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The Romantic Poets

Offenbach Overture: La Vie parisienne
PHILHARMONIA/MARRINER
7.05 Faure Barcarolle No 5 in F sharp minor, Op 66 KATHRYN STOTT (piano)
7.11 Adam Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je maman' EDITA GRUBEROVA
(soprano); SOUTH GERMAN RSO/KURT EICHHORN
7.18 Saint-Saens Danse macabre: FRENCH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA/MARTINON
7.30am News
7.35 Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-juges: LSO/DAVIS
7.48 Chausson Poeme,
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
NEW YORK PO/ZUBIN MEHTA
8.05 Franck Les Eolides
BASLE SO: ARMIN JORDAN
8.16 Satie Gnossienne
No 3: ANGELA BROWNRIDGE (piano)
8.20 Chabrier, arr Mottl
Bourree fantasque: FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/ ARMIN JORDAN. Records

led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF , conducted by GEORGE HURST
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Brahms Symphony No 4 BBC Scotland (R)

FM only from 10.55 Bach, arr Busoni Prelude and Fugue in E flat (Bwv 552) MARIA TIPO (piano)
9.49 Purcell, arr Britten Chacony in G minor LONDON CO/CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN (violin)
9.58 Liszt Variations on a theme of Bach (s 180) LESLIE HOWARD (piano)
10.12 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestral version): CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/RICHARD HICKOX
10.29 Corrette Laudate Dominum (Psalm 148) SOLOISTS; ENSEMBLE VOCAL ET INSTRUMENTAL DE LYON/GUY CORNUT
10.55 Grieg Four Psalms, Op 74: HAKAN HAGEGARD (baritone); OSLO CATHEDRAL CHOIR/TERJE KVAM
11.22 Artur Lemba Symphony in c sharp minor: SNO/NEEME JARVI

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ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA Sixth Cornhill Test
With BRIAN JOHNSTON , CHRISTOPHER MARTIN -
JENKINS, HENRY BLOFELD and NEVILLE OLIVER. Expert comments from TREVOR BAILEY and MIKE SELVEY. Scorer BILL FRINDALL.
1.05 News
1.10 A View from the Boundary
Brian Johnston talks to the popular musician Max Jaffa
1.30 County Scoreboard
1.40-6.45 Commentary with county scores. Producer PETER BAXTER

FM only The last of six programmes, including the set of string quartets composed by the 17-year-old Mozart in Vienna, 1773. GABRIELI STRING QUARTET String Quartet in F (K 168) String Quintet in G minor (K 516) with KENNETH ESSEX (viola) Series producer JOHN THORNLEY

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FM only Stenhammar Three Fantasies, Op 11 Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca; Funérailles Ravel Gaspard de la nuit (R)

FM only Martinu Bergerettes Dvorak Trio in F minor, Op 65. BBC Pebble Mill (R)

FM only Wiener Blut Operetta in three acts, with libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein , and music by Johann Strauss , arr Adolf Miiller Jr. (sung in German) Josef, valet to Count PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/ OTTO ACKERMANN Mono records: 1954

STEVE COTTRELL (saxophone) JESSICA DRAKE (piano) Handel Sonata in F Bainbridge Music for Mel and Nora Boutry Divertimento

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FMonly Philip French (in the chair) talks with Christopher Cook , Owen Dudley Edwards , Roger Savage and Margaret Walters about the Tron Theatre production of lain Heggie's Clyde Nouveau , and other plays; El Greco : Mystery and Illumination at the National Gallery of Scotland and Scottish Art Since 1900 at the National Gallery of Modern Art; the Scottish movie Venus Peter , directed by Ian Sellar , and the Film Festival; Full Score, short stories by Fred Urquhart , and Elspeth Davie 's novel Coming to Light. Mono

play sonatas for viola and piano by Paul Hindemith and the Brazilian composer
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri. BBC Manchester

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Martin Roscoe (piano) French Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio France) led by Roland Daugareil, conducted by Marek Janowski

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams)

8.10 My Dear Re by Paul Chand.
An episode in the life of Sergei Rachmaninov, based on the composer's correspondence with the young poet Marietta Shaginian.
Narrator John Moffat

8.30 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Ravel La Valse

Laurence Olivier (1907-89) as Nathan Yavok in No End to Dreaming by Peter Barnes.
Mono (R)
Just Olivier and the microphone in a monologue that, no less strikingly than his visual performances, illustrates the man's uncanny skill in assuming yet another identity - The Times.

First of two programmes to include music by Alfred Nieman: BBC SINGERS conducted by RONALD CORP JULIAN JACOBSON (piano)
Schumann Four Songs for double chorus, Op 141
Nieman Variations and finale for piano
Schumann Nachtstiicke for piano, Op 23 Nieman Three
Expressions for chorus

Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the maiden) LINDSAY STRING QUARTET BBC Pebble Mill (R)