Petroc Trelawny with a selection of music for Christmas morning, including at 6.05 Messiaen's Le
Baiser de I'Enfant Jesus from Vingt Regards sur I'Enfant Jesus; at 7.10 Britten's variations Men of Goodwill; and at 8.10 Wagner's Siegfried Idyll performed by the Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti.

With Peter Hobday.
Humperdinck, arr Kempe Suite: Hansel and Gretel RPO. conductor Rudolf Kempe
9.27 Anon Hail Mary , Full of Grace; Nowell, Nowell The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
9.37 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat. Op 18 No 6 Budapest Quartet
10.01 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London) Philharmonia, conductor Rudolf Kempe

A Christmas Selection: James Galway James Galway talks to Joan Bakewell about his time as principal flautist with the Berlin Philharmonic under legendary conductor Herbert von
Karajan, and about the different ways in which orchestral musicians are treated around the world. As a solo flautist, Galway is very careful about his choice of conductors. Repeat

The Christmas Story
Richard Baker presents words and music for Christmas Day, including: Britten A Ceremony of Carols
(excerpts) Finzi Singers, Susan Drake (harp), conductor Paul Spicer
Corelll Concerto Grosso in G minor,
Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Concerto) English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Poulenc Hodie Christus Natus Est
(Christmas Motets)
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, director Richard Marlow
Bach Magnificat in E flat, BWV243a Soloists, Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston

Saint-Saens, Brahms, Wagner,
Strauss and even Nietzsche heaped praise upon Bizet's last and greatest opera. Bizet died on the night of the 33rd performance at the age of just 37, when Carmen was still considered a flop. History, however, has proved otherwise.
Carmen (excerpts)
Chorus of Radio France, French NO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Repeated New Dear's Day 12 midnight

Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Andrew Smith (piano)
Flnzi Let Us Garlands Bring
Wolf Sonne der Schlummerlosen;
Keine Gleicht von Allen Schonen
(Songs after Heine, Shakespeare and Byron); Anakreons Grab (Goethe-Lieder); Fussreise;
Verborgenheit; Abschied (Morike Lieder) Brttten The Salley Gardens; The Foggy Foggy Dew (Folk Song Arrangements) Ireland Hope the Hornblower; Tutto e Sciolto; Sea Fever; Great Things

Revised repeat of yesterday. Radio 4 at 3pm For order of service see panel on page 205

Gerald Find's Christmas cantata mixes the Gospel Story with words by Robert Bridges to create an atmospheric evocation of the frosty darkness of a Cotswold Christmas Eve.
Margaret Feaviour (soprano),
Graham Titus (baritone), BBC Singers, New London Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly Repeat

Natalie Wheen talks to four of this century's greatest divas.
4: Romanian soprano
Angela Gheorghiu , one of the newest divas, talks about artists including Mirella
Freni, Renata Tebaldi and Virginia Zeani.

Eight contemporary novelists mark their responses to a single moment in classical music with a specially commissioned piece of writing.
4: Adam Thorpe on Bach's Cantata No 147: Herz und Mund.

Music for Christmas past and present, including medieval carols, plainchant hymns and contemporary explorations of the season.

In the fifth of ten programmes, Natalie Wheen discovers a corner of Greece near Brighton.

Last of the series exploring dance band recordings from Britain and America from 1930-45.
5: The Santa Claus Express. Festive dance band recordings of the 1930s, with the orchestras of Ambrose, the Dorsey Brothers and Joe Loss ;
Charlie Kunz and the Casani Club
Orchestra, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, and the BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Henry Hall ; and vocalists Dan Donovan , George Melachrino , Vera Lynn , the Rhythm Sisters and Elsie Carlisle.

From the BBC Proms 1998
Another chance to hear ten of the most memorable concerts of the 1998 BBC Proms season from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
5: Prom 20, given on 1 August, brought Gershwin's evergreen folk opera Porgy and Bess to the festival for the first time, in the composer's centenary year. Its story of human aspirations provides a vivid political parable for our times.
Gershwin Porgy and Bess
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus,
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Wayne Marshall Repeat

Rainer Hersch 's 20th-century Retrospective
5: We'll Sort It Out in the Edit.
Rainer Hersch ponders what music has made of the recording industry and what the recording industry has made of us.

Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op 102 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano)

Repeated from Saturday 19 December 6pm

The Young Bach
Fugue in G minor, BWV542 No 2 Ton Koopman (organ)
Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch der
Sunde Nathalie Stutzmann (alto),
Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman English Suite No 3 Andras Schiff (piano) Christmas Preludes (Orgelbuchlein) Rene Saorgin (organ)
Prelude and Fugue in C. BWV545 Ton Koopman (organ) Repeated from last Friday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor; Symphony No 8 in F
Sinfonia Varsovia/Jacek Kaspszyk
2.10 Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2
Ljubljanski Godalni Quartet
2.45 Cavalli Salve Regina
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
3.00 Tartlnl Cello Concerto in A
Milos Mlejnik , Slovenian Soloists, conductor Marko Munih
3.25 Schumann Symphony No 2 in C Calgary PO/Mario Bernardi
4.25 Dvorak Wind Serenade in D minor. Op 44 Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian
5.10 Antoniottl Sonata in C minor, Op 1 No 9 Juraj Alexander and Jozef Podhoransky (cellos)
5.50 Faure Nocturne in A flat, Op 33 No 3 Stephane Lemelin (piano)