with Piers Burton-Page .
7.00 Haydn
Cassation in Bflat
7.30 Prokofiev Sonata
No 1, Op 1
8.30 Smetana Overture:
The Bartered Bride. Records
Vivaldi
1: The Most Serene
Venetian Republic
With extracts from the journal of Edward Wright 's visit to Venice in the 1720s read by Martin Jarvis.
Concertos from L 'Estro arnionico, Op 3: No 3 in C; No 8 in A minor, No 9 in D; No 10 in B minor. No
11 In D minor. No 12 in E The English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock
Records
Saint-Saens Prelude
(Christmas Oratorio)
Michael-Christfried Winkler (organ)
Dresden Philharmonic;
Martin Flaming
10.05 Dukas Villanelle
Dennis Brain (horn)
Wilfred Parry (piano)
10.12 Jean Langlais La Nativité, Op 2 No2 The Composer (organ)
10.18 Daniel-Lesur
Le Cantique de Cantiques BBC Singers/John Poole
10.41 Marcel Dupre Variations sur un Noel
The Composer (organ)
10.55 Charpentier Noels sur les Instruments
English Concert/Pinnock
11.04 Ibert
Trois Pièces Brèves
Dennis Brain Wind
Ensemble
11.12 Poulenc Quatre
Motets pour le temps de Noel BBC Singers/John Poole
11.24 Poulenc Ekgie (in memory of Dennis Brain) Alan Civil (horn)
Jacques Fevrier (piano)
11.35 Honegger Une Cantate de Noel
Pierret Mollet (bar)
Lausanne Youth Choir
Lausanne Radio Chorus
Villamont College Children's Choir
Suisse Romande
Orchestra/Ernest Ansermet
Robert Philip introduces a programme of recordings by Serge Rachmaninov , acknowledged as one of the greatest pianists of the century. He includes works by Chopin, Schumann, and Rachmaninov himself, and part of a violin sonata by Schubert, in which Rachmaninov accompanies Fritz Kreisler. Producer Patrick Lambert
live from St John 's, Smith Square. London.
Joaquin Achucarro (piano) Beethoven Variations in F, Op 34; Sonata in E, Op 109
Brahms
Four Pieces, Op 119
conductor David Atherton
Moray Welsh (cello) Britten American Overture
Bridge Oration
Janet Hilton (clarinet) Ronan O'Hora (piano) Berg Four Pieces, Op 5
Brahms Sonata in Eflat, Op 120 No 2
James Dalton plays the organ of Queen's College, Oxford, and talks to Ian Carson.
Buxtehude Te Deum laudamus (BuxWV 218) Bach Sei gegrusset, Jesu git tig (BWV 768)
Music, news, weather and arts news with Rodney Slatford , whose guest is the harpist Marisa Robles. Producer Ray Abbott
Live from Finlandia Hall.
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Jorma Valjakka (oboe)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Salonen Mimo II for oboe and orchestra (first performance)
Aulis Sallinen Four Dream Songs
8.00 David Elliott, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, chairs a discussion on Munch's Frieze of Life, currently the subject of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London. With him to consider this autobiographical "poem of love, life and death" are Alf Boe, Director of the Munch Museum in Oslo, art critic William Varley and artist Paul Eachus.
8.20 Sibelius Lemminkainen Suite
The Nativity The first of five nightly talks in which
Professor John White of University College,
London, celebrates the art of the enigmatic
Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. who died four centuries ago this year. Producer Denis Nowlan
The first of two programmes. Dances and character pieces by the father of French clavecinistes, Chambonnieres, and two of his successors,
D'Anglebert and Louis Couperin , performed by Skip Sempe (harpsichord).
Clive Greensmith (cello) Carole Presland (piano)
Brahms Sonata in F, Op 99 Goehr Sonata (1984)
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present music mixing styles and influences and talk to Philip Sweeney about the current musical scene in Cuba.
Producer Sarah Devonald
Sister Marie Keyrouz performs the traditional chants of the Lebanese
Christian communities, and David Melling explores the medieval secular music of Byzantium.
