With Edward Seckerson , including:
JCF Bach Motet: WachetAuf, RuftUnsdie Stimme
6.35 Novak Songs of a Winter Night
7.00 Handel Concerto Grosso in G. Op 6 No
7.25 Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36
8.00 Webern Im Sommerwind
8.35 Dvorak Te Deum
Chabrier Marche Joyeuse Philharmonia
Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.05 Kreisler, arr Rachmaninov Liebesleid Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
9.25Wiren Serenade for Strings, Op 11 Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
9.45 Praetorius PuerNatus in Bethlehem
Gabrieli Consortand Players/Paul McCreesh
10.05 Adolfo Berio Waltz: Maria Isabella; Mazurka: La Primavera
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duet)
10.15 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K297b Neil Black (oboe), Jack Brymer (clarinet). Alan Civil (horn). Michael
Chapman (bassoon), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.55 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite
No 1 RPO, conductor Artur Rozdinski
11.05 Liszt Weihnachtsbaum (mvts 3-6) Leslie Howard (piano)
11.15 Finzi In Terra Pax LibbyCrabtree (soprano), Donald Sweeney (baritone), Winchester Cathedral Choir, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill
11.30 Haydn Nocturne in C, H 1125 Mozzafiato, L'Archibudelli
11.45 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (excerpts) London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. conductor Andre Previn Producer Sarah Devonald
Ivan Hewett discusses the music of celebrated British composer Thomas Ades in the light of a new Channel 4 profile and talks to William Orbit about his remix of Classical music. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Anthony Burton introduces Radio 3's unique celebration of Christmas across Europe, which brings together musical cultures from nine different countries. The programmes are co-ordinated by the European Broadcasting Union.
Czech Republic Live from Prague's magnificent concert hall the Rudolfinium, a rare chance to hearthe Pastoral Mass by 18th-century Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba performed by the Kuhn Mixed Chorus, director Pavel Kuhn , and the Prague RSO, conducted by Ondrej Kukal.
1.45 Finland A sequence of traditional Finnish carols and seasonal songs.
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Tallari Folk Ensemble, directorTimo Nuoranne
2.00 Norway A different look at Christmas in northern Europe, with a live concert of orchestral music imbued with the spirit of Scandinavia. Including the Romance for violin and strings by Johan Svendsen , and the Norsk Rhapsody by Johan Halvorsen. Marianne Thorsen (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Terje Boye Hansen
3.00 Latvia A live recital of music performed byTalivaldis Deksnis on one of the most impressive of Europe's historic organs, in the Cathedral of St Mary, Riga. Music includes Bach's canonic variations on the chorale Von Himmel Hoch Da Komm Ich
Herand Dieu parmi Nous from Messiaen's La Nativite du Seigneur.
4.00 Greenland Live from the coastal city of Nuuk. One of the most unusual concerts of the day, juxtaposing contemporary music with traditional dances and Eskimo drum songs. Performers include the Nuuk Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble, Nuuk
Accordion Ensemble and the Nuuk City
Orchestra, directors Storch Lynge and Hans Holmelund.
5.00 United Kingdom The BBC's own contribution to this day of Christmas across Europe includes Respighi's
Journey of the Magi (Botticelli Pictures), Strauss's Die Heiligen Drei Konige aus Morgenlandanti Winterweihe and Honegger's Cantate de Noel performed by the BBC Singers, the Choristers of King's College, Cambridge, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury.
6.00 Germany Live from the Markuskirche. Munich. Festive choral music by Schutz, including one of his Magnificat settings and the Christmas story Weinachtshistorie. See also tonight at 11.45pm
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
In the last programme of the series Kevin Jackson talks to Dr Jonathan Miller about his perspective on a century of decay, fragmentation and incredible scientific advance. Producer Michael Nangla
Paul Guinery is joined by Lyndon Jenkins to introduce the original recording of Thomas Beecham's version of Handel's Messiah, re-orchestrated by Eugene Goosens in 1959. Beecham believed that a version of Messiah using full symphony orchestra would help to bring Handel's masterpiece back into popular favour. But it was the revival of period performance practices ten years later which was to achieve his aim.
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Monica Sinclair (contralto), Jon Vickers (tenor). Giorgio Tozzi (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
By Ronald Frame. In just a few sentences of Great Expectations Charles Dickens sketches in the bare bones of a history for the character of Miss Havisham, the aged woman who sits in a shuttered old house in her soiled bridal dress, as she has done since the day she was jilted many years before. Frame's play considers how her situation came about.
Director Patrick Rayner (R)
The second part of Radio 3's unique celebration of Christmas across Europe. Austria Music by Gershwin and seasonal favourites arranged for brass ensemble. performed by Mnozil Brass earliertoday in the Kulturhaus of Austrian Radio. Vienna.
12.00 Poland A concert from the Church of the Bernardine Fathers, Krakow, including Polish carols ancient and modern and a sequence in honour of the Virgin by composers from four centuries. Polish Radio Chorus, director WlodzimierzSiedlik, Sinfonietta Cracovia/Robert Kabara.
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00 Mozart Litanie de Venerabilis Altaris Sacramento in E flat, K243; Vesperae de Domenica in C, K321
2.05 Silvio Foretic Three-Part Invention
2.15 Bach Violin Sonata in A minor, BWV1003
2.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel
3.10 Prokofiev Nocturne, Op 43 No 2
3.15 Douglas Weiland Piano Quintet
3.40 Poulenc Sept Chansons
3.55 Richard Charlton Dances of the Rainbow Serpent
4.05 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K330
4.30 Telemann Cantata: Alles Redet Itzt und Singet
5.00 Schubert Overture in the Italian Style
5.10 Biber Scordatura Sonata for two violins and basso continuo
5.30 Fdrster Sonata in B flat a 3
5.40 Mozart String Quartet in D, K155
5.55 Schubert An die Musik
