Rimsky-Korsakov Polon aise (Suite: Christmas Eve): PHILADELPHIA
ORCHESTRA. conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Berlioz Shepherds' farewell (L'enfance du Christ) ST ANTHONY SINGERS
GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS Corelli Concerto Grosso in c minor, Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Night)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
John Rutter Shepherd 's Pipe Carol: THE BACH CHOIR RICHARD POPPLEWELL
(organ), conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
Hely-Hulchinson Carol Symphony: PRO ARTE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BARRY ROSE : records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Schumann's Piano Concerto in a minor, by JEREMY SIEP-MANN.
New choral records, including Christmas releases, reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Some of the new records reviewed earlier this morning by Gordon Rey nolds, including Carols and Dances from Renai-s-sance Spain with the LANDINI CONSORT and Haydn's Four Pieces for Mechanical Clock played on the organ by JOHN SCOTT.

First of two programmes BBC SINGERS, conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
ROGER VIGNOLES 4piano)
AMERAL (;UNSON (contralto) Gott in der Natur: Drei Gesange, Op 64 iWehmut: Ewige Liebe; Flucht); Der Gondelfahrer: Coronach; Ständchen. Op 135 (

Symphony No 8. In C minor <ed Nowak)
TONHALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Recording from the 1978 Zurich Festival made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
(Haas edition: Fri 9.25)

(piano)
Chopin 24 Preludes. Op 28 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 13. in A minor

The Most Rev Metropoli tan Anthony of Sourozh. Head of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church in Britain, talks about his work among the Orthodox community. and introduces his favourite choice of music: records

On 2 May 1952 WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER conducted the BERUN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, in a concert at the Deutsches Museum. Munich. The occasion included a performance of Brahms' Second Symphony that has come to be regarded as a classic example of Furtwangler's art: record

Louis Halsey Singers conductor Louis Halsey
Stephen Hicks (Organ)

British choral music, most of it for Christmas, all of it commissioned or first performed by the Singers over the last 11 years.

Peter Aston Four Carols
Gregory Rose It's snowing
Peter Racine Fricker Mira bilem misterium
John Joubert Nowell
Bernard Naylor Missa sine Credo
arr Nicholas Maw The Angel Gabriel
Richard Rodney Bennett Flower Carol
John Paynter The Rose
Ian Kellam Goday, Sire Christemas

(Recorded at St Giles, Cripplegate, London)
(Stereo)

with Peter Claytoa

John Spurling (in the Chair), talks with Richard Mayne. Clancy Sigal and Marina Vaizey Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Tchaikovsky orch Gauk The Seasons: December (Yuletide); January (By the fireside) February (Butter-week)
6.48* Symphony No 1, in <; minor (Winter Daydreams): USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV : records

It is now 30 years since Whittaker Chambers named Alger Hiss as a fellow Communist conspirator before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Esmond Wright. Director of the Institute of us Studies and Professor of American History at London University, reviews the affair and its consequences in the light of Allen Weinstein 's book Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case.

(Die Dreigroschenoper)
A play with music in a Prologue and Three Acts, after The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
Words by Bertolt Brecht Music by Kurt Weill
English translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, conducted by Marcus Dods

Brecht and Weill wrote their updated version of The Beggar's Opera in 1928 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Gay's original. Now, 50 years on, the BBC marks the birth of this most famous product of their collaboration.

Starring in alphabetical order:
Sarah Badel. Paul Benlley Harold Kasket Julia McKenzie Johanna Peters
Peter Pratt. Jan Waters
Polly's songs sung by ELAINE PADMORE
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Coach NEIL RHODEN
Technical presentation PETER NOVIS, MARTIN PAGE, PETER SIDHOM.
Produced and directed by IAN COTTERELL and ELAINE PADMORE

Act 1
(Julia McKenzie is in 'Ten Times Table' at the Globe Theatre, London)

9.0* The Anecdotes of Mr Keuner. John Hollis reads extracts from Bertolt Brecht's Tales from the Calendar, translated by YVONNE KAPP.

9.5* The Threepenny Opera. Act 2

9.55* More Anecdotes of Mr Keuner

10.0* The Threepenny Opera. Act 3

Of all the new artists to emerge in 1978. Kate Bush was perhaps the most fascinating. Now she rounds off the year with a new album Lionheart from which Derek Jewell plays tonight. Plus the songs of Billy Joel, an extract from Mike Oldfield's long composition Incantations, and music by Mark-Almond and Emerson Lake and Palmer.

(records)

Im Walde (Windesrau.schen): JILL GOMEZ (sop) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)