With Paul Guinery.
Camilleri L'Evolution de la Joie Peter
Tumbull (trumpet), Kevin Bowyer (organ)
7.11 Anon Natus Est Hodie Dominus
Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres
7.19 Ord, arr Rutter Adam Lay Ybounden Choir of New College,
Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom
7.22 Bach, orch Stokowski
Shepherds' Song (Christmas Oratorio) Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
7.32 Tye While Shepherds Watched Choir of New College, Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom
7.36 Anon, reconstr Rasch 0 Herders Laet Uw' Boxkens en Schapen Comelis Verdonck Amor Jesu
Dulcissime Camerata Trajectina
7.41 Plainchant Ego Sum Vitis Vera Schola Gregoriana Pragensis
7.44 Vitezslav Novak St Wenceslas
Triptych; Toccata Jaroslav Tuma (organ)
7.55 Plainchant Laetabitur lustus
Petr Eben 0 Sanctum et Beatissimum
Virum Schola Gregoriana Pragensis
8.00 Bach Cantata No 63: Christen,
Atzet Diesen Tag
Alison Smart (soprano), Penny
Vickers (contralto), Andrew Wicks (tenor), Graham Titus (bass), BBC
Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.28 Ben Johnston Alarum
Phillip Bush (piano)
8.32 Anon Aensiet Hoe Jesus Schreyt Camerata Trajectina
8.35 Ben Johnston Blues
Phillip Busch (piano)
8.41 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Statements
Ars Nova , conductor Ivan Hansen
8.47 Schemelli, arr Bach 0 Jesulein Suss Choir of New College, Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom
With Fiona Talkington and her guest.
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.15 Mendelssohn, transcr
Rachmaninov A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo) Howard Shelley (piano)
9.20 Purcell The Fairy Queen (First Act Suite) Concert des Nations, director Jordi Savall
9.31 Schubert Nachtgesang im Walde BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Jane Glover
9.38 Josef Strauss Waltz : Dynamiden Vienna PO, conductor Riccardo Muti
9.55 Artist of the Week:
Conductor Robert Shaw
Trad Swing Low , Sweet Chariot; I Got Shoes Robert Shaw Festival Singers
10.02 Strauss Horn Concerto No 1
David Pyatt , Britten Sinfonia , conductor Nicholas Cleobury
10.18 Respighi Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures) Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon
10.27 Haydn Notturno No 1 (For the King of Naples)
Mozzafiato, L'Archibudelli
10.40 Offenbach Ballet des Flocons de Neige (Le Voyage dans la Lune) Gulbenkian Orchestra, conductor Michel Swierczewski
11.09 Hummel Concertino in G
London Mozart Players, director Howard Shelley (piano)
11.25 Bellini Qui la Voce (I Puritani) Sumi Jo (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Giuliano Carella
11.43 Messiaen Dieu Parmi Nous
(La Nativité du Seigneur) Gillian Weir (organ)
11.52 Bach Christmas Oratorio (Part 3) Nancy Argenta (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Olaf Bar (bass),
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque
Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
David Constantine retraces Schubert's journey through the landscape of Upper Austria in 1825. He explores the sources of Schubert's passionate depiction of nature and reflects on how this break was to prepare him for the autumn and winter of his tragically short life. With
Simon Russell Beale as Schubert. Repeat
Abschied. Gordon Stewart 's selection of songs in this final programme of the series says "farewell" to the Schubert bicentenary year.
Solti and the BBC Philharmonic
Mairi Nicholson introduces
Georg Solti 's last Manchester concert, given in March, the only one he gave in the new Bridgewater Hall. During the interval, she talks to him about
Shostakovich's final symphony. Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti Musorgsky Prelude: Khovanshchina; Songs and Dances of Death (orch Shostakovich)
Shostakovich Symphony No 15 See also tomorrow 6.30pm
With George Pratt. Corelll's Op 5 collection of violin sonatas quickly became the most famous publication of its day, prompting countless embellished versions. Violinist John
Holloway and members of Trio
Veracini illustrate their approach to interpreting these works, focusing on issues of ornamentation and texture.
Producer Kate Bolton
A concert given in June by Alfred Brendel at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor,
D537; Four Impromptus, D935; Piano Sonata in B flat, 0960
Lullabies are sung the world over. Across cultures, they share many characteristics such as surprisingly mournful melodies and lyrics more likely to terrify than to soothe. They are increasingly understood to aid the development of the language and imagination of babies, but they have been studied very little. Marina
Warner explores the role of lullabies in the psychological drama of motherhood and childhood, both in the past and the present. Producer Beaty Rubens
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
By William Shakespeare.
Tom Courtenay stars as the wildly jealous King Leontes, who, suspecting his queen Hermione of infidelity with his best friend Polixenes, exacts a terrible revenge which forces the full retribution of the gods.
Murder in the Cathedral. On the eve of the anniversary of the martyrdom of St Thomas Beckett ,
Jeremy Summerly is joined by Mary Berry to introduce Gregorian chant from
Canterbury Cathedral, including the so-called Unfinished Vespers, which monks sang as the knights burst into the cathedral and murdered Beckett on 29 December 1170.
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, director Mary Berry
Producer Andrew Mussett
To conclude his survey of the music of the Seychelles, Nick St George reveals the role music plays in weddings, including the Kamtole, a series of dances borrowed from European culture. There are also the Romans - bittersweet love songs to send the happy couple on their way, plus the new sound of the Seychelles.
Building a Library
Revised repeat from yesterday 9am
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/ Howard Arman , Lena Lootens
(soprano), Petra Lang (mezzo), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Jochen Kupfer (bass), Salzburg Bach Choir
Mozart Galimathias Musicum, K32;
Symphony No 30 in D, K202 Haydn Nelson Mass
2.20 Hans-Peter Stenzi and Volker Stenzl
(piano duet) Brahms Waltzes , Op 39 Schubert Allegro in A minor,
0947 (Lebenssturme)Ovoisk Legends, Op 59 Brahms Hungarian Dances: No 4 in F minor; No 6 in D flat
3.45 Budapest Festival Orchestra/ Charles Dutoit , Lucerne Festival
Chorus Belloz Overture: Beatrice et
Benedict Debussy Three Nocturnes Hoist Suite: The Planets
5.00 Sequence
