With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra LSO, conductor
Benjamin Britten Wolf Three Mignon Songs (Goethe-Lieder) Geraldine McGreevy
(soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) Busonl Sarabande and Cortege (Doktor Faust) RPO, conductor Daniel Revenaugh
8.30-10.00: Purcell, reconstr Dart Trio
Sonata in G minor Academy of Ancient Music Bach Cantata No 40: Dazu 1st Erschienen derSohn Gottes Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, directorTon Koopman

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan.
Panufnik Symphony No 1 (Sinfonia Sacra) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Andrzej Panufnik
10.22 Enescu Piano Sonata No 3, Op 25 Dinu Lipatti
10.44 Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Berlin PO, conductor Willhelm Furtwangler
11.22 Mozart Ah Signori PerCarita ! ...Da Qual Temore Insolito (Don Giovanni , Act 2) Soloists, Cologne Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
11.32 Listener request: Wagner Funeral March (Gotterdammerung, Act 3)
Johannes Matthias Michel (harmonium)
11.40 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
GyorgyCziffra (piano), Hungarian State Orchestra, conductor Zoltan Rozsnyai

5: The Modern Day. Donald Macleod examines how notions of Bach changed in the 20th century and how he is viewed today. Trio Sonata in C minor (4th mvt) (Musical
Offering, BWV1079) Le Concert des Nations Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV104 7 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Quodlibet, BWV524 Soloists,
Musica Antiqua , Koln, conductor Reinhard Goebel Two-Part Invention No 8 in F, BWV779 (arr Leando Braga) Camerata Brasil
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (final section) Soloists, Gabrieli Players, conductor Paul McCreesh
Repeated on New Year's Day at 12 midnight

Wallace Collection
From the Wallace Collection, London,
Christopher Cook presents a programme featuring music and art inspired by Scotland. Including a Scottish Baroque cantata,
Schubert's settings of verses from Walter Scott 's Ladyofthe Lake and Haydn's
Scottish Folk Songs. With Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Maggie Cole (harpsichord/fortepiano)

Best of 2003: BBC Concert Orchestra
Presented by Graeme Kay. Langford Spirit of London Conductor Rumon Gamba
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fingal'sCave)
Haydn Symphony No 97 in C Ireland A London Overture
Grainger Handel in the Strand Coates Suite: London Again
Walton Suite: The Wise Virgins Conductor Barry Wordsworth

Bing Crosby Julian Joseph is joined by Geoffrey Smith to look at the jazz side of Bing Crosby , including recordings with Paul Whiteman , Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton , Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra.

Stephanie Hughes follows the Baroque opera scene in Italy (Vivaldi), France (a new recording of Rameau's Zoroastre by Les
Arts Florissants) and Spain. Plus excerpts from Handel's Giulio Cesare , starring
Magdalena Kozena as Queen Cleopatra.

Presented by Verity Sharp , including:
Monti, arr Frost Czardas Martin Frost (clarinet), Niklas Sivelov (piano)
Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
Debussy Cello Sonata Claudio Bohorquez , Martin Helmchen (piano)
Berg Four Pieces, Op 5 Martin Frost (clarinet), Niklas Sivelov (piano)
Schubert DerHirt aufdem Felsen, D965 Ailish Tynan (soprano), Martin Frost (clarinet), Niklas Sivelov (piano)

New York, New York
Edward Seckerson presents a gala tribute to the great American city, recorded at
London's Royal Festival Hall in September. Kim Criswell and Brent Barrett (singers), Artur Pizarro (piano), Maida Vale Singers, BBC
Concert Orchestra, conductor John McGlinn Part 1: Bernstein Overture: Wonderful
Town; New York, New York Rodgers Manhattan
Cohan Give My Regards to Broadway Brown Broadway Rhythm
Sondheim Another Hundred People Klelnbort I Belong
Porter / Happen to Like New York Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
During the interval Edward Seckerson talks to tonight's conductor, John McGlinn.
8.50 Part 2
Berlin Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor Kander New York, New York
Bernstein Christopher Street
Suesse Serenade to a Skyscraper (first UK performance)
Joel New York State of Mind Suesse Moon about Town (first UK performance)
Bernstein Lonely Town; Come Up to My Place Suesse Evening in Harlem (first UK performance)
Loesser My Time of Day Porter Love for
Sale Strouse NYC

5: Joan Bakewell talks to Irene Khan ,
Secretary-General of Amnesty International, about what she believes and why.

Another chance to hear Mark Russell and Robert Sandall 's interview with Lou Reed. Revised

Best of 2003 Live Jez Nelson presents the pick of this year's live concerts.

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in F sharp minor, Op 78 Alfredo Perl (2000); in G, Op 79
Edith Vogel (1983); in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) Wilhelm Backhaus (1961); in E minor, Op 90 Xaver Scharwenka (1905)
1.50 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
2.20 Grechaninov Missa Festiva , Op 154
2.45 Jehan Alain Organ Fantaisie No 2
2.50 Bach Lute Suite in G minor, BWV995
3.15 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) 4.05Granados Spanish Dance, Op 37 No 2 (Oriental) 4.10 Arnaut Daniel Two Troubadour Songs 4.20 Rozycki
Mona Lisa Gioconda, Op 31 4.30Paradies Sicilienne 4.35 Lauber Sonata Fantasia in una Parte, Op 50 4.50 Weber DerFreischutz (excerpt) 5.00 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 5.10
Giustini Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 1 No 10
5.25 Moniuszko String Quartet No 2 in F
5.45 Hacomplaynt Salve Regina
5.55 Leslie Pearson Dance Suite (after Arbeau) 6.05 Grieg March ofthe Trolls, Op 54 No 3 6.10 Chopin Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20 6.20 Nielsen Violin Concerto