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Charpentier Musique de theatre pour Andromede
LONDON BAROQUE/CHARLES MEDLAM
7.14* Handel Organ Concerto in F, Op 4 No 4
SIMON PRESTON (organ)
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.30 News
7.35 Delius Brigg Fair RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.51* Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations, Op 19 No 6 ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
8.03* Arensky Violin Concerto in A minor
SERGEI STADLER (violin)
LENINGRAD PO/
VLADISLAV CHERNUSHENKO. Records
Sullivan
Cello Concerto in D
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (cello)
LSO/CHARLES MACKERRAS. Record The Zoo
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS/ASHLEY LAWRENCE
(original version in E flat, Bwv 243a) HELEN MILES (soprano) PAMELA PRIESTLEY-SMITH (soprano)
JUDITH HARRIS (contralto) NEIL MACKENZIE (tenor)
JONATHAN ROBARTS (bass) BBC SINGERS
LANGHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA led by CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conducted by NICHOLAS KRAEMER
Five pieces for piano, Op 28 (De maman); The Spring, Op 22a; Remembrance,
Op 7 No 3; Dumka, Op 7 No 5 played by RADOSLAV KVAPIL
Presented by Susan Sharpe.
Daquin Noel No 6 MARIE CLAIRE ALAIN (organ)
11.05* Britten A Ceremony of Carols, MARISA ROBLES (harp) CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE directed by GEORGE GUEST
11.28* Daquin Noel No 10 MARIE CLAIRE ALAIN (organ)
11.33* Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA/BARRY ROSE
12.06* Heinrich Schutz The Christmas Story NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) DAVID THOMAS (bass) TAVERNER CONSORT, CHOIR AND PLAYERS/ANDREW PARROTT.
(Records)
John Betjeman's autobiographical poem. Read in ten chapters by the poet. 3: Highgate. Mono (R)
The third of nine concerts. Piano Sonata in c (H XVI 50)
Trios for two flutes and cello: No 1 in c; No 3 in G (London) Trio in G for piano, flute and cello (H xv 15)
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) AURELE NICOLET (flute) EDWARD BECKETT (flute) STEVEN ISSERLIS (Cello) TAKACS QUARTET
(Given on 4 September in the Wigmore Hall, London)
(1906-88)
Conductors are warriors. We have to stand up for somebody, for some style.
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man: DETROIT so Kodaly Dances from Marosszek PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA Bartok Andante tranquillo
(Violin Concerto No 2) YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin)
MINNEAPOLIS SO
Respighi The Hen (The Birds) Webern Five Pieces, Op 10: LSO Gerhard Dances from Don Quixote: BBC so Pettersson, arr Dorati Mens flugorna surra (Eight Barefoot Songs)
ERIK SAEDEN (bass-baritone)
STOCKHOLM PO
Stravinsky The Firebird: Scene 2: lso. Records
A service of music and readings from Westminster Abbey on the Feast of its Dedication. A child is born in Bethlehem (Scheldt)
Bidding Prayer
Reading (RSV): John 1, w 1-14 God Is with Us (A Christmas Proclamation) (Taverner)
Hymn (MHFT 194): Where is this stupendous stranger?
Reading (RSV): Luke 2, w 8-14
The Sussex Carol (arr Willcocks) In the bleak mid-winter (Darke) Hymn (AMNs 41): It came upon the midnight clear
Quem vidistis pastores? (Poulenc) Joseph Lieber (H. Praetorius ) Reading: Christmas (George Herbert )
Good King Wenceslas (arr Williamson)
Reading (rsv): Matthew 2, w 1-12 We three kings (arr Neary)
Reading (Rsv): Matthew 2, w 13-18 Infant holy, infant lowly (arr Neary); Lully, lulla (Leighton) Hymn: The first nowell Prayer and Blessing
Jesus Christ, the apple tree (Poston)
Organist and Master of the Choristers MARTIN NEARY
Sub-Organist ANDREW LUMSDEN
led by RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND PETER FRANKL (piano)
Niels Gade Overture: Echoes ofOssian
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F BBC Northern Ireland (R)
(1888-1975)
A centenary tribute to the German soprano, presented by John Steane : including records of her two most celebrated roles, Briinnhilde and Isolde, as well as music by Mozart, Schumann and Verdi. Mono (R)
The last of three historical travesties by CHRISTOPHER HOPE .
Thus Spake Cosima
'Nietzsche is making notes for a book about superman. R. says it must be based on him. When I ask him how he knows, he replies gently: "What other superman could it be? Supermen don't grow on trees."'
The second of three programmes of the piano quartets of Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Mendelssohn Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3
Judith Weir Serbian Cabaret
8.20* Denis Matthews talks about the Brahms Piano Quartets.
8.25* Brahms Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26
(Given on 12 July in the Pittville
Pump Room, Cheltenham, during the 1988 Cheltenham Festival)
conducted by HANS ZENDER
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Isang Yun Symphony No 5 Irst performance)
(SF Berlin recording)
('Fischer-Dieskau in London
New Year's Day)
Four excursions in poetry and prose compiled by Michel Petheram. Read by Michael Gough and Mark Wing-Davey.
(Final part tomorrow at 9. 50pm)
The fifth of 12 programmes.
English consort dances from the 1607 and 1609 collections of the Hamburg publishers Zacharias Fullsack and Christian Hildebrand ; with music by Johann Sommer , Dowland and Lassus, including the popular 'Suzanne in several different guises. PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by PETER HOLMAN and MARK CAUDLE MILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER
(Nextprogrammme Friday 10.30pm)
Schubert
Cophtisches Lied I
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Record
