With Andrew McGregor , including Hoist A Winter Idyll
LPO. conductor David Atherton
6.10 Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano
(Studies, Op 39 Nos 8-10) Marc-Andre Hamelin
7.05 Daquin Noels IX and X (Nouveau Livre de Noels)
Christopher Herrick (organ)
7.34 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
Zino Francescatti ,
NYPO. conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos
8.05 Building a Library: Best of the Bunch
Critics' choice of Christmas discs.
8.22 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467
Stephen Kovacevich ,
LSO, conductor Colin Davis
With Penny Gore.
Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-juges London Classical Players. conductor Roger Norrington
9.12 Mendelssohn Six Songs without Words. Op 102 (Bk 8) Livia Rev (piano)
9.25 Copland Vocalise Fenwick Smith (flute),
Randall Hopkinson (piano)
9.30 Barber Medea 's Dance of Vengeance (Cave of the Heart) Atlantic Sinfonietta conductor Andrew Schenck
9.37 Weber Symphony No 2 in C London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington Discs
With Mary Miller.
Bach Cantata No 151: Susser Trost ,
Mein Jesu Kommt
Sebastian Hennig (boy soprano), Paul Esswood (alto), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Hanover Boys' Choir, Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Leonhardt Consort , director Gustav Leonhardt
10.25 Thoumire Tremendous Fergus Simon Thoumire Three
10.34 Rossini Dal Tuo Stellato
Soglio (Mose in Egitto)
Soloists. Canadian Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Bradshaw
10.40 Artist of the Week:
Alan Hacker (clarinet)
Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat the Music Party
11.17 Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Thomas Zehetmair , Philharmonia, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
11.56 Rodgers and Hammerstein You'll Never Walk Alone
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone). Chorus of Opera North, English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor Paul Daniel
The final programme featuring the correspondence between the composer and his patroness, read by Alex Jennings and Anna Massey. "My mind is with you," writes von Meck, as Tchaikovsky battles to regain control of his life. At the Moscow
Conservatoire he finds teaching a drudgery, rumours about his private life abound and he feels like a criminal on the run. He yearns for freedom, for a lonely, nomadic life, for recognition and fame, and he muses on the origins of musical inspiration. The Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, conductor Mark Ermier Repeated Friday 3 January 12 midnight
Haydn Plus
The last in a season of concerts from
St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, featuring the music of Joseph Haydn. Emperor Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 50 No 5 (Dream)
Webern Six Bagatelles, Op 9
Mozart String Quartet in F, K590
A series in which musicians talk about matters close to their heart.
Pianist Artur Pizarro reveals what he loves and loathes about Portugal.
2.05 Rodrigo Caleseras (Homenaje de Chueca): Fandango del Ventorillo: A I'Ombre de Torre Bermeja
The Rose Consort of Viols and mezzo
Catherine King give a special
Christmas programme with songs and consort music.
Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm
Beecham and the RPO
Paul Guinery explores the early days of the Royal Philharmonic and its founder, who was famous for his corruscating wit, irrepressible energy and sparkling musicianship. Including s made at concerts and in the studio, and the voice of Sir Thomas Beecham introducing music by some of the composers he most admired. Including
Bizet Suite: L 'Arlesienne (excerpts) Bax The Garden of Fand Tchaikovsky Suite: The Nutcracker
Delius Dance Rhapsody No 1
Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner) Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn (St Antoni Chorale) Producer Peter Thresh
Hands On
Tommy Pearson joins Manchester students for a course in the essentials of Latin American percussion playing, led by Dave Hassell and his band Apitos.
Stephen Johnson considers the symphony's place in the 20th century. 5: Whither the Symphony?
Bayan Nothcott and Stephen Walsh consider the different routes taken by the composers of symphonies this century - Stravinsky's various pieces with "symphony" in the title, and composers including Webern, Shostakovich, Berio. Messiaen,
Schnittke and Simpson.
In the final programme, pianist John O'Conor explores piano roll recordings of composers playing their own music. Saint-Saens Rapsodie d'Auvergne
Reger Humoreske in G minor, Op 20 No 5
Mahler Ging Heut' Morgen ubers Feld (Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen)
Grieg The Bridal Procession Passes. Op 19 No 2
Medtner Danza Festiva. Op 38 No 3 Granados Melancolica, Op 37 No 10 Debussy La Soiree dans Grenade (Estampes)
Strauss Traumerei , Op 9 No 4 Gershwin Novelette in Fourths
Prokofiev March in F minor
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier,
Janice Watson (soprano),
Valerie Hartmann-Clayerie (ondes martenot). Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano). Huddersfield Choral Society Poulenc Gloria
Messaien Turangalila-Symphonie
Harold Cohen, a young writer, enters into a fabulous affair with sexy Wasp Connie Chasen. Neither can believe their luck at having found each other, but fate and wily desires of the flesh combine to take their relationship in unexpected directions.
Starring Henry Goodman as Harold and Rebecca Front as Connie
Sarah Walker introduces an all-
British edition and talks to some of the composers featured. Goehr Psalm 39
John Hawkins This World
BBC Singers. Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez
10.35 Michael Berkeley Winter Fragments
Jean Rigby (mezzo), Nash Ensemble , conductor Thomas Ades
Rupert Bawden The Donkey Dances Nash Ensemble, conducted by the composer
11.10 David Nicholls
Jerusalem (BBC commission)
Sarah Leonard (soprano), BBC Singers, Lontano. conductor Odaline de la Martinez
With Roger Nichols.
Duparc Au Pays Ou Se Fait la Guerre; Aux Etoiles
Chausson Les Papillons; Le Colibri: Soir de Fete
Duparc La Vie Antérieure Chausson Poeme
Repeated Friday 3 January 12 midnight
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 A 14th-century Christmas in Prague Cathedral Schola Gregoriana Pragensis/David Eben
1.50 Maria Esther Guzman (guitar).
Music by Sor and his contemporaries
3.00 BBC SO/Ion Marin Ravel
Pavane pour une Infante Défunte Debussy Iberia
3.30 Young Korean pianists play Bach. Chopin. Mendelssohn and Debussy
4.30 Monteverdi Vespers
Vasilika Jezovsek , Mieke van der Sluis
(sopranos), Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum/Neumann
6.00 Sequence
