Time: GTS 7.0 am

Berlioz Overture: King Lear LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.22* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor RADU LUPU LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER gramophone records

A record request programme
Music from 14th-century Florence: EARLY MUSIC CONSORT directed by DAVID MUNHOW
8.34* Janacek Lachian Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANCOIS HUYBRECHTS gramophone records

Sibelius
Symphony No 2. in D
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone record

Saraband 'for the morning of Easter Day)
Rhapsody in d flat. Op 17 No
Psalm-Preludes 1 and 3 played by w. o. minay at St Cuthberts Church, Edinburgh

A series of little-known piano concertos and, this week. virtuoso piano music inspired by another composer's music
Johann Strauss Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes from Kunstlerleben (arr Godowsky) EARL WILD
1C.29* Liszt Transcendental Study No 5, in E, after Paganini (La chasse) EGON PETRI
10.33* Busoni Sonatina, No 6 (Carmen Fantasy) JOHN OGDON
10.41* Paderewski Piano Concerto in A minor: EARL WILD BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTHUR FIEDLER gramophone records

Continuing the series of music composed in the United States since the turn of the century
Carl Ruggles Angels (original version, for six trumpets) LEONARDO ENSEMBLE ‡
William Overton. Ian McIntosh Richard Walton. Bernard Brown Horace Barker , Jack Pinches
Henry Cowell The Banshee; The Aeolian harp; Sinister resonance; The harp of life GILBERT KAI.ISH (piano)
Varese IntSgrales, for small orchestra and percussion SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST BOUR
(Recording made available by South-West German Radio)
Harry Partch Cloud-chamber Music: Windsong (first broadcast in this country) THE GATE 5 ENSEMBLE conducted by THE COMPOSER (gramophone record)

IAN WRIGHT (timpani)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conducted by JANOS FORST Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 36, in C major (Linz) (K 425)
Donatoni Concertino for strings, brass and timpani

Midday Concert: part 2
1.5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in E minor

MARY WELLS (soprano)
LESLIE CAWDREY (clarinet) PHILIP LEDGER (piano)
Bellini Malinconia , Ninfa gentile; Vanne, o rosa fortunata: Bella Nice, che damore; Almen se non poss'io: Per pieta, bell'idol mio: Ma rendi, pur contento (Composizioni da camera)
Donizetti La lontananza; 11 barcaiolo
Stanford Caoine (Sonata for clarinet and piano)
Alwyn Clarinet Sonata
Spohr Six German Songs, Op 103, for soprano, clarinet and piano

conductor MEREDITH DAVIES with the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND CHORUS Corelll Concerto Grosso No 8, in G minor (Christmas Night) Bizet Suite: Jeux d'enfants
John Gardner Cantata for Christmas (first broadcast performance)

from Peterborough Cathedral Responses (Ian Morrell )
Psalms 108. 109 (omitting vv 519) (B Ferguson , Keeton, Vann, Soaper)
Lessons: Isaiah 51, v 17 to 52, v 12: 2 Peter 1
Office Hymn: Creator of the stars of night (Mode IV)
Advent Antiphon: 0 Emmanuel Canticles (Leighton in r.)
Anthem: Thee will I love (Howells)
Master of the Music
STANLEY VANN
Assistant ANDREW NEWBERRY

Twelve of the shortest pieces requested this year, including works for rubber band. wordless soprano, moog synthesizer, shakuhachi and ophicleide
Records chosen by the under-20s. introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

Present-day jazz on records Introduced by CHARLES FOX
65 Programme News and Stock Market Report

6.30 In Russia Today 2: Life in the Towns
...where flats are allotted according to family size and boss and worker belong to the same trade union.
Peter Frank of Essex University with Russian people and British sovietologists, examines housing, shopping and work conditions and asks - are Russians really enjoying a consumer revolution?
Producer Hugh Purcell
7.0 pm Perspective Panto Time
Last night Cinderella at the London Palladium opened the new pantomime season.
Adrian Rendle discusses the traditions and conventions of pantomime, its popularity and its development as theatrical entertainment, with Arthur Askey, Ronnie Corbett Albert J. Knight Dereck Salberg, Margaret Drabble Producer Edith R. Baer
(Rptd: Saturday, 1 January,
11.30 am. R4)
(Cover story: see page 3)

Music and Opera
Introduced by JEREMY NOBLE .
This edition includes discussion on Monteverdi's L'incoranazione di Poppea, as realised by Raymond Leppard at th- London Coliseum and by Alan Curtis in a recent production in Amsterdam; and the Scottish Opera's newly completed cycle of Wagner's ' Ring.'
The speakers are STANLEY SADIE and ANDREW PORTER
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

CLAUDE HELFFER (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by BERNHARD KLEE Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 38, in D major (Prague) (K 504)
Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra

GEOFFREY SQUIRES introduces a poem for voices, which he describes as not so much an attempt to create characters as to establish points for ' a sense of location, of being at the centre of the world, and of having it all around one.' Readers DUNCAN MACKAY GEORGE WIGHTMAN PAMELA ZINNEMAN
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Part 2 Stravinsky
Symphony in three movements (Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London)

by DENIS BELLAMY
Professor Bellamy of the Zoology Department at University College, Cardiff, considers biological time as it affects man's present and future activities,

HEI.EN WATTS (contralto) JOHN STREETS (piano)
Brahms 0 wiisst ich doch den Weg zuriick; Nachtigallen schwingen: Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sapphische Ode: Standchen (Leise, um dich nicht zu wecken)
10.17* Schumann Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart
10.27* Britten A Charm of Lullabies
10.38* arr Britten Three Folk Songs

plays historic Italian organs including music by Frescobaldi and Giovanni and Andrea Gabrieli gramophone record