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Second of three programmes
Fountains of Rome
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by 1STVAN KERTESZ
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Trittico Botticelliano
ACADEMY OF ST MARTlN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted hy NEVILLE MARRINER : records

Listeners' record requests Haydn Symphony No 101, in D (The Clock)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
Brahms Song of Destiny AMBROSIAN CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA. conducted by CLAUDlO ABBADO
Beethoven Concerto in c. for violin, piano, cello and orchestra
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, MARK ZBLTSER , YO YO MA
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Introduced by Michael Oliver
A song-composer in the opera house: WILLIAM MANN introduces Wolfs Dcr Corregidor.
ALAN BUSH - a conversation for his 80th birthday.
Musical gloves, centrally heated pianos and other aids for the pianist, by PATRICIA CARROLL. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
< Repeated on Christmas Eve at 2.10 pm)

directed by RONALD THOMAS (violin) JOHN DIGNEY (oboe)
Handel Overture: Esther Bach Concerto in D minor, for oboe, violin and strings (BWV 10601
Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 2

Tom Paulin (4)

Part 2
Tchaikovsky, arr Glazunov Souvenir d'un lieu cher. for violin and orchestra
Haydn Symphony No 103. in E flat (Drum-roll) BBC Bristol

Piano Quintet: MEDICI STRING QUARTET. With RICHARD MARKHAM(piano)

Danzi Quintet in G minor, Op 56 No 2
Seiber Permutations iRpt)

A music-drama in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German)
In the final part of Wagner's'Ring' cycle, Briinnhilde sends Siegfried off down the Rhine in search of new heroic deeds; but when he arrives in the world of men the curse, placed by the dwarf Alberich on those who own the Ring, takes its toll. Only when the hero is dead and Briinnhilde sacrifices herself on his funeral pyre is the curse lifted, the gold restored to nature and the world redeemed by love.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BAYREUTH FESTIVAL, chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ (Bavarian Radio recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival) Act 1

In a recent hook. The MacCrimmon Legend, the journalist Alistair Camp sie enraged some Scottish historians with his suggestion that the fame of the MacCrimmon family of pipers was a deliberate and comparatively recent hoax.
The writer and historian Ian Grimble takes issue with Alistair Campsies theory and gives his own account of the confused and confusing history of the MacCrimmons.

Act 2

by SHENAMACKAY, second prize winner in the Radio 3 Short Story Competition Read by Pauline Collins
Producer ALEC REID

Act 3

The storv of the unrequited love of Mary Ann Evans for Herbert Spen cer in the 1850s, before she became famous as George Eliot the novelist and he as a philosopher, compiled from their correspondence and presented by Gabriel Woolf with Maureen O'Brien as George Eliot
Herbert Spencer. ALAN ROWE John Chapman MARTYN READ Housekeeper JUDY FRANKLIN Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

played by RALPH MARKHAM and KENNETH BROADWAY Chopin Variations in D
Bizet Jeux d'enfants

A performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT , and framed by some of the Blake settings for voice and oboe. performed hy IAN PARTRIDGE and JANET CRAXTON : records

by DAVID BUCK A three-part version of the English
Mystery plays with and Part 1: Creation
In which Lucifer is driven into Hell; Paradise is lost; Cain murders Abel; Noah survives the flood; Abraham obevs God: and Joseph disbelieves the Virgin birth.
Good angels, bad angels
DANNY SCHILLER , MARTIN FRIEND , LEONARD FENTON JOHN BULL. ROGER HAMMOND Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Adagio and Allegro in F minor (k 5941: HERBERT TACHEZI (organ): record

conductor JOHN POOLE
Schumann An die Sterne Wolf Einklang (Geistliche Lieder)