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Macdowell Piano Concerto No 2, in D minor ROBERTO SZIDON LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDWARD DOWNES

7.31* Grieg Landkjenning ASBJORN HANSLI (baritone) OSLO PHILHARMONIC CHORUS LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PER DREIER

7.39* Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, BAND OF HM ROYAL MARINES, conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI

Part 2
Beethoven Piano Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein) ALFRED BRENDEL
8.30* Hummel Bassoon Concerto in F:
GEORGE ZUKERMAN. WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, COnducted by JORG FAERBER gramophone records

Janacek Lachian Dances
BRNO RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BRETISLAV BAKALA
9.25* Capriccio for piano (left hand) and wind ensemble: OTAKAR HOLL -MANN, ENSEMBLE, conducted by JARMIL BURGHAUSER
9.48* The Cunning Little Vixen: Finale
RUDOLF ASMUS (baritone)
ORCHESTRA OF THE PRAGUE
NATIONAL THEATRE, COnducted by VACLAV NEUMANN gramophone records

played by CHRISTOPHER HERRICK
Mozart Fantasia in F minor (K 608)
Vaughan Williams Pre lude and Fugue in c minor
Mathias Toccata giocoso
Guilmant Sonata No 1, in D minor
BBC Manchester

ALISON HARGAN (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Strauss Mein Herz ist stumm: Blick vom oberen Belvedere
Mahler Frilhlingsmorgen; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen
Wok Der Knabe und das Immlein; Ein Stiindlein wohl vor Tag
Strauss Einkehr ; Winterweihe; Fruhlingsfeier

conducted by BERNHARD KLEE
MICHEL BEROFF (piano)
Reger Four Tone-Poems after Bocklin: Hermit with Violin; The Play of the Waves; The Isle of the Dead;
Bacchanale Stravinsky Capriccio for piano and orchestra
12.20* Interval Reading
12.25* Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hanover Part 2 Haydn
Symphony No 104, in D
(North German Radio lecordina)

A series of weekly recitals given by artists of the younger generation direct from Broadcasting House. London
Beverley Davison (violin) Harold Lester (piano)
Brahms Sonata in A. Op 100
Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D. Op 94a (Given before a studio audience: tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
Gerald Finzl Song-cycle: 0 fair to see
Jasper Rooper Four Poems of Laurence Lerner Matyas Seiber Song-cycle: To Poetry

AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel (violins) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Haydn Quartet in G major Op 76 No 1
Schubert Quartet in G major (d 887)

Introduced by Christopher Grier

Fifty Years On
When the BBC Symphony Orchestra appeared in public for the first time in 1930. critics praised the new orchestra as ' certainly the finest in the country
Andrew Keener considers the orchestra's role both in the studio and on the concert platform. and assesses its current reputation.
Producers RAY ABBOTT and BRIAN COOK

Mystery opera in two acts Music by Gottfried von Einem Libretto by LOTTE INGRISCH
(sung in German)
The controversial title Jesus's Marriage assured a stormy reception for this new opera at the 1980 Vienna Festival.
In the opera a symbolic marriage is contracted between Jesus and Death, the latter personified as a woman who doubles as Judas Iscariot. Death swears vengeance on Jesus for stealing Lazarus from her. and in a mock trial with the Apostles as jury and herself as judge, sentences him to die on the cross.
Cast in order of singing:
VIENNA ACADEMY CHAMBER
CHOIR, VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID SHALLON Act 1
Austrian Radio recording

Ian McDougall , with the help of the BBC's Monitoring Service. presents his weekly selection of foreign radio broadcasts. Producer BLAIR THOMSON

Act 2

' His scheme was to turn The Limes" into the headquarters of a prolonged country-house party, in session during the months from October till the end of March - a party consisting of young or youngish people of both sexes, too poor to be able to do much hunting or shooting on a serious scale, but keen on getting their fill of golf. bridge, dancing and occasional theatre-going ... '
Peter Howell reads a short story by SAKI.

Gordon Crosse Quartet (BBC commission: first performance)
Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor. Op 44 No 2

Fantaisie in c minor DAVID WATKINS (harp) gramophone record