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With Penny Gore.
Benda Violin Sonata in A minor
Micaela Camberti , Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
6.30 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse) Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
7.00 Purcell Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), the King's Consort, director Robert King
7.30 Herbert Cello Concerto No 2 in E minor, Op 30 Julian Lloyd Webber ,
LSO, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.00 Beethoven Name-Day Overture
Berlin PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan
8.50 Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Philharmonia, conductor Charles Dutoit

Contributors

Unknown:
Micaela Camberti
Unknown:
Collegium Musicum
Director:
Simon Standage
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Director:
Robert King
Unknown:
Julian Lloyd Webber
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor:
Saint-Saens Danse MacAbre
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit

Verdi In Paris
With Donald Macleod.
Le Trouvere (Act 3, Scene 1) Sylvie Brunet (mezzo), Nikola Mijalovic (baritone). Jae-
Jun Lee (bass), Bratislava Chamber Choir, Orchestra Internazionaled'ltalia, conductor Marco Guidarini
La Luce Langue (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2) Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Nicola Rescigno Patria Oppressa (Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alia
Scala, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Sylvie Brunet
Baritone:
Nikola Mijalovic
Bass:
Jun Lee
Conductor:
Marco Guidarini
Conductor:
La Luce Langue
Soprano:
Maria Callas
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Stephanie Hughes.
Bach, transcr Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
10.15 Schubert Death and the Maiden
Anne Murray (mezzo), Jeffrey Tate (piano)
10.18 Schubert, arr Mahler String Quartet in D minor, 0810 0 (Death and the Maiden) ECO, conductor Jeffrey Tate
11.02 Ives Symphony No 3 (Camp Meeting) New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski
Unknown:
Anne Murray
Piano:
Jeffrey Tate
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K 219 Schenberg Verklarte Nacht
Director Elizabeth Layton (violin)
Haydn Symphony No 92 in G (Oxford) Conductor Alexander Titov

Contributors

Violin:
Elizabeth Layton
Conductor:
Alexander Titov

From the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban. Introit: People, Look East (trad arr
Barry Rose ). Responses (Rose). Psalm 78 (Mann, Stanford, Atkins, Barnby). First Lesson: Micah 3, wl-4,9-12. Office
Hymn: Hark! A Herald Voice Is Calling
(Merton). Canticles: Darke in F. Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5, wl2-28. Anthem: Arise, Shine (Stanford). Organ Voluntary: Postlude in D minor, Op 106 No 6 (Stanford). Master of the music
Andrew Lucas. Organist Andrew Parnell.

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Rose
Organist:
Andrew Lucas.
Organist:
Andrew Parnell.

Sean Rafferty hosts a special Christmas edition from the Victoria and Albert
Museum in South Kensington. All things Victorian are celebrated as we approach the 100th anniversaryof Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, with live music by Victorian greats such as Stanford, Gilbert and Sullivan and even Prince Albert.
Victorian clothes, food and traditions are explored and there are carols round a Victorian Christmas tree.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty

Ligeti's two-act opera "Le Grand Macabre" evokes the grotesque fantasy world of Breughel and Hieronymus Bosch. The action is set in fictional Breughelland, a place of infinite corruption. The population is given to drunkenness and lust and the country is on the verge of political collapse when Nekrotzer - "le Grand Macabre" rises from the grave to announce the imminent destruction of the world.
London Sinfonietta Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Contributors

Singers:
London Sinfonietta Voices
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Gepopo:
Sibylle Ehlert (soprano)
Venus:
Sibylle Ehlert (soprano)
Amanda:
Laura Claycomb (soprano)
Amando:
Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo)
Prince Go-Go:
Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor)
Mescalina:
Jard Van Nes (mezzo)
Piet the Pot:
Grahan Clark (tenor)
Nekrotzar:
Willard White (bass)
Astradamors:
Frode Olsen (bass)
White Minister:
Steven Cole (speaker)
Black Minister:
Richard Suart (speaker)

Can heaven ever look good on film? Sarah Dunnant explores the way cinema portrays heaven and hell as Kevin Smith 's new film
Dogmaopens in Britain. In Smith's comic fantasy, two renegade angels plan to re-enter heaven through a loophole in church dogma. Plus the third of this week's specially commissioned essays on changing notions of identity at the close of the century.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Dunnant
Unknown:
Kevin Smith

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Liszt Grandes Etudes de Paganini No 2

12.10 Haydn Divertimento in E flat for two horns, violin, viola and cello, H il 211

2.25 Holmboe Lauda, Laudabo Psallem Deum (Liber Canticorum 11, Op 59c)

12.30 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34

1.00 Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat; Paganini Violin Concerto No 1 in D

2.00 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K333

2.20 Arriaga Symphony in D

2.50 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello

3.10 Gallot Pieces de Lute in F minor

Machaut Ballade 32: Plourez Dames

3.45 Geminiani Concerto Grosso No 4 in B minor

4.00Â Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52

4.10 Ippolitov-Ivanov Suite: Caucasian Sketches, Op 10

4.40 Franck Le Chasseur Maudit

5.05 Bach, arr Stokowski Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV582

5.25 Duarte Trio

5.40 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

5.50 JPE Hartmann, arr Gunther and Teuber Blomstre Som en Rosengard

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

BBC Radio 3

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