With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Handel Concerto in B flat a due con, HWV332 The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock Grieg Norwegian Dances, Op 35 Iceland SO, conductor Petri Sakari
8.00-9.00: Tavener Elizabeth Full of Grace London Temple Church Choir, Hoist Singers, James Vivian (organ), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Stephen Layton Bizet Symphony in C Orchestra of Lyon
Opera House, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists a few days before transmission PHONE: [number removed] email: morningon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morningon 3, BBC Radio 3,
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Andrew McGregor plays the latest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Chris de Souza compares the available recordings of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
10.15 A roundup of recent reissues.
10.45 Roger Parker reviews new operatic releases, including the first ever recording of Vaughan Williams's The Poisoned Kiss, Emmanuelle HaTm's recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Renée Fleming and Marcelo Alvarez in Massenet's Manon.
11.15 An interview with pianist
Andras Schiff about his recording career and his new disc of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Listeners can choose from the new CD releases listed on the programme's website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Saint-Saens Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers include Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Renaud Capugon (violin), Gautier Capugon (cello), Janne Saksala (double bass), Frank Braley and Michel Dalberto (pianos) and Rorent Jodelet (percussion)
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The Notes of Christmas Past
Catherine Bott looks at festive music from the Middle Ages to the late 17th century, with examples of carols and Christmas-inspired music from all over western
Europe, including the music of Charpentier, Purcell, Monteverdi and Bach.

Martin Taylor presents a selection of his favourite festive jazz. Plus a UK gigguide.

With Geoffrey Smith.
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A4WW Fax: [number removed] email: jazz. record. requests@bbc.co.uk

Ronnie Scott 's. George Melly begins a four-part history of the famous jazz club. 1: The club's origins in London's Gerrard Street and the impact of Zoot Sims , the first American musician to play there. With music from British saxophonists Peter King and Tubby Hayes , and from Scott himself. Producer Alan Hall

Moses und
Aron Schoenberg 's powerful opera tells the story of the conflict between the prophet Moses, chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt, and his charismatic brother Aron, who has some different ideas about how to lead the people into the Promised Land. Presented by John Shea.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine Act
7.25 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Brian Zeger puts listeners' questions to Ken Benson , Willie Anthony Waters and Suzanne MartinuCCi. Send your questions to: Met Opera Quiz, FDR Station, PO Box 805, New York,
NY 10150, USA, or via the website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
7.40 Opera Snaps Tenor Philip Langridge considers Schoenberg's inspired writing forthe roles of Moses and Aron and how it reflects their respective characters.
7.45 Act 2

The Last of the Blind Piano Tuners
With fewer people playing the piano, the great tradition of blind piano tuners is also becoming a thing of the past. Composer Adrian Lee and poet Sean O'Brien reflect on its passing, with tuners Nick Troth ,
Edward Wilkins and John Gallagher , and pianist Walter Fabeck. Producer Beaty Rubens

Ian McMillan launches the Christmas writing competition and presents another shower of sentences from Ken Campbell. Producer Ekene Akalawu

Huddersfield Festival
Sarah Walker and Alwynne Pritchard with another programme of first UK performances. Helmut Oehring Marie B (Seven Chambers) (String Quartet No 2); Sexton A; Foxfire
Zwei; Locked In; ER eine She Apartment
House And Toronto's Continuum Ensemble perform music by Canadian composers Michael Oesterle , Linda C Smith , Scott Wilson and Claude Vivier , and British composer Richard Ayres 's No 34b (Two Pieces for cello and ensemble).

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) Steven Osborne ; in E, Op 14 No 1 Alfred Brendel ; in G, Op 14 No 2 Andor Foldes 1.50 Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat
2.40 Haydn Mass in B flat, H XXII 7 (Little Organ Mass) 3.00 Mozart Divertimento in B flat for piano trio, K254 3.20 Kodaly
Dances from Marosszek 3.30 Langgaard Three Rose Garden Songs 3.45 Liszt Tasso
4.05 Wagner Prelude: Parsifal 4.15 Bach Four Schemelli Chorales 4.25 Saint-Saens
Allegro Appassionato in C sharp minor,
Op 70 4.35 Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto
4.50 Verdi Ella Mi Fu Rapita (Rigoletto)
5.00 Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor 5.05 Piazzolla Tango
5.10 Kapustin Preludes in Jazz Style, Op 53 (excerpts) 5.20 Alexander Albrecht
Quintet for piano and wind, Op 6 5.30 Verdi 11 Lacerato Spirito (Simon Boccanegra )
5.35 Four organ pieces from the Gdansk Tablature 5.45 Bartok Ten Easy Pieces
6.00 Hadley I Sing of a Maiden
6.05 Lipinski Violin Concerto in A, Op 32
6.20 Weber Variationen uberein
Zigeunerlied 6.25 Shostakovich Elegy
6.30 Suk Serenade in E flat, Op 6