With Stephanie Hughes , including Mozart, arr Wendt Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
English Concert Winds
6.16 Haydn Symphony No 95 in C minor Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
7.04 Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Jascha Heifetz (violin), RCA Victor Orchestra, conductor William Steinberg
7.25 Bizet Suite: Jeux d'Enfants
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
8.05 Gershwin Overture: Let 'Em Eat
Cake Buffalo Philharmonic, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
8.52 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
(Waltz Sequence No 2)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum
With Peter Hobday.
Schubert Klavierstuck in E flat, D946
No 2 Alfred Brendel (piano)
9.11 Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Leon Spierer (violin), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan Discs
With Geraint Lewis.
Warlock Benedicamus Domino
BBC National Chorus of Wales, conductor Simon Halsey
10.05 Bax Phantasy in D minor Steven Burnard (viola),
BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox
10.25 Gumey Down by the Salley Gardens Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano)
10.28 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet:
Suite No 3 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ion Marin
10.45 Artists of the Week:
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
11.20 John Peterson Rituals in Transfigured Time (first broadcast) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Lionel Friend
11.35 Tippett Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles
Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti
With John Toal.
Peter Hope Jaunting Car (The Ring of Kerry) Light Music Society Orchestra, conductor Vivian Dunn
Malcolm Arnold Four Scottish Dances
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Penny Alan Longford Waltz Pro Arte Orchestra , conductor George Weldon
Billy Mayerl Marigold ; Railroad Rhythm Susan Tomes (piano) Robert Famon Jumping Bean
Trevor Duncan Girl from Corsica
Sydney Torch Shooting Start
Radio and television theme tunes
Ketelbey In a Persian Market
Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia, conductor John Lanchbery
Haydn Wood Suite: Paris Slovak RSO, conductor Ernest Tomlinson Repeated next Friday 11.30pm
Chamber Music from Manchester
Introduced by Rodney Slatford.
Martin Roscoe and Kathryn Stott (piano duet)
Mozart Andante and Variations, K501 Schubert Fantasy in F minor, D940 Faure Dolly Suite
Listeners' Requests
Paul Guinery introduces a special Christmas programme of requests for music from the archive.
Music includes:
Paganini Caprice No 5 in A Nathan Milstein (violin)
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat (1st mvt) BBCSO, conductor Adrian Boult Haydn Piano Trio in G. H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo) Parikian Trio Tippett Sosostris 's aria (The Midsummer Marriage) Janet Baker (mezzo),
BBCSO, conductor Norman Del Mar Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595 Sviatoslav Richter , ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten
Plus clips from wartime duo Dobson and Young, and Dame Hilda Tablet 's own 1950s request programme. Producer Vicky Whitaker
Five programmes about nursery rhymes. 5: Ding-Dong Bell
The nursery tale of Tommy Linn and his cat, read by David Holt. With music by the Broadside Band.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm
Five new programmes in the series celebrating great comedy performers. Today Russell Davies looks at Al Read.
The last of five programmes in which singers talk to Rodney Milnes about their interpretations of particular operatic roles. Nicolai Gedda talks about the title role in Massenet's
Werther, with excerpts from the recordings he made with Victoria de los Angeles (as Charlotte) and the Paris Orchestra, conducted by Georges Pretre. Repeat
Schubertiad
Schubert made about four dozen settings of poems by his friend Johann Mayrhofer , and there is hardly a weak song among them.
Gordon Stewart introduces a varied selection of the finest, with performances by Dietrich Fischer -
Dieskau, Lucia Popp , Kurt Moll and Elly Ameling. Repeat
St Michael 's, Framlingham, Suffolk To conclude the series, Adrian Jack visits an East Anglian church containing some remarkable early-Renaissance monuments to the family of the Duke of Norfolk. Guest organist Margaret Phillips plays the instrument which came to
Framlingham from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1708. SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Symphony of a Thousand
Mahler's biggest symphonic extravaganza, based on texts from Goethe's Faust, in a performance given on Sunday at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Mahler Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)
Jane Eaglen , Deborah Voigt , Heidi Grant Murphy , Michelle de Young and Birgitta Svenden (sopranos), Johan Botha (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone), Rene Pape
(bass), New London Children's Choir, Oratory School Choir, University College School Choir, London
Philharmonic Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus, Guildford Choral Society,
London Choral Society, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Thefiveth programme in a 14-part series coupling Haydn sonatas with some of Bartok's major piano works. David Golub (piano)
Haydn Sonata in C, H XVI 48
Bartok Ten Easy Pieces (1908) Haydn Sonata in A flat, H XVI 46
Christmas Day
Back home, Paul's thoughts range across his life.
Paul Durcan reads the final part of his book-length poem.
Andrew Sparling introduces a tribute to Alexander Goehr.
Peter Serkin (piano), London
Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Schoenberg Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (1910)
Goehr Idées Fixes (first performance) Stefan Wolpe Piece for Piano and 16 Instruments (first UK performance) Stravinsky Movements Goehr Little Symphony Producer Philip Tagney
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Ode for the End of the War; Symphony No 7; Wedding Dance (Wedding Suite) Repeated from last Friday
Repeated from Saturday 6pm
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Hasse Solimano
Collegium Vocale, Concerto Kbln, conductor Rene Jacobs
4.40 Bremen Philharmonic/Gunter Neuhold, Emma Schmidt (piano) Schulhoff Piano Concerto
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
5.35 Mozart Symphony No 4 in D, K19; Ah Se in Ciel. Benigne Stelle. K538; Si Mostra la Sorte, K209 Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/
Hubert Soudant , Desiree Rancatore (soprano), Lothar Odinius (tenor)
6.00 Sequence
