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Last of eight programmes Rossini, transc Wenzel Sedlak Overture: Semiramide
8.18. Schubert Minuet and Finale in F
8.28.
Stravinsky Symphonies of wind instruments
8.37* Krommer Octet-Partita in E flat, op 69 gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Arriaga Symphony in D
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JESUS LOPEZCOBOS
Walter Leigh Concertino for harpsichord and strings: NEVILLE dilkes, who also directs the ENGLISH SINFONIA Faur46 Requiem
LUCIA popp (soprano)
SIEGMUND NIMSGERN (bass) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDREW DAVIS gramophone records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The descendants of Pierrot: PAUL GRIFFITHS talks about the influence of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
The rediscovery of Korngold: a conversation with BRENDAN CARROLL. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

ELIZABETH CONNELL ( mezzo-soprano)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE , ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN. conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Varese Deserts; Integrates
Stravinsky Four Russian Peasant Songs (1954) Bartok Village Scenes

Paul Bailey (2)

Part 2 Schoenberg
The Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder)
Three Pieces for chamber orchestra (1910)
Chamber Symphony No 1

(piano)
Schubert Four
Impromptus (D 935)
Rachmaninov Sonata No 2, in B flat, Op 36 (revised version)
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 784)
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux, Op 39: No 5, in E flat minor; No 2, in A minor; No 1, in c minor (A public concert given last November at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)

RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
KENNETH SILLITO (violin) IAN JEWEL (Viola)
KEITH HARVEY (Cello)
Mozart Flute Quartet No 2, in G (K 285a) Roussel Trio in F, Op 40 Mozart Flute Quartet No 1, in D (K 285)

(1914-81) conducting the BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS (MEN'S VOICES)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baSS) Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 8, in F

Asequenceofpoems compiled round a theme by PATRIC DICKINSON
Readers Rosamund Browne Godfrey Kenton and Michael Spice

Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 13, Op 113. for bass solo, male chorus and orchestra. on poems by Yevtushenko
(Babi Yar; Humour; In the store; Fears; A Career)
(A concert given last December in the Herkulessaal, Munich
Residenz) (Bavarian Radio recording)

played by the DELME STRING QUARTET Galina Solodchin and David Ogden (violins)
John Underwood (viola) Stephen Orton (cello) Fourth of eight programmes
Bach. arr
Simpson Contrapunctus , 9 (The Art of Fugue)
Beethoven Quartet in F, On 59 No 1
(Rasumovsky)

A personal view of the week's music broadcasting by the violinist Yfrah Neaman
BBC Manchester

Part 2
Simpson Quartet No 4 (1973)
(Given last May at Brunet University)
BBC Birmingham

An account of books 16 to 19 of Homer's Iliad by CHRISTOPHER LOGUE Performed by Alan Howard
In the ninth summer of the Trojan war Achilles withdrew his forces from the Greek Confederacy because Agamemnon appropriated one of his female slaves.
Thereafter the Trojans gained the upper hand. Hector raided the Greek beach-head and burned one of their ships. It looked as if the Greeks would be destroyed. At this moment Patroclus came to Achilles and begged for his help.
Music by RONALD FRASER Played by GARY KETTEL , ANTHONY LEWIS , BARRY GUY. JUDITH PEARCE and DONALD FRASER. Technical supervision: ADRIAN REVILL Directed by LIANE AUKIN (A tan Howard is an associate artist of the RSC) War Music will be published on 7 May by Jonathan Cape.

KATHLEEN BATTLE (soprano) MARIA EWING (contralto) PHILIP CREECH (tenor) jose VAN dam (baritone)
ERNST SENFF CHAMBER CHOIR BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAMES LEVINE. Part 1
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Four Concert arias

That speech, or that way of speaking which is most easily understood, is the best way of speaking. 250 years after Defoe's death. Dr Alan Downie considers some of the paradoxes of his doctrine of literalism.

Mass in c minor (K 427) (R/AS Berlin recording)

by Debussy:
WALTER GIESEKING (piano): record