With Tommy Pearson.

Schutz Ein Kund Ist Uns Geboren - Bach Collegium Japan, director Masaaki Suzuki

6.50 Mozart Three German Dances, K605 - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

7.00 Praetorius In Dulci Jubilo (Part 1) - Taverner Choir and Consort, Taverner Players, director Andrew Parrott

7.35 Tchaikovsky Suite: The Sleeping Beauty - Vienna PO, conductor James Levine

8.00 Torelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 8 No 6 (Christmas Concerto) - Les Violons du Roy, director Bernard Labadie

8.35 Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) - CBSO, conductor Paavo Jarvi

Donald Macleod examines five significant periods in the life and work of Tchaikovsky. 2: 1874-76
Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor (1st mvt) Mikhail Rudy , Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons
Waltz (Swan Lake, Act 1) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Mark Ermler
Francescada Rimini Russian National
Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev (R)

Theatre and opera director David Leveaux , whose new production is playing on Broadway, talks about his latest projects.

With Jonathan Swain.
Rlmsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Czech PO, conductor Karel Ancerl
10.22 Purcell Rejoice in the LordAlway (Bell Anthem) The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
10.31 Albenlz Iberia : Book 1
Claudio Arrau (piano)
10.49 Martin Three dances for oboe, harp, stringquintet and orchestra
Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger
(harp), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
11.07 Purcell The Lord Is My Light
The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
11.18 Debussy La Puerta del Vino; Feux d'Artifice (Preludes, Book 2) Claudio Arrau (piano)

Oxford Chamber Music Festival
Petroc Trelawny introduces performances from this year's festival.
Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 29
Imogen Cooper (piano), Isabelle Faust (violin), Natalie Clein (cello) Watkins Lullaby
Paul Lewis (piano). Katharine Gowers (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello)
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor
Imogen Cooper (piano), Priya Mitchell and Harvey de Souza (violins), Lawrence Power (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafson (cello)
Dvorak Bagatelles , Op 47
Katharine Gowers and Priya Mitchell (violins), Natalie Clein (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano) Traditional Russian Tangos Igor Outkine (accordion)

From the Temple Church, London. Brian Kay introduces a concert given earlierthis month by the European Baroque Orchestra, directed by Lars Ulrick
Mortensen, featuring Jean Rebel's Les Elemens and the suite from Rameau's
Castor and Pollux.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice et Benedict
Conductor YoavTalmi
Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C Conductor Osmo Vanska
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Marco Rizzi , conductor Yoav Talmi Schumann Symphony No 2 in C Conductor Yoav Talmi

Iain Burnside explores the candy-flavoured realm of Christmas songs; not just sugared sledges and sleighbells but also more high-fibre contributions from the world of early music and whipped-cream confections from the Christmas albums of divas Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Leontyne Price.

Stephane Grappelli. Julian Joseph presents the music of virtuoso French violinist Stephane Grappelli who rose to fame in the thirties alongside
Django Reinhardt in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Music from the archive includes a concert given byGrappelli'strio in 1983, featuring guitarist Martin Taylor and bassist Jack Sewing. (R)

A sequence of music for Christmas, with readings, carols and devotional music from across six centuries.

A series of programmes in which
Joan Bakewell talks to celebrities about what they believe and why.
2: Lord Puttnam, Film Producer

Gilbert and Sullivan's sparkling comic operetta remains as pungently satirical about politics and the law today as it was in 1900. It charts the fortunes of Strephon - son of a mortal father and the fairy Iolanthe - as he outwits the entire House of Lords in pursuit of the fair shepherdess Phyllis.
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jane Glover
Gilbert and Sullivan Iolanthe (R)

An experiment in biography by Frangoise Sagan. Adapted for radio by Pamela Grace. 2: A Dialogue of Drama and Love

Piers Lane (piano), Guildhall String
Ensemble, director Robert Salter (violin) Mozart Divertimento in F, K138
Flnzl Romance for string orchestra, Op 11 Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414 Flnzi Prelude in F minor for string orchestra. Op 25; Eclogue in F for string orchestra, Op 10
Mozart Divertimento in D, K136

Richard Goode and Andras Schiff (pianos) Tovey Balliol Dances

With Jonathan Swain.

Mozart Hai Gia Vinta la Causa (The Marriage of Figaro)

12.10 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370

12.25 Anon O Nicholas Our Shepherd, Rule Thy People

12.35 Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos

1.00 A concert of Italian music given by II Giardino Armonico at the 1996 Early Music Festival, Herne.

2.05 Berlioz Harold in Italy

2.50 Debussy Etudes: Book 1

3.10 Szokolay Violin Concerto, Op 4

3.35 Gassmann Stabat Mater

3.45 Strauss Suite for 13 wind instruments, Op 4

4.10 Chopin Preludes Op 8: No 21 in B flat; No 22 in G minor; No 23 in F; No 24 in D minor

4.20 Stravinsky Symphony in three movements

4.55 Handel Tamburino (Alcina)

5.05 Berlioz, transcr Liszt Danse des Sylphes

5.15 Marcel Poot A Cheerful Overture

5.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C sharp minor. Op 2 7 No 2 (Moonlight)