Concerto grosso:
Alexander's Feast
Organ Concerto in A, Op 7 No 2: ENGLISH
CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK SIMON PRESTON (organ) Record
Strauss Festival
Prelude: BERLIN PO/BOHM
7.48 trad. arr
Canteloube Berceuse
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (soprano)
LAMOUREUX ORCH /
JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT
7.51 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
PIERRE AMOYAL (violin) BAMBERG SO/
THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER
8.19 Debussy Fetes
(Nocturnes): STRASBOURG PO/LOMBARD. Records
Schubert Overture: Rosamunde: CO OF
EUROPE/ABBADO
Adagio in E flat (D 897) BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Gott in der Natur (D 757) BAVARIAN RADIO CHOIR/ WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
Symphony No 5 in B flat RPO/BEECHAM. Records
Rachmaninov Hymn of the Cherubim
CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH.
OXFORD/SIMON PRESTON
9.41 Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17
KATHRON STURROCK PIERS LANE (pianos)
10.05 Shostakovich
Piano Trio No 2, Op 67 ANDRE PREVIN (piano) YOUNG UCK kim (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)
10.35 Rachmaninov
Etudes tableaux, Op 39 Nos 7 and 9 MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
10.49 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) LOS ANGELES PO/GIULINI
11.38 Scriabin Twelve Studies, Op 8
MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
ANNA MOFFO (soprano)
AMERICAN SO/STOKOWSKI Producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill
BBC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by IVOR BOLTON
Stravinsky Concerto inD
Frank Martin Etudes
The fifth of nine programmes.
GYORGY PAUK (violin) PETER FRANKL (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1
Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3
1.50 Interval Reading
1.55 Sonata in C minor, Op 30 No 2
(Sixth programme on New Year's Day at 1.05pm)
Music for plays and films, including Nestroy's farce
Hðllenangst (1948), Myaskovsky's Das Schwitzbad (1957) and the film Dans les rues (1933).
ENSEMBLE OF THE 20TH
CENTURY/PETER BURWICK (Austrian radio recording)
Journeys and Places
MARILYN DE BLIECK (sop) FRIEDMAN PLAYERS Symphony No 1
SNO/GBSON. Records
at the Aberdeen
International Youth Festival.
AHRENSBURG YOUTH CO/
KARL-HEINZ FARBER
ANGELA DOMANSY (oboe) RHIANON FADLE (clarinet) SILKE BURMEISTER (horn) RAINER BUTZ (bassoon) Mozart Serenata notturna in D (K 239) Sinfonia concertante in E flat (K 297b)
Symphony No 39 (K 543)
In the fourth of six programmes, the drummer and composer Max Roach discusses with Charles Fox the use of music to reflect social and political issues within black American society, including the use of spirituals ('sorrow songs') in the 19th century.
The career of English composer William Busch (1901-45) was cut short by illness just as his music was winning the support of colleagues like Peter Pears and Sir Adrian Boult.
John Amis rediscovers some of Busch's songs and chamber music. and at 6.30pm
Music by William Busch Nicholas Variations YITKIN SEOW (piano)
Four songs performed by PETER PEARS (tenor) VIOLA TUNNARD (piano) Mono record
Piano Quartet
PROMETHEUS ENSEMBLE
Two songs performed by HENRY CUMMINGS (bar) IVOR NEWTON (piano) Mono record Gigue
YITKIN SEOW (piano)
Sonatas in D(Kk 490-2) MALCOLM PROUD (harpsichord)
BBC Northern Ireland
Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)
BERLIN PO/BARENBOIM (Berlin Radio recording)
2: Billy and Me
With Alan Rickman
In 1589 William Byrd was invited to provide music at Ingatestone Hall for Christmas.
We return to the Great
Chamber there to explore the same repertory.
Music by Byrd and his contemporaries is interspersed with Elizabethan Catholic verse, read by CORMAC RIGBY.
CAROLINE TREVOR (alto) ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
0 See panel opposite
by ROBERT BROWNING.
4: Giuseppe Caponsacchi Reader David Brierley. Mono (R)
Faure Masques et bergamasques, Op 112 Tantum ergo (1904)
Messe de requiem, Op 48