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Bach, arr Hess Jesu , joy of man's desiring Peter Rostal and Paul Schaefer (pianos)
7.8* Cimarosa, arr
Benjamin Oboe Concerto in c minor
Evelyn Rothwell Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
7.19* Alessandro Scarlatti Se Florindo 6 fedele
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-sop)
Ricardo Requejo (piano)
7.21* Mozart String Quintet in c (K 515)
Amadeus Quartet
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
8.0 News
8.5 Barber Adagio for strings: Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch
8.12* Gliere Harp Concerto, Op 74:
Osian Ellis London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge
8.38* Saint-Saens
Variations on a theme of Beethoven, Op 35: Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir (pianos): records

Chausson
Piece, Op 39
REINHOLD BUHL (Cello) RAYA BIRGUER (piano)
9.12* Merlin's Prophecy (Rot Arthus. Act 2)
(mono): ARTHUR ENDREZE
(baritone) with orchestra
9.18* Concerto in D. Op 21, for piano, violin and string quartet (mono) ALFRED CORTOT (piano) JACQUES THIBAUD (Violin) with quartet: records

conductor Roger Norrington
Schutz Unser Herr Jesus
Nigel Osborne Gnostic Passion (first broadcast performance)
Schutz Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Strauss Der Abend
Nigel Osborne Gnostic Passion
Strauss Hymne
(Given in the Great Hall, University of Lancaster)
BBC Manchester

leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Mozart Symphony No 18, in F major (K 130)
Weber Symphony No 1, in c
Mendelssohn Symphony No 1, in c minor
(Given on 29 March in Cresset Hall in association with the City of Peterborough and the Development Corporation)

A series of weekly recitals given by artists of the younger generation direct from Broadcasting House,London
Steven Isserlis (cello) Peter Evans (piano)
Bach Prelude and Fugue (Suite No 5, in c minor, for cello, BWV 1011)
Bloch Sketches from Jewish Life
Prokofiev Sonata in c, Op 119
(Given before a studio audience; tickets available from the Ticket Unit,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Introduced by Michael Oliver

(Orchestra of the National Centre for Orchestral Studies) conducted by GEORGE HURST RALPH HOLMES (violin)
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Walton Violin Concerto
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole

played by MARLENE FLEET Patrick Piggott Invocations
Schumann Kinderscenen Cyril Scott Ballad (based on a few bars of an old troubadour's song)
BBC Birmingham

Natalie Wheen introduces the programme of music for the early evening.

Quintet in E flat (K 614) played by the GABRIEL! STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito and Brendan O'Reilly (violins) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
With KENNETH ESSEX (Viola)

How can an astronomer study the universe through Britain's canopy of cloud? Dr Graham Smith , Director of the Royal Greenwich
Observatory in Sussex, discusses various means of penetrating the fog, and outlines the present frontiers of space research, in conversation With JOHN MADDOX.
Producer BRIAN LEITH

First of six concerts given before invited audiences by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta in London colleges of music, introduced by Arnold Whittall
TERESA CAHILL (soprano) JOHN POTTER (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by RICHARD PITTMAN Part 1
John Buller The Melian Debate, for tenor, baritone and six instrumentalists (first broadcast performance)
Jacob Druckman Animus IV, for tenor, six instrumentalists and tape (first UK performance)

Presenter Ian McDougall

Part 2 Harrison Birtwistle Down by the greenwood side: a dramatic pastoral
(Given last October at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)

Records of violin duos Leclair Sonata in E minor. Op 35 No 5
Bartok Duos No 13, 14 and 40-44

The Roman Catholic Church Today
'So much of the value of Peter Nichols ' new book seems to me to lie in the fact that what he reports so well calls for serious attention on the part of the Church. There may be, of course, deeper matters regarding the Church which he fails to appreciate, or which may honestly baffle him.'
The Jesuit theologian Fr Robert Butterworth reflects on a new study of the Roman Catholic Church based on a worldwide trip by its author into far corners of the Catholic world.

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in t minor. Op 90
Judith Bingham Chopin (first broadcast performance)
Chopin Barcarolle

Nocturne (String Quartet No 2, in D)
BORODIN QUARTET: record