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(piano)
A weekly series of records of the Austrian pianist playing the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
Sonata in G minor, Op 49 No 1 Sonata in E minor, Op 90 Sonata in b Sat, Op 22

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Listeners' record requests Barber Adagio for strings BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
9.14* Elgar Sea Pictures
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
9.40* Bruch Scottish Fantasia for violin and orchestra JASCHA HEIFETZ
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
10.7* Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba: BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Requests, on postcards, please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Could Busoni become a popular composer? RONALD STEVEN-SON argues the case.
Rossini's other operas, by HAROLD ROSENTHAL.
Producer CHRISTINE hardwick

HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) TONHALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN Part I
Wagner Overture: Das Liebes verbot
Brabms Violin Concerto in D

R. W. Burchfield , Chief Editor. Oxford English Dictionaries. reflects on some of the things we say.
(Rptd: Wednesday 3.40 pm)
(This week's talk is printed in The Listener dated 4 December)

Part 2
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Also sprach Zarathustra
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)

A personal choice of songs which seem to embody the spirit of the 1920s.
With the recorded voices of THE REVELLERS, LAYTON AND JOHN-STONE, SAM BROWNE , BING CROSBY and others.
The third of a series of nine Sunday lunchtime programmes

' Lacking an opportunity for the necessary preparation, I was unable to give a performance worthy of so excellent a theme. I then determined to develop this right royal theme in a more perfect manner, and immediately applied myself to the task, so that it should become known to all the world.'
(From Bach's dedication of the work to Frederick the Great, 1747)
AURELE NICOLET (flute), OTTO BUCHNER , KURT GUNTNER (ViOlins), SIEGFRIED MEINECKE (viola), FRITZ KISKALT (cello), HEDWIG BILCRAM , KARL RICHTER (harpSichords): record

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 10.40 am)

Opera in two acts
Libretto by LUIGI ROMANELLI Music by Rossini
Wexford Festival production (sung in Italian)
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CnORUS , CllOlUSmaster Kenneth CLEVELAND harpsichord continuo EDWARD LAMBERT , SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF RADIO TELEFIS EIREANN leader colin staveley conducted by RODERICK brydon Producer ADRIAN SLACK (RTE recording)
The action takes place in the garden of Asdrubale's villa. Act 1
3.55* Interval Reading
4.5* La pletra del paragone Act 2

Godfrey HODGSON presents selections from the jokes and stories of President Lyndon Johnson which have been collected by staff at the LBJ Library, Austin, Texas.
Producer anthont uoncrieff

Eighteenth-century Scotland was remarkable for its upsurge of violin playing. Dr David Johnson examines one of the results - sets of variations on popular tunes for solo fiddle. Music examples played by EDNA ARTHUR

by JAMES DALTON
Bach Prelude and Fugue In A minor (bwv 551); Chorale Prelude on Nun danket alle Gott (bwv 657)
Biihm Chorale Prelude on Vater unser im Himmelreich
Bruhns Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Buxtehude Canzona In G(i); Prelude and Fugue In G minor
(Postponed from 14 Nov)

Six talks on the eve of America's bicentennial celebrations. by Daniel J. Boorstin.
In his third talk, Dr Boorstin goes on to discuss the ways in which the early Americans created their own individual Institutions of government and abandoned rigid social and professional barriers that characterised life in Britain.
(Last Wednesday's broadcast on Radio 4 and printed in The Listener dated 27 Nov. Next lecture.- 3 Dee R4, 7 Dec R3)

followed by an interlude

ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader rodney FRIEND conductor Bernard haitink
John McCabe The Chagan Windows (first broadcast performance
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, in c

There is no other name under heaven ... by which we must be saved. (ST PETER) Three programmes about the impact of modern cosmologies, Eastern religions and the possible existence of other inhabited worlds on the Church's traditional claims regarding the Person of Christ. 2: The Last Man
Rev Don Cupitl , Dean of Emmanuel College. Cambridge

Part 2
Dvorak Symphony No 9, In i minor (From the New World)

by Jim McNeil
with Nigel Graham as Sam, James Smilie as Hick and Paul Bertram as George ("Brenda")

The play explores the inter-relationship of three Australian prisoners but, rare in such dramas, retains an affectionate note of optimism: you cannot suppress the search for happiness, even in such a diminishing environment. The author wrote this work whilst serving his sentence in a maximum security jail.

(Miriam Margolyes is in "Kennedy's Children" at the Arts Theatre Club, London)
(Stereo)

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