Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Haydn Quartet in G. Op 76 No 1 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
8.25- Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 7
ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI

Cantata No 132
INGEBORG REICHELT (SOpranO)
HILDEGARD RUTGERS (contralto) THEO ALTMEYER (tenor) EDUARD WOLLITZ (bass) BARMEN-GEMARKE CHOIR
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS conducted by HELMUT KAHLH ÖFER Cantata No 208
HELEN DONATH (soprano)
ELISABETH SPEISER (soprano) WILFRID JOCHIMS (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
STUTTGART GEDACHTNISKIRCHE
CHOIR, BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING gramophone records

A record request programme
Rossini Overture: Semiramide PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
10.24* Paganini Violin Concerto No 3: HENRYK SZERYNG LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON

Record Review contributed by DOMINIC GILL TREVOR HARVEY
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
ROGER STALMAN (bass-baritone) SHEFFIELD PHILHARMONIC CHORUS chorus-master
ERIC CHADWICK LONDON MOZART PLAYERS leader ROBERT MASTERS conductor HARRY BLECH from the City Hall, Sheffield Part 1
Mozart Schon weichet dir, Sonne; Entr'acte in c minor; Ihr Kinder des Staubes (Incidental Music: King Thamos) Beethoven Symphony No 8

CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, the newly-appointed Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, discusses and illustrates some of the problems of tempi in classical music,

Part 2 Mendelssohn
Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Virginal music from ' My Ladye Nevells Booke.' Introduced and played by THOMAS WESS A Fancie
The Tennthe Pavian
The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian
All in a garden grine The Barelye Breake
A voluntarie: for my Ladye Nevell
The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian (The Passinge Mesures) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La

JAMES HARDING talks about and introduces a performance of the one-act opera by Massenet Libretto by GEORGES BOYER (sung in French)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES Repetiteur GERALD GOVER
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON

Hymnen (first performance of this version in this country) KARLIIEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (sound projection)
HARALD BOJÉ (electronium) PETER EÖTVÖS (55 chord) ALOYS KONTARSKY (piano)
CHRISTOPH CASKEL (tam-tam) Part 1

WILLIAM Fox reads a passage from Jefferies' spiritual autobiography The Story of My Heart, which describes a mystical experience in the English countryside,

Hymnen. part 2
(A public concert given in May in St John's, Smith Square. London, as part of the 1971 English Bach Festival) (More music by Stockhausen: Tuesday 4.40 and 9.30 pm)
(Christmas Sounds: page 19)

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest, (Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)

played by the BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Isidore Cohen (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)
Haydn Piano Trio in E major (H xv 28)
Chopin Piano Trio in c minor

by TOM GALLACHER
Though he did not know It, James Joyce left Paris for the last time on Christmas Eve, 1939. On 23 December he returns to his recently vacated flat to collect some books and is questioned by four voices. Parts
Trieste
Pianist ARTHUR TATLER
Producer GORDON EMSLIE
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
'... pleasure to hear such coherent speech so beautifully delivered ' NEW STATESMAN '... brilliance of the dialogue by Tom Gallacher which Joyce himself might not have disowned.' THE LISTENER

Ravel Trois poemes de Mallarmg
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) with MEMBERS OF THE
MELOS ENSEMBLE conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
9.13* Delage Quatre poemes hindous: JANET BAKER with MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE gramophone records

Only Connect - on culture and communication by Richard Hoggart A series of six talks
5: Private Faces in Public Places
(LastTuesday's broadcast. R4) (This lecture is published in The Listener, 16 December)

Robert Fayrfax died 450 years ago. Described in his day as ' the prime musitian of the nation.' he occupies a key position in 'the history of English music. JOHN BERGSAGEL discusses his work and contrasts him with Josqutn.
(A programme of his music: Tuesday, 10.55 pm)

GYORGY PAUK (violin)
PETER FRANKL (piano)
Mozart Sonata in c (K 296)
Dvorak Sonatina in G, Op 100 Bartok Sonata No 2

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