With Edward Seckerson.

Chabrier Larghetto for horn and orchestra

6.25 Lange-Muller Eight Soft Melodies, Op 68

7.00 Schubert Grand Marche Funebre on the Death of Alexander I of Russia

7.40 Parry From Death to Life

8.00 Carter Elegy

8.40 Lambert The Rio Grande

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Andrew McGregor is joined by Helen Wallace , Geoffrey Smith , and Stephen Johnson to celebrate the Christmas season with a roundup of this year's best recordings.
10.15 lain Burnside peeps underthe
Christmas tree to look at Yuletide offerings from the record companies.
11.20 Listeners' Choice: Three of listeners' Discs of the Year are picked out of a hat for the record token prize.
11.40 Radio 3 's Disc of the Week:
Leoncavallo Pagliacci Jose Cura (Canio), Barbara Frittoli (Nedda), Carlos Alvarez (Tonio), Charles Castronovo (Beppe), Simon Keenlyside (Silvio), Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, conductor Riccardo Chailly Producers Andrew Lyle and Mark Lowther
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Today Michael Berkeley meets Cornish-based writer Patrick Gale , who has just published his tenth novel, Rough Music. British music, from a folk song arrangement to works by Handel, Tippett and Britten, figures large among Patrick Gale's musical passions, and his choices also include works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen.

Another chance to hear last Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Webem LangsamerSatz(1905)
Schubert Quartet in C minor, D 703 Beethoven Grosse Fuge , Op 133(R)

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Villa-Lobos Choros No 7
Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez Carwtthen Suffolk Suite
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox
Karlowicz Symphony No 7 (Revival) Pomeranian Symphony Orchestra of Bydgoszcz, conductor Bohdan Wodiczko

This week Claire Martin looks at who is on tour in the UK and Brian Morton reviews some new jazz books and CDs.
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With Geoffrey Smith.
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- John Surman 's World ofJazz. Since the very early days, all kinds of world music have inspired jazz musicians. In the first of his new series exploring these cross-currents, John Surman looks back at the music of Sidney Bechet , Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. He also talks to Norwegian singer Karin Krog about folk influences that go back to the twenties, and percussionists Nana Vasconcelos and Trilok Gurtu describe some of the traditional instruments that bring new tone colours into jazz. Producer Terry Carter

Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Uszt's extravagant piano transcriptions of themes from the opera house.
Wagner, transcr Liszt 0 Du Mein Holder Abendstern (Tannhauser); Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Verdi Concert Paraphrase (Rigoletto) (R)

Wagner's wind-lashed score was the first work of his maturity and deals with the themes of suffering and redemption. It tells the story of a tormented sea captain under a curse to sail the seas forever.
Every seven years he is allowed on land to try to find a woman who will be faithful to him unto death and so free him from his restless wanderings. And Rodney Milnes continues his new series Opera Snaps, taking a sideways glance at each of this season's works.

Nicola Baldwin 's new piece is a stark modern thriller set on the edges of a seedy northern rural town, a shoddy underworld where friendship is not what it seems and Poppy Q is always on the run - but from what? And what dark secret is Anita sheltering from Poppy's past?

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.

Supersilent
A concert given by Norwegian improvising group Supersilent last month at the London Jazz Festival. Billed as Norway's edgiest, noisiest, electro-avant-jazz supergroup, Supersilent's uncompromising style can touch on elements of hardcore noise but are just as likely to produce delicate soundscapes if the mood takes them. The line-up comprises Arve Henriksen , Stale Storlokken , Louis Sclarvis and Nils Petter Molvaer. Plus a celebration of 40 years of Ornette Coleman 's Free Jazzalbum. Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress

With Jonathan Swain.
Tchaikovsky Voyevoda ; Suite: Swan Lake (excerpts); Symphony No 3 in D (Polish)
2.20 Chopin Nocturne in G, Op 3 7 No 2
2.40 Paganini Sonata Concertata in A
3.05 Mozart Le Nozze di Rgaro (excerpts)
3.25 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in D minor
3.50 John Ward CorMio , Deh, Non Languire
4.00 D Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor, Kk9; in B minor, Kk27; in A, Kk322
4.10 Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 10 (Didone Abbandonata)
4.25 Strauss Four Symphonic Interludes (Intermezzo)
4.45 Massenet Vision Fugitive (Herodiade)
4.55 Faure En Sourdine
5.05 Tauno Pylkkanen Ultima Thule
5.20 Purcell Suite: The Virtuous Wife
5.40 JC Bach Quintet in F, Op 11 No 3
5.50 Bach Praeludium and Fughetta in G, BWV902