Kabalevsky Overture: colas Breugnon: BOSTON pops ORCHESTRA/JOHN WILLIAMS Pierne Aubade (mono) LEON GOOSSENS (oboe) GERALD MOORE (piano) Gossec Suite de Noel
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
AND CHORUS directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Poulenc Concert champetre
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by iona BROWN
Delibes Bell Song (Lakme) JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN/
FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
Chopin Three Waltzes, Op 70 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) anon (18th-century) Partita in c (Berchtesgardener Musik) SALZBURG CHILDREN'S ENSEMBLE
BRUND STEINSCHADEN Barrios La catedral
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)
Leopold Mozart Sinfonia pastorella in A
MICHEL GARCIN-MARROU (alp horn) LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE DU ROY/JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE
Martinu Ballet: Spalicek (Act 3, scenes 2-4): MIROSLAV KOPP (tenor) KANTILENA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
BRNO STATE PO/FRANTISEK JILEK records

Critics'Choice 1986
(Details on New Year's Eve 2.50pm)

Bruckner Aequale No 1; Libera me; Aequale No 2
COLIN SHEEN , ROGER BRENNER and PHILIP BROWN (trombones) OLGA HEGEDUS (cello)
THOMAS MARTIN (double-bass) JOHN SCOTT (organ)
CORYDON SINGERS/MATTHEW BEST Berlioz Symphonie funebre et triomphale, Op 15
MONTREAL SO AND CHORUS/ CHARLES DUTORR : records

GORDON FERGUS THOMPSON (piano) Toccata and Fugue in D minor;
Chorale Preludes: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr; Wachet auf, ruft uns die
Stimme; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen; Chaconne in D minor BBC Manchester

Ragtime and jazz, and their influence on classical composers
philip MARTIN (piano)
MICHAEL collins (clarinet) LONDON SINFONIETTA
Introduced and conducted by Elgar Howarth
Joplin The chrysanthemum rag; The entertainer rag
Ives In the inn (Theatre Orchestra Set)
Gershwin Rhapsody in blue (original jazz band scoring) Stravinsky Ebony Concerto, for clarinet and jazz band Richard Rodney Bennett
Saturday's child; Friday's child; Sunday's child (Jazz Calendar) (Given on 8 November in the Royal Festival Hall, London)

Mozart Quartet in E flat (K 428) Smetana Quartet No 2, in D minor
1.50* Interval Reading
1.55* Janacek Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
(East German Radio recording)

Ninth of 12 programmes Sonata in G (D 894) MARTINO TIRIMO

First of two programmes played by REINHARD JAUL Johannes Luython Fuga suavissima
Orlandus Lassus In me transierunt irae tuae
Christian Erbach Canzona secundi toni; Ricercar noni toni; Toccata septimi toni
(Given in 1985 as part of the 'Festwoche der Alien Musik Innsbruck) (Austrian Radio recording)

accompanied by Hartmut Holl in a 1986 recital of songs by Wolf to poems by EDUARD MÖRIKE.
Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; In der Fruhe; Fussreise;
Neue Liebe: Denk'es, o Seele!;
Der Feuerreiter; An den Schlaf; Um Mittemacht; Jagerlied; Storchenbotschaft
4.5* Interval Reading
4.10* Im Fruhling; Aufeiner Wanderung ; An die Geliebte; Peregrina I; Peregrina II;
Begegnung; Der Jager; Bei einer Trauung; Zur Warnung ; Abschied
(Austrian Radio recording)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

with Michael Billington
(Chairman), Christopher Cook , Richard Cork ,
Christopher Dunkley and Gillian Reynolds. In a special retrospective edition, five regular contributors to Critics' Forum discuss a novel, a television film, a movie, a radio play, a stage play and an exhibition that deal in different ways with international cultural exchange or confrontation, ranking among the very best work of the year. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Via crucis (1878) BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
THOMAS TROTTER (Organ) BBC Wales

Trio-Sonata in G minor, for oboe and violin; Trio-Sonata in D minor, for recorder and violin; Concerto in A minor, for recorder, oboe and violin
CHANDOS BAROQUE PLAYERS (R)

An opera in two acts based on "The Bacchae" by Euripides

Words and music by Egon Wellesz (sung in German)

Vienna Singakademie, Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Gulke

Act 1

Alistair Hetherington , a former editor to the Guardian, reflects on a handbook for the modem demagogue, Political
Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983

Act 2
(Austrian Radio recording)

An impression of Emily Dickinson (1830-86) taken from her poems, her letters and the music she played.
With Helen Horton as Emily
Devised by PETER DICKINSON , who also plays Emily's loved tunes on a Broadwood square piano. Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

No 17, in d minor, Op 31 No 2 No 18, in E flat, Op 31 No 3 played by John Lill
(Given on 14 November in the Barbican, London)

Fourth Test:
Australia v England
Commentary on play up to lunch on the third day
(Further commentary at 4.55 am)

Fourth Test
Australian England
Commentary on play after tea on the third day in Melbourne