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Grieg Holberg Suite ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER

7.26* Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM

7.49* Chabrler Rhapsody: Espana CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX gramophone records

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Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor (Op 6 No 8) (Christmas Night) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER

8.19* Leopold Mozart Concerto in D, for horn and strings BARRY TUCKWELL, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER

8.31* Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

(gramophone records)

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Dvorak
The visits to England
Excerpts from the Stabat Mater STEFANIA WOYTOWICZ (soprano) VERA SOUKUPOVA (contralto) IVO ZIDEK (tenor) KIM BORG (bass)
CZECH SINGERS' CHOIR
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK gramophone records

Played by Neil Cox on the organ of the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

Langlais...Hymne d'action de graces (Te Deum)
Alain...Variations sur un theme de Jannequin
Messiaen...Joie et clarte des corps glorieux
Franck...Piece heroique

(piano) at the 1975 Vienna Festival
Part 1
Mozart: Fantasia in C minor (K 475)
Schubert: Sonata in A minor (D 845)

10.55* Marcel Prawy, a leading authority in Austria on Johann Strauss, throws new light on this composer.

11.15* Concert Part 2
Johann Strauss arr Gulda: Geschichten aus dem Golowinerwald
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

A miscellany of choral music, including pieces for Christmas and the New Year
BBC Singers conducted by Gordon Kember
Richard Nunn (piano)
Cyril Gell (harmonium)
I Gondolieri: Preghiera; Ave Maria; La notte del Santo Natale; Toast pour le nouvel an; La Passeggiata

(Repeat)
(Stereo)

Direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Llandaff
Imogen Cooper (piano)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guy Woolfenden

Part 1

Weber Overture: Euryanthe

12.27* Mozart Piano Concerto No 25, in C (K 503)

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A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad.
(Rptd: Christmas Eve 8.20 pm)

Part 2
Berlioz Overture: King Lear
1.38* Weill Symphony No 2

A Scandinavian programme THE FIRES OF LONDON
Mary Thomas (soprano) Judith Pearce (flute)
Alan Hacker (clarinet) Duncan Druce (viola)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) Stephen Pruslin (piano) Gary Kettel (percussion) director PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Sven-Erik Back Neither nor, for soprano, piano and percussion
Poul Ruders Three Letters from the Unknown Soldier, for piano
Karl Aage Rasmussen Cantata da camera, for voice, flute, viola and cello
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Plateaux pour deux, for cello and percussion
(first broadcast performances in this country)
Per Norgaard Spell, for clarinet, cello and piano

the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Berlioz Overture: The Corsair
3.34* Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody
3.51* Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2: records

by Palestrina, Byrd, Sweelinck. Lassus, Praetorius and Weelkes sung by the MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR conductor MARTINDALE SIDWELL

The best of present-day jazz on records.
Introduced by Charles Fox
(Stereo)

Today David Munrow Introduces bell music of many moods, from the playful sound of ' la campanella ' to the terror of Khachaturyan's second symphony

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Work and Training
6.30 Who Manages? 7: Review
The first of two discussions about the main topics arising from previous programmes.
7.0 Teaching Languages
5: What shall we do with the language lab?
PROFESSOR ERIC HAWKINS, BRIAN PAGE and DAVID SMITH discuss the use of the language lab and other teaching aids.

Berlioz's Trilogy (sung in French)

HARVARD GLEE CLUB
RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY director PROFESSOR ELLIOT FORBES
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
(Boston Symphony Orchestra Transcription Trust recording)

Three Englishmen who grew up in working-class society, in three different areas between 1920 and 1960, reflect on these worlds of their childhood in the light of today's world.
4: We Were All a Changed People
John Gorman talks about growing up in the East End in the 30s and 40s.

Part 2 The Flight into Egypt Part 3 The Arrival at Sais

Patric Dickinson introduces a study of four women poets of the 20th century.
Joan Miller reads Alice Meynell, Jill Balcon reads Charlotte Mew, Carole Boyd reads Edith Sitwell and Angela Pleasence reads Stevie Smith.
Also taking part Haydn Jones

Do women poets reveal different preoccupations, different sensibilities to those revealed by men? International Women's Year seems the right time to consider the question.
"Sometimes in the over-heated house, but not for long,
Smirking and speaking rather loud,
I see myself among the crowd,
Where no one fits the singer to his song"
(Charlotte Mew 1870-1928)

followed by an interlude

Two Cello Sonatas: No 1, in E minor, Op 38; No 2. in F, Op 99
ZARA NELSOVA (Cello)
GRANT JOHANNESEN (piano)

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