Paul Guinery explores a variety of musical approaches to the festive season in a programme interspersed with pieces from Liszt's Christmas Tree Suite, played by Leslie Howard (piano)
Charpentier Noëls pour les instruments
Les Violons du Roy, director Bernard Labadie
7.25 Vaughan Williams Hodie Rebecca Evans (soprano) David Rendall (tenor) Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Choristers of Winchester
Cathedral, BBC Welsh
Chorus/Barry Wordsworth
8.30 Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony Pro Arte Orchestra, conductor Barry Rose Producer Piers Burton Page
Bach, arr Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV565) - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
9.13 Watton: Make we joy now in this fest
Leighton: Coventry Carol
- Nicola Jenkin (soprano) The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
9.19 Grieg: Three Orchestral Pieces (Sigurd Jorsalfar) - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen
9.35 Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata pian'e forte - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/John Eliot Gardiner
9.40 Puccini La Boheme (Act 1, excerpt) - Renata Tebaidi (soprano) Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome/Tullio Serafin
9.55 Artist of the Week: Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
Bach: Preludes and Fugues in C and C minor (48' Bk 1)
10.02 Composers of the Week: The Strauss Family
Josef Strauss: Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich - Vienna PO/Willi Boskovsky
10.10 Schutz: Hodie Christus Natus Est - Heinrich Schutz Choir, Instrumental Ensemble, conductor Roger Norrington
10.16 Ravel: Introduction and Allegro - Rachel Masters (harp), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
10.27 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor - Vladimir Horowitz (piano), RCA Victor SO/Fritz Reiner
11.05 Naylor: Vox Dicentis: Clama - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
11.13 Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E (RV270) (U riposo per il Santissimo Natale) - Il Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini
11.21 Britten: St Nicholas (excerpts) - Peter Pears (tenor), Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra/The Composer
11.33 Delibes: Prelude, Mazurka and Act 1 (Coppelia) - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Mark Ermler
(Discs)
A Christmas concert with choral music by Howells and John Gardner , Finzi's
In Terra Pax and Britten's cantata Saint Nicholas.
Margaret Feaviour (sop)
Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) Graham Titus (baritone) BBC Singers
New London Children's Choir
New London Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in E flat
Antony Pay (clarinet)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Andrew Bennett presents a final group of performances by young artists at the National Portrait Gallery. Robert Max (cello)
Zoe Soloman (piano): Liszt, arr Cassado Liebestraum
Webern Three Little
Pieces, Op 11
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Nemo Brass Quintet: Lutoslawski Mini
Overture
Bach, arr Baldwin
Concerto in D minor
(BWV596)
Gershwin, arr Gale Porgy and Bess (excerpts) Paul Lewis (piano):
Liszt Bagatelle without Tonality; Dante Sonata (Recital presented in association with the Sunday Times)
BBC Philharmonic conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Richard Baker (narrator) Offenbach Overture:
Orpheus in the Underworld Keith Amos The Steadfast
Tin Soldier (first UK performance)
Leroy Anderson Sleigh Ride Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite (excerpts)
The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
In a room of a country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly and her tutor; years later in the same room an academic investigation is underway. Tom Stoppard's wittily profound play was first performed at the National Theatre this April.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festive
In his final report,
Christopher Fox introduces Trio Contrastes from
Romania, making their UK debut. They perform music by Costin Miereanu , Stefan Niculescu and Doina
Rotaru in their own distinctive style of "instrumental theatre".
Bach Cantata No 110:
Unser Mund sei voll
Lachens
Christmas Oratorio
(Parts IV- VI)
Emma Kirkby (soprano) James Bowman
(countertenor)
Neil Mackie (tenor)
Simon Birchall (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Martin Neary
