Bach Trittauf die Glaubensbahn (BWV 152)
CHRISTOPH WEGMANN
(soprano)
THOMAS HAMPTON (bass)
CONCENTUS MUSICUS ,
VIENNA/NIKOLAUS
HARNONCOURT. Record
Satie Preludes du fils des etoiles
FRANCE CLIDAT (piano) Lord Berners Fugue RLPO/WORDSWORTH Ives Variations on 'America': GUNTHER KAUNZINGER (organ) Grainger Suite: In a Nutshell
ENGLISH SINFONIA ORCH/
NEVILLE DILKES
Chabrier Souvenirs de Munich: CHRISTIAN
IVALDI and NOEL LEE (piano duet) Records
Gershwin Cuban
Overture: CLEVELAND
ORCHESTRA/CHAILLY
8.46 Shostakovich The Tale of the Priest and His Hired Man Balda
USSRSO/GENNADY
ROZHDESTVENSKY
8.56 Poulenc Organ
Concerto: MARIE-CLAIRE
ALAIN (organ)
ROTTERDAM PO/CONLON
MELOS ENSEMBLE
OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
9.31 Sammartini Concerto in F
MICHALA PETRI (recorder)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN/
IONA BROWN
9.44 J. S. Ryba Czech Christmas Mass
JAROSLAVA VYMAZALOVA
(soprano)
MARIE MRAZOVA (alto) BENO BLACHUT (tenor) ZDENEK KROUPA (bass) CZECH PHILHARMONIC
CHORUS
PRAGUE SO/
VACLAV SMETACEK Records
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor for seven years, until his recent retirement, died on 5 December. He is here remembered in music by Strauss:
An Alpine Symphony
Concert suite: Capriccio BBCSO; FELICITY LOTT (soprano) (R)
(piano)
Schubert Sonata in G (D 894)
12.50 Interval Reading
12.55 Schumann Vier Nachtstiicke
Prokofiev Sonata No 4 in C minor (R)
A sequence, opening with the Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Gluck's Orfeo and closing with the Concert of Angels from
Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, which recalls the passing this year of a galaxy of musicians whose art has been immortalised by the gramophone:
Denis Matthews , Martti Talvela , Vladimir Horowitz ,
Zinka Milanov , John Ogdon , Gyorgy Lehel ,
Alan Civil , Sir John Pritchard , Anton Dermota and Herbert von Karajan among others.
(tenor and piano)
Mendelssohn Minnelied ; Der Mond; Pagenlied;
Reiselied; Schilflied; Auf Fliigeln des Gesanges
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
3.40 Zweig the Collector Gordon Stewart visits the Stefan Zweig collection of music manuscripts.
Reader STEVE HODSON
An Chloe; Einsam ging ichjiingstimHaine; Die betrogene
Welt; Das Veilchen Abendempfindung Schubert Sei mir gegriisst; Du bist die Ruh; An die Musik Der Musensohn (R)
In his Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture,
Alfred Brendel uses piano demonstrations to shed new light on Schubert's last three piano sonatas, and challenges accepted notions both of Schubert's music and of the composer himself.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON (R)
conducted by YURI TEMIRKANOV
DMITRI ALEXEEV (piano)
Weber Overture: Oberon Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
6.50 Interval Reading
6.55 Musorgsky, orch
Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
Elgar Nimrod (Enigma Variations) (R)
by JOSEF SKVORECKY dramatised by NIGEL BALDWIN. With and Art Themen (saxophone) Original music by Graham Collier.
Musicians MIKE PAGE MIKE MOWER , HOWARD TURNER , IAN WOOD GRAHAM CLARK , KM BURTON,
TREVOR TOMPKINS , GARY HOWE Musical direction by GRAHAM COLLIER
Directed by NED CHAILLET (R)
A fantasy description of Euphonia, the Utopian musical city, as imagined by Hector Berlioz : midnight, 8 March 1869. Composed by David Sawer
Text by NICK DEAR after HECTOR BERLIOZ'S Evenings in the Orchestra.
ROBERT LANG (speaker) ERIC HILL (guitars)
IMOGEN BARFORD (harp) SOPHIA PRESTON (double-bass)
ROLF HIND (keyboards)
JEREMY SAMS (accordion) SIMON LIMBRICK (percussion)
FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S
MUSIC GROUP; BBC SINGERS BBC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by RUPERT BAWDEN and RONALD CORP
Technical presentation by CAMPBELL HUGHES. SIMONWEIR and SIMON HANCOCK
Producers MARTIN COTTON and PHILIP TAGNEY (R)
by ROBERT BROWNING abridged by JOE BURROUGHS and TERENCE TILLER. 5: Pompilia Reader
PATRICIA GALLIMORE
(Firstbroadcastm 1978) Mono
recorded in The Oratory, Birmingham, with The
Rev James Butterworth. ALDWYN CONSORT OF
VOlCES/JONATHAN GIBBS THOMAS TROTTER (organ) Seasonal Latin motets by Poulenc, interspersed with movements from Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur, for organ. BBC Pebble Mill
As I write this letter I am almost going crazy, for it is New Year's Eve.
LEOPOLD MOZART
Words and music to see out the Old Year.
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