with Andrew McGregor.

7.05 Handel Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4 - English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

7.32 Brahms Capriccio in D minor; Intermezzo in A minor (Fantasias, Op 116) - Julius Katchen (piano)

7.42 Britten Simple Symphony - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

8.05 Strauss Festival Prelude, Op 61 - Berlin PO/Karl Bohm

8.32 Tchaikovsky Last Night; To Forget So Soon - Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)

8.52 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E (Il Riposo) (RV270) - Il Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini

(Discs)

Introduced by Hugh Keyte. Colchester Institute Choir, conductor William Tamblyn Gifford Rejoice , ye tenants of the earth
Ninnis Sound, sound your instruments of joy!

Introduced by the composer, in conversation with Misha Donat. Holiday Overture
American Composers' Orchestra/Paul Dunkel Voyage
Rosalind Rees (soprano) Adirondack Chamber
Orchestra/Gregg Smith
A Celebration of Some 100x150 Notes; Remembrance
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Piano Sonata
Charles Rosen (piano) Producer Misha Donat

with Edward Blakeman.
This week features the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, the ECO and the ECO Wind
Ensemble, with some quirky fugues and polkas and a selection of Christmas music.
Artist of the Week:
English Chamber Orchestra Haydn Symphony No in G (Military) conductor Jeffrey Tate
10.40 Reicha Fugues: Nos 6, Wand 14
Smetana Polka No 1
John McCabe (piano)
10.55 Frank Martin Trois chants de Noël
Kathrin Graf (soprano) Peter-Lukas Graf (flute)
Michio Kobayashi (piano)
11.20 Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K252)
11.25 Salieri Music for a Temple of the Night ECO Wind Ensemble
11.35 Bartok Piano
Concerto No 3
Stephen Hough (piano) BBC SO/Andrew Davis Producer Edward Blakeman

The Making of the Savoy Operas
First of two programmes taking a look at Gilbert and Sullivan. For over a hundred years the inseparable partnership that created the Savoy Operas has seemed a national institution.
Geoffrey Smith suggests that their success lay in the differences between the two men.
1: From "Trial by Jury" to "lohnthe".
Producer Peter Tanner

from St John 's, Smith Square, London.
Sophie Rolland (cello)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36
Barber Cello Sonata, Op 6

BBC Philharmonic conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Maxim Vengarov (violin)
George Mcllwham (bagpipes) Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Brahms Violin Concerto inD
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
(Concert given in association with Provincial Insurance pic)

Second of three programmes in which Paul Nicholson plays keyboard music by Byrd on the Dallam organ in Brittany.

Brian Morton continues his six-part survey of jazz in Poland since 1955.
4: Michael Urbaniak
After beginning his career as a saxophonist, Urbaniak switched to electric violin, making a series of successful fusion records.

with Andrew Green.
5.03 Handel Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (Semele)
6.03 Smetana Overture:
The Secret
6.40 Brahms Romanze
(String Quartet, Op 51 No 1)
7.03 Isaac A la Bataglia Producer Andrew Mussett

by Luigi Nono.
Prometheus suffers in eternal captivity: time stands still, sound echoes into silence.
Elena Vink and Sarah
Leonard (sopranos)
Kathrin Pfeiffer and Helena
Rasker (contraltos)
Robert Coupe (tenor)
Evelyne Didi and Mathias Jung (speakers) Instrumentalists
Sound projection by the Heinrich Strobel
Foundation, Freiburg
Dutch Radio Chamber Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ingo Metzmacher

First of four discussions this week on how our present-day concerns influence our view of the past - and vice-versa. Chaired by Roy Porter.
1: People's History. Should the past be viewed from the "top down" or the "bottom up"? With Jonathan Clark ,
Miri Rubin , Raphael Samuel. Producer Daniel Snowman

James Dower and Ransom
Wilson play C P E Bach's
Sonata in E (Wql62) with John Lenehan (harpsichord).

Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
talk to Ure Mullrich of DISSIDENTEN about their collaboration with north
African and Indian musicians. Producer Philip Tagney

The Flute at Court
First of two programmes, presented by flautist Nancy Hadden.
Rachel Brown (flute)
Emily van Evera (soprano) Lucy Carolan (harpsichord) Erin Headley (viola da gamba) Stephen Stubbs (lute/theorbo) Airs de cour by Van Eyck , Boesset and Moulinie de la Barre Trio in C
Marchand Courante and Sarabande (Harpsichord Suite No 1 in D minor) de la Barre Suite in G minor Producer Edward Blakeman