Dvorak Overture:
Carnival
RLPO/LiborPesek
7.09 Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
Berlin PO/Rostropovich

7.35 Liszt Symphonic poem: Mazeppa
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra/Kurt Masur
7.51 Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Howard Shelley (piano); Royal Scottish Orchestra/Thomson
8.15 Brahms Academic
Festival Overture
Vienna PO/Bernstein
Records. Producer Peter Tanner

in G; Symphony No 86 in D Orch of the 18th Century/ Frans Briiggen. Records

with Anthony Burton. Record Review
Building a Library:
Schutz's Christmas Story by George Pratt. Richard Wigmore ends his Mozart marathon with the Philips Complete Mozart Edition.
10.40 Record Release
Mozart Quartet Fragment in A (KA 72)
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
10.50 Gottschalk
La Manchega; Le
Mancenillier; El Cocoye Georges Rabol (piano)
11.09 Gabrieli Christmas
Motets: Taverner Consort, Choir and Players/Parrott
11.27 Moszkowski Piano
Concerto in E: Piers Lane
Scottish SO/
Jerzy Maksymiuk
12.06 Mozart Incidental music: Thamos, Kingof Egypt (K 345): Soloists Berlin Radio Choir
Berlin Staatskapelle/Klee Records. Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(Record Review is repeated on Boxing Day at 2.00pm)

First of four programmes with Rachel Trickett.

Mahler, compl Schnittke Piano Quartet in A minor Schubert Piano Quintet in A (D667) (Trout)

BBC Welsh SO conductor Marissjansons Mikhail Rudy (piano) Rossini Overture:
William Tell
Ravel Concerto in D for piano and orchestra (Left Hand)
Strauss An Alpine Symphony
(In association with Barclays Bank pic)

(piano)
Rachmaninov Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32
No 12; Moments Musicaux, Op 16: No 3 in B minor; No 4 in E minor

David Hill, organist of Winchester Cathedral, and members of the Cathedral choir talk to Chris de Souza as they prepare for
Christmas. With seasonal music by Byrd, Weelkes, Howells and Mathias. David Dunnett (organ). Producer Michael Emery

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Andrew Mussett

Six further ups and downs in the comic life of a second-class writer, by Ronald Hayman. With Tim Pigott-Smith asWoodhouse.
1: Kiss My Hand,
Iris Woodhouse continues his fruitless search for literary fame and fortune.
Director Paul Schlesinger
(Part 2 on Monday 7.05pm. Cast and details on page 160)

First of two programmes in which Colin Stone plays Prokofiev's own piano transcriptions of his theatre music.
March and Scherzo (The Lovefor Three Oranges); Ten pieces from Romeo andjuliet

Johann Mattheson
Sonata No 1 in D; Sonata No 8 in B minor

Johann Strauss 's operetta in three acts.
Libretto by Haffner and Genee after Meilhac and Hale vy. Live from the London Coliseum.
(Sung in English)
(sop)(bass) (soprano) (bass) (mezzo-soprano) (bass)(tenor) (soprano)
Orchestra and Chorus of English National Opera conductor Adam Fischer
8.20 How to Make an Apple Strudel with Fenella Fielding.
8.40 Act 2
9.35 What to Do with Last
Night's Leftovers with Fenella Fielding.
9.55 Act

The Language of the Genes
Final talk by Dr Steve Jones , Reader in Genetics at
University College, London. The Evolution of Utopia With abortion now available for foetuses carrying abnormal genes, and gene therapy for people suffering from inherited diseases, is there a danger of producing a biological Utopia?

Metamorphosen - New Stockholm CO/Esa-Pekka Salonen.

(records)

First of two programmes. Nativity songs from the 13th and 14th centuries, performed by Sinfonye.
(Secondprogtomorrow 11.3Opm)