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Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
7.12* Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI
7.27* Schumann Symphony No 1, in B flat (Spring): BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : records

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F: STUTTGART SOLOISTS conducted by MARCEL COURAUD
8.27* Beethoven Variations on Bei Mannern from Mozart's Die Zauberflote (mono) PABLO CASALS (cello)
ALFRED CORTOT (piano)
8.37* Reger Ballet Suite: BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA, COnductedbyoTMARSuiTNER: records

Throughout an operatic career that spanned more than 50 years (from 1839 to 1893) Verdi developed virtually single-handed an operatic language in which the drama is carried by, yet gives form to, the melody. His music embodies human emotion to an extent achieved by few other theatre composers. This week's programmes present a selection of music from his early operas as well as extended excerpts from La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra and Falstaff.
Today: music from Oberto, Nabucco, I Lombardi and Ernani including the voices of TITO GOBBI, ELENA SULIOTIS, SYLVIA SASS, CARLO BERGONZI and LEONTYNE PRICE: records

for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim sets off with a programme for the youngest listeners.

Fifth of six programmes GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat, Op 44 No 3
Tippett Quartet No 2

Antony Hopkins

Mass in c minor (K 427) KRISZTINA LAKI (soprano)
CHRISTINE WEIDINGER (soprano) ADALBERT KRAUS (tenor)
ERNST GEROLD SCHRAMM (baSS)
CHORUS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE
FRIENDS OF MUSIC
RUDOLF SCHOLZ (organ continuo) AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor JERZY SEMKOW (Austrian Radio recording)

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Edith Vogel (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E minor, Op 90
Schubert Sonata in c minor (d 958)
(Tickets: 90p at the door)

A programme of organ music to mark the first anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten on 4 December 1976.
Stephen Cleobury , at the organ of Westminster Abbey, plays Britten's only organ work, pieces by two of his teachers, a work dedicated to him on his 60th birthday, and a work specially written for his memorial service by the Master of the Queen's Music.
Britten Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Victoria
Bridge Allegretto grazioso Richard Rodney Bennett Alba Ireland Villanella (Miniature
Suite)
Williamson Homage to Britten

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTHONY RANDALL
Music by Mendelssohn, Ravel, Delibes, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rossini

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
ANNE DIENER GILES (flute) PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) ZITA CARNO (harpsichord)
MEMBERS OF TNE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Mahler Verlorne Miih '; Trost im Ungluck; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Das irdische Leben; Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Brahms Symphony No 1, in c minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM

HAMMONDS SAUCE WORKS BAND conductor GEOFFREY WHITHAM
Eric Ball Tone Poem: Resurgam
Gilbert Vinter Triumphant Rhapsody. BBC Manchester

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL with artists on records

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Home and Family
6.30 Running a Home 7: Do-it-yourself
Does home handiwork require expensive and complicated tools? Which jobs are within reach of the beginner?
Presented by IRENE WYNDHAM
7.0 The School Years
Introduced by ANNE JONES 7: The Search for Identity
What kind of learning experiences does the adolescent need to develop a strong sense of identity?

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in c minor, Op 111: record

at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Barbican
The second of four concerts of 20th-century music.
PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (soprano) MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) BELA DEKANY (violin) HARRY DANKS (viola) ROSS pople (cello)
SIDNEY DENBIN (Cello)
MURIEL DANIELS (cello) HILARY JONES (cello) DAVID BUTT (flute)
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet)
ROGER FALLOWS (e flat clarinet)
ANTHONY JENNINGS (bass clarinet)
ANTON WEINBERG
(tenor saxophone)
WILHELM BRUCK (guitar) SYDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) HAROLD LESTER
(piano, celesta and organ)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE
MEMBERS OF THE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Hans Zender Henze Being Beauteous
Zender Muji No Kyo (UK premiere)
8.35* Introduction by Jonathan Harvey to works of Webern.
8.55* Webern Enflieht auf leichten Kahnen, Op 2
Three sacred folk songs, Op 17 Three songs. Op 18 Quartet, Op 22
Two choral songs. Op 19
(Given before an invited audience on 14 November)

Four talks by Christopher Thorne
2: Britain, the United States and the Future of the Western
Empires in Asia
For many Americans, including Roosevelt, Britain's Empire in Asia was something to be, not preserved, but dismembered.

First of 28 programmes showing the pervasive influence of Plainsong on the development of European music.
Devised and introduced by Basil Lam It is all too easy to conceive of Plainsong purely as a lingering relic of medieval church music. Basil Lam argues that, far from this being the case, the ascendancy of Western music was built on the perfecting of the style of Gregorian chant, and that. quite apart from its great historical significance, it can appeal as pure music in the same way as later examples of the art.
The first programme includes chants for Holy Week and the Feast of Christmas sung by the MEN OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR, directed by COLIN MAWBY (Repeated: Man 13 December, morning; 19 Dec)

SYLVIA ROSENBERG (violin) MICHAEL ISADOR (piano)
Schubert Sonatina in G minor (D 408)
Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 302)
Bach Sonata in c minor (Bwv 1017)