Four programmes of sacred music by the medieval composer
Perotin and his French
Baroque successors. Anon Chants of Christmas Matins from medieval Aquitaine Gerard Lesne
(counter-tenor)
Josep Benet (tenor) Ensemble Organum/ Marcel Peres (organ) Anon Ysaias cecinit
Perotin Viderunt omnes
Hilliard Ensemble. Records
Berlioz Overture:
Waverley
LSO/Colin Davis
7.46 Haydn Cello Concerto in D
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
8.13 J C Bach Symphony in E flat, Op 18 No 1, for double orchestra
Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra/
Pinchas Zukerman
Records
Offenbach
Mesdames de la Halle
(sung in French)
With Michel Hamel , Michel Trempont ,
jean-Philippe Lafont , Charles Buries and Mady Mesple.
Monte Carlo PO/
Manuel Rosenthal. Records
Mass as it might have been celebrated in 17th-century Paris.
Charpentier's setting of the Mass for Christmas night is based on French carols of the period, the chant from contemporary Parisian sources.
Chant Choir/Higginbottom London Baroque/Medlam. (R)
Waldteufel The Skaters'
Waltz, Op 183
Orchestra of the Vienna
Volksoper/Bauer-Theussl Vejanovsky Sonata Natalis Ludwig Guttler , Matthias Schmutzler (trumpets) Virtuosi Saxoniae
Prokofiev Lieutenant
Kije: Chicago SO/Abbado Puccini 'Quando me 'n vo soletta' (La Bohème)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) LPO/John Pritchard
Grainger Blithe Bells
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Kenneth Montgomery Walton Make We Joy Now in This Fest
Christ Church Cathedral
Choir/Stephen Darlington
Bach Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
Bavarian RSO/Salonen
Prokofiev Five Dances from Cinderella: SNO/Jarvi
Concertos and cantatas, including the Cantata pastorale per la nativita del nostro signore Gesit Cristo: London Handel
Orchestra/Denys Darlow Gillian Fisher (soprano) (R)
(piano)
Grieg Lyric Pieces: Op 54 No 6; Op 57/6; Op 38/1; Op 43/1; Op 68/2; Op 57/1; Op 54/3
Tchaikovsky Children Album, Op 39 (R)
Ogives: Aldo Ciccolini Parade: French NO/
Manuel Rosenthal. Records
Episode 2 (Details on p 152. Episode 3 Thursday 4.45pm)
conductor Heinrich Schiff
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor (K 546) Britten Prelude and Fugue, Op 29
Mozart Symphony No 29 in A (K 201) (R)
Kenneth Gilbert (h'chord) Couperin Prelude No 7 in B flat (L'Art de toucher le clavecin)
Ordre No 6 (2nd livre de pièces de clavecin). Records
Janacek's opera in three acts.
Royal Opera Chorus director Robin Stapleton ROH Orchestra conductor Simon Rattle
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Sandy Wilson 's musical based on the book by Ronald Firbank.
Music arranged and conducted by Richard Holmes Director Glyn Dearman (R)
conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Stravinsky Petruschka
Haydn Quartet in Eflat, Op 33 No
Beethoven Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 (R)
Handel
Concerto in D, Op 3 No 6; Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Australia v England First day, Second Test.
