Time: Big Ben 8.0 am

Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.14* Charpentier Aria: Depuis le jour (Louise)
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ (soprano) BARCELONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO
8.21* Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
8.50* Satie La belle excentrique DIE REIHE ENSEMBLE conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA

Bach Cantata No 40: Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes CLAUDIA HELLMANN (contralto) GEORG JELDEN (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
HEILBRONN HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHORUS PFORZHEIM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ WERNER
Torelli Christmas Concerto, Op 8 No 6
MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GONTER KEHR
Bach Cantata No 110: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens
HERRAD WEHRUNG (soprano) GEORG JELDEN (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
WINDSBACHER BOYS' CHOIR
SOUTH-WEST GERMAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, PFORZHEIM conducted by HANS THAMM gramophone records

A record request programme Respight Suite: The Birds LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
10.22* Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
10.45* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Noonday Witch
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK CHALABALA

Verdi's Aida 'produced 24 December 1871), by CHARLES OSBORNE Double Anniversary: Pablo Casais and Lionel Tertis (born 29 December 1876), by BERNARD SHORE
A Visit to Beethoven's Vienna by FRIDA KNIGHT
Eighteen Song-Cycles: book review by MARTIN COOPER
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

by Berlioz
THAMES CHAMBER CHOIR conductor LOUIS HALSEY PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON leader WILLIAM ARMON conducted by NICHOLAS GOLDSCHMIDT
(Tom McDonnell broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)

BRIAN TROWELL discusses the dedication of Elgar's Violin Concerto,

IDA HAENDEL (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
George Butterworth Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor
(Given before an invited audience in Studio 1. Maida Vale, London, on 12 November)

Third of a series of programmes illustrating how great composers re-composed their works
The genesis of Bach's Triple Concerto in A minor from the Harpsichord Prelude and Fugue in A minor and the second movement of the Organ Trio-Sonata in D minor. Introduced by BASIL LAM and played by PATRICIA LYNDEN (flute) KENNETH SILLITO (violin)
LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord)
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by KENNETH SILLITO from St Gabriel's Church, Cricklewood

Opera in three acts
Poem by FERDINAND LEMAIRE Music by Saint-Saens (sung in French)
Cast in order of singing:
Hebrews and Philistines
OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF FRENCH RADIO chorus-master JEAN-PAUL KREDER conducted by PIERRE-MICHEL LE CONTE
(Recording made available by courtesy of French Radio as part of the EBU celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the death of Saint-Saens)
Act 1 Before the Temple of Dagon in Gaza
5.20* During the Interval
Saint-Saens as music dramatist A talk by JAMES HARDING
5.35* Samson et Dalila
Act 2 Dalila's house in the valley of Sorek

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Act 3 Sc 1: A dungeon; Sc 2: The Temple of Dagon followed by an interlude

by DON HAWORTH
'... . which goes to show how the lack of a resident father can put you on wrong lines altogether on a subject not remotely connected.'
Other parts: PAMELA DELLAR KATHLEEN WORTH, PAUL BOND ROY BARRACLOUGH BARBARA MULLANEY
Producer ALAN AYCKBOURN

Concert ehampetre for harpsichord and orchestra AIMÉE VAN DE WIELE
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE gramophone record

Only Connect-on culture and communication by Richard Hoggart A series of six talks
6: A Common Ground
(This lepture is published in The Listener, 23 December)

Part I
Sonata in E flat major, Op 27 No 1
Sonata in c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)

by JOSEPH WEINER
Professor Weiner, Director of the Medical Research Council's Environmental Physiology Unit, looks at some of Charles Dar win's theories in the light of knowledge gained in the hundred years since Darwin first published The Descent of Man.

Part 2
Sonata in A flat major, Op 26
Sonata in A flat major, Op 110

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