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A weekly programme of recently released gramophone records
Lortzing Overture: Der Wildschiitz
BAMRERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPHER STEPP
8.11* Henselt Piano Concerto in F minor. Op 16
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
8.39* Gershwin An American in Paris
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY

Christmas Oratorio
Cantata No 5: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
Cantata No 6: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor) FRANZ CRASS (bass)
MUNICH EACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records

A request programme of gramophone records
Mozart Symphony No 30, in D major (K 202)
SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
CAMERATA ACADEMICA conducted by BERNARD PAUMGARTNER
10.20* Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1. in F minor
GERVASE DE PEYER
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
10.43* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Noonday Witch
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK CHALABALA

Liszt's piano music, by RONALD SMITH
Musical Profile: Mary Thomas , by GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
Shostakovich's earlier symphonies, by ROBERT LAYTON
Verdi's complete operas; book review by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
(First in a series of concerts each including a Shostakovich symphony: 5.30 pm: Third)

Brahms Quartet in B flat major, Op 67
12.34* Franck Quintet in F minor
SMETANA STRING QUARTET Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)
WARSAW PIANO QUINTET
Bronislaw Gimpel (violin) Tadeusz Wronski (violin) Stefan Kamasa (viola)
Aleksander Ciechanski (cello) Wladyslaw Szpilman (piano)
(Quartet broadcast on 7 July 1967; Quintet on 9 May 1965)

MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) JAMES KING (tenor) AMBHOSIAN SINGERS NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARLOS VILLA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Part 1; Prokofiev
Sinfonia Concertante in minor, for cello and orchestra

PAUL HAMBURGER talks about Brahms and Rinaldo

Part 2: Brahms
Rinaldo: Cantata for tenor, men's chorus, and orchestra

A double bill of one-act operae Words by DON ROBERTS
Music by PETER WISHART
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON and CHARLES MACKERRAS
Repetiteur NINA WALKER
Produced by BRIAN TROWELL
3.0 The Captive
Scene: after a battle, in medieval Japan Cast: conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON

PETER WISHART talks to BRIAN TROWELL about his operas

Scene: the back garden of Penelope's flat in the suburbs of a large port Cast:
conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS

by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
An illustrated talk by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL to introduce the twelve weekly dramatised readings from his new English translation beginning next week
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
(First reading: 11 January)

Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
RUDOLF SERKIN
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
5.55* Shostakovich Symphony No in F minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records
(First in a series of thirteen programmes each including a Shostakovich symphony. Next programme: 11 January)

The War
Memoirs of General Gland by HENRY REED with and Hilda Tablet's Rangoon March realised by DONALD SWANN
Henry Reed writes: These recollections, elicited with some difficulty from General Gland, are not to be regarded as a continuation of the Shewin-Tablet Saga, which ended with The Primal Scene As It Were ... They are to ba considered merely as a parergon, if that.
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON (First broadcast 6 May 1959)

The distinguished Russian pianist plays Part 1
Schubert Variations on a theme of Huttenbrenner, in A minor (D 576)
Schumann Six pieces from Fantasiestucke, Op 12
Des Abends; Aufschwung; Warum?; In der Nacht; Traumes Wirren; Ende vom Lied

RICHARD HARRIS takes Lucian Pye 's account of political psychology as evolved under the Confucian system. The Spirit of Chinese Politics, and considers the fate of the bureaucracy in the Cultural Revolution

Part 2
Rachmaninov Twelve Preludes

The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes which appeared a few years ago is the first part of a long novel to be called The Human Predicament.
In this programme RICHARD HUGHES talks to WALTER ALLEN about the work as a whole and particularly about the second volume, on which he is now engaged.
Produced by ELWYN EVANS

Mass: Pange lingua Ave verum corpus SCHOLA POLYPHONICA conductor HENRY WASHINGTON

R3 VHF Stereo transmitters join Rl for Humphrey Lyttellon