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Rossini String Sonata No 4, in B flat: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.18* Florentine Music: anon Quan je voy le duc
Landini Cara mie donna ; La bionda treccia
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW
7.26* Vivaldi Concerto in F, for flute and strings, Op 10 No 1 (La tempesta di mare)
SEVERINO GAZZELLONI, 1 MUSICI
7.33* Respighi Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome: CLEVE-LAND ORCHESTRA, conducted by LORIN MAAZEL : records

Beethoven Overture: King Ste. phen: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.13* Brahms Violin Concerto in D: ITZHAK PERLMAN , CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI : records

Prokofiev
Suite: Winter Bonfire
PRAGUE RADIO CHILDREN'S CHORUS
PRAGUE RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALOIS KLIMA
9.24* Piano Concerto No 2, in G minor: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COnducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN: records

for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim with a Christmas Quiz - so have your pencils ready.

The English Bach Festival this year marked the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death with a concert of two of his major orchestral works, played on instruments of his time.
COLLEGIUM AUREUM director FRANZJOSEF MAIER
(Violin), ANNER BYLSMA (cello) PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano)
Triple Concerto in c major
11.0* Interval Reading
11.5* Beethoven Part 2
Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)

HUNGARIAN RADIO CHOIR conducted by JOZSEF MAKLART
Three Peasant Songs: Old Folks; Evening Song; The Gypsy eats curd
(Hungarian Radio recording)

conducted by SIMON RATTLE with RALPH HOLMES (violin)
Part 1 Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1

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Part 2 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2, in E minor BBC Scotland

by Chabrier, Delibes, Grieg, Millocker, Offenbach and Coleridge-Taylor

given by GERARD RIBEIRO with CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) Ravel Tzigane
Paganini Caprices, Op 1: No 1. in E; No 19, in E flat Franck Sonata in A
Sarasate Zigeunerweisen , Op 20

leader ELI GOREN conducted by ALBERTO EREDE
Rossini Overture: Semiramide Luigi Cortese Fantasia
Haydn Symphony No 82, in c major (The Bear)

Clare Lawson Dick, former Controller of Radio 4, recalls personal memories of the BBC when she joined in 1935. 'In the entrance hall at Broadcasting House in London there's a large granite statue called The Sower and the inscription "Deus Incrementum Dat" was still translated "Sir John Reith gives you your annual increment".'

conducted by JOHN POOLE in music by Faur6 and Poulenc

Benny Carter , composer/arranger and bandleader, who in his time has mastered seven instruments, although he is best-known for his alto playing, talks to Charles Fox about his career in jazz, with illustrations.

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN , conducted by VOLKER WANGENHEIM with JANET PRICE (soprano)
Beethoven Overture and Incidental Music (Egmont)
Mozart Recitative and Rondo: A questo seno deh vieni (K 374)

1: Wartime
Kenneth Clark 's autobiography has as its subtitle A Self-Portrait. In its pages he writes frankly and disarmingly about himself and his friends. In the first of a series of instalments from the recently published second volume, The Other Half, Lord Clark recounts among other things how the National Gallery collection was found a safe hiding-place during the Second World War.
Adapted by BARRY CARMAN

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 3, in r
(A public concert given in the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, on 3 March) BBC Bristol

Anthony Thwaite presents a programme of poetry written for the Queen's Silver Jubilee Poems by FLEUR ADCOCK , PAT RICIA BEER, CHARLES CAUSLEY , DONALD DAVIE , GAVIN EWART , ROY FULLER , JOHN HEATH-STUBBS , ELIZABETH JENNINGS , C. H. SISSON and CHARLES TOMLINSON
Readers FRANCES HOROWITZ and GABRIEL WOOLF. Producer FRASER STEEL. BBC Manchester

Tenth of 27 programmes BALINT VAZSONYI (piano)
Haydn Sonata in B flat (H XVI 18) Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 54; Sonata in E minor, Op 90

A Moorside Suite: GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND, conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH : record

The Chorales for Advent, Christmas and the New Year sung by the ST ANDREWS UNIVER SITY CHAPEL CHOIR, master of music CEDRIC THORPE DAVIE
The Chorale Preludes played by GERAINT JONES (organ)
Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland; Gottes Sohn ist kommen; Herr Christ , der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn;Lobseidemallmachtigen Gott; Puer natus in Bethlehem; Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ ; Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich; Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her; Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar; In dulci jubilo; Lobt Gott , ihr Christen, allzugleich; Jesu, meine Freude; Christum wir sollen loben schon; Wir Christ enleut'; Helft mir Gottes Giite preisen; Das alte Jahr vergangen ist; In dir 1st Freude; Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin; Herr Gott , nun schleuss den Himmel auf
(Given in the Chapel, University of St Andrews)

4: 17th Century
Tonight the madrigale spirituale of C1620: Ach Herr, du Schopfer alter Ding, by Heinrich Schiitz, is sung by the choir that bears his name, under the direction of Roger Norrington : record