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Mozart Overture: La finta giardiniera
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.8* Haydn Cello Concerto In D (H Vllb 2) PIERRE FOURNIER LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS conducted by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
7.35. Bach Suite No 1 in C ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
(gramophone records)
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Mozart German Dance (The Sleighride) (K 605 No 3) VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.9* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
8.36* Tchaikovsky Suite: The Nutcracker PHlLHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
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Symphony No 8, in G, Op 88 LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
9.42* Agnus Dei (Requiem Mass) PILAR LORENGAR (soprano) ERZSEBET KOMLOSSY (contralto) ROBERT ILOSFALVY (tenor) TOM KRAUSE (bass) AMBROSIAN SINGERS, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
10.6* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
10.24* Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta: records
Tchaikovsky Romance in F, Op 51 No 5; Un poco di Chopin, Op 72 No 15; L'Espiegle, Op 72 No 12; Reverie du soir, Op 19 No 1; Chanson triste, Op 40 No 2; Menuetto scherzoso, Op 51 No 3: Valse de salon in A flat, Op 51 No 1
Rachmaninov Moment musical in C major. Op 16 No 6; Romance in F minor, Op 10 No 6; Melodie, Op 3 No 3; Polichinelle, Op 3 No 4; Etude tableau in E flat minor, Op 33 No 6; Polka de WR
from this year's Salzburg Whitsun Festival
Yuuko Shiokawa (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Part 1 Violin Concerto in D
(stereo)
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
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Part 2
Symphony No 2, in D
(Austrian Radio recording)
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
(Broadcast on Christmas Eve on R4)
Hymn. Once in royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett ) The Bidding Prayer
A Hymn to the Virgin (Britten) First Lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-15, 17-19. A CHORISTER
Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord); Ding, dong! merrily on high (16th-century French)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, vv 15-18: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
I sing of a maiden (Patrick Hadley ); I saw three ships (trad English)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6, 7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES
In dulci jubilo (14th-century German); God rest you merry, gentlemen (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv l-3a, 4a, 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
The holly and the ivy (trad English); Make we joy now in this feast (John Madden)
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
Quittez, pasteurs (trad French) Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8-16: A FELLOW
Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
The shepherd's cradle song (trad German)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2, vv 1-11: THE VICE-PROVOST
The three kings (P. Cornelius ); Personent hodie (Piae Cantiones)
Ninth Lesson: St John 1, vv 1-14: THE PROVOST
Hymn: O 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 GRlER
(organ scholar) .
Second in a series of three programmes
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAX RUDOLF
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat
4.10* Denis Matthews talks about Beethoven's E flat Piano Concerto.
4.30* Beethoven Part 2
Piano Concerto No 5, In E flat
(Boston Symphony Orchestra Transcription Trust recording)
Sleigh bells, cow bells, church bells and carillons. David Munrow rings the changes with music by Delius, Strauss, Gordon Crosse and Dvorak.
(Stereo)
First of 12 programmes in which Byrd's settings of the Mass Proper in his Gradualia are performed in liturgical sequence with settings of the Ordinary of the Mass by Byrd and by continental composers.
Christmas Day
Palestrina Missa Hodie Christus natus est a 8 Byrd Mass Propers à 4: Introit; Kyrie; Gloria; Collect; Epistle; Gradual; Alleluia; Gospel; Credo; Offertory; Preface; Sanctus; Benedictus; Elevation Motet; Agnus Dei; Communion
LONDON LASSUS ENSEMBLE Michael Laird (cornett) Ian Wilson (cornett) Paul Nieman (sackbut) Paul Beer (sackbut) Roger Brenner (sackbut) Peter Goodwin (sackbut) David Purser (sackbut) Peter Harvey (sackbut) Margaret Phillips (organ) Andrew Parrott (organ) conductor CLIVE WEARING
Brahms Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Debussy Quartet
followed by an interlude
(Stereo)
Alec Guinness introduces and reads his own selection from his favourite poet.
'He has always been a hero of mine. From about the age of 17 he has been the greatest literary influence in my life.'
(Part of this recording forms side 2 of a new double album T. S. Eliot read by Alec Guinness issued by Argo in association with the BBC)
(sung in German: records)
HANS BUCHIERL (treble) ANDREAS STEIN (alto) THEO ALTMEYER (tenor) BARRY MCDANIEL (bass) FRANZ-JOSEF MAIER (violin) BRUCE HAYNES, HELMUT HUCKE (oboes, oboes d'amore) GUNTHER HOLLER (flute) BARTHOLD KUIJKEN (flute) TOLZ BOYS' CHOIR
COLLEGIUM AUREUM conducted by GERHARD SCHMIDT-GADEN Parts 1-3
These words from Richard Crashaw's Hymn of the Nativity suggest the central theme of some reflections on the message and meaning of Christmas by Canon Roy McKay
Parts 4-6
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