Andrew McGregor is joined by Helen Wallace , Geoffrey Smith , and Stephen Johnson to celebrate the Christmas season with a roundup of this year's best recordings.
10.15 lain Burnside peeps underthe
Christmas tree to look at Yuletide offerings from the record companies.
11.20 Listeners' Choice: Three of listeners' Discs of the Year are picked out of a hat for the record token prize.
11.40 Radio 3 's Disc of the Week:
Leoncavallo Pagliacci Jose Cura (Canio), Barbara Frittoli (Nedda), Carlos Alvarez (Tonio), Charles Castronovo (Beppe), Simon Keenlyside (Silvio), Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, conductor Riccardo Chailly Producers Andrew Lyle and Mark Lowther
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