Presented by Paul Guinery.
7.02 Warlock Adam lay ybounden
7.04 Naylor Vox dicentis: Clama
7.14 Paul and Ruth Menz
E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come
7.17 Elgar, arr Chambers Light out of Darkness (Lux Christi)
7.25 Purcell Behold, I bring you glad tidings (Z2)
7.38 Tournemire Christmas
Day (L 'Orgue mystique, Op 55)
8.00 Saint-Saens
Christmas Oratorio
8.37 Hoist Chrissemas Day in the Morning
8.40 Appleby Magnificat

Jeremy Nicholas previews Christmas week on Three.
See also Christmas Day 10.45pm

Mackenzie Overture: The Cricket on the Hearth

9.15 Composer of the Week: Saint-Saens Tarantelle in A minor, Op 6

9.21 Artist of the Week: Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Handel Rejoice Greatly (Messiah)

9.26 Holst Jupiter (The Planets)

9.34 Quilter Suite: Where the Rainbow Ends

9.50 Anon A Virgin Unspotted

9.58 Heinichen Concerto a 8 in

10.05 Puccini La Boheme (excerpts)

10.20 Locke Suite for 4 viols

10.30 Howells Sing Lullaby; A Spotless Rose

10.38 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2

10.55 Schubert Impromptu in B flat (D935 No 3)

11.08 Manfredinl Concerto Grosso in C, Op 3 No 12 (Christmas Concerto)

11.25 Jollvet Pastorales de Noel

11.37 Berlioz Reverie et Caprice

11.45 Bach Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) (Part 1)

(Discs)

Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm

Party Poopers lain Bumside comes up with some songs to put you in the party mood.
Producer Adam Gatehouse

In Ruhleben Camp
During the First World War, many composers were among those interned on Berlin's Ruhleben racecourse. Lewis Foreman tells their story and introduces some of the music they wrote while imprisoned.
Producer Antony Sellors

BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) Rpt

The modern city hardly knows darkness in its purity, the effect of a solitary distant light.
Christopher Page wanders out into the medieval night.

Introduced by Humphrey Burton. All the songs in this programme are settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Thomas Hampson (baritone) Wolfgang Rieger (piano) Ablosing in Sommer; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Lob des hohen
Verstandes; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt;
Rheinlegendchen; Trost im Ungluck; Aus! Aus!; Starke Einbildungskraft; Scheiden und Meiden; Nicht
Wiedersehen!; Der
Schildwache Nachtlied;
Zu Strassburg auf der
Schanz; Revelge; Lied des
Verfolgten im Turm; Der Tambourg'sell; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen:
Das irdische Leben; Das himmlische Leben: Urlicht Next programme Boxing Day
2.50pm

Remember Me, but Ah!
Forget My Fate
Since its first performance in the 1680s (itself a mystery and a source of contention), Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas has enjoyed waves of popularity. It is now prone to stagings ranging from those with Ur-baroque hand gestures to up-to-the-minute productions complete with hallucinogenic drugs and mobile phones. In this documentary, Gwen Hughes explores the opera's 300-year history, with contributions from historians, producers and performers.
Producer Gwen Hughes

(piano)
Pinto Grand Sonata in C minor
Ireland Sonata
Rubbra Eight Preludes, Op 131
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert

By Christopher Marlowe.
A version of Marlowe's play by Sue Wilson. The year is 1537 and an inquiry is in progress into the events which led up to the horrifying death of Dr Faustus and the rumours of his pact with the Devil. Anthea Gomez's score creates a different vision of the hell which Mephostophiles can conjure.
Music by Anthea Gomez performed by the composer and Tim New (Rpt)

On the night of the Nativity, Brian Wright introduces
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in a recent BBC recording from Winchester Cathedral and brings the season of Advent to a close with Marc-Antoine
Charpentier's setting of the seven "0" antiphons. Monteverdi Vespers
Catherine Bott (soprano) Sarah Fryer (alto)
Peter Butterfield ,
Neil Mackenzie and William
Kendall (tenors)
Geoffrey Davidson and Richard Bourne (basses) BBC Singers
Florilegium Ensemble
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cometts/David
Hill Charpentier "0" Antiphons for Advent
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie Producer Antony Pitts

Building a Library
Revised repeat from yesterday
9.00am