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Listeners' record requests Part 1
Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos and orchestra (k 365)
ELENA AND EMIL GILELS VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM
7.30* Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1 AMADEUS QUARTET

Part 2
Smetana From Bohemia's woods and fields (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.17* Rubbra Improvisa tion for violin and orchestra
SIDNEY HARTH LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT WHITNEY
8.30* Woodforde-Finden Four Indian Love Lyrics: The temple bells: Less than the dust; Till I wake: Kashmiri love-song (mono) PETER DAWSON
(bass-baritone) with orchestra
8.41* Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody No 3, in A flat LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ARTHUR DAVISON

Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantata: Splendeano in bel sembiante ANTONY RANSOME (baritone)
WREN CONSORT
Sonata in A minor FRANS BRUGGEN (recorder)
LEONHARDT CONSORT
Motets: 0 magnum mysterium; Domine. refugium factus es nobis
SCIIUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON directed by ROGER NORRINGTON gramophone records

played by Andrew Mil lington in Gloucester Cathedral
Kenneth Leighton Paean Buxtehude Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Rheinberger Sonata No 8, in E minor
BBC Birmingham

Adrian Levine (violin) Colin Callow (violin) Stephen Tees (viola)
Michael Hurwitz (cello)
Howard Burrell String Quartet No 3 (1974)
Haydn Quartet in c, Op 77 No 1
BBC Manchester
Haydn String Quartets, a BBC Music Guide by Rosemary Hughes, is available
from book and music shops, price £1.50.

played by Robert Woolley
Bach Toccata in D major (bwv 912)
Froberger Suite No 12, in c major
Handel, arr anon (1743) Suite in D major (Water Music)

leader EDWIN PALING conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
GRAHAM SALTER (Oboe) Strauss Symphonic Fantasy: Aus Italien; Oboe
Concerto
BBC Scotland

A series of weekly recitals given by artists of the younger generation. direct from Broadcasting House, London
Margaret Philpot (contralto)
Rachel Beckett (recorder) David Roblou (harpsichord)
Timothy Mason (cello)
Frescobaldi Se I'aura spiro
Carlo Pietragrua Tortor ella
Bassani Cantata: Nascere, nascere dive pucllule
Handel Sonata in c, Op 1 No 7
Giovanni Battista Bononcini Divertimento No 1 in F
Vivaldi Sonata in c minor, Op 13 No 6 (rv 58)
Blow The Self-banished
Purcell Music for a while; Bonvica's Song; Sweeter than roses
(Given before a studio audience: tickets available from Ticket Unit, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) ANNE SIIASDY and RICHARD MCMAHON (piano duet)
Elizabeth Maconchy The
Garland Peter Dickinson Five Forgeries
Brahms Es schauen die Blumen alle; Meine Liebe ist griin; Der Schmied; Geheimnis; Am Sonntag Morgen; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer;
Lerchengesang Schumann , arr Bizet Six Pieces in canonic form
Elizabeth Maconchy Sun. Moon and Stars

FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET with AI.AN HACKER (clarinet) Alfred Schnittke Canon in memoriam Stravinsky David Blake Arias for solo clarinet
Britten Quartet No 3
BBC Manchester

with Michael Berkeley
(who writes about the BBC Symphony Orchestra on page 6)

A Wild Ride to Heaven
Manu sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason are we not too easily inclin-ed to call them beautifult (CHARLES IVES) Nicola LeFanu introduces an adventure playground for the ear, with sounds natural, human and musical, to question and stimulate our attitudes to the way we listen.
Devised and composed by David Lumsdaine and Nicola LeFanu at the Electronic Music Studio of Durham University
Quotations from Charles Ives read by BRIAN HAINES Technical presentation by JEREMY BIRCHALL
Producer NATALIE WHEEN

In the presence of Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Michael of Kent direct from the Royal festival Hall, London
The first public concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Adrian Boult, was given in Queen's Hall on 22 October 1930.

Itzhak Perlman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
leaders Bela Dekany and Rodney Friend
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Part 1
(leader Bela Dekany)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5. in D major
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1, in D major

9.5* During the interval, an impression of the orchestra's first 50 years, in a mosaic of sounds.
With the voices of Sir Adrian Boult, the founding conductor; Sidonie Goossens, the Principal Harpist in 1930 and today; and members of the orchestra past and present.

9.25* BBC Symphony Orchestra
50th Anniversary Concert Part 2
(leader Rodney Friend)
Stravinsky Ballet: The Rite of Spring
This concert will be broadcast simultaneously on Radio 3 and BBC2.

A four-record boxed set, with comprehensive booklet, BBC Symphony Orchestra - 50th Anniversary, is available from record shops, BBC 4001, or on cassette ZCBBC 4001.

Biorhythms
Why, asked Aristotle, do the ovaries of sea-urchins swell at the full moon? Why does the cockerel wake unfailingly at dawn? And why do our own bodies run to the rhythm of the solar system? Where is the internal time-keeper that controls us?
Dr Martin Moore-Ede of the Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the mechanism of biological clocks with John Maddox.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

with a selection of 16th-century chansons by ClaudeIeJeune,Clement Jannequin and others
PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES director
GRAYSTON BURGESS
ELIZABETHAN CONSORT Or VIOLS with DAVID MUNROW and RICHARD LEE (flutes) gramophone record