nutshell
ENGLISH SINFONIA, conducted by NEVILLE DILKES gramophone records

The Stamitz Family
Johann Stamitz Overture in G
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Concerto in F
ALENA VESELA (organ)
BOHUSLAV MARTINU CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by FRANTISEK JILEK
Carl Stamitz Sinfonia Concertante in d josef SUK (violin)
JOSEF KODOUSEK (viola) SUK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HYNEK FARKAC gramophone records

CAROLINE FRIEND (Soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) PHILIPPA DAVIES (flute) JULIAN DAWSON-LYELL (piano)
Peter Cornelius Song-cycle: Trauer und Trost
Messiaen Le merle noir
Schubert Introduction and Variations for flute and piano
Strauss Ach was Kummer; Mcinem Kinde ; Der Stern

BARRY WILDE (Violin) NORTHERN SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA led by CLIVE LANDER conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
Britten Simple Symphony Honegger Pastorale d'ete Spohr Violin Concerto No 8, in A minor (in Form einer Gesangscene)
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
BBC Manchester

BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE in a selection of part-songs and folk song arrangements

SANDRABROWNE (mezzo-sop) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG Part 1 Brahms
Symphony No 3, in r

Part 2
Wagner Wesendonk Lieder Tchaikovsky Fantasy-overture: Romeo and Juliet

First, Second and Third Thoughts
Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor was first presented as a string quintet (now lost), then as the Sonata in F minor for two pianos and finally as the Piano Quintet, Op 34. In today's programme Christopher Hogwood discusses the virtues of these two later versions, and Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet. gramophone records

Solos and duos played by VALERIA VASS and IREN
BALOGH
Milan, arr Pujol Three Pavanes
Bakfark, arr Szendrey-Karper Fantasia No 9 Sor Gran solo
Scarlatti, arr Ferene Fodor Sonata in B minor (Kk 377)
Pierre Wlssmer Prestl lagoyana
(Hungarian Radio recording from the 1979 Esztergom International Guitar Festival)

(piano)
Mozart Sonata in D (K 311) Beethoven Fifteen Variations and Fugue in E flat on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Emanuel Ax Part 2
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
Chopin Three mazurkas, Op 59: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22
(Given in 1977 as part of the Lake District Festival) BBC Manchester

Jeremy Siepmann
(medium wave and mono only from 6.20)

Second of 32 programmes BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Three orchestral studies on a ground
Passacaglia. Op 1

ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS leader SIMON STANDAGE conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER KENNETH GILBERT
(harpsichord). Part 1
Concerti Grossi : D minor, Op 3 No 5: G, Op 3 No 3 Suite No 7, in G minor, for harpsichord
Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1

Fritz Splegl reviews the week's music broadcasting. BBC Manchester

Part 2. Concerto Grosso in F, Op 3 No 4
Suite No 5, in E, for harpsichord
Concerti Grossi : D, Op 3 No 6; B flat, Op 3 No 2
(A concert given on 20 February in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)

Is our genetic material ' selfish '? Do human beings exist merely to ensure the survival of DNA? Dr Francis Crick , of the SALK Institute in California, talks to John Maddox about this theory. followed by an interlude

Last of three programmes of his 32 Piano Pieces (1940) played by GEOFFREY DOUGLAS MADGE : NOS 21-32 Romance-Lied; Gavotte: Menuetto: Italian Serenade; Ragtime; Slow-fox; Galoppe; Blues; Rondo brillante; Capriccio; Waltz; Little peasant march

Symphony in c (Wq 182 NO 3): THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord): record