This week's concerts include many of the most popular works for string orchestra
Gustav Holst St Paul 's Suite
LNGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
7.18* Samuel Barber
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op 23a NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
7.31* Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat ERIC PARKIN LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.0 News
8.5 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.21* Ravel Sonatine
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano)
8.32* Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE

Debussy
The programmes concentrate on works from the beginning and end of Debussy's career. Printemps
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Cantata: L'Enfant prodigue (mono)
MADELEINE GORGE (SOpranO) HENRI LEGAY (tenor)
BERNARD COTTRET (bass) CHAMPS-ELYSEES THEATRE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DESIRE-EM1LE INGHELBRECHT gramophone records

Zemlinsky's trio was composed in 1895, two years before the death of Brahms, who recommended its publication.
THEA KING (clarinet)
CHARLES TUNNELL (cello) SUSAN TUNNELL (piano)
Zemlinsky Trio , Op 3 (first broadcast performance) Brahms Trio in A minor, Op 114

(1681-1767)
As a postscript to the series Georg Philipp
Telemann, THE PARLEY or INSTRUMENTS, directed by ROY GOODMAN and MARK CAUDLE , plays rarely-heard chamber music. Suite in D; Concerto in c; Sonata in F minor

leader BARRY WILDE conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
ROGER WINFIELD (obOe)
Mozart Symphony No 12, in G (K 110)
Graham Whettam
Hymnos, for strings Wolf-Ferrari Idilliocoheertino in A major Finzi Suite: Love's Labour's Lost
BBC Manchester

direct from St John 's Smith Square. London Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
Lutoslawski Variations on a theme of Paganini
Ravel Suite: Ma mere l'oye (Mother Goose)
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel
David Morgan Music for Children
Eric Coates Fantasy: The Three Bears
Geoffrey Bush Natus est Emmanuel
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite
Gilbert Vinter Christmas Sinfonietta

Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1
ORLANDO QUARTET
Mahler Symphony No 7 LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT

JUDITH PEARCE and PETER PETTINGER
Dutilleux Sonatine
Ibert Piece, for flute
Faurf Nocturne in D flat major, Op 63, for piano Martin Ballade

String Quartet No 1, in B minor. Op 50
CHIUNGIRIAN QUARTET

The first of four programmes in which Roger Savage explores Purcell's involvement with the principal London theatres at Drury Lane and Dorset Garden during the last five years of his life, from 1690 to 1695. An Orange or an Assignation: Theatres and Audiences: the composer and the poet, act-tunes and ' musicks ' with Anna Barry , Nigel Anthony and Clive Swift gramophone records
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

The art of Christa Wolf
When Christa Wolf 's novel The Quest for Christa T was published in East
Germany in 1968, it was denounced by the Writers' Congress as ' a pessimistic attempt to replace Marx with Freud '. Joyce Crick , lecturer in German at University
College, London. reflects that Christa Wolf explores depths of the inner life unknown in the orthodox socialist novel, and that she sets ' a feminine affirmation of love and imagination against the dogmatic efficiency of the totally administered state '.
Reader Barbara Jefford Producer
CATHERINE WEARING

with ALDO PARISOT (cello) Cherubini Overture: Medea
Hindemith Cello Concerto (1940)

Last of four programmes What is hellf Hell is oneself.
Hell alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. (T. s. ELIOT) A personal consideration of the traditional images of heaven and hell by the theologian and poet, John Bowker.
Series producer
DAVID CRAIG : BBC Manchester

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 7, in c (Voice of America recording of a concert given in 1960 in Carnegie Hall)

Richard Steinitz introduces the third of four programmes of American music
LONTANO Karen Jensen (soprano) Ingrid Culliford (flutes) Frances Kelly (harp)
James Wood (percussion) Peter Buckoke (double-bass) directed by ODALINE DE LA MARTINEZ
George Crumb Madrigals , Books I-IV
(' Final Alice by David Del Tredici : 29 December
9.45 pm)

Introduced by Charles Fox LOUIS MOHOLO UNIT
Frank Wright (tenor sax) Trevor Watts (alto sax) Harry Miller (bass)
Louis Moholo (drums) Nana Tsiboe
(African percussion)

Bloch Three Nocturnes (1924)
NIEUW AMSTERDAM TRIO gramophone record