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Arrangements, adaptations and transcriptions of music by Rossini
Johann Strauss Sperl Galop
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.7* Chopin, arr Galway Variations on a theme from La Cenerentola .JAMES GALWAY (flute)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT
8.12* Thalberg Fantasy on The Barber of Seville
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL (piano)
8.24* transc Wenzel Sedlak Overture: Corradino
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE
8.34* Paganini, arr Tortelier Variations on a theme from
Moses PAUL TORTELIER , MAUD
MARTIN-TORTELIER (Cellos) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by PAUL TORTELIER
8.43* Britten Soirees musicales
PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT IRVING gramophone records

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1. by Bryce Morrison.
New opera records, reviewed by Charles Osborne

(Bryce Morrison's recommended version of Liszt's First Piano Concerto can be heard in full on Thursday at 10.20 pm)
(Stereo)

Handel Parthenope (Act 3. Scenes 1-3) LA PETITE BANDE conducted by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN
Debussy Pellets ct Melisande (Act 4)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

INTERNATIONAL STAFF BAND OF THE SALVATION ARMY conductor
LT-COL RAY BOWES
Ralph Pearce March: The Caledonian
Leslie Condon Faith Reborn
Ray Bowes We three kings Leslie Condon God rest you merry gentlemen
Ray Steadman-Allen The Battle Hymn of the Republic

John Amis presents a weekly selection of classics on record.
(John Amis is one of the panellists in the Christmas Day Music Quiz at 8.0 pm)

(cello)
Yitkln Seow (piano)
Beethoven Variations on Ein Madchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's The Magic Flute
Brahms Sonata in E minor, Op 38
Martinu Variations on a theme of Rossini
BBC Bristol

Stephen Plaistow introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
(The next programme will be in two weeks' time; Robert Layton will be presenting a preview of his selection on Friday 4 January at 7.25 pm)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week:
Philip Oakes (in the Chair), talks with Owen Dudley Edwards, Stuart Hood and Marina Warner

This week's subjects: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul; Stewart Parker's Radio 3 play The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner; Francis Coppola 's film Apocalypse Now; Photography in Printmaking at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the National Theatre revival of Ibsen's The Wild Duck.

(The Connoisseurship of Photography: Christmas Day 5.20 pm)

(violin)
James Tocco (piano)
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 454)
Beethoven Sonata In c minor, Op 30 No 2
(South German Radio recording from the 1979 Schwetzingen Festival)

Opera in a prologue and one act, continuing Radio 3's complete cycle of operas by Richard Strauss Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
(sung in German: records) Cast:
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM

Ripples in Ever-Spreading Circles
Last of four talks by Alexander Goehr in which he examines the phenomenon of modern music. now established for some 60 years-along with an international society to serve its cause - and gives a personal assessment of its current condition.

(Die agyptische Helena: 10 February)

(Stereo)

The British debut recital of the young Russian who won first prize at the 1978 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Part 1
Bach Partita No 6. in E minor (BWV 830)
Beethoven Sonata in c minor, Op 111

'Irving imitates nature - up to a point. But he goes beyond nature into convention, exaggerated gestures and mannerisms.'
In a recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Edward Gordon Craig describes a meeting with the Italian tragic actor, Tommaso Salvini.

Part 2 Prokofiev
Sonata No 7. in B flat
(A public concert given in March in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)