Introduced by Paul Guinery. Carols from Bohemia frame a Haydn symphony, more from Peter Hurford 's Bach organ survey and a seasonal work by Britten.
7.35 Haydn Symphony No 52 in C minor
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
8.15 Britten A Boy Was Born
New London Children's
Choir
BBC Singers, conductor Jane Glover
8.45 Bach Toccata and Fugue in F(BWV 540) Peter Hurford (organ) Producer Piers Burton-Page
Introduced by Hugh Keyte. Eton College Choir, conductor Ralph Allwood.
Gibbons Thus angels sung Trad, arr Vaughan Williams This is the truth
Rlmsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers
(The Snow Maiden) LPO/Adrian Boult
9.15 Handel Organ
Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No
Simon Preston (organ)
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
9.25 John Foster
While shepherds watched their flocks
Taverner Choir and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
9.31 Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite de Concert
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor George Weldon
9.44 Artist of the Week: Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Schubert An die Musik; Der Musensohn
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
9.49 Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique
NYPO/Pierre Boulez
10.01 Mozart Piano Sonata in C (K545)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
10.15 Composers of the Week The Court of Gustav III Kraus Divertissement
(Soliman II)
Swedish Royal Opera
Orchestra/Philip Brunelle
10.21 Britten Courtly Dances (Gloriana)
Bournemouth SO/Uri Segal
10.31 Cererols Serafin, que con dulce harmonia Taverner Choir, Consort and Players/Andrew Parrott
10.39 Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Lothar Koch (oboe)
BPO/Herbert von Karajan
11.04 Brahms
Two German Folksongs Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Gerald Moore (piano)
11.08 Handel Qual fior che all'alba ride
Tragicomedia
11.14 lbert
Divertissement
CBSO/Louis Fremaux
11.29 Respighi
The Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures)
Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon
11.37 Charpentier Messe de minuit pour Noël Soloists
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
City of London Sinfonia, conductor George Guest Producer Edward Blakeman
Discs
Presented by Ivan Hewett. This week, the outcome of the London Orchestras report; a new production of Britten's Gloriana at Opera North; and Giles Swaine talks about a concert hall he's building in Ghana.
BBC Philharmonic conductor Fedor Glushchenko
Glinka Overture: A Life for the Tsar
Ippolltov-lvanov
Caucasian Sketches
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
Michael Collins (clarinet) Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Debussy Première rapsodie
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1 Poulenc Clarinet Sonata
3.25 Interval Reading
3.30
Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 73 Lovregllo Fantasy on Themes from Verdi's "La
Traviata", Op 45 Weber Grand duo concertant
A German Requiem, Op45
Edith Wiens (soprano) Hans Sotin (baritone) Berlin Radio Choir
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kurt Sanderling
The final edition of the year celebrates 150 years of Dickens's A Christmas Carol with Humphrey Carpenter and guests.
Producer Trevor Showier
Sophie Rolland (cello)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) Grleg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36
Barbef Cello Sonata, Op 6
by Eduardo da Filippo , in an English version by Peter Tinniswood.
A second chance to hear
Richard Eyre 's Royal National Theatre production of this classic study of Neapolitan life in the Second World War.
Directed for radio by Chris Barton Producer Jeremy Howe
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
In his second report,
Christopher Fox presents the Asko Ensemble, conductor
Hendrik Jan Lindhout
Sarah Leonard (soprano)
Loevendie Drones; Cycles; Lerchen-Trio (In
Memoriam Olivier
Messiaen) (first UK performances)
Louis Andriessen Dances
(first UK performance)
Bach Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen; Christmas Oratorio (Parts I-III) Emma Kirkby (soprano) James Bowman (countertenor) William Kendall (tenor) Peter Harvey (bass) Stephen Keavy (trumpet) Westminster Abbey Choir Brandenburg Consort, conductor Martin Neary
(Recital sponsored by Wogen Resources Ltd)
(Christmas Oratorio, Parts IV-VI, on Christmas Sunday at 10.25pm)
