MAYUMI FUJIKAWA (violin) BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader
CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
7.14* Mozart Violin Concerto No 2, in D (K 211)
7.15* Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued)
Arensky Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky
8.20* Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition. BBC Wales

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
' It is desirable that there should be found for the stage a musician who has studied Nature before painting her and who, through his learning, knows how to choose colours and shades which his mind and taste make him associate with the required expressions.'
(RAIIEAU)
This week's programmes are all based on the various kinds of music Rameau wrote for the theatre. Excerpts from Les Indes Galantes (Opéra-ballet, 1735): SOLOISTS, RAPHAEL PASSAQUET VOCAL ENSEMBLE, Li GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE du ROY, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE gramophone record

In this series of 13 programmes the singer Nigel Douglas presents recordings of some of his favourite singers.
7: Tito Gobbi
(first broadcast on R4 UK)

ROSEMARIE WRIGHT (piano) Haydn Sonata in D major (H xvi 51); Fantasy in c Weber Sonata No 4, in E minor

A concert to celebrate'the restoration of the organ at St Margaret's, Westminster, London
SIMON PRESTON (organ)
PATRICIA HOOPER (soprano) JULIAN CLARKSON (alto) ROBERT CHILCOTT (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) ST MARGARET 'S
WESTMINSTER SINGERS
RICHARD HICKOX ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE conducted by RICHARD HICKOX
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
Poulenc Organ Concerto Elgar Sospiri
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* Choral and Orchestra! Music
Part 2 Faure Requiem
(A public concert gircn on 16 January in St Margaret's Church)

direct from St John 's, Smith Square. London
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Iona Brown
Purcell Chaconne in G minor
Stravinsky Apollon musagete
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G major
(Tickets £1.10 available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: Thurs 9.40 pm)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Weber Overture; Euryanthe.
Schubert Entr'acte in B flat (Rosamunde)
Anthony Burgess Movements from the ballet: Mr W.S. (first performance)
Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile
Glazunov Concert -Waltz No 1, in D
Alan Langford Three Amusements i More excerpts from ' Mr W.S. ': 26 November)

played by Roy Massey in Hereford Cathedral

Francis Jackson Toccata, Chorale and Fugue in B minor

Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre (Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes)

Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor (bwv 544)

BBC Birmingham

Mozart Serenade No 11. in E flat (K 375)
NEW PHILHARMONIA WIND
ENSEMBLE conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
Mahler Symphony No 5, in c sharp minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEBT

A two-part sequence of music for early evening.
5.45-5.51 News

Presented by Jack Brymer Green and Pleasant
English orchestral music JOHN FLETCHER (tuba)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Sullivan Overture di Ballo Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto in F minor Bax Summer Music

(cello)
Beethoven Variations on a theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
WILIIELM KEMPFF (piano) Poulenc Sonata
JACQUES FÉVRIER (piano) Gramophone records

The dramatic Soviet arms build-up of recent years has led to growing fears in the West about the strategic balance and to doubt about the effectiveness of the American deterrent. As part of an effort to counter this Soviet threat, European members of the Atlantic Alliance must soon decide whether to allow modernised theatre nuclear weapons to be based on their territory.

Laurence Martin, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and former Professor of War Studies, King's College, London, examines the factors influencing this important decision.

Opera in two acts Music by Minoru Mikl
Libretto by JAMES KIRKUP from the story by OTOKICHI MIKAMI
A recording of the world premiere production of this opera commissioned by the English Music Theatre Company and performed by them at tile Old Vic last month.
Set in 18th-century Japan, the opera tells the story of Yukinojo. a famous actor, and the revenge he exacts on the three men responsible for the death of his parents.
Colin Graham introduces the performance
Cast in order of singing:
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE CHORUS
Japanese instrumentalists: KEtKO NOSAKA (koto)
SANAE IMAFUJI (shamisen) AKIKUNI TAKAHASHI
(tsuzumi, ko-tsuzumi and percussion)
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE ORCHESTRA loader STEPHEN ROWLINSON conductor STEUART BEDFORD The scene is set in 18th-century Edo (Tokyo) Act I
9.50* Interval Reading
10.0* An Actor's' Revenge Act 2

Introduced by Charles Fox
BOB DOWNES ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Bob Downes
(saxes, flutes, vocal) Paul Rutherford (trombone)
Brian Godding (guitar)
Paul Bridge (double-bass) Denis Smith (drums)