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With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mozart Horn Concerto No 4in Eflat, K495 Timothy Brown , Academy of St Martin in the Reids, director Ion Brown Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV270 (II Riposo, per il Santissimo Natale ) Enrico Onofri , II Giardino Armonico Ravel Tzigane
Itzhak Perlman , Paris Orchestra/Jean Martinon 8.30-10.00: Bach Cantata No 110: Unser
Mund Sei VollLachens Vasiljka Jesovsek (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Mark Padmore (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale , director
Philippe Herreweghe Tchaikovsky Suite: The
Nutcracker, Op 71a Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Burnett.
Unknown:
Timothy Brown
Unknown:
Santissimo Natale
Unknown:
Enrico Onofri
Unknown:
Itzhak Perlman
Soprano:
Sarah Connolly
Tenor:
Mark Padmore
Tenor:
Peter Kooy
Bass:
Collegium Vocale
Director:
Philippe Herreweghe Tchaikovsky
Conductor:
Mstislav Rostropovich

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan.
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.36 Lefebure-Wely Sortie in B flat Christopher Herrick (organ) 10.41 Barber Dover Beach Samuel Barber
(baritone), Curtis String Quartet
10.51 Listener request: Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Philharmonia, director Leonard Bernstein (piano)
11.14 Listener request: Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D Borodi n Quartet
11.44 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain
Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Piano:
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor:
Ivan Fischer

4: 1850-1930
Donald Macleod explores how the revival of interest in Bach's music, begun in the early 19th century, soon developed into a full-blown mania, and led to the collection and publication of his complete works. Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 (transcr Liszt) Artur Pizarro (piano)
French Suite No 1 in D minor, BWV812 Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Concerto in C, BWV594 (after Vivaldi) Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)
Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (StAnne) (orch
Schoenberg) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
Repeated on New Year's Eve at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Piano:
Artur Pizarro
Unknown:
Wolfgang Rubsam

Wallace Collection
Christopher Cook introduces more art and music from the Wallace Collection, including seasonal motets from Renaissance France and Charpentier's midnight mass for
Christmas Eve, based on old French tunes. BBC Singers, St James 's Baroque, conductor Bo Holten
Antoine Busnois Noel , Noël
Nicholas Gombert Hodie Nobis Caelorum
Rex
Guillaume Bouzignac Noe, Noe, Pastores Loyset Compere Verbum Caro Factum Est
Orlande de Lassus Videntes Stellam Magi; Quern Vidistis , Pastores?
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe de Minuit

Contributors

Introduces:
Christopher Cook
Singers:
St James
Conductor:
Bo Holten
Conductor:
Antoine Busnois Noel
Unknown:
Verbum Caro
Unknown:
Quern Vidistis

Brian Kay presents highlights of a festive concert recorded earlier this month in Huddersfield Town Hall, in which he conducted the Huddersfield Choral Society and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Music includes Philip Lane 's Overture on French Carols, Gordon Langford 's Yorkshire Medley, Johann Strauss 's Radetzky
March, Op 228, and Pine Cones and Holly Berries by Pete Hope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Philip Lane
Unknown:
Gordon Langford
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Pete Hope.

Legends: Julie Andrews. Edward Seckerson talks to the Broadway and Hollywood star about a careerthat has included childhood performances of opera in vaudeville, My
Fair Lady and Maria in The Sound of Music. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Andrews.
Talks:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Queen Margaret Drive

Rob Cowan presents another chance to hear a highlight of this year's season: Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra at the Promsfor the firsttime since taking up his position as music director.
Tasmin Little (violin),
Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Ligeti Violin Concerto
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan
Unknown:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Bartok Music

Presented by Donald Macleod. Tamas Varga (cello), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bobby McFerrin (vocalist) Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)
Vivaldi, arr McFerrin Concerto in G minor for two cellos, RV531
Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183 Bobby McFerrin Solo Improvisations Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Ravel Bolero Revised

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Cello:
Tamas Varga
Conductor:
Bobby McFerrin
Unknown:
Bobby McFerrin

With Donald Macleod.
Stereophonic Sound; Paris Loves Lovers; It's 's Chemical Reaction; All of You;
Without Love; Fated to Be Mated (Silk
Stockings) Fred Astaire , Janis Paige and Carol Richards , MGM Studio Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
High Society Calypso; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; True Love; Now You Has Jazz; Mind if I Make Love to You?; Well Did You Evah ? (High Society)
Bing Crosby , Frank Sinatra , Grace Kelly , Louis Armstrong and his Band, MGM
Studio orchestra, conductor Johnny Green Get Out of Town (Leave it to Me); From This Moment On (Out of This World); Why Can't You Behave (Kiss Me, Kate) Ella Fitzgerald Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Janis Paige
Unknown:
Carol Richards
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Frank Sinatra
Unknown:
Grace Kelly
Unknown:
Louis Armstrong
Conductor:
Johnny Green
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in C, Op 53
(Waldstein) Radu Lupu (1969); in F, Op 54 Boris Berman (1997); in Fminor, Op 57 (Appassionata) Maurizio Pollini (1976)
2.00 Paganini Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Op 6 2.25 Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor (Unfinished) 3.30 Nivers Officium Defunctorum 4.00 Franck Cantabile in B
(Three Pieces for organ, No 2) 4.05 GrOber Stille Nacht 4.10 Espinal Puis Que en Moi a Recouvre Seignorie 4.15 JCF Fischer
Suite No 4 in D minor, Op 1 No 4 4.30 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 3 in G minor,
BWV1029 4.45 Schumann Myrthen , Op 25 (excerpts) 4.55 Rachmaninov Italian Polka
5.00 Balakirev Overture on Russian
Themes 5.05 Lehar Paganini (excerpt)
5.10 Telemann Trio Sonata in E minor
5.25 Weiss Lute Partita in D minor
5.40 Cesti Qual Profondo Letargo
(Orontea) 5.45 Sweelinck Hodie Christus Natus Est 5.50 Schubert Four
Impromptus, D899 6.20 Poulenc Seven Chansons 6.35 Debussy La Mer

Contributors

Unknown:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Radu Lupu
Unknown:
Boris Berman
Unknown:
Maurizio Pollini
Unknown:
Franck Cantabile
Unknown:
Espinal Puis Que
Unknown:
Schumann Myrthen
Unknown:
Lehar Paganini

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