With Andrew McGregor.
Purcell Behold I Bring You Glad Tidings James Bowman (countertenor). Charles Daniels (tenor),
Michael George (bass), Choir of New College Oxford, director Robert King
6.18 Liszt The Christmas Tree
Alfred Brendel (piano)
7.05 Daquin Noëls I and II (Nouveau Livre de Noels)
Christopher Herrick (organ)
7.39 Arnold Concerto for 28 Players City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.05 Trad, arr Grainger Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol Percy Grainger (player piano)
8.25 Delius Eventyr (Once upon a Time)
RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham Editor Andrew Lyle
Introduced by Malcolm Bruno. Birmingham Festival Chamber
Society, conductor Anthony Bradbury Joubert There Is No Rose of Such
Virtue
Anon, arr Bach 0 Jesulein Suss!
Anon, arr Keyte and Parrott Joy to the World
With Penny Gore.
Mendelssohn Six Songs without Words, Op 62 (Bk 5) Livia Rev (piano)
9.15 Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor David Willcocks
9.40 Britten Simple Symphony English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
With Mary Miller.
Gabrieli Jubilate Deo a 10 Gabrieli Consort and Players, director Paul McCreesh
10.10 Liszt Ricordanza
(Transcendental Studies, No 9) Boris Berezovsky (piano)
10.20 Artist of the Week:
Alan Hacker (clarinet/director) Haydn Notturno in F, H II 28 The Music Party
10.50 Simon Thoumire The Gloomy-go-round and the Merry-go-round Simon Thoumire Three
10.55 Massenet Herodiade
(Act 3. sc 12)
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
11.10 Souza The Liberty Bell Band of the Grenadier Guards, conductor Major Rodney Bashford
11.15 Birtwistle Verses
Alan Hacker (clarinet), Karen Evans (piano)
11.22 Handel, arr Mozart Blick auf!; Uns 1st zum Heil (Messiah) Chris de Moor (bass), Namur Chamber Choir.
La Grand Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire
11.37 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Maxim Vengerov ,
LSO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Producer David McGuiness
(1840-93)
For many years, the greatest Russian composer of his day was supported, emotionally and financially, by a wealthy patroness, Nadezhda von Meek. They exchanged photographs and he asked for financial support.
Then he wrote with unexpected news - he was to be married. Excerpts from the letters are read by Alex Jennings and Anna Massey. with music from the composer's ballet scores. Today. music from Swan Lake performed by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov.
Repeated Monday 30 December 11.30pm
A concert given at the Drapers' Hall. Viktoria Mullova (violin).
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100 Janacek Violin Sonata
Webern Four Pieces. Op 7
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Critics' Choice
Revised repeat from Saturday 21 December
9.30am
lain Burnside introduces a recital of Sibelius songs given by Finnish baritone Jorma Hynninen and pianist Ikka Paananen.
Repeated from Wednesday
Russell Davies explores the recording career of saxophonist Lester Young. 1: Ad-lib Blues
Young's debut in 1956 was as brilliant as it was unexpected. Repeat
This week, Latin band Apitos take
Tommy Pearson on a journey through some of the music of South America.
Hot Music for a Cold Day
Today they discover the key to the whole thing - the clave. Producer Julian Gregory
Stephen Johnson traces the evolution of the symphony, In five programmes he invites advocates for pairs of composers who were contemporaries to argue the place each has in the symphony's development. 1: Mozart and Haydn Roy Goodman and Tim Carter explore the origins of the classical symphony and why Haydn and Mozart were the first great symphony composers. Producer Gautam Rangarajan
The first of five programmes in which John O'Conor explores the wealth of piano recordings from the early years of the century.
Liszt Valse Impromptu
Schubert Impromptu in G. D899 No 3 Eugen d'Albert
Liszt Concert Study No 3 in D flat (Un Sospiro)
Frederic Lamond
Liszt Soiree de Vienne No 6 in A minor
Moriz Rosenthal
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor
Bernhard Stavenhagen
Chopin Waltz in A flat. Op 42 Emil von Sauer
Gottschalk The Banjo Arthur Friedheim
Producer David Byers
Jazz saxophonist John Surman was commissioned by the Salisbury
Festival to write Proverbs and Songs. which was given its first performance in the Cathedral in June by Surman himself, the Festival Chorus and John Taylor (organ). Alyn Shipton introduces the concert, which also included Surman's Alter Ego,
Seabird, Hymn 130 and Ovation.
Also taking part are the strings of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Karin Krog (vocals), John Marshall (drums) and conductor Howard Moody.
Classic Woody Allen prose from his anthologies Without Feathers and Side Effects. In tonight's The
Shallowest Man. Lenny Mendel. hypochondriac and TV producer. overcomes his fear of hospitals and disease when he gets the hots for the nurse of his dying friend Meyer Iskowitz. Starring Garrick Hagon as Mendel and Robert Arden as Iskowitz. Narrator Mike McShane.
Producer Chris Neill
With Penny Gore.
Leon McCawley (piano)
Faure Pièces Breves. Op 84
Barber Nocturne (Homage to John Field); Sonata
Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a choice of listeners' favourite tracks from this year. Producer Philip Tagney
With Roger Nichols. Chausson Reveil
Duparc Limitation au Voyage; ignore Chausson Pièce in C
Duparc Romance de Mignon
Chausson The Tempest (excerpts); Chanson Perpetuelle Repeated from Monday
Dave Shepherd meets
Loren Schonberg , who has assembled two sets of Benny Goodman recordings. Producer Terry Carter.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Vilars-sur-Glaine Vocal Ensemble,
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Respighi Lauda per la Nativita del
Signore Haydn Mass in B flat (Theresien)
2.00 Bamberg SO/Herbert
Blomstedt Bruckner , arr Stadlmair Adagio (String Quintet in F)
Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E
3.30 Latvian Christmas Folk Music from Riga Ilgi Folk Group.
Grodi Folk Group. Radio Latvia Chorus. conductor Sigvards Klava
4.20 David Grimal (violin), Karoly Macsari (piano)
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Schubert Fantasy in C. D934
5.00 Sequence
