Weather

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY Records of Viennese music

Weather

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Complete works or substantial extracts from some of the year's outstanding issues: including at 9.5* NEVILLE MAR-RIMER and the ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-F1ELDS playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F; at 9.20* Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 364) with ISAAC STERN and PINCHAS ZUKERMAN : at 9.57* an excerpt from Mayr's opera Medea in Corinto; at 10.22* Maria CALLAS singing Verdi: at
10.29* MAURIZIO POLLINI playing Stravinsky; and at 10.54* TOSCANINI conducting Strauss's Don Juan

Charpentier Mass on Christmas Night
Bach Cantata No 61: Nun komm. der Heiden Heiland

RONALD SMITH (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Part 1
Dvorak Czech Suite
12.39* Liszt Piano Concerto No 1

Weather

Part 2 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5

Opera in two acts Music by Rossini
Libretto by CESARE STERBINI , after BEAUMARCHAIS (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Beaumarchais wrote three plays about the barber Figaro. Rossini chose the first of these, and with his witty and exciting music created one of the greatest comic operas of all time.
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by vittorio GUI The scene is set in Seville Act 1
3.25* Rossini's 13-Day Miracle A talk by RICHARD OSBORNE
1.35* The Barber of Seville Act 2

Introduced by PETER CLAYTON

A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it
This week BAYAN NORTHCOTT talks to Karlheinz Stockhausen Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Every Christmas players of these unique forms of bagpipe and shawm leave their village in the Abruzzi hills and perform in cities and towns all over Italy.
JEAN JENKINS describes the background and function of this ancient tradition, illustrated with recordings she made recently
Producer MADEAU STEWART

FELICITY PALMER (soprano). ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) HAMPSTEAD CHORAL SOCIETY
Continuo: BARBARA HILL (harpsichord) JOHN LANGDON (organ) LONDON BACH ORCHESTRA led by NONA LIDDELL conductor MARTINDALE SIDWELL
(A public concert given in the Royal Festival Hall. London, on 15 December)
Part 1
8.0* Three Christmas Sermons The Birthday of the Lord by ST AUGUSTINE read by BRIAN HAINES Omnipotence in Bonds by CARDINAL NEWMAN read by CARLETON HOBBS The Birth of our Lord
A sermon broadcast in the Third Programme by MONSIGNOR RONALD KNOX on Christmas Day, 1950
8.20* Bach: Christmas Oratorio Part 2
(Stereo)

by T. s. ELIOT
Arranged for multi-vocal broadcasting and produced by TERENCE TILLER Readers
SHEILA GRANT , OLWEN GRIFFITHS JO MANNING WILSON , GERALD CROSS FRANK DUNCAN , PETER WILLIAMS followed by an interlude

(piano)
Beethoven Variations and Fugue in E flat, on a theme from Prometheus. Op 35
Schumann Fantasie in c major. Op 17
Schubert Moment musical No 3, in p minor

A programme of cabaret and revue songs presented by MARTIN ESSLIN

Weather: