Suppe Overture:
The Beautiful Galatea
MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT

7.13* Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 25
PETER LUKAS GRAF (flute) FRANCO GULLI (violin) BRUNO GIURANNA (viola)

7.39* Bach Orgelbiichlein Nos 9-17 (Bwv 607-615) WERNER JACOB (organ)

8.0 News

8.5 Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Op 30
MARY SEERS (soprano) MICHAEL CHANCE (alto) PHILIP SALMON (tenor) QUENTIN HAYES (bass) THOMAS TROTTER (Organ) WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS/MATTHEW BEST

8.24* Telemann Fantasia No 3, in B minor
BARTHOLD KUUKEN (flute)

8.28* Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: Roses from the South
Josef Franz Wagner March: The Double Eagle
Weber Invitation to the Dance played on turn-of-the-century musical boxes

8.34* Les six Les maries de la Tour Eiffel
PHTLHARMONIA/GEOFFREY SIMON
records

C. P. E.Bach
The Hamburg Years (1768-88) Harpsichord Concerto in D (Wq43No2)
MELANTE 81 ORCHESTRA directed by BOB VAN ASPEREN (harpsichord)
Sonata in F minor (Wq 57 No 6) LUCIANO SGRlZZI (fortepiano) Duo in E minor (Wq 140) HANS MARTIN-LINDE (flute) JAAP SCHRODER (viola)
Sinfonia in E flat (Wq 183 No 2) ECO/RAYMOND LEPPARD records

Piano Concerto: THE COMPOSER
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN Appalachian Spring
DETROIT SOIANTAL DORATI records
('Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait' on Christmas Day at 7.20pm on BBC2)

Warlock Three carols: Tyrley Tyrlow; Balulalow; The sycamore tree
Richard Rodney Bennett What sweeter music
Mathias A babe is born
Poulenc Four Christmas motets: 0 magnum mysterium
Quem vidistis pastores dicite Videntes stellam
Hodie Christus natus est Hadley I sing of a maiden Hoist This have I done arr Rutter Noel nouvelet Dupre Variations on Noel nouvelet , for organ
MARGARET PHILLIPS (Organ) BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY (R)

COLIN LAWSON (six-keyed clarinet, c 1805)
CHRISTOPHER KITE (fortepiano by Conrad Graf. 1826)
Weber Seven Variations on a theme from 'SUvana', Op 33 Mendelssohn Sonata in E flat

direct from the Henry Wood Hall , Glasgow Roman Jablonski (cello) BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Parti Mussorgsky A night on the bare mountain
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto

Fritz Spiegl delves into some of the lighter manifestations of late-Victorian music-making. Reader JOHN WESTBROOK (R)

Part 2
Tchaikovsky Variations on a rococo theme. Op 33 Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945)

DAVID RUSSELL , Giuliani Grande OuvertureOp 61
Weiss Suite in D major Santorsola Choro
Jorge Morel Allegro (Sonatina) (R)

Paganini Caprices played by young violinists at the 1986 Indianapolis International Violin Competition and by RUGGIERO RICCI , who was on the jury
3.25* Interval Reading
3.35* Echoes of Spain:
Music for cello by Gaspar Cassado played by THE COMPOSER and by GARY HOFFMANN
(1986 Rostropovich Prize-winner) Roberto Gerhard Violin Concerto
YFRAH NEAMAN (violin, who was also on the Indianapolis jury) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS (records and WFIU recordings)

Verdi's Otello
Julian Budden talks about the demanding title-role of Verdi's opera, and includes performances by TAMAGNO, MARTINELU . DEL MONACO , COSSUTTA. VICKERS and others. (R)
(Richard Osborne on Mahler's
Symphony No & Boxing Day at 5.0pm)

String Quartet in F major (K 590) HAGEN STRING QUARTET
(Austrian Radio recording)

Dances and fantasias from the English Court from Henry VIII to James I; by Augustine and Jerome Bassano and Philip van Wilder

Calliope/Philip Pickett

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by louis FRÉMAUX BBC Wales

by Anthony Minghella
Set against frenzied preparations for the 1392 York Corpus Christi Plays, the play begins in an atmosphere of stringent economic cutbacks and financial restraint. But rumours of a royal visit rapidly transform the city into a maelstrom of artistic extravagance and civic social-climbing.
BBC Manchester
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(1712-86)
First of two programmes
Concerto Grosso in G, Op 2 No 3 ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK Voluntary in c, Op 5 No 1
RICHARD BURNETT (John Byfield organ , Finchcocks)
Voluntary in A minor, Op 5 No 10
SIMON PRESTON (Samuel Green organ, Church of St John the Baptist, Armitage)
Concerto in c minor. Op 10 No 4 JOHN TOLL (harpsichord) LONDON BAROQUE: records

Sixth of eight programmes exploring recent trends in Danish music. Introduced by Karl Aage Rasmussen
Steen Pade Quartet No 1
Hans Abrahamsen Quartet No 2 Poul Ruders Quartet No 2 (all first UK broadcasts) KONTRA STRING QUARTET

by JANE OXENFORD
Read by Joanne Pearce
Emily Aspen is out in the cold after a disagreement with her flatmate, though perhaps she's one of the lucky ones. She has choices and the freedom to make them.... But what do those choices lead her towards? Producer GILLIAN THOMAS

No 1, in F minor, Op 2 No 1
No 21, in c. Op 53 (Waldstein) played by John Lill
(Given on 21 October in the Barbican, London)