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Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night
BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
8.16* Wieniawski Violin Con. certo No 2, in D minor 1TZHAK PERLMAN
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
8.39* Stravinsky Ballet Suite: The Firebird (1919): BOSTON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SEIJI OZAWA : records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Schubert's Octet in F, by JOHN WARRACK. Recent records of pre-classical music, reviewed by JANE CLARK.

conducted by VERNON HANDLEY LINDA BUSTANI (piano)
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c major

Nicola LeFanu talks about her musical experiences in America as holder of a Harkness Fellowship.

Part 2
Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga
Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody
(A public concert recorded in City Hall, Glasgow, on 2 Dec)

presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.

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Introduced by Donald Milner

Little Christmas
To mark St Nicholas 's Day a performance of Haydn's Hissa St Nicolai, preceded by two of the saint's miracles set by Benjamin Britten. and a Hymn to St Nicholas by St Godric; offered in anticipation of Christmas by CHRISTOPHER HOG-wood from record requests from the under-20s.

Jeremy Brett , the actor, leaps at the chance to play some of his favourite records - ' that strain again! ' He has chosen ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF in an excerpt from Lehar's The Merry Widow, HARRIET COHEN playing Debussy's La cathgdrale engloutie, LEONTYNE PRICE singing Che il bet sogno di Doretta from Puccini's La rondine, and NAT KING COLE with GEORGE SHEARING relaxing with 1 Pick Yourself Up.'

Bach and Beethoven Bach Concerto in D minor, for violin, oboe, and string orchestra (BWV 1060)
Sinfonia (Cantata No 209)
Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F: GÉRARD JARRY (violin) JACQUES CHAMBON (oboe) MAXENCE LARRIEU (flute)
ANDRE BERNARD (trumpet)
PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
(Bavarian Radio recording from this year's Nuremberg Organ Week)
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
BENRYK SZERYNG LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTIU conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT (gramophone record)
Introduced by Hugh Wood

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Sergio and Eduardo Abrcu. play music by Tobias Hume , Bach, Henze, Sor and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Introduced by PETER SENSIER Producer GARETH WALTERS

John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with SUSAN HILL. PETER PORTER and MARINA VAIZEY. Producer PHILIP PRENCH

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 6, in r (Pastoral)

The first volume of The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by the late Richard Crossman will be published on Monday.
Rt Hon Edward Heath , mp, reflects on the issues raised in this well-publicised book,

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 5, in c minor
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)

The name is international; the individual too little known. In a new series of portraits. Radio 3 takes a closer look at major figures visiting this country for some creative purpose, and assesses their reputations on the world stage.
This month: Joachim Herz , Director of the Leipzig Opera, who is producing the English National Opera's new Salome. which opens at the Coliseum on Thursday.
Producer TONY SCOTLAND

Opera in one act by Geoffrey Bush Libretto based on JOHN DRINKWATER 'S play X = 0
Narrator MALCOLM RUTHVEN
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE MEMBERS OF THE PHILOMUSICA
OF LONDON, CHARLES SPINKS (organ) Conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES Introduced by THE COMPOSER

A. D. Hope Reader
KERRY FRANCIS
The first of several programmes in coniunction with The New Australian Drama illustrates the work of perhaps the best-known of contemporarv Australian poets. Compiler KEARILY NOLAN Producer JOilN SCOTNEY (Judith Wrioht : 7 Jan)

Second of three programmes String Quartet No 2, in A - Chilingirian Quartet

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