With Humphrey Carpenter, including Plainchant Tria Sunt Munera - Schola Cantorum Coloniensis

Passacaglia in C minor,
BWV582 Christopher Herrick (organ)

Wagner, transcr Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) - Ignaz Jan Paderewski (piano)

Canticle No 4: Journey of the Magi Derek Lee Ragin
(countertenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Steuart Bedford (piano)

Valse
Caprice No 6 in A minor
Ignaz Jan Paderewski (piano)

The Wood Dove
Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Pastores Loquebantur The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers

Polonaise in A, Op 40 No 1
Ignaz Jan Paderewski (piano)

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Itzhak Perlman (violin), New York Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta

Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer

Song to the Moon
(Rusalka)
Lucia Popp (soprano), Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Stefan Soltesz

Concerto in B flat,
Op 4 No 6 Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Taverner Players, conductor Andrew Parrott

Scherzo in D minor
USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Poulenc Three Pastorales Pascal Roge (piano)

Canzons Nos
19 and 15 His Majestys Sagbutts and Cometts

Light Music Miniatures:
Haydn Wood The Horse Guards, Whitehall (London Landmarks) New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

Shepherd
Fennel's Dance Light Music Society Orchestra, conductor Vivian Dunn

The Haunted
Ballroom New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

Three Interludes on Christmas Carols
Jane Watts (organ)

Love Sounds the Alarm (Acis and Galatea)
Webster Booth (tenor), orchestra, conductor Warwick Braithwaite

Siegfried Idyll
ECO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

A Christmas Selection
Joan Bakewell recalls some of her favourite artists and highlights important features and events in the lives of some of the world's greatest musicians. Revised repeat

South African Special. Now that apartheid is over, how is the South
African musical scene changing? Can the orchestras and opera houses - the last bastions of white music - survive?
Ivan Hewett debates these issues with leading figures in the South African music scene. With music in the studio from the SDASA Chorale. Repeat

Thomas Quasthoff Sings Wlnterreise Schubert 's great song cycle recorded last year in concert at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Charles Spencer (piano)

Conductor Brad Cohen

Piston Symphony No 2

Robert Hollingworth talks to singer Belinda Sykes about her use of non-western singing styles in early music. He also explores the repertoire of the late Italian madrigalists. And Anthony Rooley samples some of the unusual traditional recipes of the season.
Producer Lindsay Kemp. FACTSHEET WEB PAGE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheets E-MAIL: [address removed]

American pianist David Golub introduces recordings of music by Verdi made by Italian soprano Mirella Freni.

51: Damien Hirst : The Physical
Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Producer Main Russell

Natalie Wheen discovers the conscious and the subconscious in 1905. Sibelius Pelleas and Melisande
(excerpt) Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Joseph Holbrooke Piano Quintet
No 1 in G minor, Op 44 New Haydn Quartet, Endre Hegedus (piano) Lehar Vilja (The Merry Widow)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano),
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Otto Ackermann
Busoni Suite: Turandot La Scala PO, conductor Riccardo Muti
Ravel Oiseaux Tristes (Miroirs) Paul Crossley (piano)
Strauss Salome (excerpts)
Vienna PO, conductor Georg Solti

The continuing series of monthly documentaries surveying the range and diversity of 20th-century music. Film music has a far larger audience than concert music, and cinema has been called the opera of the 20th century, so just how significant is music written for the movies? With
Carl Davis , Leonard Slatkin ,
Ken Russell and John Huntley , and with archive material from Miklos Rosza ,
Aaron Copland and Richard Rodney Bennett. Narrated by Samuel West. Producer Fiona Sheimerdine

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

By William Shakespeare.

In this new dramatisation by Sue Wilson and Malcolm McKee, it is 1936 and a cruise liner arrives at Ephesus, where BBC travel reporter Gervaise Ffoulkes finds himself caught up in some strange local customs.
With Bridget Turner, Richard Pasco, Clifford Rose, Sunny Ormonde, Malcolm McKee, Christopher Scott, Terry Molloy, Ian Brooker and Cathy Sara.

Brian Kay introduces seven very different psalm settings.
Bernstein Chichester Psalms Aled
Jones (treble), London Symphony
Chorus, RPO, conductor Richard Hickox Rutter Cantate Domino (Psalmfest)
Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton Antony le Fleming Cantate Domino
Oxford Pro Musica Singers, St Cecilia Players, conductor Michael Smedley Mendelssohn Psalm 2 Corydon
Singers, conductor Matthew Best Dvorak Psalm 149 Prague
Philharmonic Choir, Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Britten Psalm 150 New London
Children's Choir, London Schools'
SO, conductor Steuart Bedford
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Toronto Festival Singers, CBCSO, conducted by the Composer

Five programmes in which Benedicte Paviot explores traditional music from central France.

Conductor Osmo Vanska, Marco Rizzi (violin)

Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Mozart Missa Solemnis, K337 - Dorothee Jansen (soprano), Lani Poulson (mezzo), Rainer Trost (tenor), Reinhard Dom (bass), Athestis Chorus, Italian NRSO/Eliahu Inbal

1.25 Tchiakovsky Violin Concerto in D - Uto Ughi, Italian NRSO/Eliahu Inbal

2.35 Strauss Ein Heidenleben - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

4.40 Beethoven Choral Fantasia - Anton Kuerti (piano), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and SO/Andrew Davis

5.10 Hans Gal Serenade for Strings - Nova Scotia SO/Georg Tintner