With Stephanie Hughes , including
Mozart Missa Solemnis in C, K337
Margaret Marshall (soprano), Ann Murray (contralto), Rogers Covey -
Crump (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), David Briggs (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
6.28 Mozart Serenade in C, K525
(Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) Vienna PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan
7.03 Wagner 0 Du Mein
Holder Abendstern (Tannhauser) Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
7.32 Beethoven Variations on "Bei
Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen", WoO 46 Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
8.05 Vivaldi Concerto in C for Two
Trumpets, RV537
Mark Bennett and Michael Harrison
(trumpets), English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.37 Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten
Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

With Penny Gore .
Granados Valses Poeticos
Thomas Rajna (piano)
9.15 Elgar Sea Pictures Janet Baker (mezzo),
LSO, conductor John Barbirolli
9.39 Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner Discs

John Toal begins a voyage through Bach's last masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, with excerpts performed by the Amsterdam Bach Soloists at
10.10, 10.35, 11.02 and 11.42. The programme also includes final utterances from Desdemona, Dinu Lipatti and Brahms.
Rossini Overture: Otello
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.15 Artist of the Week:
Conductor Robert Shaw
Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Derek Lee Ragin (alto), Atlanta
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
10.42 Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor, K310 Dinu Lipatti
11.12 Verdi Willow Song (Otello) Cheryl Studer (soprano),
Paris Bastille Opera Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
11.20 Brahms Viola Sonata in E flat,
Op 120 No 2
Kim Kashkashian , Robert Levin (piano)
11.48 Barber Agnus Dei
Robert Shaw Festival Singers, conductor Robert Shaw

Mezzo Jennifer Larmore talks to Brian Morton
, and New York-based John Musto introduces his cycle of reminiscences and regrets, Recuerdo. Richard Hundley The Astronomers Jennifer Larmore (mezzo), Antoine Palloc (piano)
Theodore Chanier Eight Epitaphs Sanford Sylvan (baritone), David Breitman (piano)
Laurie Anderson 0 Superman The Composer
Ned Rorem Mourning Scene
William Parker (baritone),
William Huckaby (piano), Columbia Quartet Copland Alone
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) John Musto Recuerdo
William Sharpe (baritone), Steven Blier (piano) Barber Dover Beach
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Juilliard Quartet
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Endellion Quartet, Robert Cohen (cello) Schubert String Quintet in C, D956 Repeat

Susan Sharpe presents a special programme for New Year's Eve, including celebrity requests. Producer Brian Jackson Discs
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From Westminster Abbey.
Introit: 0 Nomen Jesu (Du Mont) Responses (Neary)
Psalm 57 (plainsong)
First Lesson: Genesis 4, wl-10 Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: Matthew 10, wl7-22 A Ceremony of Carols (Britten)
No Love That in a Family Dwells (Neary) Organ Voluntary: Praeludium in C, BuxWV137 (Buxtehude)
Choristers of Westminster Abbey, director Martin Neary.
Sub-organist Martin Baker.
Assistant organist Stephen le Prevost. Aline Bewer (harp) Repeated tomorrow lam

In the third programme, Michael Hall looks at the Philadelphia Orchestra and introduces recordings of the orchestra playing Stravinsky,
Wagner, Rachmaninov, Bartok,
Ravel and Musorgsky conducted by Leopold Stokowski , Eugene Ormandy , Charles Munch and Riccardo Muti.

3: Solti Snapshots
Humphrey Carpenter introduces memorable encounters with Solti.
Evelyn Glennie remembers Solti the pianist, and Richard Eyre remembers their first meeting. Repeat

A concert given last month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the London Jazz Festival.

Fred Hersch (piano), Cynthia Clarey (soprano), Jake Gardner (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler

Tchaikovsky, arr Ellington/Strayhorn Overture: The Nutcracker

Ellington Three Pieces from "The River"

Billy Strayhorn, arr Hersch Three Songs

Wilhelm Grosz Afrika Songs

Ellington New World A-Comin

Anthony Davis Notes from the Underground

Ellington Harlem

Ageing Tastes
Travel. John Julius Norwich ,
Christopher Portway and Barbara Toy discuss the way in which travel has changed over this century and how their own personal views of travelling have developed during the course of their lives.

Penny Gore introduces a recital by the Belcea Quartet.
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark)
Debussy String Quartet Repeated tomorrow 3.55pm

In the fifth of six programmes of music from the age of 78rpm records, Jeremy Nicholas introduces listeners' requests for Louis Kentner playing Constant Lambert's arrangement of Uszt's Dante
Sonata, and the voices of Oscar Natzke and Malcolm McEachern.
Final programme tomorrow 10.45pm

John Toal introduces music by Eric Coates.
Calling All Workers BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult Orpheus with His Lute; Who Is
Sylvia?; It Was a Lover and His Lass Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Eugene Asti (piano)
At the Dance (Summer Days)
LSO, conductor Charles Mackerras first Meeting Michael Ponder (viola), Eugene Asti (piano) Saxo-Rhapsody
Jack Brymer (saxophone),
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Charles Groves
Knightsbridge March (London Suite) LPO, conducted by the Composer By the Sleeping Lagoon; The Three Bears
LSO, conductor Charles Mackerras Repeated from Christmas Eve 12 noon

nDigby Fairweather is joined on stage at the Bull's Head in Barnes, one of London's most famous jazz venues, by the dynamic band Sax Appeal and the occasional piper to see in the new year.
Including the chimes of

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian RSO/Mariss Jansons Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919) Shostakovich Symphony No 5
2.35 Stravinsky Octet Members of the RAI National SO/Michele Carulli
2.50 Schubert Lazarus - Oder die
Feier der Auferstehung
Bamberg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Ingo Metzmacher
4.00 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) Salzburg Camerata Academica/Emmanuel Krivine
5.00 Sequence