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as cellist and conductor Bach Suite No 3, in D
MARLBORO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
8.27* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor (mono): BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

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Strauss First Waltz Sequence (Der Rosenkavalier)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
9.18* Honegger A Christmas Cantata: PIERRE MOLLET (bar) CHOIRS and the SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.42* Messiaen Dieu parmi nous (La nativity du Seigneur) SIMON PRESTON (organ)
9.51* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2. in c minor (Little Russian)
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Sir George Smart: conductor, composer, pianist, organist, impresario - a musical octopus recalled by PERCY YOUNG .
Schubertiaden und Schubertianer: recollections of the musical evenings of Schubert and his friends.
Musicians and Oysters, by WILLIAM MANN.

conducted by KARL BOHM Part 1 Schubert
Symphony No 2, in B flat

Andrew Sinclair , the novelist and historian, reflects on some of the things we say< (Repeated: Wed 11.20 am)

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 2, in D
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)

Fourth of six programmm Piano Trio No 1 Five Madrigals Piano Trio No 2
TUNNELL PIANO TRIO BBC SINGERS conducted by KERRY WOODWARD

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Boxing Day 9.40 am)

A romantic opera in three acta Libretto by j. R. PLANCH É Music by Weber
An operatic pantomime In which Oberon conjures up an assault course of adventures to test the constancy of a pair of lovers. His magic horn goes with them from Baghdad to Tunis, from desert isle to court of Charlemagne.
An adaptation of a Bavarian Radio recording, with DAVID DAVIS narrating ELIZABETH FORBES 'S translation of the dialogue.
Time: around the year 806 The lovers:
CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF BAVARIAN RADIO, COndUCted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : Act 1
2.55* Interval Reading
3.0* Oberon Act 2

An imaginary conversation written by JOHN SPURLING.
The time: evening. 26 July 1794 The place: the Champs-Elysées The participants:
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Act 3

Professor John Fennell , who holds the Chair of Russian at Oxford, reflects on the insights into Vladimir Nabokov 's own writing which are contained in the author's criticism of Push-kin, Gogol and Chernyshevsky,

Cantata No 40: Dazu 1st erschienen der Sohn Gottes
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
MARTYN HILL (tenor), JOHN NOBLE (baritone), MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, leader NONA LIDDELL conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
(Cantata No 64: tomorrow
10.55 pm)

Legends, Op 59 Nos 1-5 LIZA FUCHSOVA and PAUL
HAMBURGER (piano duet) String Quartet in E, Op 80 ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET

Measure for Measure by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with Michael Gough. Philip Bond. Norman Rodway. Marian Diamond. Christopher Bidmead an1 Geoffrey Bayldon
Produced and directed by JANE MORGAN

The first of six programmes recorded at the new Schubert festival, given in the Austrian town of Hohenems in May tin Leben in Liedern: A Life in Song
Hermann Prey (baritone) accompanied by LEONARD HOKANSON (piano) Part 1
Schubert Der Pilgrim (D 794); Sehnsucht (D 636); Ganymed (D 544); Die Sterne (D 939); An die Leier (D 737); Der Blumenbrief (D 622); Alinde (D 904); Rastlose Liebe (D 138); Willkommen und Abschied (D 767)

George Watson , Fellow in English at St John's College. Cambridge, suggests that in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which began to appear in 1776, Gibbon offered a warning, in the fall of an empire, to the parliamentary institutions of modern states.

Part 2
An die Entfernte (D 765); Sehnsucht (D 879): 1m FrUhling (D 882); Uber Wildemann (D 884); Erster Verlust (D 226); Fahrt zum Hades (D 526); Totengrabers Heimwehe (D842); Schwanengesang (D744); Nachtstiick (D 672)
(Austrian Radio recording)

Carleton Hobbs reads excerpts from The Life and Martyrdom of Saint Wenceslas and his grandmother, Saint Ludmilla, said bo have been written in the tenth century by the monk Kristian of Prague. followed by an interlude

In his second retrospective look at 1976, Derek Jewell features tonight some of the year's most interesting popular sounds.
Among the featured artists are Mike Oldfield, Jon Anderson and Adelaide Hall (gramophone records)
(Sounds Interesting moves to Saturday evenings: New Year's Day 11.15 pm)