With Andrew McGregor. Haydn Mass in B flat (Creation)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo),
Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Collegium Musicum 90, director Richard Hickox
6.47 Mayerl The Forgotten Forest Philip Dyson (piano)
7.05 Bach Trio Sonata in E minor,
BWV528 the King's Consort, director Robert King
7.42 Takemitsu Fantasma-Cantos
Sabine Meyer (clarinet),
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
8.05 Boyce Symphony No 3 in C the English Consort, director Trevor Pinnock
8.18 Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
Introduced by Bishop Jack Spong.
Bexley Music Centre Chamber Choir, conductor John Mackenzie
Niles I Wonder as I Wander
Anon While by My Sheep
Edgard Pettman I Saw a Maiden
With Penny Gore.
Brahms Tragic Overture Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
9.15 Mendelssohn Six Songs without Words, Op 28 (Book 3) Daniel Barenboim (piano)
9.29 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 1 (Emperor) Takacs Quartet Discs
With Piers Burton-Page .
Handel Minuet (Water Music)
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Bournemouth Sinfonietta , conductor Richard Studt
10.03 Artist of the Week:
Paul Steinitz (conductor) Handel Sing unto God
London Bach Society Choir, Steinitz Bach Players
10.22 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370
Lothar Koch (oboe), Brandis Quartet
10.41 Bruckner Fantasy in G Wolfgang Brunner (piano)
10.47 Gottfried von Einem String Quartet No 1
Alban Berg Quartet
11.06 Elgar Overture: Alassio (In the South)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Lloyd Jones
11.28 Somervell A Shropshire Lad David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
11.53 Warlock I Saw a Fair Maiden
Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton
"De-Wagnerisation is necessary," wrote Ernest Chausson in 1888. Roger Nichols discovers how far the composer was able to free himself of Wagner's influence in his last opera, which is on a very Wagnerian subject - the Knights of the Round Table. Le Roi Arthus (excerpts)
Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano), Gino Quilico and Gilles Cachemaille
(baritones), Gosta Winbergh (tenor), Radio France Chorus, New Philharmonia, conductor Armin Jordan
Repeated Christmas Day 11.30pm
Paul Whelan (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Ravel Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques
Duparc Phidyle; Le Manoir de
Rosemonde; Chanson Triste; La Vie Antérieure; La Vague et la Cloche Elena Firsova No, Not a Migraine (first broadcast)
Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
With Susan Sharpe. Ring in with your request by lunchtime for a chance to hear it today, Including Dohnanyi Passacaglia
Annette Servadei (piano)
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82 Albert Sammons ,
William Murdoch (piano)
Roy Harris Symphony No 6 Pacific Symphony Orchestra, conductor Keith Clark
Producer Peter Thresh
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From Birmingham Cathedral. Introit: Advent Responsory
(Palestrina)
Responses (Sanders)
Psalms 93, 94 (Boyce, Flintoft) First Lesson: Isaiah 51, wl-8 Canticles: Noble in A
Second Lesson: Luke 20, w27-44
Anthem: Blessed Be the Lord God of Israel (Dyson)
Hymn: Hark! What a Sound (Highwood) Organ Voluntary: Fantaisie Sonate (Rheinberger) (1st mvt)
Organist and master of the choristers Marcus Huxley. Assistant organist Rupert Jeffcoat. Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Christmas Music
What sort of music were people listening to in Palestine at the time of the birth of Christ? Tommy Pearson investigates.
With Jeremy Nicholas , including Verdi, arr Mackerras Tarantella (The Lady and the Fool) London Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
6.05 Gabrielli Canzon per Sonare No 1 (La Spiritata)
Boston Brass Ensemble, E Power Biggs (organ), conductor Richard Burgin
6.30 Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Jack Brymer , Royal Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham
At 7.00, Jeremy Nicholas goes on a whirlwind tour of the Wurlitzer. Producer Patrick Lambert
Fourteen programmes exploring the symphonic legacy of Anton Bruckner. 12: Annunciation of Death
In his revision of the Eighth Symphony, Bruckner confronts morality with a new urgency. Stephen Johnson introduces a performance of the Symphony No 8 in C minor (1889) by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Gunter Wand. Including contributions from Bruckner scholars and readings from the reminiscences of contemporaries by Joe Dunlop.
Food as a Female Fetish
With Susie Orbach and writers Fay Weldon and Nicola Barker.
Robert Cohen (cello),
Elizabeth Burley (piano)
Faure Après un Reve, Op 7 No 1; Papillon, Op 77 Rozsa Duo, Op 8 Repeat
lain Burnside introduces a recital of Sibelius songs given last October at London's Wigmore Hall by Finnish baritone Jorma Hynninen and pianist Ikka Paananen.
The First Kiss; The Tryst; Theodora; Astray; Driftwood; To Evening; Was It a Dream?; The Diamond on the March
Snow; / Am a Tree; The Flower of Friendship; The Watersprite; Black
Roses; Come Away, Death; Hey, Ho. the Wind and the Rain; The Harp
Player and His Son; On a Balcony by the Sea
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Repeated next Monday 3.45pm
From the esoteric arts of the antiquarian cookbook to the cutting-edge style of designer restaurants, Humphrey Carpenter takes a seasonal look at the culture of food. Producer Robyn Read
With Stephen Johnson.
3: Innocence and Experience
Sanguine Temperament (The Four
Temperaments); String Quartet No 2; Flute Concerto
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Digby Fairweather. Robert Altman talks about his new film
Kansas City, and Steve Voce talks to Oscar Peterson.
The Oscar Peterson interview continues tomorrow
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Inger Dam Jensen (soprano),
Finnish RSO , conductor Sakari Oramo Strauss Six Songs, Op 68 Sibelius Symphony No 5
1.45 Paul Sacher 's 90th Birthday
Concert Twelve tributes to Paul Sacher performed by Patrick and Thomas Demenga (cellos) and a cello ensemble directed by Graziella Contratto
3.00 BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Nicholas Cleobury Beethoven
Overture: The Consecration of the House Tippett Symphony No 1
3.50 Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor Danish NRSO/Ulf Schirmer
5.00 Sequence
