in differing contexts.... Last of six programmes Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8, 'fatto per la notte di Natale'
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (organ)
Bach Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Corelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 11 LA PETITE BANDE directed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN (violin) records

Friedrich Witt Symphony in c (the 'Jena'): MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MARC ANDREAE Chopin Barcarolle, Op 60 PHILIP GAMMON (piano) Wagner Wesendonk Lieder: JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Dvorak The Wild Dove,
Op 110: CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN records

Music Weekly visits Vienna, the capital of music?
Introduced by Michael Oliver
(Repeated: Mon 2.0 pm)

PETER DONOHOE (piano) CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader FEUX KOK conductor SIMON RATTLE Faure Pelleas et Melisande
Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 3, in D minor a display of magnificent pianism (THE TIMES)
12.25* Interval Reading
12.30* Stravinsky Petrushka (1947)
A BBC digital recording

VERMEER STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet in G major, Op 77 No I
Schubert Quartet in A minor (D 804)
A BBC digital recording

DAVID MASON
Debussy Preludes:
General Lavine - eccentric; La puerta del vino: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir; Les collines d'Anacapri
Percy Grainger Colonial Song; Shepherd's Hey
Falla Five pieces from 'El amor brujo'

Part 1 leader BELA DEKANY conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
Brahms Violin Concerto in D

Basil Greenhill , former Director of the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, reflects on some of the problems of the modern historical museum.

Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor (Given by Southend Music Club in association with Mobil Oil Company)

A series of four documentaries re-assessing the Welfare State.

Professor A.H. Halsey, Director of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of Oxford, examines the problems the recession created even for comparatively successful and affluent welfare states like Germany and Sweden. With little prospect of a return to the rates of growth of the 1950s and 60s, politicians and economists across Europe are asking whether we can afford to maintain high levels of social spending.

First of a centenary series Opera in three acts
Libretto by JOSEFA WENZIGA (sung in Czech)
A performance of Smetana's most nationalistic opera, set in the mists of Czech history, which celebrated the re-opening of Prague's National Theatre last November.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE PRAGUE NATIONAL
THEATRE, conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER
The action takes place in and near Vysehrad and Stadice, in Bohemia, in pagan times
Act 1: Scene 1: Libuse's apartment in the castle of Vysehrad; Scene 2: A courtyard of the castle (Czech Radio recording)

John Pemble , Lecturer in History at Bristol
University, reflects on the failure of the therapeutic promise of the Mediterranean, and the enduring success of Alpine sanatoria.

Act 2: Scene 1:
Mountainous countryside; Scene 2: Outside Premysl's farmhouse near Stadice
8.20* Interval Reading
8.30* Libuse
Act 3: Scene 1: Libuse's apartment in the castle of Vysehrad; Scene 2: The courtyard of the castle

'I was brought up in a culture where nothing was thrown away.'
EDUARDO PAOLOZZI draws his inspiration from the city, its ephemera, its machines and its detritus. In a conversation with Richard Cork , he reflects on his role as an urban artist who frequently works for public places. Producer JUDITH bumpus

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES RITA CULUS (soprano)
Balakirev Symphonic Poem: Russia
Bax Two Nocturnes for soprano and orchestra Korngold Sinfonietta