Time: GTS 8.0 am
Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony: PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA conducted by BARRY ROSE
8.29* Mendelssohn Six Children's Pieces, Op 72
ANDRE PREVIN (piano)
8.38* Tchaikovsky Marche miniature: Scherzo (Suite No 1, in D minor)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.48* Johann Strauss Annen-Polka: Waltz: Accelerationen VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI ROSKOVSKY
gramophone records
1735-1971 Part 1
Boyce Overture (Ode for His Majesty's Birthday. 1775)
LAMOUREUX CONCERTS ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
9.15* Greene Orpheus with his lute: APRIL CANTELO (soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND I.EPPARD charpsichord)
9.19* Stanley Concerto in A minor. Op 2 No 5
HURWITZ CHAMBER ENSEMBLE directed by EMANUEL HURWITZ
speaks to the Commonwealth (Also on Radio 1, 2, 4)
Part 2
Bliss Introduction and Allegro LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.48* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
10.19* Bax Symphonic Poem: The Happy Forest
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
10.29* Bliss Hymn to Apollo LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
(Friday's broadcast. R4)
Hymn: Once in royal David's city (H.J. Gauntlett)
The Bidding Prayer
Hymn: Of the Father's heart begotten (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
First Lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-13. 22-24: A Chorister
Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord); On Christmas night (trad English)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, vv 15-18: A Choral Scholar
I saw three ships (trad Eng)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6. 7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES
Hymn: O little town of Bethlehem (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv l-3a, 4a, 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
In dulci jubilo (14th-century German)
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1, vv 26-35. 38: THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
The angel Gabriel (Basque Noel); Joseph was an old man (trad English)
Sixth Lesson: St Luke 2. vv 1, 3-7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SISTER COLLEGE AT ETON
In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke)
Sans Day Carol (trad Cornish)
Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8-16: A Fellow
Personent hodie (Piae Cantiones, 1582); Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (trad English)
Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2. VV 1-11: THE VICE-PROVOST
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Kenneth Leighton ): A Babe is born (William Mathias) Ninth Lesson: St John 1. vv 1-14: THE PROVOST
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade)
Collect for Christmas Eve The Blessing
Hymn: Hark. the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
Director of Music DAVID WILLCOCKS
IAN HARE (organ)
ITZHAK PERI.MAN (Violin) PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin and viola) ALAN CUCKSTON
(harpsichord continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader KENNETH SILLITO conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Part 1
Bach Concerto in D minor, for two violins and strings
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, for violin, viola and orchestra (K 364)
Midday Concert: part 2
1.5 Schubert Symphony No 2
(A concert given in the Royal Hall. Harrogate. on 14 August, during the 1971 Festival)
A personal choice of records presented by Edward Greenfield including at 1.38* SIR WILLIAM WALTON conducting his own Music for Children; at 2.10* a group of songs sung by JANET BAKER ; at 2.35* Elgar's Concert Overture: In the south, conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI ; at 3.5* JOHN OGDON playing Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2; and at 3.48* the final scene of Puccini's opera Fanciulla del West
With JOHN AMIS
(piano) Part 1
Beethoven Sonata In E flat major. Op 27 No 1
Liszt Sonata in B minor
LIAM DE PAOR, Lecturer in History at University College, Dublin, a leading archaeologist and authority on the Celts, looks at ways in which he feels one should study Celtic culture,
Part 2
Chopin Ballade in A flat; Nocturne in B. Op 62 No 1; Ballade in F minor
(Recording from the Bregenz Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
John Amis , Norman Del Mar Barrie Iliffe and Fritz Spiegl question each other while
Bryan Magee holds the ring.
LONDON MEDIAEVAL GROUP
John Whitworth (counter-tenor) Roland Tatnell (counter-tenor) Martyn Hill (tenor)
Duncan Robertson (tenor) Mary Remnant (fiddle)
Marylin Wailes (bellchimes) Alan Lumsden (sackbut) Tony Moore (sackbut)
Introduced by GILBERT REANEY anonic 1200) Nicholai sollempnia; Nicholai presulis inon (c 1250) Pour celi que j'ains - Nicholaus igitur - Portare anon (c 1200) Ex eius tumba;
Catervatim Carmen Pontifici decori speculi anon Sequence: Sospitati dedit anon (c 1325) Salve, cleri speculum
Dufay 0 gemma, lux et speculum anon (c 1450) Ex eius tumba; Sospitati dedit
met last Sunday to talk about this and that. Contemporaries at Oxford, and friends for several centuries they claim, their lives have often taken them far apart always to come together again. Sir John has lately returned from a long visit to Australia and Mr Pryce-Jories now lives mostly in the United States,
(Alan Pryce-Jones on December in New York: Friday. 8.25 pm)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Bach Suite No 3, in d major Elgar Symphony No 1
(Given before an invited audience in Studio 1, Maida Vale, London, on 20 November)
A sequence of poems for Christmas compiled and produced by TERENCE TILLER
Readers in order of speaking FRANK DUNCAN , NORMAN SHELLEY GRETTA GOURIET and NICOLETTE BERNARD
conducted hv VILEM TAUSKY
Music by Weinberger. Ravel. Dukas, Josef and Johann Strauss , Tchaikovsky and Humperdinck