Bach Unser Mund sei voll lachens (BWV 110) WILHELM WIEDL and STEFAN FRANGOULIS (sopranos)
PAUL ESSWOOD and MICHAEL STUMPF (altos) KURT EQUILUZ (tenor) RUUD VAN DER MEER and SIEGFRIED LORENZ (basses)
TOLZER KNABENCHOR
CONCENTUS MUSICUS, VIENNA/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Record
Producer GRAHAM DIXON
Britten Men of Goodwill
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA/ NEVILLE MARRINER
7.44 Chopin Berceuse VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.49
Brahms Sandmannchen
ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
7.53 Mozart Horn
Concerto No 4 in E flat BARRY TUCKWELL (hom) ACADEMY OF ST MARTINI NEVILLE MARRINER
8.09 Bax Festival Overture
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON Records
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Schubert
Symphony No 1 in D DRESDEN STATE
ORCHESTRA/
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH Lazarus (excerpts)
EDITH MATHIS (soprano) STUTTGART RSO AND
CHOIR/GABRIEL CHMURA Records
Producer ANTHONY SELLORS
Scheldt
Galliard Battaglia PHILIP JONES BRASS
ENSEMBLE
9.37 Delius Sleigh Ride NORTHERN SINFONIA/ RICHARD HICKOX
BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY
9.47 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
10.04 Bach Concerto for four harpsichords and strings (BWV 1065) ENGLISH CONCERT/ TREVOR PINNOCK
10.14 Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos
BUDAPEST PO/
JANOS FERENCSIK
10.36 John Playford Lilli Burlero
BROADSIDE BAND
10.38 Eric Coates London Suite
RLPO/CHARLES GROVES
10.52 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT
MUSIC/CHRISTOPHER
HOGWOOD (fortepiano)
11.17 Purcell Chacony in G minor
ENGLISH CONCERT/ TREVOR PINNOCK
11.23 Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat, Op 20 ACADEMY CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE
Producer MARK ROWUNSON BBC Manchester
While the world wishes they'd taken the plastic bag of giblets out of the turkey before they put it in the oven, David Owen Norris roasts three musicians: flute-player Philippa Davies, composer Robert Saxton and pianist Peter Donohoe; and three music-lovers: Detta O'Cathain, who takes over as managing director of the Barbican Centre on 1 January, actor Timothy West and journalist Miles Kington - in a festive battle of wit, words and warbling.
It is notforyou but for later age. BEETHOVEN
(to a violinist who was baffled by the Rasumovsky String
Quartets)
The first of nine programmes of chamber and piano music by Beethoven.
RICHARD GOODE (piano) Sonata in E flat, Op 31
No 3; Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
1.50 Interval Reading
1.55 Bagatelles, Op 126; Sonata in A flat, Op 110 (Given last September in the Wigmore Hall, London)
A portrait of Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970), compiled and presented by Michael Oliver.
With Evelyn Barbirolli , Michael Kennedy , Martin Milner and archive recordings of Sir John himself. Producer ANDREW LYLE (R) revised and at 2.55pm
JOHN BARBIROLLI conducts.
'If you want to conduct Mahler well, his music must be under your skin and in your bones.'
Mahler Symphony No 3 in D minor
KERSTIN MEYER
(mezzo-soprano)
BOYS OF MANCHESTER
GRAMMAR SCHOOL HALLE CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA (1969 recording)
from King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Introduced by Brian Kay.
(Details as Christmas Eve at
3.00pm on Radio 4)
In the first of six programmes John Amis recalls the work of the soprano Margaret Ritchie (1903-69).
During the 40s she sang at Sadler's Wells and with the English Opera Group, where she worked with Britten to create the roles of Lucia and Mrs Wordsworth. Joan Cross,
Nancy Evans and the Earl of Harewood add their thoughts on her career. and at 6.30pm
MARGARET RITCHIE sings in: Purcell The Blessed
Virgin's Expostulation with GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
With REGINALD KELL (clarinet) and GERALD MOORE (piano)
Mahler Symphony No 4 in G (fourth movement) with ROYAL AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/EDUARD VAN BEINUM. Mono records
Six Morceaux, Op 11 JOCELYN ABBOTT
RICHARD MAPP (piano duet) BBC Bristol (R)
by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by Norman Ginsbury.
A repeat of the original 1943 broadcast of the production which brought the late Ralph Richardson to the forefront of British acting. Tyrone Guthrie's radio production later became the acclaimed Old Vic staging of Ibsen's poetic classic.
Walter Goehr specially arranged and conducted Grieg's music for the London Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of men's and women's voices. The original transmission was live.
(Mono)
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
In nativitatem Domini canticum
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS directed by WILLIAM CHRISTIE Records
(Charpentier's Christmas
Pastorale on Wednesday at
9.35am)
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11
Berceuse, Op 16 arr Messager Messe des pecheurs de Villerville
Elegie, Op 24
Caligula, Op 52 Noel, Op 43 No 1
