With Tommy Pearson.

Beethoven, arr Mahler String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso) - Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam, conductor Marco Boni

6.50 Liszt Ballade No 1 in D flat - Rhondda Gillespie (piano)

7.05 Charpentier In Nativitem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum - Taverner Consort, Choir and Players, director Andrew Parrot

7.50 Bizet Au Fond du Temple Saint (The Pearl Fishers) - Gregory Cross (tenor), Gino Quilico (baritone), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

8.05 Schoenberg Christmas Music - Taverner Players

8.40 Bruch Concerto in E minor for violin and viola, Op 88 - Viktor Tretiakov (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

With Donald Macleod in conversation with musicologist and Schubert biographer Elizabeth Norman McKay. Gloria (Mass in F, 0105)
Lucia Popp and Helen Donath (sopranos), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo),
Adolf Dallapozza , Peter Schreier , Francisco Araiza and Josef Protschka (tenors),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch An Schwager Kronos , D369 Matthias Gorne (baritone), Andreas Haefliger (piano)
DerFischer, D225 Dietrich Fischer -
Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) AndenFruhling, 0283 Elly Ameling (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) String Quartet in B flat, 0112 Sorrell Quartet

Actress Fiona Shaw travels to Italy to work on a new film based on Marivaux's
The Triumph of Love and produced by Bernardo Bertolucci.

With Jonathan Swain.
Dvorak The Noon Witch
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vaclav Talich
10.21 Ferguson Piano Sonata Myra Hess
10.44 Mozart StringQuintetin D, K593 Arthur Grumiaux and Arpad Gerecz
(violins), Georges Janzer and Max Lesueur (violas), Eva Czako (cello)
11.14 Franck Symphonic Variations Myra Hess (piano),
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Basil Cameron

The York and Beverley Early Music Festivals 2000
Lucie Skeaping explores the Italian influence on Schutz and Forster in their dramatic settings of biblical narratives. Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Op 6 No 9
The King's Consort, director Robert King Schutz Vater Abraham , SWV477
La Cappella Ducale, Musica Fiata , Koln, director Roland Wilson
Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor
Frank de Bruine, the King's Consort, director Robert King
Forster Viri Israelite (Dialogus de Juditha e Holoferne); Vanitas Vanitatum (Dialogus de Divite etPaupere Lazaro) La Cappella Ducale, Musica Fiata , Koln, director Roland Wilson

Brian Kay introduces a live concert from the Temple Church, London, in which
Henry's Eight perform the Mass in four parts and music for Advent and Christmas composed by William Byrd.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Seta Tanyel (piano), conductor Martyn Brabbins
Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir) Elgar Falstaff
MacDowell Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor
Strauss Death and Transfiguration

lain Burnside presents a recital given by mezzo Petra Lang and pianist Roger Vignoles , featuring Schumann's
Frauenliebe und-leben, and songs by Mahler and Brahms. (R)

Sean Rafferty samples Donizetti's Elixir of Love and other intoxicating works. Music includes at 5.00 J Strauss (son)'s Waltz: Wine, Woman and Song (arr Berg) performed by the Alban Berg Quartet: at
5.50 Berlioz's Rêverie et Caprice, Op 8, played by Yehudi Menuhin (violin) with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard : and at 6.35 Bach's Coffee
Cantata. BWV211, performed by Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump
(tenor) and David Thomas (bass) with the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood.

A concert live from Studio 1 at Maida Vale
Studios in London, featuring music by two composers whose philosophical and political views greatly influenced their music. Michael Tippett (1905-98) wrote his second symphony in 1956-7. Commissioned by the BBC, it was premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult at the Royal Festival Hall in February 1958. Alan Bush (1900-95), pianist and composer, was an extraordinary individual. Hejoined the Communist party in 1935, and his vast and neglected piano concerto was written in 1937. The last of the four movements includes a solo baritone and male voice choirwho sing about the power of music and the tyranny of oppression. It was premiered, with Bush as the soloist, at a BBC Concert in 1938. Ashley Holland (baritone). Rolf Hind
(piano), Apollo Voices. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Tippett Symphony No 2
8.00 Twenty Minutes: Song to Labour
The music, politics and life of Alan Bush - veteran broadcaster John Amis presents a personal recollection of the composer.
8.20 Bush Piano Concerto

Richard Coles presents the arts and culture magazine, including Bill Buford 's regular column on cultural life across the Atlantic.

Fiona Talkington 's late-night listening includes tracks from two classic collaborations - Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 's 1993 album A Meetingby the River and Ali Akbar Khan and Asha Bhosle's 1996 album Legacy.

With Jonathan Swain.

Doppler Andante and Rondo, Op 25

12.15 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G

12.50 Schumann Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, Op 70

1.00 Madrigals by the 16th-century Croatian composer Jullje Skjavetic performed by the Slovenian Chamber Choir.

2.00 Kraus Symphony in C minor

2.20 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581

2.50 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959

3.25 Verdi Per Me Giunto (Don Carlos)

3.35 Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier

4.10 Franck Le Chasseur Maudit

4.25 Melartin Easy Pieces for cello and piano, Op 121

4.40 Chopin Impromptu in G flat, Op 51

4.50 Heinichen Concerto

5.00 G. Gabrieli Canzon No 1 (La Spiritata)

5.10 Huet Fantasia (Variete of Lute Lessons)

5.25 Bach Partita No 5 in G, BWV829

5.40 Hannikainen Concert Piece, Op 7