Haydn Symphony No 3 inG
L'ESTRO ARMONICO directed by DEREK SOLOMONS
7.18 Praetorius Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR: PARLEY OF
INSTRUMENTS/DAVID HILL
7.35 Corelli Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 8 in G minor (Christmas)
ENGLISH CONCERT/
TREVOR PINNOCK
7.49 Respighi
Botticelli Pictures
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN /
NEVILLE MARRINER
8.08 Strauss Don Juan
DRESDEN STATE
ORCHESTRA/
RUDOLPH KEMPE. Records
Faure: Choral and Orchestral Music A desire for the intangible, perhaps: that IS the domain of music. Pavane, Op 50
MONTREAL SO CHORUS
MONTREAL SO/CHARLES
DUTOIT
Ecce fidelis servus, Op 54 Tantum ergo, Op 55
FRANCOIS-HENRI HOUBART (organ)
FABRICE PIERRE (harp) BRIAN PARSONS (tenor) GROUPE VOCAL DE
FRANCE/
JOHNALLDIS Fantaisie , Op 111
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
LPO/RAFAEL
FRUHBECK DE
BURGOS Salve Regina , Op 67 No 1 CECILE CLAUDE (soprano) FRANCOIS-HENRI HOUBART (organ)
Ave maria, Op 67 No 2 JOHN SCOTT (organ) CAMBRIDGE SINGERS/ JOHN RUTTER
Pelleas et Melisande, Op 80
JILL GOMEZ (soprano) NETHERLANDS RADIO
CHORUS:
ROTTERDAM PO/
DAVID ZINMAN Records
Musique de table, troisieme production: Concerto in E flat for two horns and strings Quartet in E minor, for flute, violin, cello and continuo
Conclusion in B flat for two oboes and strings CONCENTUS MUSICUS.
VIENNA/NIKOLAUS
HARNONCOURT. Records
The second of two programmes.
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (Rider)
Schumann Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
BBC Manchester (R)
Susan Sharpe presents a sequence of Christmas music.
Pergolesi Magnificat ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (soprano)
JANET BAKER (mezzo) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE
(bass); CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN / DAVID WILLCOCKS
11.12 Messiaen La Vierge et l'Enfant (La Nativite du Seigneur: No 1)
JENNIFER BATE (organ)
11.18 Respighi Lauda per la nativita del signore
BENITA VALENTE (sop) MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto)
DAVID GORDON (tenor) PHILADELPHIA SINGERS
CONCERTO SOLOISTS
INSTRUMENTAL
ENSEMBLE/MICHAEL KORN
11.45 Messiaen Les Bergers; Desseins eternels (La Nativite du Seigneur: Nos 2 and 3)
12.00 Tchaikovsky Legend, Op 54 No 5
(Christ in His Garden)
JOHN MCCORMACK (tenor) GERALD MOORE (piano)
12.04 Bach Chorale
(Cantata: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147) dinu LIPATTI (piano)
12.08 Adolphe Adam Cantique de Noel
ENRICO CARUSO (tenor) ORCHESTRA
12.13 Messiaen Les
Enfants de Dieu; Les
Anges (La Nativite du Seigneur: Nos 5 and 6)
12.21 Edmund Pascha Christmas Mass in F
PRAGUE MADRIGAL
SINGERS; MUSICA
BOHEMICA/JAROSLAV
KRCEK Records
live from All Saints Church, Margaret Street , London. BBC SINGERS
CHORISTERS OF ST PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL conducted by JOHN POOLE
Poulenc Quatre motets pour Ie temps de Noel Britten A Boy Was Born, Op 3
0 TICKETS: available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4AA
Introduced by Edward Greenfield
(Details as Saturday 9.30am)
TOSCANINI AND THE BBC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Brahms Tragic Overture Beethoven Symphony
No 1 in C. Mono records: 1937
live from
Southwark Cathedral. Introit: I Sing of a Maiden (Berkeley) Responses (Byrd) Psalm 104
Lessons: Isaiah 13, w
1-13; Colossians 2, w 1-15 Office hymn (NEH 1): Creator of the stars of night; Antiphon: 0 oriens (plainsong)
Canticles: Wood in E flat
(Nol)
Anthem: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come (Paul 0. Manz)
Hymn (NEH 3): Come, thou long-expected Jesus Organ: Chorale prelude: Nun komm' der Heiden heiland (Bach: BWV 661) Organist and Director of Music PETER WRIGHT Assistant organist STEPHEN LAYTON
Bottles, bells, broomhandles - and the Schwafelpfyffli.
John Thornley presents traditional sounds and music from Appenzell, the Muota Valley, the Vaud, Ticino - and the Carnival of Basel; including pre-war recordings by the Swiss folk-clarinettist Kasi Geisser, and by the Alder Family of Umasch. Records
with Fritz Spiegl
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
Robert Hewison chairs a discussion on cultural issues of the decade. Producer JUUAN HALE
from the Royal Albert Hall. Seven centuries of Christmas music, including traditional hymns and chant, folk carols and recent settings of medieval texts such as John Joubert 's There Is No Rose. Plus favourites, some in different guises, including
Mendelssohn's Hark the Herald Angels Sing,
Franz Gruber 's Stille Nacht, and Thomas Greatorex 's arrangement of Adeste, fideles.
OSIAN ELLIS (harp) WAYNE MARSHALL (organ)
TAVERNER PLAYERS
TAVERNER CHOIR
FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S
MUSIC GROUP
LONDON CHORAL SOCIETY NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDREW PARROTT and RONALD CORP
(Given last Wednesday in association with Friends Provident)
A monologue by PAULA KELLY.
An actress prepares; but whose face in the mirror? Read by Margaret Wolfit. Mono (R)
Schumann Violin Sonata in A minor,
Op 105
Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38
OLEG KAGAN (violin)
NATALIA GUTMAN (cello)
ELISO VIRSALADZE (piano) (Austrian Radio recording)
Colin Tudge splits modern science into six programmes.
The third includes
Professor Roger Penrose on the essential difference between brains and computers. Editor DEBORAH COHEN
Jean Sibelius
1906-8
Rosenlied (Six Songs, Op 50 No 6) (1906); Pohjola's Daughter (1906); Aus banger Brust; Die stille Stadt: Six Songs, Op 50 Nos 4 and 5 (1906); Symphony No 3 (1907)
