Verdi Overture: I vespri siciliani LSO'CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.14* Haydn Cello Concerto No2inD YOYO MA ECO/JOSELUIS GARCIA
7.38* Schubert Entr'acte No 1; Ballet Music No 1 (Incidental music: Rosamunde) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA; KURT MASUR
8.00 News
8.05 Beethoven Overture: Egmont CHICAGO SO GEORG SOLTI
8.14* Dvorak Larghetto (Romantic Pieces, Op 75) PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) MARC NEIKRUG (piano)
8.19* C. P. E. Bach Organ Concerto in G (Wq 34) MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (Organ) JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD CO JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD
8.45* Boyce Symphony No 7 in B flat BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA, RONALD THOMAS. Records

Debussy Marche ecossaise AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA'BERNARD HAITINK Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien PHILHARMONIA, GUIDO CANTELLI Poème danse: Jeux AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA BERNARD HAITINK Records

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA led by JOHN TUNNELL conducted by jesus LÓPEZ-COBOS Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 1 Milhaud Le Carnaval de Londres Ravel Suite: Mother Goose (R)

PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenOr) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) Beethoven La partenza; T'intendo si mio cor, Op 82 No 2; Dimmi ben mio che m'ami, Op 82 No 1; L'amante impaziente, Op 82 No 4 Schubert Non t'accostar all' urna; Guarda che bianca luna; Da quel sembiante appresi; Mio ben ricordati Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Quartet in G (K 387)
COULL STRING QUARTET Roger Coull (violin)
Philip Gallaway (violin) David Curtis (viola)
John Todd (cello) BBC Wales

direct from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester FRANCOIS-RENE DUCHABLE (piano) BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by YAN PASCAL TORTELIER Parti
Massenet Ballet suite: Le Cid Ravel Piano Concerto in G

by WASHINGTON IRVING abridged and read by Neville Jason
2: The Legend of the Three Beautiful Princesses
'Daughters, 0 King,' said the astrologer, 'are always precarious property. When they reach a marriageable age, gather them under your wings and trust them to no other guardianship.'
Their names were Zayda,
Zorayda and Zorahayda, in order of seniority, for there had been precisely three minutes between their births. They grew up into wondrous beauty.
('The Legend of the Moor Legacy' next Sunday)

Part 2 Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphonic suite: Sheherazade
BBC Manchester !

Ingrid Seifert (baroque violin) Anne Rbhrig (baroque violin) Charles Medlam (bass viol) William Hunt (bass viol)
John Toll (organ harpsichord) Lawes Royal Consort No 2 in D minor
Gibbons Fantasia
Tomkins A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times
William Young Duo in D minor, for bass viols
Purcell Three four-part String
Fantasias: in F (z 737): in D minor (z 739); in G (z 742)
Couperin Sonata in D minor (La Sultane)
Handel Concerto in D, Op 6 No 5 Mozart Three Epistle Sonatas: in B flat (K 212); in E flat (K 67); in B flat (K 68) BBC Bristol

Jiri Marsalek (flute) Otto Trnka (oboe)
Petr Donek (clarinet) Frantisek Pok (horn) Josef Janda (bassoon) Haydn Divertimento in B flat (H 1146)
Otomar Kvech Kvintetiada
(1984 revision: first broadcast) Lukas Matousek Wind Quintet (1987: first broadcast) BBC Pebble Mill

recorded in Saint Thomas Church , Fifth Avenue. New York, USA
Introit: Let all mortal flesh (Bairstow); Responses
(Ayleward); Psalms: 93, 94 (Nicholson, Thalben-Ball) First lesson (AV): Zechariah 8,vv 1-8
Office hymn: The King shall come when morning dawns Antiphon: 0 root of Jesse
(plainsong); Canticles: Noble in B minor; Second lesson (AV): Matthew 25, vv 14-30; Anthem:
Kindle the gift of God (Hancock) Hymn: Hearken to the anthem glorious; Organ voluntary: Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur (Dupre)
Organist and Master of the Choristers GERRE HANCOCK Associate organist JUDITH HANCOCK

Presented by David Hoult Producer PAUL HINDMARSH BBC Manchester

Eulogy always totters on the brink ofsycophancy, and - in this period - it tumbled over.
Sydney Anglo, Professor in the History of Ideas at University
College, Swansea, reflects upon ways to make friends and influence people at the Renaissance court. (R)

Words compiled and adapted from the Book of Common Prayer by CHARLES JENNENS Music by Handel direct from
Huddersfield Town Hall EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano) ANNE COLLINS (contralto) KEITH LEWIS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY chorusmaster BRIAN KAY NORTHERN SINFONIA led by DAVID GREED conducted by JANE GLOVER Part 1
8.15* Professor Keith Ward explores the meaning and impact of Handel's oratorio Messiah on British religious and social thought.
8.35* Parts 2 and 3 BBC Manchester
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played by timo
KORHONEN Bach Suite in G minor (nwv 995) (arranged from Cello Suite No 5, BWV 1011)
Ginastera Sonata , Op 47 (Finnish Radio recording)

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by sian EDWARDS Tchaikovsky Serenade in c, for string orchestra
Yuri Falik Concerto for
Orchestra No 2 (Symphonic
Studies) (first UK performance) BBC Manchester

Radio 3,7.15pm Messiah
Handel's oratorio brings joy to performers and audiences each Christmas. Tonight, share the occasion in Huddersfield