With Tommy Pearson.
Scarlatti Cantata Pastorale per la Nascita di Nostro Signore
6.40 Brahms Rhapsodien , Op 79
7.00 Mozart Ma Che Vi Fece, 0 Stelle ... Sperai Vicino il Lido, K368
7.40 Bax Christmas Eve
8.00 Offenbach Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
8.30 Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite

2: St Michael 's Church, Chester Square Donald Macleod hears Sullivan's most famous hymn tune, Onward Christian Soldiers. Plus his earliest surviving composition, 0 Israel; three Shakespeare songs, including Janet Baker singing
Orpheus with His Lute; and excerpts from
Cox and Box a nd The Pirates ofPenzance.
Cello Concerto in D Paul Watkins , BBCSO, conductor Charles Mackerras
We Have Heard with Our Ears Keble
College Choir, conductor Mark Laftin

With Rob Cowan and Jonathan Swain.

Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat Marieke Blankestijn (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Douglas Boyd (oboe), Matthew Wilkie (bassoon), COE, conductor Roger Norrington
10.22 Dvorak, arr Davies Bagatelles, Op 4 Members of the Orchestra of the Beethoven Hall, Bonn, conductor Dennis Russell Davies
10.44 Schubert Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, D714 Monteverdi Choir, Vienna PO, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.58 Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45 Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Bay (piano)
11.22 Coates March: The Dambusters LPO, conductor Adrian Boult

Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2002
Chris de Souza presents highlights from this year's festival, including: Ireland Amberley Wild Brooks Piers Lane (piano) Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Sarah Andrew (bassoon), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Ravel String Quartet Chilingirian Quartet Anon ApparueruntApostolis
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
Charles Daniels (tenor), Martin Roscoe (piano), Maggini Quartet

From the Temple Church, London, introduced by Chris de Souza. The Clerks' Group, directed by Edward Wickham , perform chants that marked the progress of Advent in the medieval liturgy, interwoven in a festive sequence with sonorous
English hymns byCornysh and Dunstable and motets by Josquin Desprez, Johannes Ockeghem and their contemporaries.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Presented by John Shea.
Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1 KyokoTakezawa
Debussy Premiere Rapsodie
Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet), conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Martinu Field Mass Alan Opie (baritone), BBC National Chorus of Wales, conductor
Richard Hickox Lutoslawski Concerto for orchestra
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Iain Burnside looks back on some of the highlights of the year, including interviews with Mitsuko Uchida, Bryn Terfel, Grace Bumbry and Jeremy Sams, and performances by Christopher Maltman, Lisa Milne and Sarah Connolly.

Die Walküre
Presented by lain Burnside . A tale of love, incest, and divine interference. Act
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer

The first of a series featuring recordings of the stars who have taken part in the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme since its launch in 1999. Presented by Verity Sharp. Rachmaninov Preludes, Op 32: Nos 5,10 and 12 Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Schubert String Quintet in A, D66 (Trout) llya Gringolts (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Li-Wei (cello), Dominic Seldis
(double bass), Alexander Melnikov (piano) Brahms Walpurgisnacht (Ballads and Romances, Op 75 No 4)
Rossini La Pesca; La Regatta Veneziana (Les Soirées Musicales)
Emma Bell (soprano), Alice Coote
(mezzo), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra
Carousel. A concert adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, directed at the Royal Festival Hall by Kenneth Richardson. Introduced by Edward Seckerson. The plot revolves around the love affair between
Billy Bigelow , a carnival barker, and the naive millworker Julie Jordan. It contains such hits as June Is Bustin' Out All Over and You'll Never Walk Alone, as well as the glorious Carousel Waltz.
Capital Voices, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Charles Abell

2: Joan Bakewell talks to the poet
Imtiaz Dharker about what she believes and why.

Presented by John Shea.
Katharine Fuge and Gillian Keith (sopranos), Daniel Taylor , William Towers and Richard Wyn-Roberts (altos), Andrew Busher , Andrew MacKenzie-Wicks and Nicholas Robertson
(tenors), Michael Bundy and Daniel Jordan (basses), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Handel Israel in Egypt

With Susan Sharpe.
Hoist Of One That Is So Fair and Bright
12.10 Tchaikovsky Ballet: The Nutcracker, Act 2 12.50 Buxtehude Magnificat Noni Toni (BuxWV204b and 205)
1.00 Biber Missa Alleluja
Schmelzer Vesperae Sollennes
2.15 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian) 2.45 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D784 3.10 Spohr Fantasia in C minor, Op 53 3.20 Mozart Clarinet
Quintet in A, K581 3.55 Dvorak Prague Waltzes 4.05 Brahms Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat 4.25 Kreisler Marche
Miniature Viennoise 4.30 Lehar Wie eine Rosenknospe; Romanze (Die Lustige Witwe)
4.40 Bach Overture in D, BWV1068 (Air)
4.50 Mozart Overture: DieZauberflote
5.00 Ravel Menuet Antique
5.10 Morton Gould Windjammer
5.20 Wagner Evening Star (Tannhauser)
5.25 Poulenc Capriccio for two pianos
5.35 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings, BWV1043
5.55 Praetorlus In DulciJubilo