With Penny Gore.
Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D
6.31 Strauss Oboe
Concerto
7.05 Purcell Portfolio:
A selection of songs
7.21 Pachelbel Partie a 4 in G
7.32 Balakirev Islamey
7.43 Lilburn Diversions for string orchestra
8.05 Beethoven Variations on "Bei Mannern , welche Liebe fuhlen" (WoO 46)
8.32 Dvorak Czech Suite
Discs

Ravel, arr Sadlo Suite: Mother Goose

9.16 Anon Blessed Be Thou, Queen of Heaven

9.23 Daquin Adam Was a Poor Man

9.29 Beethoven Cello
Sonata in A, Op 69

Discs

With Mairi Nicolson ,
Hummel Trumpet Concerto in B flat
10.20 A selection of carols, including the American carol I wonder as / wander
10.30 Artist of the Week:
Martin Roscoe (piano)
Szymanowski Mazurkas, Op 50 (Excerpts)
10.40 Janacek Suite for strings
11.05 Hummel Mass in E flat. Op 80 (first UK performance)

Presented by Karel Janovicky.
3: Travel and Teaching Today's programme includes music by a composer who taught Zelenka in Venice.
Zelenka Trio Sonata No 6 in C minor
Antonio Lotti La Vita
Caduca
Zelenka Sinfonia a 8 in A minor

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Viola and Piano
Philip Dukes (viola) Sophia Rahman (piano)
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Henze Sonata
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 Rpt

Fairest Isle
2.00 Britten's Radio Music
In the final programme, Paul Hindmarsh introduces the first production since the 1930s of the third of Britten's radio anthologies, The World of the Spirit, which received a single broadcast on Whit Sunday in 1938. It's preceded by the music that opened the BBC's Third Programme on 29 September 1946. Occasional Overture
CBSO/Simon Rattle
The World of the Spirit
Hannah Gordon and Cormac Rigby (readers) Susan Chilcott (soprano) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Britten Singers
BBC PO/Richard Hickox
Series producer Paul Hindmarsh

3.00 Midweek Choice
With Susan Sharpe.
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Ring in by lunchtime for a chance to hear your request today. Including:
Rubinstein Staccato Etude
Schumann Konzertstuck , Op 86
Producer Susan Kenyon Discs
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4.00 Choral Evensong
From Guildford Cathedral.
Introit: Ecce concipies (Handl)
Responses (Tomkins)
Office Hymn: Come, Thou Redeemer (plainsong)
Psalm 104 (Hopkins, Goss, Vann)
First Lesson: Micah 4, wl-7
Canticles: Rubbra in A flat
Second Lesson: Colossians 1, w 3-14
Anthem: Laetentur caeli (Byrd)
Hymn: Wake, O wake, with tidings thrilling (Wachet auf)
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Improvisation on "Wachet auf" (Karg-Elert)
Organist and Master of the Choristers Andrew Millington.
Sub-organist Geoffrey Morgan.

Most Musical, Most Melancholy!
Favourite and unfavourite music chosen by guests including soprano Susan Bullock and Paul Gambaccini
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Jeremy Nicholas with a selection of music beginning with Handel, arr Eigar Overture in D minor
Producer Ray Abbott

From the Wigmore Hall, London.
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers Robin Jeffrey (lute)
Anon The Salutation Carol;
Sweet was the song (Ballet manuscript); Quem pastores laudavere; The
Old Year Now Passed Away (Greensleeves) (Playford manuscript)
Poulenc Un soir de neige Britten Hymn to the Virgin; A Shepherd's Carol; The Holly and the Ivy
Poulenc Quatre motets pour un temps de Noël Bennett Nowell , nowell tidings true (Salutation Carol)
Britten Sweet was the Song
Ridout What Child Is This?
(Greensleeves)

An interplanetary journey around the life and music of Gustav Hoist, guided by Piers Burton-Page.
Contributors include composer Colin Matthews , conductors Hilary Davan Wetton and Vernon Handley, Holst biographer Michael Short and Holst scholars Richard Greene, Raymond Head and Lowinger Maddison, friends, colleagues and pupils of the composer, and his daughter Imogen. Marking out the route from his birthplace in Cheltenham via India, Algeria, Hammersmith and Thaxted to Betelgeuse are Holst's own recordings of all seven Planets and a galaxy of his other music, from a masque for St Paul 's Girls' School to his visionary masterpiece Egdon Heath.
See also tomorrow 11.30pm Producer David Gallagher

No Business Like It
Las Vegas is now the theatrical capital of the world, argues
Tony Palmer. His all-star line up of witnesses includes Vegas veterans Mickey Rooney and Debbie Reynolds and new boy Michael Crawford , currently starring in the most expensive stage show in the world.
Revised
See also tomorrow 10.45pm

Not So Christmas Special Forget the holly and the ivy, stuff the nymphs and shepherds: lain Burnside takes a different look at
Christmas.
Producer Adam Gatehouse