Vivaldi Winter (The Four Seasons): GIULIANO BADINI (violin), SINFONIA DI SIENA
7.15* Delius An English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.31* Mozart Piano Concerto No 15, in B flat (K 450) (mono): SOLOMON, PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTTO ACKERMANN
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued) Pachelbel Canon in D
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8,10* Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 (mono)
DENNIS BRAIN, PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLlSCH
8.26* Bach Magnificat in D (BWV 243): SOLOISTS VIENNA ACADEMY CHOIR STUTTGART CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER : records

This morning's programme includes the dance music Tchaikovsky wrote for Ostrovsky's plays Dmitri the Impostor and The Snow Maiden, ballet music from the operas The Voyevode, The Oprichnik arid Eugene Onegin, and a duet from Undine which was later used in the ballet Swan Lake

(records)

Six cantatas written for performance during the 12 days of Christmas to he broadcast on their appropriate feast days: this first programme contains the cantata written for Christmas Day: Jauchzet, frohlockct. CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) STEPHEN ROBERTS (bar)
ALASTAIR ROSS (chamber organ), RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA leader SIMON SIANDAGE conductor RICHARD HICKOX (Repeal)

JOHN WILLIAMS (classical) PACO PEÑA (flamenco)
Luis Milan Three Pavans (1536): Fantasia
Alonso de Mudarra Fantasia (1546)
Gaspar Sanz Gailardas ; Canarios
Flamenco solos: El bordon y la prima; Alegrias de Cadiz; Farruca sencilla Bach Chaconne in D minor (BWV 1004)

conducted by GARY BERTINI LYNN HARRELL (cello) Part 1 Dvorak
Cello Concerto in b minor
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Part 2
Debussy La mer
Ravel Daphnis and Chloé: Suite No 2
(RIAS Berlin recording)

The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.

in A minor (D 821) played by BRUNO GIURANNA (viola) and MICHAEL ISADOR (piano)

Presented by Ian McDougall
Producer BLAIR THOMSON
(Rptd: tomorrow 9.15 pm)

direct from the Concerlgebouw, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra
(To be shown on BBC2 at 4.25 pm)

in King's College Chapel, Cambridge

(piano). Part I
Mozart Fantasy in c minor (K 475)
Schubert Sonata in (; major (D 894)

Mark Haworth-Booth, who is in charge of the recently established Department of Photographic Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum , the first national collection of its kind, reflects on the aesthetics of the medium and gives his criterion for selecting images for contemplation by future generations. (Andrei Kertesz : tomorrow 7.0 pm)

Part 2
Chopin Polonnise-Fantaisie in a flat. Op 61
Liszt Apres une lecture du Dante (Deuxieme an-nee de pelerinage): Rigoletto: concert paraphrase

A short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Peter Marinker

Part 1 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 130

Ode and Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, read by Father Christopher Pemberton.

Elisabeth Lutyens String Quartet No 6. Op 25 (1960) Beethoven Grosse Fuge , Op 133

Devised by Denis Matthews who poses questions to John Amis. James Gibb , Barrie Iliffe , Simon Rattle and John Warrack
Producer ROBERT LAYTON

Sinfonia pastorale In D, for violin and string orchestra: COLLEGIUM AUREUM directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER (violin): record

A medieval English version of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Translated by ANTHEA DAVIES ; sound and music by DAVID CAIN
Story told by John Justin Music played by the PRAETORIUS CONSORT director CHRISTOPHER BALL Singers: HANNAH FRANCIS and AI.ASTAIR THOMPSON
Directed by DAVID CAIN

Weber Overture: Oberon Brahms Alto Rhapsody CHRISTA LUDWIG
MEN'S VOICES OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
Brahms Symphony No 2. in D major (Austrian Radio recording)

The first of 13 programmes in which William Byrd's settings of the Mass Proper in his Gradualia of 1605 and 1607 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 Proper a 4 LONDON LASSUS ENSEMBLE cornetts and sackbuts
MARGARET PHILLIPS , ANDREW PARROTT (organ), conductor CLIVE WEARING