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Vivaldi Motet: Nulla in mundo pax sincera
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC conducted by SIMON PRESTON
8.18* Wagner Overture: Rienzi
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
8.30* Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor KYUNG-WHA CHUNG
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE gramophone records

Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ : record

in c major (D 956)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET WILLIAM PLEETH (cello)
(Given in December 1979 at St John's, Smith Square, London)

MICHEL PIGUET (baroque oboe and recorder) CLARE SHANKS
(baroque oboe)
JEREMY WARD (bassoon) ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
J. F. Fasch Trio-Sonata in c minor, for two oboes and continuo
Vivaldi Trio-Sonata in G minor, for recorder, oboe and continuo (nv 103)
Couperin Sonata for two oboes and continuo (La Steinquerque)

JANET BAKER
(mezzo-soprano)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by PINCHAS ZUKERMAN
Serenade in D (Serenata notturna) (k 239)
Arias: Al desio di chi fadora (K 577); Parto, parto (K 621)
12.5* Interval Reading
12.15* Mozart Part 2
Serenade in D major (Posthorn) (k 320)

The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat major. Op 7
Chopin Impromptus: A flat major. Op 29; F sharp major, Op 36; G flat major. Op 51; c sharp minor, Op 66 (Fantasy-Impromptu)
2.0* Interval Reading
2.5* Murray Perahia Part 2 Schubert
Sonata in A major (d 959) (Given in June 1979 in the QEH, London)

in King's
College Chapel, Cambridge

First of two quartets today from his Op 64: No 3, in B flat major
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET

' For us men and for our salvation. He came down from Heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit He became incarnate of the Virgin Mary , and was made man.'
His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume. Archbishop of Westminster, reflects on the meaning of the Incarnation.

We conductors all talk too much. We needn't be afraid of trusting the orchestra.
Never one to waste words himself, Sir Adrian Boult throughout his long career has epitomised just such economy of words and gesture, while at the same time generating an atmosphere of warmth and sympathy. The programme includes rehearsal extracts from the commercial recording of Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim's Progress and a of Beethoven's Coriolan Ouerture, and reflections on the art of conducting by Boult himself. Compiled by ARTHUR JOHNSON : records

GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (SOp) MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (piano and cello)
GENRIKH TALALYAN (viola) BORODIN STRING QUARTET
Borodin String Quartet No 2, in D
Britten Song-cycle: The poet's echo
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence: records

conducted by JAMES LEVINE ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1. in D minor

A short story by ARTHUR SIMMONDS , a prize winner in the Radio 3 Short Story Competition
Read by June Brown Producer
PETER KING < See also Boxing Day at 8.55 pm)

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)

by CECIL TORR, selected by DEREK PARKER
The first of two selections of rural anecdotes about life in a Devon village Read by Paul Rogers
Producer ANTHONY vivis

Second of two from his Op 64: No 5, in D (The Lark) CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET

First in a new series of seven programmes.
When Bach was installed as Cantor at
Leipzig in 1723 he could have had little idea of the adverse conditions with which he would shortly have to contend. Discipline at St Thomas 's School was appalling and the Rector was well past the age of retirement. The musicians, too, were overworked and, as a result, awkward and unpredictable. All the more extraordinary, therefore. that in the midst of all this stress and discord, Bach was able to create a wealth of compositions of the very highest musical calibre. Among these were six cantatas and his original Magnificat for his first Christmas at Leipzig.
Cantata No 63: Christen. atzet diesen Tag
MARIA FRIESENHAUSEN (SOp) HILDEGARD LAURICH and HANNA SCHWARZ (contraltos) ADALBERT KRAUS (tenor)
WOLFGANG SCHONE (baSS) FRANKFURTER KANTOREI
STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING : record

by Charles Ives : NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : record