With Penny Gore.
Diabelll Piano Sonatina No 2 in C
Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
6.40 Bach Cantata No 151: Susser Trost , Mein Jesus Kommt Sebastian Hennig
(treble), Paul Esswood (alto), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Hanover Boys' Choir, Collegium Vocale , Leonhardt Consort , director Gustav Leonhardt
7.00 Schubert Overture: Die
Zauberharfe Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
7.30 Manfredini Concerto in C, Op 3 No 12 (Christmas Concerto)
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
8.10 Debussy, orch Caplet Children's CornerUlster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
8.40 Elgar Wand of Youth: Suite No 2 LPO, conductor Adrian Boult

One of the paradoxes of Richard Strauss is that he was blessed with a musical language of immense popular appeal; yet one would need to look hard to find a composer who was less motivated by feelings of kinship towards his fellow man. Today Donald Macleod investigates how these characteristics manifest themselves in Strauss's music.
Overture: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Love Scene (Feuersnot)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
Kramerspeigel, Op 66 (excerpt)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), JorgDemus (piano) Salome (conclusion)
Orchestra of Deutsche Oper, Berlin, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (R)

Artist Dorothy Cross talks about her plans to stage an opera in a cave - a shrine to the Virgin Mary - in the west of Ireland.

With Rob Cowan and Jonathan Swain.

Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos - Dresden Phiharmonic, conductor Carl von Garaguly

10.29 Martinu Nonet - Czech Nonet

10.47 Bach Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor, BWV232) - Alfred Deller (countertenor), Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble

10.55 Bizet Symphony in C - French National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon

Artist in Focus: Charles Mackerras
Presented by Humphrey Burton. Beethoven Romance in F
Ora Shiran (violin), BBC Philharmonic Britten Gloriana (Act 1, Scene 2)
Ava June (soprano), Derek Hammond -
Stroud (baritone), David Hillman (tenor), Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor BBC Symphony Orchestra
Handel Oratorio: Saul (excerpt) Jennifer Vyvyan and April Cantelo (sopranos), Max Worthley and Alexander Young (tenors),
Owen Brannigan (bass), Osian Ellis (harp), English Chamber Orchestra

Another concert of Christmas music from the Temple Church, London. This programme ranges from 14th-century carols and traditional music from Britain and Germany and Scandinavia to a recent piece by Nicola LeFanu.
Trio Medieval: Anna Maria Friman , Linn Andrea Fulgseth andTorunn Ostrem Ossum (sopranos)

Du Barry Was a Lady. Cole Porter's 1939 bawdy tale in which a supper-club lavatory attendant is transported back in time to the court of Louis XV. This production, directed by Ian Marshall Fisher, was recorded last month at Her Majesty's Theatre, London. Mark Warrman conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and a cast which includes Louise Gold and Desmond Barritt.

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert by the ensemble Passacaglia recreating the musical world of the 18th-century coffee houses of Leipzig, specially recorded in the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, Yorkshire.

A sequence of music for Christmas, with carols and devotional music. (R)

Joan Bakewell talks to eminent figures about what they believe and why. 4: Antony Gormley , sculptor.

BBC Proms 2001
Another chance to hear a semi-staged production of Beethoven's only opera. Beethoven Fidelio
Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Simon Rattle (R)

By Franz Kafka. Adapted for radio by Pamela Grace and read by Paul Scofield.
4: A Visit to the Painter. Joseph K becomes desperate to know where to turn for help.

Another chance to hear a late night of jazz-inspired music, including works by Bernstein and Michel Camilo.
Martin Robertson (clarinet), Michel Camilo (piano), BBC Big Band, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin (R) Ellington Harlem
Gershwin Lullaby for strings
Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Michel Camilo Piano Concerto (R)

With Jill Anderson.

Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni

12.10 Allegri Miserere Mei Deus (Psalm 51)

12.25 J.C.F. Fischer Suite No 8: Polymnia

12.30 Dohnanyi String Quartet No 2, Op 15

1.00 Berlioz Overture: King Lear

Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488

Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D (Reformation)

2.15 Georg Bohm Chorale variations: Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ

2.20 Bach Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068

2.40 Beethoven Cello Sonata No 3 in A, Op 69

3.05 Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7

3.25 Alexander Moyzes Symphony No 2 in A minor, Op 16

4.05 Casella Barcarola e Scherzo

4.15 Rued Langgaard Three Rose Garden Songs

4.25 Schubert Introduction and Variations in E minor for flute and piano, 0802

4.40 Sibelius Suite Champetre, Op 986

4.50 Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique, Op 4 No 4

4.55 Gluck Dances of the Furies

5.00 Lisinski Evening

5.05 Eduard Kunneke Ich Bin Nur Ein Armer Wandergesell (Der Vetter aus Dingsda)

5.10 Grainger Ramble

5.15 Bach Sarabanda (Violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002)

5.20 Alessandro Striggio Ecce Beatam Lucem

5.30 Sauguet La Nuit

5.40 Anon, arr Augustus 0 Hill Fix Me Jesus

5.45 Wagner, arr Liszt Isoldes Liebestod

5.55 Ralph Benatzky Zuschaun Kann I Net (Im Weissen Rossi)