with Andrew McGregor, including at approximately:

7.05 Manfredini Concerto Grosso, Op 3 No 12 - Il Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini

7.20 Saint-Saens Havanaise, Op 83 - Itzhak Perlman (violin) New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta

7.49 Warlock Capriol Suite - Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner

8.05 Purcell Sonata No 10 in D - Catherine Mackintosh and Monica Huggett (violins) Christophe Coin (cello) Christopher Hogwood (organ)

8.24 Mouton Nesciens mater - The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers

8.38 Poulenc Piano Concerto - Pascal Roge (piano) Philharmonia, conductor Charles Dutoit

(Discs)

Introduced by Hugh Keyte. Durham County Youth Choir/Alan Woods
Trad, arr Pettman Sing Lullaby!; The Angel Gabriel

Introduced by the composer, in conversation with Misha Donat.
Musicians Wrestle
Everywhere
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor Gregg Smith Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Quintette Arnold
Variations for Orchestra
Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra/Michael Gielen

with Edward Blakeman.
Artists of the Week: English Chamber Orchestra

Handel Messiah: Christmas Music (Part 1) - Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) Janet Baker (mezzo) Ambrosian Singers/Charles Mackerras

10.35 Reicha Fugues: Nos 28 and 9 Smetana Polka No 4 - John McCabe (piano)

10.45 Emile Bernard Divertissement

11.05 Saint-Saens, arr Taffanel Feuillet d'Album - English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble

11.30 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 - Itzhak Perlman (violin) BBC SO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Debussy Pour le piano; Images; Estampes Boris Berman (piano)

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Alexander Knatfel Vera
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)

John Amis introduces music by Prlaulx Rainier (1903-1986), who regarded the magical memories of her childhood in remote South
Africa - the chanting and dancing of the Zulus, the vastness of the veldt - as the subconscious source of her inspiration, albeit tempered by her love of European art and architecture.
String Quartet Aeolian Quartet Quanta
Janet Craxton (oboe) Oromonte String Trio
Barbaric Dance Suite
Margaret Kitchin (piano) Cycle for Declamation Philip Langridge (tenor)
Ubunzima (Misfortune) Philip Langridge (tenor) Timothy Walker (guitar) Producer Patrick Lambert

Second of two programmes of cradle- and dandling songs from around the world, presented by Veronica Doubleday. Discs

Richard Baker looks at the weekend ahead and introduces a selection of music, including at approximately
5.03 Beethoven Overture:
Leonora No 2
5.30 Glazunov Chant du
Menestrel
6.30 Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No 3 in C
7.03 Tlppett Praeludium for brass, bells and percussion
Producer Ray Abbott

The UK premiere of Messiaen's last completed work, which meditates on aspects of eternal life. Eclairs sur l'au-delà
LSO/Kent Nagano

Aled Jones introduces
Beethoven's great "escape opera", places it in the context of his other work and learns of the effort its composition cost its creator. Why did Beethoven write only one opera - and why this one?
Producer Daniel Snowman
(Fidelio is broadcast live from the New York Met tomorrow night on Radio 3)

Andante and Variations; Songs from the Spanisches Liederspiel; Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70; Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Judith Howarth (soprano) Jean Rigby (mezzo) Robert Tear (tenor)
Henry Herford (baritone)

Invoking the name of Thomas Jefferson , third
President of the Union and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, is even today a ritual in American politics. But how American was he?
To mark the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth, David Walker draws on the statesman's own writings and on conversations with historians, political scientists and constitutionalists to evoke the life of one of the most effective intellectuals to have entered political life. Producer Simon Coates

Transcendental Messiaen -
Oiseaux exotiques and Couleurs de la cite celeste - sets pianist Paul Crossley against the instrumental colours of the London Sinfonietta ... and there's Louis Andriessen s
Hoketus, scored for two identical groups of pan-pipes, keyboards, bass guitar and congas.
Presented by Sarah Walker. Producer Alan Hall