Giovanni Gabriell Hodie Christus natus est
CHOIR OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD. With TROMBONE ENSEMBLE, conducted by BERNARD ROSE
7.10* Torelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 8 No 6 (Pastorale per 11 Santissimo Natale) I MUSICI
7.20* Johann Stamitz Sinfonia Pastorale in D. Op 4 No 2: ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.35* Britten A Ceremony of Carols: CHORISTERS OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL MARlSA ROBLES (harp) conducted by MARTIN NEARY : records

LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Handel Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 3 (Hallelujah): E. POWER BIGGS
8.18* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D gramophone records

Itzhak Perlman (violin) Bruno Canino (piano)
Tartini Sonata in G minor (Devil s Trill)
Beethoven Sonata In r major, Op 24 (Spring)
Stravinsky Duo Concertant Paganini Three Caprices, Nos 1. 6 and 24 Sarasate Spanish Dances: Romanza Andaluza , Op 22 No 1: Zapateado, Op 23 No 2
(Itzhak Perlman can be seen in three programmes on BBC2, starting next Saturday 9.20 pm)

A concert conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI in the Severance Hall, Cleveland on 20 June 1971
Bach. arr Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A
11.16 Interval Reading
11.15' Stokowski Part 2
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Gliere Symphony No 3, In B minor (Ilya Murometz , shortened version)
(Recording made available by the Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service)

(soprano) In Liszt and Schubert Songs with Irwin Gage (piano) from a recital given at the Budapest Festival
Liszt Uber alien Gipfeln
1st Ruh'; Es rauschen die Winde: Ihr Glocken von Marling; 0 Lieb. so lang du liehen kannst
Schubert Der Fluss ; Die Einsamkeit (the 20-minute-long Mayrhofer setting composed during his stay in Hungary in 1818: he called it ' the best thing I have written ')
(Hungarian Radio recording)

The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

In this special edition of The Classical Guitar, Michael Jessett talks to the celebrated guitarist and introduces some of his recordings.
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Julia llamari (mezzo-sop) Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conductor
Bernard Haitink direct from the Concertgebouw
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat

in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Processional Hvmn: Once in Royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlet!)
The Bidding Prayer
Up! good Christen folk, and listen (Piae Cantiones 1582, arr Wood-ward); Resonet in laudi- bus (Jacob Handl 1550-1591, arr Ledger)
First Lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-15, 17-19: A CHORISTER Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ordi ; Sussex Carol (trad English, arr Ledger)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, VV 15-18: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
Joseph and Mary (trad English, arr Vaughan Williams ): I saw three ships (trad English, arr Ledger)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9, VV 2, 6, 7: A REPRESENTATIVE or THE CAMBRIDGE
CHURCHES
I sing of a maiden (Lennox Berkeley)
Hymn: God rest you merry, gentlemen (trad English, arr Willcocks)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv l-3a, 4a, 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
A maiden most gentle (arr Andrew Carter , born 1939); The Holly and the Ivy (trad English, arr Watford Davies)
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1, VV 26-35, 38: THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Gabriel's Message (Old Basque)
Sixth Lesson: St Luke 2, VV 1. 3-7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SISTER COLLEGE
AT ETON
As I outrode this enderes night (GeraldHendrie, born 1935i; Angels, from the realms of glorv (trad English, arr Ledger)
Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8-16: A FELLOW
Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
Stille Nacht' (Gruber, arr Ledger); The shepherds' cradle song (trad German, arr C. Macpherson)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2, vv 1-11: THE vici-PROVOST
In the bleak mid-winter (Harold E. Darke )
Ninth Lesson: St John 1, vv 1-14: THE PROVOST
Hymn: 0 come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade ) Collect and Blessing
Hymn: Hark! The herald angels sing (Mendelssohn) Director of Music PHILIP LEDGER
THOMAS TROTTER (organ scholar)

Part 1
Sonata in A minor (d 845) Four Impromptus (D 899)

In the second of his three talks on love and marriage in literature. Professor Laurence Lerner passes on from the traditional conflict between the two to a consideration of the way British writers have treated love within marriage. In particular, he concentrates on the eloquent celebration of married love by two puritans - John Miiton in his divorce tracts and Paradise Lost, D. H. Lawrence in The Rainbow. (Feminism and Love: New Year's Day 6.35 pm)

Part 2
Sonata in D (D 850)
(Cheltenham Festival rrcital recorded m July at the Town Hall)

by Peter Porter
An autobiographical poem for music and three voices
Like Orpheus in Hell, he had music with him.
Music is the holiest of the arts,
It waits on an island always new
And everlastingly the same.
The voices: KENNETH CRANHAM, GARY WATSON, STEPHEN MURRAY
Recorded music taken from the works of Mahler, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Josquin des Prés, Schubert and Strauss
Additional music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Technical presentation by JOHN WHITEHALL, assisted by ANNE HUNT
Directed by PATRICIA BRENT
A threnody for life and love (THE LISTENER) A dense, painful and unlikely programme, which used the full skill of one art to praise another.
(NEW STATESMAN)

Part 1
FELICITY LOTT (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD

I saw some months ago, a countryman of yours-Mr Adam. He seemed to me to be a man of genius and I have heard his knowledge of architecture much applauded.'
(
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU )
Two hundred and fifty years after Robert Adam 's birth, Geoffrey Beard , Director of the Visual Arts Centre at Lancaster University, reflects on the contribution Adam's team of craftsmen made to his success.

Part 2
(A BBC Manchester Masterconcert presented by the BBC in the Free Trade Hall on 5 Dec) BBC Manchester

Adapted by Laurence Kitchin from Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier
with an introduction by Laurence Kitchin

'...no one here is ignorant of the fact that it is unseemly for a woman to bear arms. ride, play tennis or wrestle.'
'Among the ancients, it was customary for men to wrestle with women in the nude, but we have discontinued that admirable usage, along with many others.'
Directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland

Dem Unendlichen
Der SchSfer und der Reiter
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
GERALD MOORE (piano) gramophone records with at 11.45 News