Vejvanovsky Sonata Natalis ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Gabrieli Quern vidistis pastores TAVERNER CHOIR, LONDON CORNETT AND SACKBUTT ENSEMBLE/PARROTT
Daquin Noel étranger MICHEL CHAPUIS (organ)
Purcell Behold, I bring you glad tidings
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE/GUEST
Pachelbel Chorale prelude: i Von Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her
WERNER JACOB (organ) i Biber Cantata: In festo trium regium SOLOISTS OF THE VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR, VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS/HARNONCOURT
Sweelinck Variations on Puer nobis nascitur
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (Organ) Torelli Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 8 No 6 (Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale ) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/ HOGWOOD
Edmund Pascha Sanctus (Christmas Mass)
PRAGUE MADRIGAUSTS/VENHODA records
Twelfth of 13 programmes
String Sextet m G major, Op 36 JASCHA HEIFETZ , ISRAEL BAKER (Violins), WILLIAM PRIMROSE , VIRGINIA MAJEWSKI (violas)
GREGOR PIATIGORSKY , GABOR REJTO (cellos)
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op 120 No 2
REGINALD KELL . JOEL ROSEN
Geistliches Wiegenlied , Op 91 NO 2: KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD
HERBERT DOWNES , GERALD MOORE records, mono
Debussy Petite Suite
CLAUDE HELFFER , HAAKON AUSTBO (piano duet)
John Ireland Cello Sonata JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (cello) JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Stanford Symphony in F minor (Irish): BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA/NORMAN DEL MAR records
Introduced by Michael Oliver Stability and Instability: JOHN WARRACK considers aspects of Schubert's last piano sonata. Mozart and Tempo: a conversation with JEFFREY TATE. All Those Bagpipers! JOHN TYRELL explains the background to a recurring figure in Czech opera.
Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE
(Repeated: Christmas Eve at 2.0 pm)
leader BELA DEKANY conductor SIR JOHN PRITCHARD JOSEPHINE BARSTOW (soprano) Britten Les illuminations
11.40* Interval Reading
11.45* Bruckner Symphony No 7
(Presented in association with the Bedford Society)
Roussel Sérénade, Op 30
Derek Bourgeois Quintet , Op 90 (first broadcast performance)
Villa-Lobos Quintet
conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Mozart Serenade No 6 in D (Serenata Nottuma); (K 239) Symphony No 25 in G minor (K 183) records
(piano)
Scriabin Sonata No 3, in F sharp; Five Preludes, Op 74 Prokofiev Sonata No 3, in A minor
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* Beethoven Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
Cello Concerto No 2 played by ANGEUCA MAY AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
(Austrian Radio recording)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
Wolf Three Michelangelo
Songs; Three Christmas Songs Britten Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi, Op 86
Schtttz Die Seele Christi heilige mich
Stephen Games presents a blend of talks, parodies, new writing, interviews and documentaries about issues and themes in the world of the arts.
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
This week: KURT SANDERUNG
Mahler Symphony No 8
(Freiheit in Krahwinkel) by JOHANN NESTROY
Translated and freely adapted for radio by SYBIL AND COUN WELCH with music composed by ELIZABETH POSTON and Other parts played by CHRISTIAN COMBER. MICHAEL JENNER and ALEX JENNINGS with the RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS and the city OF LONDON SINFONIA
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Music direction by JOHN RUTTER Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
MALCOLM BINNS (piano) Faure Ballade
Franck Prelude , Aria and Finale
conducted by JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN ELMAR OLIVEIRA (violin)
Dvorak Serenade in D minor Hindemith Concert music for brass and strings
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
(KWHO, Salt Lake City recording)
(soprano and piano)
Schubert Im Abendrot (D 799); Der libeliche Stern (D 861); Die Sterne (D 684); Im Haine
(D 738); Heimliches Lieben
(D 922) Schwestergruss (D 762); Des Madchens Klage (D 191b); Wiegenlied (D 867); An den Mond (D 193); An den Mond (D 296); Abendbilder (D 650); Standchen (D 889)
