Praetorius A sequence of dances (Terpsichore)
NEW LONDON CONSORT directed by philip PICKETT
7.17* Vaughan Williams Five
Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
7.30* Bach Orgelbuchlein Nos 25-35 (Bwv 623-33) WERNER JACOB (organ)
7.45* Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude, Act 1
BERLIN PO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT
8.0 News
8.5 Marc-Antoine Charpentier Pastorale sur la naissance de notre seigneur Jesus Christ LES ARTS FLORISSANTS directed by WILLIAM CHRISTIE
8.47* Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune LSO/ANDRE PREVIN records
C.P.E.Bach
The Hamburg Years (1768-88) March for three trumpets and timpani (Wq 188)
LONDON FESTIVAL BRASS ENSEMBLE Five pieces for musical clock (Wq 193): FRANZ HASELBOCK (organ of the Kajetaner Church, Salzburg)
Harpsichord Concerto in c (Wq 43 No 6): MELANTE 81 ORCHESTRA, directed by BOB VAN ASPEREN (harpsichord) Rondo in B flat (Wq 58 No 3)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (fortepiano)
Four Weihnachtslieder (Wq 194 No 43,197 No 11, 198 No5, 194 No 5)
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
LINDA NICHOLSON (fortepiano) Sinfonia in G (Wq 183 No 4) ECO/RAYMOND LEPPARD records
conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
Ravel Piano Concerto in G PASCAL ROGE (piano)
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in c minor
PETER HURFORD (organ)
records
for Christmas Day from the 1559 Prayer Book of Queen Elizabeth I
Music by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Psalm 19; Venite (short service) Te Deum Jubilate
See, see the word is incarnate CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD directed by EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM
(piano)
Schumann Three Fantasy Pieces, Op 111
Liszt Sonata in B minor
(Given on 30 May at the Theatre Royal, Bath, as part of the Bath
InternationalFestival)BBCBristol
conducted by Frantisek Vajnar Georg Druschetzky Partita in E flat (Berdlersgam) Haydn Divertimento
(Feldpartita) No 3, in c (H n 7) Beethoven Rondino in E flat (WOO 25)
Mozart Serenade in c minor (K388)
(Austrian Radio recording)
direct from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Mahler Symphony No 5, in c sharp mmor
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. For details seepage 73
by Giorgio Mainerio
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW : records
from the BBC Archives, given in 1974 at the Royal Festival Hall, London AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
Brahms Quartet in A minor,
Op 51 No 2; Intermezzo in E flat, Op 117 No 1; Capriccio in b minor, Op 76 No 2; Intermezzo in E flat, Op 118 No 6; Capriccio in D minor, Op 116 No 1
4.40* Interval Reading
4.45* Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Wq43No6
from King's College Chapel, Cambridge
The Art of Nicolai Gedda
Few singers have performed so extensive and wide-ranging a repertoire in opera, operetta and in concert as this Swedish tenor, who made his operatic debut in Stockholm in 1952. Nigel Douglas pays a fellow tenor's tribute, with contributions from Gedda himself and extracts from his gramophone recordings. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
CHRISTOPHER STEMBRIDGE (organ) Pedro de San Lorenzo Obra de tono I de registro de mano yzquierda; anon Sonata in A minor Coelho Tento de torn vn natural Camera Cancao a quatro glosada; anon Phantasia de torn I Pedro Araujo Consonancias de torn I; Carreira Fantasia a quarto de torn IV
Scarlatti Sonata in c (Kk 420)
(Fourth programme on New Year Dayat6.30pm)
by RONALD FRAME
Read by Peggy Ashcroft Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland (R)
A celebration of Christmas in music and words presented by Eric Wilkes KEITH SWALLOW (piano) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON Producers MARK ROWUNSON and NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester
Arnold Whittall introduces the first recordings of two works by Lutoslawski Les espaces du sommeil, for baritone and orchestra (1975) Symphony No 3 (1983)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
LOS ANGELES PO/ESAPEKKA SALONEN records
No 2, in a, Op 2 No 2; No 8, in c minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) played by JOHN LILL
(Given on 4 November in the Barbican, London)
Fourth Test
Australia v England
Commentary on the first day's play from the Melbourne Cricket Ground by Christopher Martin-Jenkins Graham Dawson and Jim Maxwell with Norman O'Neill Producer PETER BAXTER
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(Further commentary at 4.55 am)
Fourth Test
Australia v England
The final session of the first day in Melbourne
