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Handel Concerto Grosso No 17, in G minor: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.21* Stradella Cantata per il Santissimo Natale (Christmas Cantata)
MONTREUX FESTIVAL CHOIR
SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER
Part 2 Adam Overture: La poupee de Nuremberg
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.11* Mendelssohn Six Children's Pieces, Op 72 (Christmas Pieces)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
8.20* Brahms Two Songs, with viola obbligato, Op 91
HELEN WATTS (contralto) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
8.33* Rimsky-Korsakov Christmas Eve Suite
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Telemann
Cantata: Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) ALICE HARNONCOURT and WALTER PFEIFER (violins)
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOtRT (cello) HERBERT TACHEZI (organ)
9.23* Paris Quartet No 3, in G FRANS BRÜGGEN (flute) JAAF SCHRODER (violin) ANNER BYLSMA (Cello)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) gramophone records
Nine meditations by Olivier Messtaen played by MICHAEL SMITH On the organ of Coventry Cathedral
La Vierge et l'Enfant: Les bergers; Desseins éternels: Le verbe: Les enfants de Dieu; Les anges; Jésus accepte la soulfrance: Les mages; Dieu parmi nous
played by ALAN CUCKSTON on an 1800 Broadwood piano, recorded in the Music Room at Farnley Hall, Otley, Leeds
Haydn Variations in F minor (H XVII 6)
Mozart Variations on a Minuet by Duport (k 573)
Beethoven Sonata in c minor. Op 13 (Pathetique) BBC Manchester
concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES with THOMAS IGLOI (cello) Part 1
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G (BWV 1048)
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme
A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
Andrew Timothy , BBC Radio's former Assistant Head of Presentation. faces Christmas and its music.
Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 5, in B flat
BBC Bristol
A weekly series given by artists of the younger generation Ronald Murdoch (tenor) John Tunnell (violin)
Charles Tunnell (cello)
Roger Vignoles (harpsichord) direct from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House, London
Clerambault 0 mysterium ineffabile
Rameau Cantata: Diane et Action
Vivaldi Cantata: Piango, gemo, sospiro
Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite: Say, love, if ever thou didst find Ford Fair, sweet, cruel
Dowland Sleep, wayward thoughts; I saw my lady weep Campian When to her lute Corinna sings
Jones Now what is love? Richard Rodney
Bennett Tom o'Bedlam's Song
(Given before an Invited audience. Applications for tickets to. Ticket Unit. BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)
' Conducting Janacek's Katva Kabanova , one of the master-pieces of 20th-century opera, has been one of the most deeply satisfying experiences of my career,' says David Lloyd-Jones .
He includes an excerpt from this opera, together with excerpts from Tosca, War and Peace, Lakme and Hansel and Gtetel. gramophone records
(David Lloyd-Jones conducts Hansel and Gretel, a simultaneous broadcast with BBC2; Boxing Day 6.30 pm)
played by the CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR Part 1
Mozart Serenade in * flat (k 361)
1.53* Sehoenberg Theme and Variations, Op 43a
John Ziman , Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol. reflects on some of the things we say and write.
Part 2
Strauss Symphony: Frohliche Werkstatt
BBC Birmingham
from Worcester Cathedral
Introit: Behold, I come quickly (Hunt)
Versicles and Responses (Hunt) Psalms 108, 109 (Atkins, Stainer. Ley)
Lessons: Isaiah 32, w 1-8; John 13. w 1-17
Canticles (Howells, Worcester Service)
Anthem: Vox dicentis (E. W. Naylor)
Choir directed by DONALD HUNT Organist PAUL TREPTY BBC Birmingham
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening
(continued)
Language and Communication
S.30 Punti di vista
The second of three holiday and revision programmes, based on interviews recorded in Italy.
2: In giro per Firenze
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA
Script by MARIA LAURA FRANCIOSI Producer ANN GODDARD
(Rptd: next Wednesday R3)
7.0 Sur le vif
Spicial-Vacances (2)
Le deuxieme de trois programmes de revision avec ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER et GILLES DATTAS
Script par ANNE GRUNEBERG (Rptd: next Wednesday R3)
(Regular programmes of Punti di vista and Sur le vif return on 12 January)
LILIAN WATSON (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor) MALCOLM KING (baSS)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Weber Overture: Euryanthe
Mass in E flat major (Frelschiitzmesse)
(Weber's Oberon: Christmas Sunday 2.0 pm)
A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad.
Eleventh of 12 programmes
String Quartet in E flat, Op 51 String Quartet in A flat, Op 105 played by the GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
Jeremy Parsons sketches in the background to the opera by the Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen which is to be broadcast tomorrow at 1.40 pm.
Songs and piano music with NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
PATRlCIA KERN (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) RAYMOND LEPPARD (piano) MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
Introduced by JULIAN BUDDEN
