With Penny Gore.
Victoria Salve Regina
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
6.30 Dvorak Nocturne, Op 40Czech
Philharmonic, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
7.15 Janacek In the Mists
AndrasSchiff (piano)
7.50 Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, HXV10
Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Eugene istomin (piano)
8.05 Satle Ballet: La Belle Excentrique Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
8.35 Arnold Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 LPO, conducted by the Composer

With Donald Macleod.
Rachmaninov hated radio, but during his years of exile he was often in the recording studio, either as pianist or conductor. Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Rachmaninov The
Flight of the Bumblebee (Tsar Saltan) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)
Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Rachmaninov, orch Respighi La Meret les Mouettes; La Foire (Etudes-Tableaux) LPO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Stephen Cleobury prepares this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.

With Stephanie Hughes.
Tippett Piano Sonata No 1 John Ogdon (piano)
10.27 Duparc Serenade ; Le Galop Jose van Dam (baritone). Maciej Pikulski (piano)
10.34 Duparc Lenore Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
10.47 Stravinsky Capriccio John Ogdon
(piano), Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
11.05 Duparc Au Pays Ou Se Fait la Guerre Yvonne Kenny (soprano),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
11.10 Khachaturian Suite: Gayaneh
Vienna PO. conducted by the Composer

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 1999 Lucie Skeaping presents a performance of a Scarlatti cantata given at St John's, Smith Square, in June.
Alessandro Scarlatti UPrimo Omicidio
St James 's Baroque Players. director Ivor Bolton (harpsichord)

A concert given in June at this year's
Aldeburgh Festival. The Lindsays
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark) Tippett Quartet No 5 (R)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Handel Water Music: Suite No 2 in D, HWV349; Silete Venti , HWV242 Catherine Bott (soprano), conductor Nicholas Kraemer
James MacMillan Percussion Concerto:
"Veni, Veni Emmanuel"
Evelyn Glennie (percussion), conducted by the Composer
Handel DixitDominus , HWV232 (Psalm 109) Rachel Elliot (soprano), Robin Blaze
(countertenor). Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor). Catherine Bott (soprano),
Matthew Hargreaves (bass-baritone), BBC National Chorus of Wales
Handel Concerto No 1 in B flat a Due Cori, HWV332Conductor Nicholas Kraemer

American soprano Barbara Bonney talks about female singers who have influenced her and plays some of their greatest recordings. Singers include Julie Andrews , Elisabeth Schumann , Emma Kirkby , Ella Fitzgerald and Enya.(R)

An uninterrupted selection of Christmas music through the ages.

2: Wind. KonnieHuq meets the wind players of the BBC Philharmonic and finds out about music that really shows off each instrument, including Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe and Dvorak's New World Symphony. Plus Simon Thomas 's Instrument Fact File and Huq's daily look at how Britten wrote for each orchestral section in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Stephen Hough. Joan Bakewell talks to the celebrated British pianist. (R)

HC Robbins Landon talks to Ivan Hewett about his pioneering work on Haydn.

The second of two concerts given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is from the 1999 Ravinia Summer Festival.
Joshua Bell (violin), Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach Dvorak Carnival Overture
Corigliano The Red Violin Ravel Tzigane
8.15 Twenty Minutes: A Sound Read Ivan Hewett is joined by broadcaster
Sheena McDonald and actor Gabriel Woolf to discuss recent books on music, including Maria Callas - Diaries of a Friendship by Robert Sutherland. The Music of Silence - a Composer's
TestamentbyJohnTavener, and TheDayls Long and the Wages So Small - Music on a Summer Island by Samuel Charters.
8.35 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D

A selection from the letters of Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham read by Maureen Lipman and Janie Hampton. 2: 1942-41: Contraltos, Concert Parties and Consonants

Margaret Phillips (organ),
BBC Singers, New London Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly
Daniel Pinkham Christmas Cantata
Conrad Susa A Christmas Garland (R)

Verity Sharp pays tribute to Ravi Shankar.

Alyn Shipton talks to Oscar Peterson and looks back on his career and his musical associates, including Dizzy Gillespie and singers Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. First broadcast in April. (R)

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Bach Overture (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068)

12.10 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219

12.40 D. Scarlatti Sonata in E, Kk46

12.50 Mahler Andante Moderato (Symphony No 2, Resurrection)

1.00 Virtuoso sonatas from the Saxon court of Frederick August I. Including works by Quantz, Heinichen, Lotti and Zelenka.

1.50 Nielsen, arr Dyrst The Sky is Vast and Grim; Christmas at Home

2.10 Mahler Symphony No 5

3.20 Spohr Fantasia in C minor, Op 53

3.30 Bo Holten There's a Time for Everything

3.40 Ibert Trio

3.55 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

4.25 Glinka Overture in D

4.35 Mozart Symphony No 26 in E flat, K184

4.45 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)

5.00 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23

5.25 Frescobaldi Canzona: Vigesima seconda detta la Nicolina

5.30 Handel Quartet in G, Op 5 No 4

5.45 Jorgen Jersild Three Danish Romances