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String Quintet in c (D 958) ISAAC STERN (violin)
ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER (Violin) MILTON KATIMS (viola) PABLO CASALS (Cello)
PAUL TORTELIER (cello) gramophone records
(The first of six programmes from the new Schubert festival: tomorrow 9.0 pm)
ANDRÉ WATTS (piano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA Part 1
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major, Op 83
9.55* Interval Reading
10.5* Concert Part
Schumann Symphony No 1, in b flat major
(Austrian Radio recording)
A panorama of revolutions In music introduced and sung by CATHY BERBERIAN (SOpranO) With HAROLD LESTER
(harpsichord and piano) Part 1
Songs by Monteverdi, Berio, Debussy, John Cage and Stravinsky
11.20* An International Language? Fritz Spiegl takes a light-hearted look at the pitfalls in musical translation.
11.30* Monteverdi to The Beatles Part 2: Songs by Berio, Kurt Weill , Cathy Berberian and The Beatles, and a piano solo by Cathy Berberian.
(A Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services Promotion, recorded at Nottingham Playhouse in January) BBC Birmingham
play duos for two violins and violin and viola Part
Leclair Sonata in E minor, Op 3 No 5. for two violins
Prokofiev Sonata, Op 56, tor two violins
Wieniawski Two Etude-caprices, Op 18. for two violins: No 1, in G minor; No 2, in E flat
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
Part 2
Mozart Duo No 1, in a (K 423), for violin and viola
Spohr Duo No 2, in D, Op 67, for two violins
Leclair Gigue , for two violins (Sonata in p, Op 3 No 4)
Wieniawski Etude-caprice in A minor, Op IS No 4. for two violins
Handel, arr Halvorsen Passa caglia, for violin and viola
in Amsterdam
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4. in A (Italian)
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
In King's College Chapel,
Cambridge
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 bounden (Boris Ord); Sussex Carol (trad English)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, vv 15-18: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
Chester Carol (Philip Ledger): Ding, dong! merrily on high (16th-century French)
Third Lesson: Isaiah , vv 2, 6. 7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES
In dulci jubilo (14th-century German)
Hymn: O little town of Bethlehem (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv 1-3a. 4a. 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
The holly and the ivy (trad English); Sir Christemas (William Mathias)
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
I saw three ships (trad English) Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8 16: A FELLOW
Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
The shepherds' cradle song (trad German)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2, vv 1-11: THE VICE-PROVOST
Come, love we God! (Peter Hurford ): In the bleak mid-winter (Harold E. Darke )
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 GRIER (organ scholar)
Barrie Iliff and Denis Matthews devise the questions, while John Amis , John Boulton Smith John Warrack and Colin Wilson find the answers.
Producer ROBERT LAYTON
Introduced by Peter Clayton
(piano)
Haydn Sonata in r (H xvi 23)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2
Brahms Waltzes. Op 39: No 1. in B; No 2, in E; No 3, in a sharp minor; No 6, in c sharp; No 7, in c sharp minor; No 11, in B minor; No 14, in c sharp minor; No 15, In A flat; No 16, in c sharp minor
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No t
Opera buffa in two acts by Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (sung in Italian: records)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Karl Bohm
The action takes place in Naples in the late 18th century.
Act 1
8.35* Donald Mitchell discusses the significance of the quotations in Act 2 of Cosi fan tutte.
(from the In Short series)
8.45* Cosi fan tutte Act 2
A tribute to
Dame Peggy Asheroft who this year celebrated her 50th anniversary in the theatre, introduced by Harold Hobson with contributions from MICHAEL BILLINGTON
GLEN BYAM SHAW , JUDI DENCH SIR JOHN GIELGUD. PETER BALL PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
TREVOR NUNN and HALLAU TENNTSON
Peggy, by not demanding them, hax always had the pick of the good parts, which is just reward for the beauty of her character. (SIR JOHN GIELGUD ) followed by an interlude
For his first Christmas as Cantor at Leipzig in 1723 Bach wrote a varied series of cantatas which are being broadcast in their original sequence.
Cantata No 63: Christen, atzet diesen Tag
MARIA FRIESENHAUSEN (SOpranO) HILDEGARD LAURICH (contralto) HANNA SCHWARZ (contralto) ADALBERT KRAUS (tenOD WOLFGANG SCHONE (bass)
FRANKFURTER KANTOREI
STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING gramophone record
(Cantata No 40: tomorrow
5.25 pm)
