With Humphrey Carpenter , including Elgar, arr Jacob Soliloquy Leon Goossens (oboe), Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
6.45 Schubert Impromptu in B flat, D935 No 3 Jeno Jando (piano)
7.00 Brahms String Quintet in F, Op 88 Amadeus Quartet
7.54 Carter Toccata on "Veni
Emmanuel" John Scott (organ)
Handel Messiah (Sinfony) The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
9.07 John Foster While Shepherds Watched Their Rocks
Taverner Consort and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
9.17 Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D,
BWV1069 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
9.41 Sibelius Finlandia Halle
Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
9.50 Chopin Waltzes: in E flat, Op 18; in A flat, Op 34 No 1 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
10.00 Ten o'Clock Feature -
Christmas Concertos:
Corelll Concerto Grosso in G minor,
Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Night)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.14 Komgold The Snowman (Prelude; Serenade; Entr'acte)
North West German Philharmonic, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
10.22 Praetorlus In Dulci Jubilo
Taverner Consort and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
10.30 Composer of the Week:
Elliott Carter Elegy Los Angeles CO, conductor Gerard Schwarz
10.38 Alkan Scherzo Diabolico , Op 39 No 3 Jack Gibbons (piano)
10.43 Suk Fantastic Scherzo
Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek Producer Fiona Shelmerdine E-MAIL: bksm@bbc.co.uk
Peter Katln
Joan Bakewell talks to pianist Peter Katin , who has over 50 years experience at the keyboard. Revised repeat
Whose Music?
Is the Government abandoning high culture for easy populism?
Ivan Hewett chairs a public debate about the controversial issue of the government's music policies. He is joined by arts minister Alan Howarth ; John Tusa , managing director of the Barbican Centre; and writer and former Conservative minister George Walden.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
Paul Allen introduces a recital from the Manchester Chamber Concerts
Society season given in September in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Ernst Kovacic (violin), Colin Carr
(cello), Pascal Roge (piano)
Beethoven Variations on "Ich Bin der
Schneider Kakadu", Op 121a Faure Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120 Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chabrier, orch Holloway Bourrée
Fantasque Musorgsky , orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
The magnificent Eton Choirbook is one of the few manuscripts of English sacred music to have survived the Reformation. Christopher Page introduces some of its treasures, performed in concert by the Cardinall's Musick.
Producer Kate Bolton
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Tenor Ian Partridge introduces recordings made by the French baritone Gerard Souzay. Producer Mark Rowlinson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
48: Federico Fellini : La Dolce Vita
With the music of Nino Rota ,
Alexander Walker 's memories, a view from the social historian Robert Hewison
and some words of Fellini,
La Dolce Vita and Federico Fellini join the list of Radio 3's Centurions.
Producer Ned Chaillet
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Natalie Wheen discovers cross-cultural references in 1974.
Schnittke Symphony No 1
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Henze Voices No 4 (The Electric Cop)
Paul Sperry (tenor), London Sinfonietta, conducted by the Composer
Messiaen Des Canyons aux Etoiles
Paul Crossley (piano), London Sinfonietta, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Bedo Points on a Curve to Find
Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Henze Voices No 7 (Caino)
Sarah Walker (mezzo), London Sinfonietta, conducted by the Composer
Cornelius Cardew Thalmann Variations The Composer (piano)
The tenth of 20 monthly documentaries surveying the range and diversity of 20th-century music. New Adventures. During the 20th century, the language of music has expanded beyond Schoenberg's wildest dreams: the elements of rhythm, harmony and melody have been refined and reinvented. In the last of three programmes introduced by Samuel West , composers Elliott Carter , Pierre Boulez , John Tavener , Steve Reich , Alexander Goehr ,
Stephen Sondheim and Thomas Ades discuss melody and form. Producer Antony Pitts
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
By Leigh Jackson. A play about the life and times of Erskine Childers , one of the most enigmatic Englishmen of the 20th century. Writer of the celebrated novel The Riddle of the Sands, he was a British patriot who fought in the Boer and First World War, and later became an Irish revolutionary and a propagandist for Sinn Fein in the struggle for Irish independence.
Brian Kay introduces choral hymns in praise of God.
Hoist Hymn of Jesus
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Vaughan Williams Three Choral Hymns Corydon Singers, City of London
Sinfonia, conductor Matthew Best
Britten Hymn to the Virgin
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Britten A Hymn of St Columba The
Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Howells Hymnus Paradisi Joan
Rodgers (soprano), Maidwyn Davies (tenor), Leeds Philharmonic Choir, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley Producer Tim Thome
Sacred Music of India
Concluding the series in which
Richard Widdess explores traditional music on the Indian subcontinent.
Space, Time and Music Repeat
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek , Jan Simon (piano)
Janacek, arr Smolka Suite: The
Excursions of Mr Broucek (first UK performance)
Erwin Schulhoff Piano Concerto No 1
Suk Pohadka
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 CPE Bach Die Israeliten in der Wuste Barbara Schlick and Lena Lootens (sopranos), Hein Meens (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass),
Corona and Cappella Coloniensis/ William Christie
2.30 Brahms Chorale Preludes, Op 122 Olli Porthan (organ)
3.00 Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A Slovenian RSO/Samo Hubad
3.55 Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7 Ilkka Paanenen
4.15 Hellendaal Cello Sonata, Op 5 No 6 Jaap ter Linden,
Ton Koopman (harpsichord),
Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
4.30 Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48 Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Pavol Kovac (fortepiano)
5.40 Kodaly Dances of Marosszek Kornel Zempleni (piano)
