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PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Rossini Overture: William Tell
8.17* Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (KE 297b)
(mono)
SIDNEY SUTCLIFFE (oboe)
BERNARD WALTON (clarinet) DENNIS BRAIN (horn) CECIL JAMES (bassoon) gramophone records

A monthly selection of Clare's poetry chosen and read by Robin Holmes

Britten
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (mono)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
THE COMPOSER (piano) Te Deum in c
CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD directed by DAVID LUMSDEN
String Quartet No 1, in » ALLEGR1 QUARTET gramophone records

direct from the Main Hall of theMusikverein, Vienna The traditional annual concert of Viennese music given by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel including at
10.50* Interval Readings (Highlights on BBC2: 7.55)

BERNE STRING QUARTET
Alexander van Wijnkoop and Christine Ragaz (violins)
Heinrich Craford (viola) Walter Grimmer (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 Bartok Quartet No4
1.55* Interval Reading
2.0* Bath Festival 1980 Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131
(A public concert arranged by the Bath Festival Society in association with Bain Dawes Ltd) BBC Bristol

or The King of Barataria
A comic opera in two acts Music by Arthur Sullivan Libretto by w. S. GILBERT The story of Gilbert and Sullivan's collaboration is a well-known catalogue of quarrels and reconciliations, from the time of Trial by Jury in 1875, through their many successes. to The Gondoliers in 1889. Sullivan, whose background lay in ' serious ' music, grew increasingly uneasy about the ' light ' nature of his successes with Gilbert. Not so Gilbert. who was delighted when Queen Victoria commanded a performance of The Gondoliers at Windsor. Sullivan was less pleased and although they went on to produce Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke. the great partnership was over and The Gondoliers was their final 'smash hit
BBC SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
Producers ROBERT BOWMAN and IAN COTTERELL

Papillons. Op 2: Piano Quartet in E flat. Op 47 MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
(Given at the 1979 Benson and Hedges Music Festival)

Fifth of seven programmes of Christmas music by Bach

Cantata No 190: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (reconstructed by Walter Reinhart and Paul Steinitz)

Paul Esswood (counter-tenor) Wynford Evans (tenor) John Noble (baritone)
London Bach Society Choir and Baroque Orchestra, leader John Holloway, conductor Paul Steinitz

(Next cantata: next Sunday)

played by HOWARD SHELLEY and HILARY MACNAMARA Berkeley Sonatina
Bax Sonata

by CECIL TORR. selected by DEREK PARKER
The second of two selections of rural anecdotes about life in a Devon village.
' A farmer here was leaning over a gate from which there is a glorious view. Seeing the view, a passer-by remarked to him how glorious it was. The farmer answered: " Durn the view. I bain t lookin' at no view. I be lookin' how they dratted rabbits as ated up my tunnips." '
Read by Paul Rogers
Producer ANTHONY VIVIS followed by an interlude

7.20-8.30, 8.50-10.25 Stereo

Pavan No 5 a 4. in c. minor
Fantazia No 11 a 4. in G major
ENSEMBLE. led by YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) gramophone record

A short story written and read by Ian Hawkins Producer ALEC REID

Suite: Scaramouche MARCEL MEYER and THE COMPOSER (pianos) gramophone record