With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mozart Concert Rondo in A, K386 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), LSO, conductor Istvan Kertesz Nielsen Overture: Helios
Chicago SO, conductor Jean Martinon Tippett Sonata for four horns
Michael Thompson Horn Quartet
8.30-10.00: G Gabriel ! Quern Vidistis Pastores The King's Consort, director
Robert King Bach Cantata No 91: Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ
Soloists, Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei, Frankfurt Kantorei, Stuttgart Bach-Collegium, Wiirttemberg Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Helmuth Rilling

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan. Ambrolse Thomas Overture: Mignon NBC SO, conductor ArturoToscanini
10.10 Nielsen Quintet Op 43 Aulos Wind Quintet
10.37 Listener request:
Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op 4 7 BBCSO, conductor Adrian Boult
10.52 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 5, Op 53 Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
11.04 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D Berlin PO, conductor Eugen Jochum
11.42 Duron Lamentacion Segunda , del Viernes Santo AlAyreEspanol, director Eduardo Lopez Banzo

2: 1750-1800. Immediately after Bach's death, much of his music fell into obscurity. Donald Macleod investigates how his legacy was preserved by a small group of devoted pupils and relatives.
Allein Gott in der Höh' Sei Ehr , BWV260 Amsterdam Baroque Choir
Allemande (Keyboard Partita No 2 in C minor, BWV826) Martha Argerich (piano) Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied, BWV225 Stockholm Bach Choir, Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Harpsichord Concerto No 4 in A, BWV1055 The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Trio Sonata No 5 in C, BWV529 Peter Hurford (organ)
Repeated onMonday29 December at 12 midnight

Wallace Collection
Christopher Cook introduces songs of love and matrimony and relates them to art works from London's Wallace Collection.
Louise Winter (mezzo), Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Schumann Six Songs (Myrthen Op 25):
Widmung; Aus den Ostlichen Rosen ; Lied der Braut No 2; Die Lotosblume; Der Nussbaum; Du Bist Wie eine Blume Brahms Four Duets, Op 28
Wolf Four Songs (Spanisches Liederbuch) Gershwin S'Wonderful; Someone to
Watch Over Me; They Can Take That Away from Me; Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

A special edition featuring listeners' choices of music for the Christmas season.
Paul McCreesh 's Gabrieli Consort and Players perform Schutz's sacred concerto 0 Bone Jesu, and there's a chance to hear
Arnold Bax 's most extended choral work Mater Ora
Filium. And in the archive feature, a look at the history of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge. ADDRESS: Three for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: [number removed]

lain Burnside looks back on some of the highlights of Voices in 2003, including interviews with Peter Hall , RegineCrespin, Gundula Janowitz and Christa Ludwig as well as songs from studio guests Bernarda Fink , Christopher Maltman and others.

Stephanie Hughes focuses on this year's German opera releases, including
Rhinemaidens - not the Wagnerian variety but Offenbach's Les Fees du Rhin, a historic recording of Gotterdammerung featuring tenor Lauritz Melchior and soprano Kirsten Flagstad , and Hindemith's operatic Harmony of the World.

Verity Sharp presents recordings by Radio 3's New Generation Artists, including: Schumann Davidsbundlertanze , Op 6 Jonathan Bliss (piano)
Matthias Schmidt Six Miniatures Colin Currie (marimba)
Chopin Berceuse in D flat, Op 57 LlyrWilliams (piano)

Messiah
Petroc Trelawnyjoins the audience at
St John's Smith Square, London, forthe annual performance of Handel's oratorio.
Emma Kirkby (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), James Rutherford (bass), Polyphony, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Stephen Layton Parti
8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Concert Interval Adam Thorpe describes the experiences of Bob the timpanist as he tries to cope with Handel's Messiah. The reader is Robert Glenister.
8.50 Part 2

2: Joan Bakewell talks to neuroscientist Steven Rose about his beliefs.

Presented by John Shea.
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Paul Lewis (piano), Britten Sinfonia , conductor Nicholas Cleobury Britten Young Apollo
Thea Musgrave Helios
Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus Revised

With Donald Macleod.
Miss Otis Regrets; Jubilee (medley);
Don Fence Me In; Born to Dance (excerpts); Red, Hot and Blue (excerpts); Rosalie; In the Still of the Night; My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Leave It to Me); Ace in the Hole (Let's Face It); / Concentrate on You
(Broadway Melody of 1940) Repeated from wed