Pastorales surun Vieux Noël 5.25
Robert de Vlsee Sarabande (La Du Haut Menil)
(Suite in G) 5.40 Strauss Till Eulenspiegel

With
Penny Gore. McEwen Where the tV;<d 7'nyme Grows London Phi!harmon!C. conductor A!asdair Mitchei!
6.30 Granados P/ano 7r/o, Op 50 Beaux Arts Tr!o
7.00Susato, arrStee)e-Pert<)ns Su<fe from "La Danserye"
London Gabhe!! Brass Ensemble
7.45 Schumann Fantasy P/eces, Op 73 Frankiin Cohen (clarinet).
VtadimirAshkenazy (piano)
8.00 Amo)d '/tt;e Su<te /Vo .t, Op 53 City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.45 Franck Lenore
Touiouse Capitoie Orchestra. conductor Michei Plasson

Donald Macleod introduces music Chabrier wrote after he had resigned his position in the French civil service, including part of his piano suite, and the orchestration he made of this work as the Suite Pastorate.

Villanelle des Petits Canards - Pierre Bernac (baritone), Francis Poulenc (piano)

Ballade des Gros Dindons; Pastorale des Cochons Roses - Bruno Lapiante (baritone), Janine Lachance (piano)

Les Cigales - Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Toutes les Fleurs - Reynaldo Hahn (baritone/piano)

Paysage (Dix Pieces Pittoresques) - Marcelle Meyer (piano)

Suite Pastorale - Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Menuet Pompeux (Dix Pieces Pittoresques) - Kathryn Stott (piano)

Peter Randall-Page talks about his work on a commission to make three sculptures for the new Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place in Sussex.

With Stephanie Hughes.
Bach Pre/ude and Fugue <n C, BtW846 (We//-7emperedWaMer. Book 1) Mieczysiaw Horszowski (piano)
10.1± Schumann Frauent/ebe und'/eben, Op 42 Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Bruno Waiter (piano) 10.32 Beethoven Variations /n C, Op .120
CD/abe/h Variations)
Mieczysiaw Horszowski (piano)

Tommy Pearson presents more highlights from Berlin's festival of youth orchestras.

Today's performances include:

Falla Three Dances (The Three-Cornered Hat) - National Youth Orchestra of Spain, conductor Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo

Shostakovich Symphony No.10 - Norwegian Youth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ole Kristian Rudd

A recital given earlier this month at the BT Studio in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast.
Philip Dukes (viola).
Sophie Rahman (piano)
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in /) flat, Op 70
Hugh Wood Variations
Ernest Bloch Suite (1919)

Ulster Orchestra

J. Strauss (son)...Waltz: Kaiser, Op 4 7 (Emperor) -
Conductor George Cleve

Weill...Violin Concerto - Chantal Juillet, conductor Jan Latham Koenig

Weill...Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - Conductor George Cleve

Mahler...Symphony No.4 - Gillian McIlwraith (soprano), conductor George Cleve

From We!!s Cathedra!. !ntroit: Christ Be with You (Barry Rose ). Responses (Bernard Rose). Psatms 59.60.61
(Barnby. Havergai. Wa!mis!ey, Hervey). Erst Lesson: 2 Kings 3. w 4-24. Office Hymn: Hai!, Gladdening Light (Sebaste). Canticies: Edgar Day in B flat. Second
Lesson: Acts 17, w 1-15. Anthem: For Lo,! Raise Up (Stanford). Hymn: Sun of My Soui (Abends). Organ Voluntary: Toccata in B f)at minor (Vierne). Organist and master of the choristers Maico!m Archer. Assistant organist Rupert Gough.

With Sean Rafferty.
Music includes at 5.40 Bach's Cantata No 51; Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen performed by Nancy Argenta (soprano) and Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) with the Ensemble Sonnerie directed by Monica Huggett : at 6.00 Prokofiev's March in B flat, Op 99, played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Claudio Abbado: and at 6.40 Poutenc's Piano Concerto performed by Pascal Roge and the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Charges Dutoit .

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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and their principal conductor Riccardo Chailly open their third London season with an all-Mahler concert. featuring his settings of poems by Ruckert and Deryck Cooke's realisation of the tenth symphony. Matthias Goerne (baritone).
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Mahler Ruckert-Lieder: Sympnony No 10 (comp/ Cooke)

As the future of universities looks set to become one of the hottest issues of the next ejection. Philip Dodd goes to Oxford, focus of this year's fierce controversy over elitism, to chair a debate on the role of universities in the 21st century, before an audience in the Oxford Union.

Verity Sharp introduces late-night listening, including 13th-century motets from the Notre Dame school sung by the female vocal ensemble Discantus, arrangements of Gershwin by Michael Dnntssy, and Lighthouse by Er)<)<)-Sven Tuur performed by the Viennese Radio Symphony Orchestra.

With Jonathan Swain.
Beethoven Six Variations in F, Op 34 12.15 Gounod Mab. la Reine des Mensonges (Romeo et Juliette) 12.30 Jers))d Three Danish
Romances 12.40 Wagner S<eg/ned/dy//
1.00 A 1951 recording of pianist Glenn Gould performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Ernest MacMihan.
Beethoven Piano Concertos; No.: in C; No 2 in B flat
2.00 Schubert Sympnony No 4 in C minor (Tragic,) 2.35 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

3.00 Together: an Assembly for Schools
3.20 Expressive Arts
3.40 School Musical
4.00 Dance Workshop
4.20 Have Your Say!
4.45 Music for Dance