The second of two programmes of Christmas music from Baroque Germany.
Scheidt In dulci jubilo
Canzon super cantionem gallicam
Schutz Hodie Christus natus est
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR; LONDON CORNETT
AND SACKBUT ENSEMBLE/ MARTIN NEARY
Praetorius Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern In dulci jubilo
TAVERNER CONSORT, CHOIR AND PLAYERS/
ANDREW PARROTT. Records
Bach Sinfonia
(Christmas Oratorio) TAVERNER PLAYERS/ ANDREW
PARROTT Schmelzer Polnische
Sackpfeiffen MUSICA ANTIQUA OF COLOGNE
REINHARD GOEBEL
Telemann Concerto polonois: ACADEMY OF
ANCIENT MUSIC/HOGWOOD Bach Peasant Cantata
ROTRAUD HANSMANN (soprano)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) VIENNA CONCENTUS
MUSICUS/HARNONCOURT Records
Bax Christmas Eve
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
8.53 Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA/ BARRY ROSE
9.17Schoenberg
Weihnachtsmusik
MEMBERS OF THE LONDON
SINFONIETTA
9.23 Vaughan Williams Hodie: JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
RICHARD LEWIS (tenor) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) BACH CHOIR
CHORISTERS OF
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
LSO/DAVID WILLCOCKS Records
'Carol: a strophic song associated with Christmas'.
Michael Oliver examines the reality behind the definition with Stephen Cleobury Hugh Keyte
William Llewellyn and John Rutter.
Producer ANDREW LYLE
led by James Clark, conducted by Mariss Jansons
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
Strauss Ein Heldenleben
(Given on 2 December in St David's Hall, Cardiff, in association with Chartered Trust plc)
in F (D 803) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
The first of six concerts given in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall featuring the six masses composed 1796-1802 for the name day of Haydn's patron's wife,
Princess Marie Hermengild Esterhazy. BARBARA SCHLICK (soprano)
EIRIAN JAMES (mezzo)
CHRISTOPH PREGARDIEN (tenor)
GERALD FINLEY (baritone)
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
OF THE AGE OF
ENLIGHTENMENT conducted by TON KOOPMAN
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat
Cantata: Berenice che fai?
Bernardi von Offida (Heiligmesse)
The last of nine programmes.
Bartok Portraits for orchestra, Op 5
Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano) CHICAGO SO/GEORG SOLTI (WFMT recording)
ELLY AMELING (soprano) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
Mahler Rheinlegendchen ;
Scheiden und Meiden; Ablosung im Sommer; Das irdische Leben; Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald;
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Lob des hohen Verstandes;
Friihlingsmorgen;
Erinnerung; Ich atmet' einen Linden Duft ;
Liebst du um Schonheit; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Poulenc Fiancailles pour rire
Ravel Five Greek
Folk Songs; Tripatos Satie Ludions
(Norwegian Radio recording from this year's Bergen International Festival)
Beyond the Tunnel of History by Jacques Darras. 5: Towards the Light
'I see Europe poised on the brink of a spiritual and intellectual development that will gather together the scattered embers of its past.'
Jacques Darras finds a clue to our shared
European future in an early cross-Channel cultural interaction: the 'School of Light' established by Irish monks in the medieval city of Laon.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
English Suites: No 2 in A minor (BWV 807); No 4 in F (BWV 809)
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
Monteverdi's Marian Vespers of 1610, performed in the Basilica of St Mark 's, Venice.
0 Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. See page 47 for details
makes a rare return to radio with four readings from As We Were
A Victorian Peep-Show by E. F. BENSON (1867-1940). 1: Lincoln-Truro-Cambridge
E. F. Benson, a popular, prolific and fluent writer of light-hearted prose, was a perceptive and sensitive observer. In
As We Were, along with personal reminiscences of his gifted parents, he presents a charming, witty, amusing and indiscreet gallery of Victorian eccentrics: clergymen, academics, poets, politicians and society hostesses. Compiled by DONALD BANCROFT
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
A meditation on the Nativity, recorded in Durham Cathedral. Chorale prelude:
'Christum wir sollen loben schon'
(Bach: BWV 611)
From east to west, from shore to shore (EH 18) Hark the glad sound
(EH 6): Bethlehem down (Warlock)
See, see, the Word is incarnate (Gibbons) The maker of the sun and moon (EH 16)
Les Enfants de Dieu (La Nativite du Seigneur)
(Messiaen); Sing lullaby (Howells); Of the Father's heart begotten (EH 613) Videte miraculum (Tallis); Proverbs 8, w 22-31; Where is this stupendous stranger? (Christopher Smart)
The Babe whose birth embraues this morn (Richard Crashaw )
Said or sung (Farrer) To my unborn child (Anthony Thwaite)
Colossians 1, w 15-20
Master of the Choristers
JAMES LANCELOT
Organist IAN SHAW BBC Manchester
15 Three-part Inventions English Suite No 6 in D minor (BWV 811) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
Two presents from
Wagner to his Cosima, bom Christmas Eve 1837. Siegfried Idyll
VIENNA PO/GEORG SOLT! Children's Catechism for Cosel's Birthday
MEMBERS OF VIENNA
BOYS' CHOIR; MEMBERS OF
VIENNA PO/SOLTI. Records
Charpentier based his setting of the Mass for Christmas Night on contemporary French carols. In this reconstruction of Midnight Mass in 17th-century Paris, it is heard in the context of French chant of the period. CHANT CHOIR/
EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM LONDON BAROQUE/
CHARLES MEDLAM
