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Purcell Suite: The Virtuous Wife ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)

8.15* Polonaise in G minor; March in E flat; Minuet in C; Minuet in G minor: Willst du dein Herz mir schenken (Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach) ELLY AMELING (soprano) GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)

8.27* Clara Schumann Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, Op 20 MONICA VON SAALFELD (piano)

8.37* Wagner Siegfried Idyll MEMBERS OF THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER

(gramophone records)

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, by MICHAEL KENNEDY.
Miscellaneous new records reviewed by LIONEL SALTER
Producer ARTHUR JOHN son

Delius Sea Drift
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD HICKOX
Szymanowski Symphony No 2
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

TEMPLEMORE BAND conductor j. w.
BURCH Bryden Thomson March: The Nybbs
Gilbert Vinter Spectrum G. Hespe Suite: The Three Musketeers
BBC Northern Ireland

Ice-Floe Cassettes
In his final programme, John Amis introduces variations on a popular record programme. gramophone records

From its origins in feudal allegiance, the medieval ethic of chivalry was transformed in the late 11th century into something more noble. It was sung-poetry which voiced this change, and this concert traces its development from the quixotic Guilhem IX of Aquitaine to the trouveres of Northern France, and the innovations of de la Halle and Machaut. MARTIN BEST MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE
Martin Best (voice, lute, oud. psaltery) Jeremy Barlow
(recorders, pipes, regal) David Corkhill (drums, tabors, nakers, bells, dulcimer)
Alastair McLachlan (rebecs, fidele)
(A new series of Early
Music Forum begins next Saturday at 1.5 pm. The first programme celebrates American
Independence Day, with music from the 13 Colonies and this year's Boston Early Music Festival)

Nicholas Anderson introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts pf the past week.

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
Jonathan Raban (in the Chair), talks with Peter Conrad, John Elsom and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects: The National Theatre revival of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday
Paintings by Alfred Sisley at David Carritt Ltd, Duke Street, London SW1
Andrew Mollo's SS 1923-45 on ITV
Gunter Grass's new novel The Meeting at Telgte
The Last Metro directed by Francois Truffaut.

Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in d (K 218)
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT gramophone record

Opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten Libretto by PETER PEARS and THE COMPOSER, based on Shakespeare's play
A direct relay of the new Glyndebourne Festival production
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by Bernard Haitiak
Acts 1 and 2: The depths of a wood near Athens
8.55* Interval Reading
9.5* A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3: The same, changing to the palace of Theseus
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A short story by TILLIE OLSEN
Read by Annie Ross
A mother stands at the ironing board and reflects on the life of her first-born, Emily, a child of the war years.
' She is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.'
Producer PAT TRUEMAN

Piano Trio No 3, in G minor. Op 110
BEAUX ARTS TRIO

by GILES SWAYNE
The seven movements of this epic choral work correspond to the seven days of Creation. They are broadcast in sequence at this time every evening during the week.
1: void - light - darkness BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOL.