First programme in a series which will include all of Mendelssohn's string quartets, together with sonatas for piano, violin and cello, and the two piano trios.

Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 105 (1821) CHRISTIAN VIVALDI
8.20* String Quartet In B flat (1823) BARTHOLDY QUARTET
8.45* Fantasia in F# minor, Op 28 (Sonale écossaise): BRANKA MUSULIN (piano):
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(Another Mendelssohn quartet: Boxing Day 7.20 pm)

Listeners' record requests Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.20* Schumann Piano Concerto In A minor (mono) DINU LIPATTI, PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAM
9.58* Pascha Christmas Mass, in F: SOLOISTS
PRAGUE MADRIGAL SINGERS conducted by MIROSLAV VENHODA

Introduced by Michael Oliver carol, n.: joyous song, warbling, Christmas hymn: DAVID FALLOWS goes beyond the dictionary definition.
JULIAN. BREAM In conversation.
A peal of Christmas (and other) bells from PATRICIA CARROLL at the pianoforte. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWrCK

First of three programmes today with his last three symphonies and other music composed at about the same time.
Piano Trio In I (K 542) (mono): MARLBORO TRIO
Symphony No 39, in E fiat (K 543): VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg festival)

Franz Danzi Wind Quintet In E minor, Op 67 No 2
Wilfred Josephs Wind Quintet, Op 102
Milhaud La cheminée du Roi RenS

The First Ten Years
Bach Suite No 3. In e major (Bwv 1009); Suite No 6, in D major EWV 1012)
PIERRE FOURNIER (Cello)
(First broadcast on M January 1970)

Opera In three scenes
Libretto based on a Christmas play Of MARGARET KEMP-WELCH and CONSTANCE COTTERELL
Music by Frank Bridge
Bridge's only opera was sketched In 1919 and revised and orchestrated in 1929. It tells how two children of the Biblical Shepherds reach the Christ-child's manger.
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
CHORALE, chorus-master
JULIAN SMITH, BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN conducted by GUY WOOLFENDEN
Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA

Last of seven concerts at Brunei University DELME STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1
Martinu Quartet No 7 (Concerto da Camera) (1947)
Haydn Quartet in F major, Op 77 No 2

(baritone)
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) Mendelssohn An die Entfernte; Nachtlied; Auf der Wanderschaft; Altdeutsches Friihlingslied Pfitzner 1st der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau?: Hast du von den Fischerkindern; Zum Abschicd meiner Tochter; Nachts Mahler Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt: Lob des hohen Verstandes
(Austrian Radio recording from this uear's Salzburg Fcstital)

Second programme
Piano Trio in c major (K 548) (mono)
Symphony No 40, In a minor (K 550)
(artists as at 11.20 am) (Final prog; 9.10 pm)

Basil Deane
(Fri 7.10 pm: Fritz Spiefll )

BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor
STEPHEN WILKINSON
Richard Rodney Bennett Five Carols
Hugo Distler Die Weih nachtsgeschichte (first broadcast in this country) Peter Aston Four Carols

A commentary on the life and work of the man whom many consider the greatest living English writer, with contributions from Anthony Burgess, John Le Carre, Sir Hugh Greene, Michael Meyer, Dilys Powell, V.S. Pritchett, Sir Ralph Richardson, Paul Theroux and Graham Greene himself.
Readings by Paul Rogers
Edited and presented by Philip French

"Full and fascinating portrait" (Financial Times)
"What a fine job they do of it... highly recommended" (Time Out)

Kinderscenen DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) gramophone record

An exploration into the of the Incarnation by The Rev Richard Holloway, Rector of Old St Pauls, Edinburgh.

BBC Manchester

Final programme piano Sonata in c (k 545)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA Sonata in F, for violin and piano (K 547)
WILLI BOSKOVSKY , LILI KRAUS gramophone records)
Symphony No 41, in c (Jupiter) (K 551): VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BORM (Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)

another programme nf monologues by the groat French farceur Georges Feydeau. translated for the first time into English by PETER MEYER and surrounded by music of he neriod: so creating the atmosphere of the Grand Salons of Paris at winch they were first performed at the end of the last century,
1: All for Reform performed by John Moffatt
2: The Schoolboy performed by Richard Gibson
3 A Member of the Jury performed by Timothy West Saint-Saëns, Music by Saint-Saëns. Damaré and Chabrier
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Chamber music and songs Piano Quartet in E minor, Op 16 (first broadcast performance)
Songs: Looking back: Autumn song; Rain; After-day From afar; A gift of silence: My captain
String Quartet No 4 ( first broadcast performance; ALBERNI QUARTET
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano) PETER SAVIDGE (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Introduced by RONALD CORP