07:00
Martin Handley
From 7.00am
Strauss: Simplicius-Walzer, Op 427
Berlin Philharmonic
Nikolaus Harnocourt (conductor)
Chopin: Nocturne in B, Op 62, No 1
Emanuel Ax (piano)
From 8.00am
The 48 at 8:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 23 in B (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Sibelius: Presto for Strings
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
From 9.00am
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Mstislav Rostrophovich (cello)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from the Snow Maiden
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Evgeni Svetlanov (conductor)
10:00
Spirituality
In the run up to Christmas, Iain ponders the connections between spirituality and music.
Holst: Give ye heed unto my dancing; Hymn of Jesus
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Choir and London Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Groves (conductor)
EMI CDM5651282
John Tavener: The Protecting Veil
Steven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Virgin Classics VC7914742
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Philip Dukes (viola)
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS Chan9392
John Cage: Sonata 6
Boris Berman (piano)
Naxos 8.554345
Beethoven: Sanctus (Missa Solemnis)
Ultima label 0630-18945-2
Stockhausen: INORI (excerpt)
SWR Orchestra
Karlheinz Stockhausen (conductor)
Stockhausen-Verlag
David Hykes: Hearing Solar Winds
The Harmonic Choir
David Hykes (director)
OCORA 558607
Frederico Mompou: Piece No 27 (Musica Callada)
Brilliant Classics No 6515
Arvo Pärt: Collage über B-A-C-H
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 5456302
Ernest Bloch: Schelomo
Steven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Virgin Classics VC7907352
12:00
Derren Brown
Michael Berkeley meets Derren Brown, who over the last seven years has enthralled audiences with his famous experiments in 'Mind Control', a potent blend of psychology, illusion and showmanship.
A passionate music-lover, Derren listens every day to Bach, especially the Goldberg Variations and Cello Suites, and many of his choices have a spiritual nature, including Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in alium and Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius.
He also reveals that he used the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto in a live stage show to accompany the slow and painful process of hammering a nail into his nose!
13:00
William Byrd - Loyal servant of the Crown and devout Catholic
Catherine Bott and viol player John Bryan present highlights from a concert featuring Stile Antico and the Rose Consort of Viols that focuses on an apparent contradiction in William Byrd's output.
14:00
23 December 2007
Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests.
16:00
23 December 2007
Live from Birmingham Cathedral.
Introit: Ave Maria (Rachmaninov)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms: 113, 126 (Turle, Clucas)
First Reading: 1 Samuel 1 vv1-20
Office Hymn: Hail, O Star (Ave Maris Stella)
Canticles: Wesley in E
Second Reading: Revelation 22 vv6-21
Anthem: Hymn to the Virgin (Britten)
Matin Responsory (Palestrina)
Final Hymn: Hark! What a sound (Highwood)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata, Fugue et Hymne sur Ave Maris Stella (Flor Peeters)
Director of Music: Marcus Huxley
Assistant Director of Music: Stuart Nicholson
17:00
Schubert's Trout Quintet
Recorded before the Norfolk and Norwich Music Club, Stephen Johnson explores the structure and background of one of Schubert's best loved chamber pieces, the Trout Quintet, with the Gould Piano Trio and friends.
18:30
Sing to the Nation
Aled Jones has some seasonal music to celebrate the culmination of The Choir's year-long Sing to the Nation feature and is joined in the studio by John Rutter, whose choral music has become synonymous with Christmas.
20:00
The Pitmen Painters
By Lee Hall.
Inspired by the book by William Feaver, Billy Elliott writer Lee Hall questions why the arts seem to belong to the privileged few.
Seventy years ago, in an old army hut in Ashington, Northumberland, a group of miners met to talk about art. They wanted their visiting lecturer to explain the secret of a remote world, but he did better than that, he got them painting and put that world in their hands.
George Brown ...... Deka Walmsley
Oliver Kilbourn ...... Christopher Connel
Jimmy Floyd ...... David Whitaker
Young lad, Ben Nicholson ...... Brian Lonsdale
Harry Wilson ...... Michael Hodgson
Robert Lyon ...... Ian Kelly
Susan Parks ...... Lisa McGrillis
Helen Sutherland, Vera Brown ...... Phillippa Wilson
Directed for radio by Kate Rowland.
21:45
A Cloud in a Paper Bag
This drama-documentary by biographer Richard Holmes tells the story of the first decades of ballooning 200 years ago.
