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Overture: Berenice (Handel)
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE- FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.14* Violin Concerto in E major
(S.1042) (Bach)
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX with the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.32* Sonata No. 5, in E flat major
(Rossini)
VIRTUOSI di ROMA
Conducted by RENATO FASANO
7.47* Ballet Music: II Trovatore
(Verdi)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS on gramophone records

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Suite: Carmen (Bizet)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.22* Slavonic Dance No. 10. in E minor (Dvorak)
ALFRED BREDEL and WALTER KLIEN (piano duet)
8.26* Zigeunerlieder (Brahms)
GRACE BUMBRY (mezzo-soprano) with SEBASTIAN PESCHKO (piano)
8.39* Gypsy Airs (Sarasate)
RUGGIERO Ricci (violin) with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
8.48* Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1
(Enesco)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS on gramophone records

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Byrd and Gibbons SIMON PRESTON (organ)
JACOBEAN CONSORT OF VIOLS
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, Cambridge
Conducted by DAVID WILICOCKS
Anthem: See. see, the word is incarnate (Gibbons)
9.12* Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
(Great Service) (Byrd)
9.30* Voluntary and Te Deum
(Gibbons) on gramophone records

(baritone) sings arias from operas by Bizet. Chabrier, Gounod, Massenet. Offenbach, and Rameau on gramophone records

A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music.
This week:
Florence Hooton (cello) accompanied by WILFRID PARRY (piano) plays

First of six programmes including all Haydn's Op. 76 string quartets. Today, there Is also music by Mozart and Beethoven from about the same time.
Margaret PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
PORTIA ENSEMBLE
Mary Murdoch (oboe) Rosemary Wells (oboe) Thea King (clarinet) ' Daphne Down (clarinet)
Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon) Wendy Robinson (bassoon) Valerie Smith (horn)
Rosamund Howard (horn)
DELME STRING QUARTET Granville Jones (violin) Jiirgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

BARBARA ROBOTHAM (contralto)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Part 1

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CHRITOPHER GRIER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in London and the South-East next week

Part 2
Given before an invited audience In the Royal College of Advanced Technology. Salford.

Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER

Overture: Les petits riens (K.299b)
2.34* Symphony No.36, in C major
(Linz) (K.425)
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER on a gramophone record
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover. Kent. To hear the programme In stereophony a special receiver. or an adapter for use with an existing receiver, Is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.

A programme of recently released records
Symphony in A major (Tartmi) LONDON BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Conducted by KARL HAAS
3.9* Mandolin Concerto in D major
(Johann Hoffmann )
ELFRIEDE KUNSCHAK with the VIENNA PRO MUSICA Orchestra Conducted by VINZENZ HLADKY

Sigrid Schmidt (soprano) Naan Pold (tenor)
Chorus of North German Radio Solo Ensemble of Hanover Symphony Orchestra of North German Radio
Conducted by Francis Travis
Recording made available by courtesy of North German Radio
First broadcast in this country

Chichester
Introduced by JOHN BETJEMAN
Choir OF CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Choristers. John BIRCH
Richard SEAL (Assistant Organist)
Choir:
The programme will include the Agnus Dei from Byrd's Four-part Mass, and another performance of Purcell's Hear my prayer

Records chosen by the under-twenties
Introduced by ROBERT HENDERSON
This week's programme includes Stravinsky's Violin Concerto Les nuits d'6t6 by Berlioz and music by Ravel

A series of monthly programmes in which a speaker talks about a book worth returning to
BERNARD HOLLOWOOD on Arnold Bennett 's The Card with readings by GRAHAM ARMITAGE
Produced by Shirley Franklin

8: Merchants and Society
The merchants of the early seventeenth century formed a single clan, but they were often divided among themselves-London merchants against provincial. large-scale capitalists against small, and wholesalers against middlemen.
BARRY SUPPLE
Professor of Economic and Social History in the University of Sussex, shows how these divisions led to clashes of interest and prevented the merchants speaking with a single voice on the issues leading to civil war.
With readings from contemporary sources by GARY WATSON and JOHN GLEN
Produced by Adrian Johnson

Kreis eriana played by † MICHAEL ISADOR (piano)

by Roger Vitrac
Translated and adapted by JOANNA RICHARDSON
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Fourth of five programmes including some of his songs. In his second string quartet he moved nearer than ever before to atonality: the poem of the quartet's finale speaks of ' air from another planet.'
Am Wegrand; Madchenlied
(1903-5)
In diesen Wintertagen (1907-8)
9.46* String Quartet No. 2, in F sharp minor (1907-8) with soprano solo in the last two movements: Litanei; Eutrückung (Stefan George )
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
Series devised by Leo Black
Das Bueh der hangenden Garten (Margaret Price, James Lockhart ): March 23

by JOHN FLETCHER
The plays and novels of Samuel Beckett have already achieved widespread critical attention and acclaim. His criticism, Dr. Fletcher argues, ' helps us to view his own works in a fresh light and understand better the reasons behind their creation.
Second broadcast

SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS
August Wenzinger (treble viol)
Marianne Majer
(treble and tenor viols)
Hannalore Muller
(treble and tenor viols)
Johannes Koch (bass viol)
Third broadcast

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