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A weekly programme of recent records
Sinfonia: La vera costanza (Hadyn)
Mannheim Soloists
Conducted by Wolfgang Holmann

8.15 Aria: Un fuoco insolite (Don Pasquale ) (Donizetti)
Geraint Evans (baritone) Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conducted by Bryan Balkwill

8.18 Piano Concerto No. 8, in C major (K.246) (Mozart)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Istvan Kertesz

8.41 Overture-fantasia : Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
Boston Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Charles Munch

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CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) RACHEL PAYNE (contralto) John STONE (tenor)
PETER WALKER (baritone)
BBC N0RTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
Obbliaato:
Bernard O'Keefe (cor anglais) Continuo:
Bridget Fry (chamber organ) Kenneth Jepson (cello)
Arthur Thornton (bassoon) Jeffrey Box (double-bass)
BBC Northern ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Kenneth MONTGOMERY
Cantata No. 28: Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende
9.21* Organ music
Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her
Chorale Prelude: Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
LIONEL ROGG at the organ of the GROSSNÜNSTER. ZURICH gramophone records
9.37* Cantata No. 190: Singet dem
Herrn ein neues Lied

A request programme of gramophone records
Suite: Le temple de la paix
(Lully)
Oiseau-Lyre ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLE Conducted by Louis de FROMENT
10.18* Piano Concerto in F major
(Boieldieu)
MARTIN CALLING
INNSBRUCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ROBERT WAGNER
10.39* Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell (BriUen)
- PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GULINI

A weekly review edited by Anna lnstone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Charles Ives by ROBERT HENDERSON
Musical Profile: King's College Chapel Choir by CHARLES CUDWORTH
Mozart's Family Letters: book review by PETER BRANSCOMBE
Walking Encyclopedia by SIDNEY HARRISON

Opera in one act
Music by Malcolm Williamson
Libretto by The Composer
After the story by Oscar Wilde

(gramophone record)

Guildhall Chamber Choir
Neville Marriner (violin) Anthony Howard (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Joy Hall (cello) John Gray (cello) Malcolm Williamson and Richard Rodney Bennett (piano duet) James Holland (percussion) Tristan Fry (percussion)
Conducted by Marcus Dods

The scene is a public square

First broadcast performance

Six minuets (K.164)
VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE
Conducted by WILLY BOSKOWSKY
32.57* Piano Concerto No. 23, in A major (K.488)
SOLOMON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT MENGES See also Tuesday at 7.17 a.m.
1.24* Symphony No. 36, in C major (Linz) (K. 425)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KARL BÖHM gramophone records

2.24* Piano Trio in C major. Op. 87
Beaux ARTS Trio
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Harry Newstone
Part 1

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Repeated on Tuesday at 4.45 p.m.*
Next Sunday's programme: 3.30 p.m.

Part 2 Symphony No 5 Nielsen

The first of thirteen fortnightly programmes
VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Part 1
Sonata No. 2; Concord, Mass.
(1840-60)
Emerson: Hawthorne The Alcotts; Thoreau flute, Douglas WHITTAKER
(in fourth movement)

Two talks on the achievements of the Quatercentenary Year by J. ISAACS
Emeritus Professor of English. University of London
1: The man, his mind, and his works
In 1964 the whole world In both hemispheres and on both sides of the Iron Curtain celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Some 5,000 books, monographs. and articles appeared in even' civilised language as well as performances of plays, postage stamps, medals, and souvenirs.
Professor Isaacs attempts to assess the advances in scholarship and interpretation and to suggest the extent to which we have a new picture of Shakespeare the man.
Second broadcast
Second talk: January 8

Contemporaries and Successors
Part 2 Songs and second string quartet
(David Astor and Ernest Lush, Amici Quartet): January 14

by Vernon Watkins
The Living
WILLIAM SQUIRE. T. H. EVANS
ANTHONY HALL , MICHAEL MCCLAIN RICHARD CURNOCK
The Dead
BASIL JONES , RAYMOND LLEWELLYN TALFRYN THOMAS , JOHN GILL CLIVE MERRISON
The song composed and sung by OSIAN ELLIS
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Vernon Watkins 's Ballad of the Mari Lwyd ended with the striking of midnight on New Year's Eve; the bearers of Mari Lwyd - the horse's skull-who symbolise the Dead. have been driven off. But in The Ballad of the Outer Dark they return, break down the door, and expel the Living into the empty night.

JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) DELME STRING QUARTET
Granville Jones (violin) Jurgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Last of three programmes, each including two classical string Quartets and a group of songs.
Second broadcast of the quarteta

by DR. ALISTAIR HENNESSY
Reader in Spanish and Latin-American History in the University of Warwick
The last few years in Spain have seen tremendous economic expansion. This has transformed the economy and radically changed traditional attitudes to Spain's relationship with the rest of Europe. Dr. Hennessy considers the political consequences this may have in the light of the Spanish past. and in relation to those development problems which Spain shares with Latin America.

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4, in F minor BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER Recorded in 1937

There are three great Powers in Europe: England, Russia, and Madame de Slael
A radio portrait of Madame de Stael by Eric Ewens
Narrated by Fay Compton with
Mme. de Stael was born two hundred years ago. A measure of her influence can be inferred from the names of those whose words contribute to Eric Ewens 's portrait. The narration is put into the mouth of a niece of Mme. de Stael, the first in the long line of her biographers. Produced by CHRISTOPHER Holme Second broadcast
De L'Angleterre--an imaginary conversation between Jane Austen and Madame de Stael: January 7

Mass: Puisque j'ai perdu
Penitential Psalm No. 7:
Domine, exaudi orationem meam sung by the MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR
Conductor, MARTINDALE SIDWELL From the church of St. Georgette-Martyr, Queen Square, London
Second broadcast