With Humphrey Carpenter, including:

6.33 Palestrina Alma Redemptoris Mater - Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

6.37 Haydn Symphony No 47 in G - Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil

7.12 Liszt Orpheus - LPO, conductor Bernard Haitink

7.47 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80 - Murray Perahia (piano)

8.05 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin - Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

8.28 Brahms Rhapsody in B minor, Op 79 No 1 - Murray Perahia (piano)

Wagner Grand March (Tannhauser) New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.10 Beethoven Romance in F
Stephanie Chase (violin), Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman
9.19 Philipp Nicolai , arr Praetorius Wachet Auf
Bach, arr Marlow Advent Responsary Bach Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns die
Stimme (Cantata No 140)
Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, Richard Marlow (organ)
9.29 Johann Strauss (son) Thunder and Lightning Polka Vienna PO, conductor Carlos Kleiber
9.32 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C sharp minor. Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight) Wilhelm Kempff
9.47 George Chadwick Noel (Symphonic Sketches)
Detroit SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.00 Ten o'Clock Feature -
Christmas Concertos:
Telemann Overture-Suite in A (Festive) Seattle North West Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Alun Francis
10.10 Torelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 8 No 6
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
10.16 Poulenc, orch Lennox Berkeley Rute Sonata Jennifer Stinton, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
10.35 Reger Christmas, Op 145 No 3 Roger Judd (organ)
10.43 Composer of the Week:
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood Producer Fiona Shelmerdine EMAIL: bksm@bbc.co.uk

John Eliot Gardiner
Joan Bakewell 's guest is conductor John Eliot Gardiner. From his early work founding groups such as the Monteverdi Choir, his interpretations of composers from Gluck to Grainger have consistently challenged Orthodoxy. Revised repeat

Ivan Hewett talks to conductor
Leonard Slatkin about the Czech spirit in music. Plus a look at a trendy new bar in Camden. London, which features classical music from
Bach to Steve Reich. Is this the shape of things to come? Producer Jessica Isaacs

Lunchtime Concert
A recital given in May by Gillian Weir on the organ of Westminster
Cathedral in London, celebrating the music of Messiaen. The programme includes the first performance of a newly discovered work, Monodie. Gillian Weir (organ), Lay Clerks of Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell
Messiaen Apparition de I'Eglise
Etemelle; Monodie (first performance); L'Ascension; Messe de la Pentecote
Dufay Missa L'Homme Arme (excerpts)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the masterpieces of medieval writing: a magical tale of knightly endeavour, complete with pageantry, dancing and singing and set against a harsh winter backdrop. Christopher Page evokes the atmosphere of Camelot One Christmastide, with excerpts read by Bob Peck. Producer Kate Bolton

A weekly series exploring the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. Lord Armstrong of llminster introduces recordings of music by Poulenc made by French baritone Pierre Bernac.

49: Marcel Duchamp : Fountain. In 1917, a playful French Dadaist called Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal in a gallery, signed it R Mutt and called it a work of art. Artists and critics discuss whether that piece, Fountain, launched the 20th century's controversial obsession with conceptual art. Producer Matthew Dodd

Ivan Hewett introduces music from 1984, a year which saw continuing political upheaval in Russia.

Berio Requies - London Sinfonietta, conducted by the Composer

Xenakis Thallein - Ensemble Inter Contemporain, conductor Michel Tabachnik

Part An den Wassern zu Babel - Hilliard Ensemble, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)

Simpson Symphony No 7 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley

Michele Roberts explores the life and work of French writer
Stephane Mallarme , who died 100 years ago. Mallarme created a poetry of extraordinary modernity and formal daring and rubbed shoulders with some of the greatest artists of the era at his legendary cultural salons. He has inspired painters from Manet to Degas and composers from Debussy to Boulez. Producer Paul Quinn

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

By John Waters. It is a normal funeral in today's west of Ireland: tears and regrets - some real and some sentimental - when an unknown, illegitimate daughter arrives from England and Irish respectability and provincialism is exposed. with Ian McElhinney , David Kelly , Garrett Keogh , Gina Moxley , Niall Cusack ,
Paddy Scully , John Hewitt , John Olohan and Maggie Cronin. Director Pam Brighton

Brian Kay introduces sacred choral music celebrating the birth of Christ. Edward Naylor Vox Dicentis: Clama BBC Singers, conductor James Whitbourn
Finzi In Terra Pax
Patricia McMahon (soprano), Henry Hurford (baritone), Paisley Abbey Choir, BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor George McPhee Walton Make We Joy Now in This Fest; What Cheer?: All This Time;
King Herod and the Cock Bach Choir, conductor David Willcocks
Edmund Pascha Christmas Mass in F
(Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei) Prague Madrigal Singers,
Musica Bohemica. conductor Jaroslav Krcek
Poulenc Quatre Motets pour le
Temps de Noël Cambridge Singers, conductor John Rutter
Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noël Soloists, St John 's College Choir, Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, conductor George Guest

Singing the Goat
Five programmes in which Benedicte Paviot introduces the traditional music of central France.
1: La Belle Petite Chèvre. Bagpipes and bourrees from the Auvergne and around.

Conductor Jacek Kaspszyk , Alexander Baillie (cello) Sibelius En Saga
Barber Cello Concerto
Dvorak Overture: In Nature's Realm; Carnival Overture; Overture: Othello

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Malmo Chamber Choir Monteverdi
Sestina Brahms Six Songs and Romances, Op 93a Sibelius Rakastava Stenhammar Three Choral Songs
2.00 Bartok Rhapsody No 1 Zoltan Takacs (violin), Finnish RSO/Bister
2.20 Hannikainen Piano Concerto Arto
Satukangas, Finnish RSO/Petri Sakari
3.10 Haydn Sonata in C minor,
H XVI 20 Krzysztof Jablonsky (piano)
3.40 Respighl Suite in G
Robert Boughen (organ), Queensland CO/ Vanco Cavdarski
4.30 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto
No 5 in F Pascal Roge , UNAM PO, conductor Ronald Zollman
5.05 Handel Pensieri Notturni di Filli
Johanna Koslowsky (mezzo). Musica Alta Ripa
5.30 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto
No 1 in G minor Rian de Waal, Per Musica CO/Julian Reynolds