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Handel Concerto Grosso No 27, in B flat, for double orchestra LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE DU roy, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE
7.21* Arne Organ Concerto No 5, in G minor: JEAN GUILLOU
BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRAOF BERLIN conducted by RENÉ KLOPFENSTEIN
7.34* Hoist Two carols EDWARD SELWYN (oboe) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) PURCELL SINGERS conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
7.39* Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis : LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
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Haydn Symphony No 27. In G (Briickenthal)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.16* Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.40 Kodaly Dances from Galanta: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SEIJI OZAWA : records
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Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH Harold in Italy
WILLIAM LINCER (viola) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : records
An entertainment derived from Shaw's criticism of some of the music he heard in London in the 1890s.
Speaker DENYS HAWTHORNE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
BBC NORTHERN SrNGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON Byrd Hodie Christus natus est Guerrero Los reyes Byrd Puer natus est Morales Ecce virgo
Britten Hymn to the virgin; A Shepherd's carol; The Sycamore Tree arr Stephen Wilkinson Consider well; Coventry carol; Up now laggardly lasses
Richard Rodney Bennett Five carols
Poulenc Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noel
JOHN DARRAN (narrator)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Eric Fenby Overture: Rossini on Ilkla Moor
12.20* Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker Suite)
12.30* Grace Williams The Merry Minstrel, for narrator and orchestra
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Part 2
Keith Bissell How the Loon got its Necklace
1.40* Haydn Symphony No 55. in E flat (Schoolmaster)
(Given in the ici Hall. Ponty pool, on 19 Dec in conjunction with the Welsh Arts Council)
A concert of music by the Puccini family in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.
Glacomo Puccini Sen (1712-1791) Overture: Tarquinio Collatino Antonio Puccini (1747-1832)
Cantata for soprano: n genio Domenico Puccini (1771-1815) Quartet from I finti savojardi Michele Puccini (1813-1864)
Sacred aria for baritone and strings: Tota pulchra es Maria Giaeomo Puccini (1858-1924) Messa di Gloria
MARGHERITA RINALDI (soprano) VITTORIO TERRANOVA (tenor)
DOMENICO TRIMARCHI (baritone) ENRICO FISSORE (bass)
ELISABETH ENES (spinet)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
HELMUT FROSCHAUER
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by BRUNO AMADUCCI
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1974 Bregenz Festival)
Two Arabesques; Nocturne; La plus que lente; Ballade; Suite bergamasque PETER KATIN (piano)
Excerpts from his incidental music to Preciosa (1820)
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, chorus-master GOTTFRIED PREINFALK conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
(Austrian Radio recording)
CHARLES FOX with records
More of Bach's Magnificat: David Munrow talks to two members of the CHOIR o* KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Four Voices and Plane
HEATHER HARPER (SOpranO)
JANET BAKER (mezzo soprano) PETER FEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) STEUART BEDFORD (piano)
Haydn Die Harmonie in der Ehe; Betrachtung des Todes; An' den Vetter; Die Beredsamkeit
Mozart Grazie agl'inganni tuoi (K 532); Più non si trovano (I 549)
Schumann Minnespiel , Op 101
A persona) view of Shelley by DESMOND KING-HELE
Poetry reader MARTIN JARVIS ‡
Part 2 Britten
Songs and ensembles from Paul Bunyan (first European broadcast)
Introduced by COLIN GRAHAM
leader ELI GOREN conducted by SERGIU COMISSIONA with ALAN CIVIL (horn) Musgrave Concerto for Orchestra
Strauss Horn Concerto No 1, in E flat major
Some recent experiments in telepathy and psychokinesis have been seen as discrediting the materialistic doctrine that the mind is the brain - whatever the brain is. DR HUGH MELLOR , Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University and author of The Matter of Chance. assesses the force of this challenge to materialism.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 2, in c minor
A weekly news bulletin. followed by an interlude
ST MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS
CHORISTERS OF ST MARGARET MARTIN NEARY (organ) conductor RICHARD HICKOX
Three medieval English carols Byrd 0 magnum mysterium
Maxwell Davies 0 magnum mysterium
Weelkes Gloria in excelsis Deo Dupre Variations sur un Noel, Op 20
Bax Mater ora filium
11.0* Interval Reading
11.5* Music for Christmas Part 2
Howells Here is the little door; A spotless rose; Sing lullaby
Macpherson The shepherds' cradle song
Messiaen Les bergers; Dieu parmi nous (La nativity du Seigneur)
Britten A boy was born (Theme and first four variations)
(A public concert given In St Margaret's Westminster on 5 December)
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