Today's sport was then a scientific revolution underwritten with poetry. Getting up and staying aloft was a huge challenge, and what the pioneer balloonists saw from their baskets changed the way we think about the world. In the race to be the first across the Channel, the age old rivalry between Britain and France was renewed.
With Nicky Henson, John Lightbody, Peter Marinker and Eleanor Tremain.
22:30
In Search of England
Rachel Atkins and Joseph Kloska read a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of England from John Agard, Maura Dooley, Robert Browning, Fleur Adcock and George Orwell, with music by Delius, Vaughan Williams, Billy Bragg and Purcell.
00:00
Orpheus
The myth of Orpheus has provided the inspiration for operas, ballets, tone poems and other musical works throughout the ages. Catherine Bott looks at settings of this story, and plays music from works by Stradella, Luigi Rossi, D'India and Alessandro Scarlatti.
01:00
23 December 2007
23 December 2007
With John Shea.
1.00am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Missa Tempore Quadragesimae, MH 553
Ex Tempore
Florian Heyerick (director)
1.16am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Sinfonia in E flat, MH 340
Academia Palatina
Florian Heyerick (director)
1.31am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Ave regina for double choir, MH 140
Ex Tempore
Florian Heyerick (director)
1.42am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Divertimento in A, MH 299
Marcolini Quartett
1.59am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Responsoria ad matutinum in nativitate Domini, MH 639
Ex Tempore
Florian Heyerick (director)
2.12am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), transcr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): 7 Schubert song transcriptions
Naum Grubert (piano)
2.38am
Chadwick, George Whitefield (1854-1931): Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 21
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Julius Hegyi (conductor)
3.16am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): String Quartet No 2 in F (Unfinished)
Ensemble Fragaria Vesca
3.37am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Cantata No 199 (Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
4.01am
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612): Canzon Prima a 5
4.03am
Canzon II Septimi Toni a 8
Canadian Brass
4.06am
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762): Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 3, No 2
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
4.15am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Virta Venhetta vie, Op 37, No 1
Eero Heinonen (piano)
4.19am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Satukuva 3
Liisa Pohjola (piano)
4.25am
Chopin, Frederyk (1810-1849), arr. Kocsis: Nocturne in E flat, Op 55, No 2
Anita Szabo (flute)
Bela Horvath (cor anglais)
4.31am
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880): Kujawiak in A minor for violin and piano
Krzysztof Jakowicz (violin)
Krystyna Borucinska (piano)
4.35am
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891): Ballet suite from Sylvia
Symphony Orchestra of Slovak Radio, Bratislava
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
4.53am
Anon (arr. Praetorius, Michael c.1571-1621): En Rose sa jeg skyde
4.56am
Praetorius, Michael (c.1571-1621): In dulci jubilo
Paul Hoxbro (recorder)
(unidentified tabor player)
Fionian Chamber Choir
Alice Granum (director)
5.00am
Hasse, Johann Adolfe (1699-1783): Overture (Arminio)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)
5.06am
Couperin, Louis (c 1626-1661), arr. unknown: Allemande for two pianos
Tor Espen Aspaas, Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
5.10am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Dance Intermezzo, Op 45, No 2
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5.14am
Darzins, Emil (1875-1910): La valse mélancolique
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Leonids Vigners (conductor)
5.21am
Trénet, Charles (1913-2001): Noël
5.23am
Heyral, Marc (b.19??) arr. Gaston Rochon: Le Noel de la rue
Richard Paré (harpsichord)
Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie
Claude Gosselin (conductor)
5.29am
Hassler, Hans Leo (1554-1612): Canzon duodecimi toni zu acht Stimmen
Geigenbande
5.34am
Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel (1882-1955): Variations Pastorales sur un vieux Noël
Erica Goodman (harp)
Members of the Amadeus Ensemble
5.43am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Les Indes Galantes (excerpts)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje Tonnesen (conductor)
5.57am
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942): Heilige Nacht, Op 2, No 2
Jean Stilwell (mezzo)
Robert Kortgaard (piano)
6.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 29 in A
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
6.21am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Notturno for piano and viola, Op 42
Gisela Bergman (viola)
Patricia Verhagen (piano)
6.41am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto da damera in D, RV 95
Camerata Köln
6.50am
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759): He shall feed his flocks (Messiah)
Marita Kvarving Solberg (soprano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
6.56am
Anon: Quando nascette Ninno
Zefiro Torna
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