Time: GTS 7.0 am

Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
7.9* Mozart Piano Concerto No 8 (K 246): VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.32* Haydn Symphony No 104 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

Morning Concert: part 2 BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
8.13* Casella Divertimento for Fulvia
8.28' Arriaga Symphony in D

Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2 PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
9.26* Octet in E flat, Op 103
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS, directed by JACK BRYMER (clarinet) gramophone records

Tenth of 13 concerts
BOURNEMOUTH BRASS ENSEMBLE JULIAN SMITH (baritone)
GEOFFREY TRISTRAM (organ) from Christchurch Priory, Hampshire
Music by Schütz, Buxtehude, Gabrieli and Purcell

Part 1
Sonata (1903)
LASZLO KOTÉ (violin)
LASZLO ALMASSY (piano)
11.13* String Quartet No 3 (1929): BARTOK STRING QUARTET

WILLIAM MANN of The Times. Part of a series,

Part 2
Sonata (1926)
PETER PERTIS (piano)
12.0* Contrasts
KALMAN BERKES (clarinet) MIKLOS SZENTHELYI (violin) DEZSO RANKI (piano)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)

MALCOLM FRAGER (piano), BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANDLEY Part
Mozart Overture: The Seraglio
12.27* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c major

1.5 The Concert Interval
WALTER LEGGE and JOHN AMIS talk about the artists with whom Walter Legge worked as a recording impresario 3: Sibelius
1.20 Midday Concert: part 2 Bax Symphony No 6

BENTHIEN STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in c major, Op 33 No 3 (The Bird)
Schumann Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1
2.50* During the Interval
DENIS MATTHEWS talks about Beethoven's Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131.
3.10* String Quartets: part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131
Cavatina (Quartet in B flat. Op 130)
(A public concert given in the Central Library. Bolton, on 20 March)

conducted by EDO DE WAART
Strauss Serenade in E flat, Op 7 Mozart Divertimento No 8, in F (K 213) gramophone records

Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow

Messiaen Chronochromie BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
(Part of a Royal Philharmonic Society concert given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, in February 1968)
5.4* Berg Altenberg-Lieder , Op 4
HALINA LUKOMSKA (mezzo-sop) AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILAN HORVAT
5.15* Stockhausen Punkte (1961 version): AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

conductor IAN HUMPHRIS sing a programme of choral music for New Year's Eve anon Alle Psallite
Leonel Power Beata Progenies Weelkes To shorten winter's sadness; Cold winter's ice Kodaly Norwegian Girls Debussy Yver
Three Spanish Carols:
El noi de la mare (arr Enrique Ribo)
El Cant des Ocells (arr Ian Humphris)
St Josep e la Mare de Deu (arr Pere Jorda)
Purcell When the cock begins to crow
Richard Rodney Bennett Dorml Jesu; What sweeter music
Warlock I saw a fair maiden:] Benedicamus Domino
Healey Willan Welcome Yule Ireland New Year's Carol Hoist Wassail Song
6.25 Programme News and Stock Market Report

6.30 Amici, buona serai L'ultimo dell'anno
The third of four supplementary holiday programmes written and presented by HUGH SHANKLAND and ERNESTO MUSSI
7.0 pm Key to Music
Twelve programmes in which PETER WISHART examines the basic materials of music.
12: Codas. What do codas do? The answer to that is ... practically anything. Now and then they can even change the character of movements. The most surprising one of all is almost as long as the whole of the rest of the movement. Producer DAVID EPPS
(For publication see page 17)
(Starting Opera in the Making)

led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN with COLIN HORSLEY (piano) Part 1
Elgar Concert Overture: In the south (Alassio)
Rawsthorne Piano Concerto No 2

Alan Pryce-Jones observes the life of New York and comments on the arts and politics as they are seen in the city.

Part 2 Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus

A comedy for radio by Piers Paul Read
Music composed by Julian Slade
with Richard O'Callaghan, Pauline Collins, Maria Aitken

Casimir has just left a seminary without becoming a priest. He goes to a house on Highbury Hill and there meets two sisters. The choice between the spirit and the flesh is not an easy one - for Casimir still has a conscience.

[Repeat]
(Richard O'Callaghan is in 'Butley' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Octet in f major
BBC SYMPHONY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Derek Taylor (horn) Eli Goren (violin)
Trevor Connah (violin) John Coulling (viola) Alan Dalziel (cello)
J Edward Merrett (double-bass)