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Rossini Sonata No 3. in c, for string orchestra: I musici
8.17* Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen: ELLY AMELING (sop) JÖRG DEMUS (piano)
GEORGE PIETERSON (clarinet)
8.30* Respighi Adagio and Variations for cello and orchestra: ANDRE NAVARRA
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL
8.41* Tchaikovsky Movements from Nutcracker, Act 1 AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN

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A record request programme
Krommer Clarinet Concerto in E flat:
JACK BRYMER VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by FELIX PROHASKA
9.27* Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX

JUI.IAN HERBAGE remembers some distinguished contributors Edited and produced by ANNA INSTONE

The 13th In a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra
Vera Zorina (speaker) Loren Driscoll (tenor)
Boys of Schola Polyphonica conducted by Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky: part 1: Persephone
12.0* Hans Keller talks about Stravinsky as conductor of his own works.
12.10* BBC SO: part 2
Stravinsky: Infernal Dance; Berceuse; Finale ("The Firebird")

Myung Whun Chung (piano) Haydn Sonata in G (H xvi 6)
Beethoven Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Ginastera Sonata
Chopin Nocturne, Op 27 No 2; Ballade, Op 23; Etude. Op 10 No 4

A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTIC Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
Two officers are induced to test their sweethearts' fidelity by each wooing the other's fiancée in disguise.
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
(Austrian Radio recording) Act 1
3.10* Passion and Cynicism
BERNARD Williams , Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, offers some thoughts on Cosi fan tutte.
3.30* Cosi fan tutte, Act 2

whose centenary year this has been. This music was written over a period of 40 Christmases ending with the ' Hodie ' which he wrote at 82.
WENDY EATHORNE (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) CITY OF LONDON CHOIR TRINITY BOYS' CHOIR
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON leader WILLIAM ARMON conducted by DONALD CASHMORE Part 1
Fantasia on Christmas Carols Carols and arrangements

A new poem written and read by Anne Stevenson

Part 2 Hodie (Christmas Cantata)
(A public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall : 16 Dec)

by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER
This British premiere is produced by MARTIN JENKINS with Alan Dobie , Lee Montague Clive Morton , Kate Binchy
Erik is King of Sweden. A mentally unstable man, he has become involved in a bitter, jealous feud with the Swedish nobility, who resent his employment of commoners in key government positions and his choice of a peasant girl as a mistress.
The action of the play takes place in and around Stockholm and Uppsala in the years 1566 and 1568.

by Handel
A complete performance In Basil Lam 's edition, given before an invited audience in St John's. Smith Square JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS AND
ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE Continuo:
ALASTAIR ROSS (harpsichord) STEPHEN CLEOBURY (Organ) NAOMI BUTTERWORTH (cello) BARRY GUY (double-bass) Conductor RICHARD HICKOX
(Jill Gomez broadcasts by permission of Covent Garden)
Parts 1 and 2: The coming of the Messiah, and his death
11.5* The Search for God A prayer of St Augustine read by GARARD GREEN in a translation by PETER DE ROSA
11.10* Messiah
Part 3 The Resurrection

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