With Penny Gore, including:
6.05 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D
(Haffner) English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jeffrey Tate
6.45 Giovanni Gabriell Magnificat a 14 Taverner Choir,
London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, director Andrew Parrott
7.00 Salnt-Saens The Nightingale and the Rose Natalie Dessay (soprano), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
7.10 Francaix Octet
Ensemble Carl Stamitz
8.00 Grainger Zanzibar Boat Song
Penelope Thwaites and Wayne Marshall (pianos)
8.45 Handel The King Shall Rejoice (Coronation Anthem, HWV260) Choir of New College, Oxford, the King's Consort, director Robert King
With Donald Macleod and Adrian Edwards.
5: Rodgers through Others' Eyes. The last of five programmes this week features the music of Richard Rodgers as interpreted by jazz and popular artists: including Mel Torme , Mary Martin , Peggy Lee , Bix
Beiderbecke, Jack Whiting and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans, Chet Baker and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Bing Crosby ,
Frank Sinatra , Stephen Hough , George Shearing and Ernestine Anderson , Ella Fitzgerald , and Erroll Garner.
The last of five programmes in which the theatre company rehearses for its
Christmas marionette production of The Sleeping Beauty.
With Stephanie Hughes.
Dieupart Piccolo Concerto in A minor - Wolfgang Dey, Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
10.10 Hasse Salve Regina in E flat - Barbara Bonney (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
10.26 Liszt Unstern: Sinistre-Disastro - Maurizio Pollini (piano)
10.33 Strauss An Alpine Symphony - Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Karl Bohm
Berlioz and Beyond
5: The Lonely Obsessive
The latter part of Berlioz's life was overshadowed by his increasing bitterness at the lack of recognition for his work, particularly for his great opera The Trojans. in today's programme, given live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, lain Burnside traces that last period in Berlioz's life, ending with a performance of his most famous work, which more than any other sums up the unique individuality of this most romantic of composers.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice et Benedict; Overture: The Flight into Egypt (L 'Enfance du Christ);
Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans); Symphonie Fantastique
The Beethoven quartet series continues with the period instrument Quatuor
. Mosaiques in a recital given last month at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow.
Quatuor Mosafques
Beethoven String Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5; String Quartet in F, Op 135
BBC Philharmonic
Wagner Prelude: Die Meistersinger Conductor Harry Christophers Hindemith Symphonia Serena Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Kathryn Stott , conductor Harry Christophers Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A Conductor Harry Christophers
Lucie Skeaping introduces an exotic selection of music associated with the Crusades, including songs and dances performed by the medieval ensemble Joglaresa, recorded at a recent BBC Invitation Concert. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Sean Rafferty presents guests, arts news and music, including at 5.00 Wagner's
Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim ; at 5.45 Handel's Concerto
Grosso in C (Alexander's Feast. HWV318) played by Collegium Musicum 90 under Simon Standage ; and at 6.40 Vaughan
Williams's English Folk Song Suite played by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Band under Timothy Reynish.
r From the Victoria Hall, Hanley. Petroc
Trelawny introduces a concert given by the BBC Philharmonic.
Steven Isserlis (cello), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Prokofiev Waltz ; Midnight (Cinderella) Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2
8.40 The Legend of the Holy Drinker Nigel Anthony readsthe final part of Joseph Roth 's fantastic tale, translated by Michael Hoffman , which asks: how would we spend unlimited amounts of money?
9.00 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act 2)
As the countdown to the millennium continues, Paul Allen explores the changing experience of time in the modern world and considers how technological development will affect the way we experience time in the next century. Plus scandal, politics and the monarchy - Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker play George IV and Queen Caroline in Nick Stafford 's new play, Battle Royal. Night Waves reviews its opening at the National Theatre.
In the last of three programmes from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sarah Walker introduces highlights from the second weekend, including the Avanti Chamber Orchestra's portrait concert of Finnish electroacoustic composer Kaija Saariaho - in which soprano Dwan Upshaw gives the first UK performance of Lonh for voice and electronics - plus Ensemble Recherche's concert of Renaissance-related new music by Charles Wuorinen, Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and young British composers.
With Jonathan Swain.
12.05am Auber Overture: Le Cheval de Bronze
12.15 Mielczewski Missa super O Gloriosa Domina
12.40 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
1.00 Gounod Faust (Acts 4-5)
2.35 Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166
2.50 Eckhard Keyboard Sonata in F, Op 2 No 1
3.05 Rontgen Symphony
3.20 Sandstrom Surge Aquilo
3.30 Eustache de Caurroy 11 Fantasias on 16th-century Songs
4.00 Abel Flute Concerto in E minor, Op 6 No 2
4.15 Ravel String Quartet
4.50 Mozart Overture: Lucio Silla
5.00 Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
5.15 Debussy Estampes
5.25 Pierre Max Dubois Quartet for flutes
5.40 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat (Philosopher)