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Seventh of eight programmes
Mozart Divertimento in B flat(x 240)
8.17* Strauss Symphony for wind instruments
(The Happy Workshop) Gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Elgar Concert Overture: In the South (Alassio) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
9.25* Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor
HENRYK SZERYNG
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORAT 1
9.54* Borodin Symphony No 1. in e flat (mono)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALCEO GALLIEFA

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Handel before London: WINTON DEAN on the Italian oratorio, La resurrezione. The work of a choirmaster: BERNARD
ROSE and douglas GUEST, who both retire this year, compare notes on their careers.
The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA leader THEO OLOP conductor
BERNARD MAITlNK Part 1 Mozart
Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)

Paul Bailey , the novelist and literary critic. reflects on some of the ways we think about language and use it (1).
Broadcast last Thursday)

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 5, in b flat major

A recital of songs and piano music by the young Debussy, introduced by Richard Langham Smith JILL GOMEZ (soprano) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
MALCOLM BINNS (piano) Danse bohémienne
Nuit d'étoiles;. Pierrot; Zephyr Ballade
Jane; Caprice; Fete galante
Images oubliées; three pieces for piano Proses lyriques

RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
KENNETH SILLITO (violin) IAN JEWEL (viola)
KEITH HARVEY (cello)
Mozart Flute Quartet in c (k 285b)
Reger Serenade in G Op 141a

A re-creation, using baroque instruments, of the first performance of Handel's first sacred oratorio, written for a court performance on Easter Day, 1708, in Rome: direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London EMMA KIRKBY and PATRIZIA KWELLA (sopranos) CAROLYN WATKINSON (mezzo-soprano) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC leader CATHERINE MACKINTOSH
Continuo JAKOB LINDBERG (theorbo) MARK CAUDLE (cello) BARRY GUY (double-bass) NICHOLAS MCGEGAN (harpsichord) conducted by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Part 1

A sequence of poems compiled round a theme by Patric Dickinson.
Readers Sonia Fraser, Michael Spice and Stephen Thorne.

Part 2

A personal view of the week's music broadcasting by the critic and early music specialist, David Fallows.
BBC Manchester

played by the DELME STRING QUARTET Galina Solodchin and David Ogden (violins)
John Underwood (viola) Stephen Orton (cello)
Third of eight programmes Part 1
Bach, arr
Simpson Contrapunctus 8 (The Art of Fugue)
Simpson Quartet No 3 (1954)

describes how Disraeli used his novels to conduct his own enquiry into Conservative policy.

Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in F major, Op 135 BBC Birmingham

by Alan Plater
Charlie is a young man very aware of that brief second in eternity which is one man's lifespan. He intends to use his second to make a great glow in the sky.
BBC Manchester
(David Threlfall is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

conducted by EDWARD DOWNES IRINA ARKHIPOVA ,
(mezzo-soprano) Part 1 Bartok
Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Luke's gospel tells the story of two disciples who recognised their risen Lord on a journey to Emmaus. In a special meditation for Easter Day, Cardinal Basil Hume, OSB. Archbishop of Westminster, suggests how contemporary men and women can come to recognise the risen Christ today and accept the demands of the Gospel. BBC Manchester

Part 2
Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death
Shostakovich Symphony No 6 (Giren on 19 March in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)

Motet pour le jour de
Paques: JUDITH NELSON and EMMA KiRKBY (sopranos)
JANERYAN (viola dagamba) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
(chamber organ): record