Petroc Trelawny previews the opera and ballet on television over Christmas.
Music includes at 6.05 Monteverdi's
Beatus Vir performed by the Taverner Consort; at 7.05 Telemann's In Dulci Jubilo played by Collegium Musicum 90: and at 8.20 an excerpt from
Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.
With Peter Hobday.
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Bamberg Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Kempe
9.17 Beethoven String Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5 Italian Quartet
9.48 Handel Chaconne in G. HWV435
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
9.56 Helnlchen Pastorale in A Musica
Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel
10.03 Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noel Choir and Orchestra of Les
Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
A Christmas Selection:
Gundula Janowitz
Joan Bakewell talks to German soprano Gundula Janowitz about the beginning of her career, It was hearing a performance of Wagner's Die
Meistersinger at 12 that made her want to be a singer. Barely ten years later, she was singing for Karajan in Vienna and for Knappertsbusch at the Bayreuth Festival. Repeat
The Christmas Story
Richard Baker tells the story of the Three Wise Men in words and music, including:
Cornelius, arr Atkins The Three Kings Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Resplghl Adoration of the Magi
(Botticelli Pictures) City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Strauss Die Heiligen Drei Könige,
Op 56 No 6 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor George Szell
Menottl Suite: Amahl and the Night Visitors (excerpts) New Zealand SO, conductor Andrew Schenck
Always attracted by the exotic, Bizet indulged this fascination in the opera Djamileh. The story of a slave girl, sold as a mistress and still willingly coming back for more, plumbs new depths of political incorrectness, but the music gave Bizet a new direction that would eventually lead to Carmen. Overture: Djamileh BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Jose Serebrier
Djamileh (excerpts)
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, conductor Lamberto Gardelli
Farewell to the Arab Hostess Ann
Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano) L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
BBC NOW, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Grande Valse de Concert
M Setrak (piano)
Guitare Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano)
Susan Sharpe introduces the last of five weekly concerts for the Christmas season, recorded in the 12th-century Temple Church in London.
O Magnum Mysterium. The Choir of Temple Church and organist James Vivian are directed by Stephen Layton in a mixed programme of Christmas music ranging from piainchant to works by Howells and Richard Rodney Bennett, Poulenc's Four
Christmas Motets and traditional carols.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Paul Mann and Tadaaki Otaka
Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
Prokofiev Symphony No 5
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (excerpts)
Natalie Wheen talks to four of this century's greatest divas.
3: Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson.
Eight contemporary novelists mark their responses to a single moment in classical music with a specially commissioned piece of writing. 3: Gillian Slovo on Carl Orff 's
Carmina Burana.
Music for Christmas past and present, including medieval carols, plainchant hymns and contemporary explorations of the season.
In the fourth of ten programmes, Natalie Wheen climbs to the fifth floor of a des res in central London to find a secluded balcony - and a musical treasure trove.
4: I'm Going Home for Christmas
Seasonal and unseasonal numbers by Noel Coward , Irving Benin and others, with the dance orchestras of Dick Robertson , Jack Hylton , Ambrose and Sidney Lipton ; and with vocalists Evelyn Dall , Sam Browne , Chips
Chipendall, the Swingtettes and Hutch.
From the BBC Proms 1998
Another chance to hear ten of the most memorable concerts of the 1998 BBC Proms season.
4: Prom 65, given on 6 September, honoured the life and immense achievement of Michael Tippett with the work that made his name.
Deborah Riedel (soprano).
Nora Gubisch (mezzo), Jerry Hadley (tenor), John Tomlinson (bass). London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
Beethoven, arr Davis/Matthews String Quartet in E flat, Op 127
Tippett A Child of Our Time Repeat
Rainer Hersch 's 20th-century Retrospective
4: The Rite Stuff. An abbreviated guide to the good, bad and indifferent musical premieres of our times and why one might want to avoid them.
Introduced by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370
Beethoven Quintet in E flat for Piano and Wind, Op 16
3: The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 Until 1929, the Ziegfeld Follies were synonymous with Broadway beauty, flamboyance and extravagance. After the crash, they became leaner, wittier and more musical.
Alyn Shipton remembers the great trumpeters of the Basie Band.
The Young Bach
Schlafe Konnen Sicher Weiden
(Cantata No 208)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman Concerto in A minor, BWV593 (after Vivaldi) Jean-Patrice Brosse (organ)
Canon a 4, BWV1073 Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel Cantata No 199: Mein Herze
Schwimmt im Blut Nancy Argenta (soprano), Ensemble Sonnerie, director Monica Huggett
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebei Repeated from last Thursday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 High Mass for Christmas
A re-creation of a high mass as it might have been celebrated in St Mark's in Venice in about 1600, with chant and fanfares taken from the archives of the Doge's basilica. With music by Gabrieli and de Rore, including the latter's
Missa Praeter Rerum Serium. Gabrieli
Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh
2.20 Wagner Siegfried Idyll Bamberg SO, conductor Horst Stein
2.45 Weber Missa Sancta No 2 in G
(Jubelmesse) Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laveme G'Froerer (mezzo), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts
(baritone), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Jon Washburn
3.10 Krommer Clarinet Concerto in E flat, Op 36 Slavko Goricar , Slovenian PO, conductor Simon Robinson
3.35 Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183 CBC Vancouver
Orchestra, conductor Mario Bemardi
4.00 Chopin Twelve Etudes, Op 10 William Aide (piano)
5.05 Ruppe Christmas Cantata Bouzignac Ensemble, Musica ad Rhenum, conductor Jed Wentz
