with Paul Guinery.
7.03 Mozart
Piano Sonata in A (K331) Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
7.25 Reger
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Wilfried Boettcher
8.00 The Great Thanksgiving The second instalment in a survey of the music of the Mass. Today, Maronite chant, and a Coptic Christmas with Rev Alan Walker
8.25 Mozart Overture: Don
Giovanni
Ulster Orchestra/Boettcher
8.35 Bach Prelude and Fugue in A (BWV 536) Peter Hurford (organ)
8.45 Wagner Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Wilfried Boettcher
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Violinist Julian Gregory , who presents The Music
Machine this week, takes an individual look ahead at the coming week's programmes on Radio 3.

Ponchielli Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini
9.13 Artist of the Week:
Tasmin Little (violin)
Kreisler Prelude and Allegro in the style of Pugnani Piers Lane (piano)
9.20 Composer of the Week: Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon
9.27 J Stamitz Sinfonia
Pastorale in D
CPE Bach CO/
Hartmut Hanchen
9.40 Bach Wachet Auf!
(BWV 645)
Simon Preston (organ)
9.45 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
RPO/Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.01 Mendelssohn Im
Advent; Weinachten: Am
Neujahrstage
Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
10.08 Medtner Russian
Round Dance
Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai
Demidenko (pianos)
10.14 Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
10.38 Walton Four
Christmas Carols
Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer
10.47 Beethoven Overture:
Leonore No 3
Bamberg SO/Eugen Jochum
11.02 Poulenc
Suite française
London Wind Orchestra, conductor Dennis Wick
11.15 Strauss Der
Rosenkavalier (final scene) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Teresa Stich-Randall (sops) Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Eberhard Wachter (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra/ Herbert von Karajan
11.38 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
Edward Power Biggs (organ) Philadephia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy Producer Edward Blakeman Discs

Repeated from yesterday 4.40pm

BBC Philharmonic conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano) Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Bach, arr Stokowski Mein Jesu (BWV 487) Bloch Schelomo
Mahler Symphony No 4
Recorded earlier this year as part of the Liverpool Cathedral Festival

(violin and piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23
Prokofiev Five Melodies
Szymanowski
Dance (Harnasie) Hilary Tann
The Cresset Stone
Schumann Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 121
Recorded at the Presteigne Festival 1994

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Anne Evans (soprano) Wagner Overture and Venusberg music
(Tannhauser); Prelude to Act III (Tristan und Isolde);
Wesendonk-Lieder; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music, Briinnhilde's Immolation
(Gotterdammerung)
See also Thursday at 1.00pm

A special edition devoted to Charles Dickens :
Christopher Cook looks ahead to the new production of Oliver!, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Jonathan Pryce ;
John Mortimer discusses his adaptation of A Christmas Carol; and what does
"Dickensian" actually mean? Producer Abigail Appleton

Quartettsatz in C minor
(D703); Quartet in A minor (D804)
Cleveland Quartet
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert

by Greg Cullen.
With Jonathan Cullen as Shostakovich, Fiona Shaw as Anna Akhmatova and John Shrapnel as Stalin. Leningrad 1937:
Shostakovich is under official attack as all around him Stalin's Terror decimates his world. He cannot compose Soviet anthems, his Fourth Symphony is too dangerous to perform - and yet as the Soviet Union's top composer he must respond to his times.
Director Alison Hindell

Symphony No 5
New York Philharmonic/ Leonard Bernstein Discs

The International Rostrum of Composers 1993
Each year, broadcasters from all over the world meet at the Unesco building in Paris. Each delegate brings a tape of the best new music broadcast by their radio station during the last year. The BBC's delegate in 1993 was
Christopher Marshall , and this evening he introduces highlights, in conversation with Philip Tagney. The Rostrum's most popular piece was Capriole by the Finnish composer Kimmo Hakola. Producer Christopher Marshall

Brian Wright presents one of the most massive of choral works - Mahler's so-called "Symphony of a Thousand" - and talks to
Mark Elder about the difficulties of conducting such vast forces.
Mahler Symphony No 8 Deborah Riedel ,
Amanda Roocroft and Susan Chilcott
(sopranos)
Anne Marie Owens and Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzos)
John Mitchinson (tenor) Jason Howard (baritone)
Michael Druiett (bass bar) Choir of Shrewsbury School Choir of St Mary and St Anne, Abbots Bromley
City of Birmingham Choir CBSO and Chorus, conductor Mark Elder
Producer Gautam Rangarajan