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Mendelssohn Overture:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 21
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/GEORG SZELL
7.17* Fiala Divertimento No 3, in E flat
PRAGUE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM directed by FRANTISEK VAJNAR
7.29* Litolff Scherzo (Concerto Symphonique No 4) MISHA DICHTER (piano)
PHILHARMONIA/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
7.36* Mozart Ballet Music: Les petits riens
SCOTTISH CO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.0 News
8.5 Elgar
March of the Mogul Emperors (Crown of India, Op 66)
BBC SO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.9* Delius
Song of the High Hills AMBROSIAN SINGERS
RPO/ERICFENBY
8.39* Gottschalk
Souvenir de Porto Rico IVAN DAVIS (piano)
8.45* Malcolm Arnold Scottish Dances, Op 59 LPO/THE COMPOSER records
Producer MARTIN COTTON

Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
'On the whole I am a follower of Tchaikovsky, Medtner,
Rachmaninov, and, above all, the "Five" ...'
String Quartet No 3, in D minor TANEYEV QUARTET OF LENINGRAD record
Lyric Concertino in G. Op 32 No 3 LANGHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD (R)
Producer JOHN THORNLEY

Allegro in B minor, Op 8; Albumblatter, Op 124 PETER WALLFISCH (piano) BBC Manchester

Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 2 I MUSICI
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 7 No 2
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by IONA BROWN (violin) Geminiani Concerto Grosso in E minor (after Corelli's Violin Sonatas, Op 5) I musici: records

BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
John F. Larchet The wee boy in bed; An Ardglass boat song; A Stoiran ban; Wee Hughie; Padraig the fiddler
Sean O'Riada Four Hblderlin Songs (sung in German) (first UK broadcast)
Herbert Hughes Lady be tranquil; An island spinning song; Draherin-o-Machree; I wish I had the shepherd's lamb; The leprechaun BBC Birmingham

directed by Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano) Beethoven Rondo in B flat for piano and orchestra (WoO 6) Pierre Sancan
Little Symphony for Strings
Mozart Piano Concerto No 26, in D (K 537) BBCBristol

(piano) with the Gabrieli String Quartet Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor (K 546)
Brahms Intermezzi : in B flat minor. Op 117 No 2; A minor, Op 118 No 1; A major, Op 118
No 2; E flat minor, Op 118 No 6 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 (R)

Pierre van Maldere
Symphony in G minor, Op 4 No 1 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA; JORG FAERBER
Debussy Pierrot; Apparition EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano) FRIEDRICH HAIDER (piano)
Michael Berkeley String Quartet
AMPHION STRING QUARTET
Britten Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Vittoria STEPHEN CLEOBURY (Organ Of King's College, Cambridge) Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F,
Per la solennita di San Lorenzo (RV286)
I SOLISTI DELLE SETTMANE MUSICALI
INTERNAZIONALI DI NAPOLI directed by SALVATORE ACCARDO (violin)
Liszt Feux follets (Etudes d'execution transcendante) DIMITRIS SGOUROS (piano)
Schumann Fiinf Stiicke im Volkston MISCHA MAISKY (Cello)
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano)
Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat
VIENNA PO/SIR GEORG SOLTI records

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RAY ABBOTT

SIMON PRESTON (organ) THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK Handel Concerto in G minor, Op 4 No 1; Concerto in B flat major, Op 4 No 2 records

A short story by DEREK NICHOLLS Read by Richard Pearson
Arnold Blenkiron transfers his loyalty from the laws of physics to perpendicular architecture, and from Samantha to Fiona. Producer DAVID HEYCOCK (R)

Lyric tragedy in two acts Libretto by FEUCE romani Music by Bellini
(died 23 September 1835) (sung in Italian)
CHORUS OF THE GRAND THEATRE,
GENEVA
VOCAL ENSEMBLE OF SOFIA
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
The action takes place in Gaul during the Roman occupation, about 50 BC. Act

Nothing odd will do. 'Tristram Shandy ' did not last.
(SAMUEL JOHNSON )
The novelist and critic
Allan Massie believes that Laurence Sterne 's present-day followers are producing arid and frivolous fictions, and argues in favour of the traditional novel. (R)

Act 2
(Suisse Romande Radio recording)

For three days in June the Cambridge Union was the venue for Britain's largest international gathering of poets. Michael Schmidt reports on the 1985 Cambridge Poetry Festival, and presents his selection from the readings.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester (R)

Second of six programmes including the six piano trios of Mozart and a selection of 20th-century British trios MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
Mozart Trio in G major (K 496) Malcolm Williamson Trio