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A special programme of listeners' record requests introduced by Louis Frcmaux
Mozart Exsultate jubilate (K 165) ERNA SPOORENBERG (Soprano) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER Massenet Last sleep of the Virgin: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FHÉMAUX
Brahms Eight Waltzes (Op 39) (mono) DINU LIPATTI
NADIA BOULANGER (piano duet)
Ibert Divertissement: CITY of BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX

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Part 2
Daquin Noel grand jeu et duo MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN at the organ of Sarlat Cathedral
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine PHILIPPE CAILLARD CHORALE
MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FRÉMAUX
Britten A Ceremony of Carols OSIAN ELLIS (harp), CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
SINFONIA OF London, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI

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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ ELSIE MORISON (soprano) PETER PEARS (tenor) EDGAR FLEET (tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone) JOSEPH ROULEAU (bass) JOHN FROST (bass)
ST ANTHONY SINGERS
GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS gramophone records Part 1
9.45* Robert Stephens as Berlioz Berlioz tells of his life and loves, and the success he had in Paris with L'Enfance du Christ (from DAVID CAIRN'S translation of Berlioz's Memoirs)
10.0' L'Enfance du Christ Parts 2 and 3

CHARLES CASTLEMAN (violin) IAN BROWN (piano)
Ysaye Sonata No 3, In D minor (Ballade), for violin
Bach Sonata in c, for violin (BWV 1005)
Brahms Sonata In G. Op 78

JOHN BINGHAM (piano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Mozart Overture: La clemenza di Tito
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1

The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

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Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 8

NEIL BLACK (oboe)
THEA KING (clarinet)
MARTIN GATT (bassoon) IFOR JAMES (horn)
TAMAS VASARY (piano)
Mozart Quintet in E flat (K 452) Beethoven Variations on the Russian Dance from Vranicky's Das Waldmadchen , for piano (WoO 71)
Beethoven Quintet in E flat, Op 16

in King's College Chapel. Cambridge
Hymn: Once in royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett ) The Bidding Prayer
A Boy was born (Britten)
First Lesson: Genesis 3, TT 8-13, 22-24: A CHORISTER
Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord) Second Lesson: Genesis 22, vv 15-18: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
Up! good Christen folk and listen (Piae Cantiones, 1582); I sing of a maiden (Lennox Berkeley)
Third Lesson: Isaiah, vv 2, 6, 7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES
In dulci jubilo (14th-century German); Hymn: 0 little town of Bethlehem (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv 1-3a, 4a. 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Ding-dong! merrily on high (16th-century French): There is no rose (Thomas Wilson )
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1, vv 26-35, 38: THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Gabriel's message (Old Basque): Now the holly bears a berry (trad Cornish)
Sixth Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 1, 3-7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SISTER COLLEGE AT ETON
The holly and the ivy (trad English): Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (trad French) Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter. 1592)
Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2. vv 8-16: A FELLOW
The shepherds' cradle song (trad German)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2, vv 1-11: THE VICE-PROVOST
Personent hodie (Piae Cantiones): In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke )
Ninth Lesson: St John 1, vv 1-14: THE PROVOST
Hymn: 0 come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade )
Collect for Christmas Eve Blessing
Hymn: Hark, the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
Director of Music PHILIP LEDGER FRANCIS GRIER (organ)

Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 ALFRED BRENDEL , NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, leader
RAYMOND COHEN , conducted by BANS SCHMIDT -ISSERSTEDT
(Part of a concert given in the Royal Festival Hall: June 1971)

with David Munrow
Rise at 6.0 am and speak only Latin between morning prayers and lunch - only two of the rules for the choirboys who first sang Bach's Magnificat.

The Mystery by BILL NAUGHTON
The winner of the 1974 Italia Prize for Radio Drama with Norman Rodway
Irene Sutcliffe and Ann Morrish
... with a woman like that-there's none of the mystery of marriage . . .
Pianist WINIFRED DAVEY Producer GUY VAESEN

Fritz Wunderlich (1930-1966)
When he died in 1966 FRITZ WUNDERLICH had already won international acclaim as the greatest German lyric tenor of his generation. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau wrote of him, ' He was in a class of his own. All the more striking and grievous, therefore, is his silence now.'
In this programme Nigel Doug las pays a fellow singer's tribute to his artistry and introduces recordings which include extracts from opera and operetta and Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Producer ALAN BAYDOCK

A medieval English version of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Euridice.
Translated by ANTHEA DAVIES with sound and music by DAVID CAIN
The story Is told by John Justin and the music is played by the PRAETORIUS CONSORT director CHRISTOPHER BALL Musicians:
CHRISTOPHER BALL (recorders and rauschpfeife)
PAUL ARDEN TAYLOR (recorders and crumhorns)
NIGEL NORTH (lute and rebec) CHRISTOPHER WILSON (lute and cittern), FRANCES KELLY (harp) ALAN WILSON (harpsichord) PETER VEL (bass viol)
NEL ROMANO (percussion) Singers: HANNAH FRANCIS and ALASTAIR THOMPSON Directed by DAVID CAIN

Symphony No 7, In E major
VIENNA PHII.HARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1974 Salzburg Festival) followed by an interlude

Second of three programmes ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (Viola)
GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (cello) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat major (K 493)
Beethoven String Trio In G major. Op 9 No 1
10.30* A conversation between G.REGOR PIATIGORSKY and IVOR NEWTON.
10.45* Festival: part 2
Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor, Op 60
(Recording made in the Fishmongers' Hall, by permission of the Corporation of London)

Christmas Chorale Preludes from the Orgelbuchlein
Helmut Walcha at the organ of St Pierre-le-Jeune, Strasbourg
gramophone records

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