With Martin Handley.

Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Haydn Piano Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34 Andras Schiff Gershwin An American in Paris San Francisco SO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

8.00-9.00: CPE Bach Symphony in D, Wq 183 No 1 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Gustav Leonhardt Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1911) St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

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Andrew McGregor presents a roundup of this year's outstanding CD releases. Eigar Overture: In the South (Alassio) Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
9.30 De Rore Missa PraeterRerum Seriem Huelgas Ensemble, conductor Paul Van Nevel
10.15 Bach Partita No 5 in G, BWV829 Richard Goode (piano)
11.00 Janacek Violin Sonata
Isabelle Faust , Ewa Kupiec (piano)
11.30 Debussy Suite: Pelleas et Melisande Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
12.25 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G Pierre-LaurentAimard, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview
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Catherine Bott visits the Gothic Art for
England exhibition at the V&A Museum in London, to look at the celebrated musical manuscripts on show. She is joined by David Skinner , musical adviserforthe exhibition, to introduce recordings of choral music from the Eton Choirbook and the Old Hall and Fayrfax manuscripts.

Stacey Kent presents a special edition of the programme recorded in New York.

Pick of the Year
Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' favourite jazz requests from the last 12 months. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW Fax: [number removed] email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

Ronnie Scott 's. 2: With the help of current proprietor Pete King and former house pianist Stan Tracey , George Melly recalls the many American stars, such as Ben Webster and Roland Kirk , who recorded at the London jazz club. Producer Alan Hall

The first ever production at New York's Metropolitan Opera of Berlioz's most revolutionary opera - a colourful romp through the life and loves of Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. Set in Italy, the story is an allegory on the power of art to conquer all. Presented by John Shea.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor by James LevineÂ

Act 1

8.05 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Steven Blier puts listeners' questions to Ben Cameron, Stuart Hamilton and Terrence McNally. Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, [address removed], or via the website: [web address removed].

8.20 Opera Snaps
Conductors Roger Norrington and John Eliot Gardiner explain why they regard Benvenuto Cellini as one of Berlioz's most vital and forward-looking scores, even though it was a failure at its premiere.

8.30 Act 2

The Long Time Ago Story. By Rose English and David Sawer. Filtered through the reverie of a modern-day child, fragments of romantic ballet stories are distilled into a musical fabric of toy sounds and toy musical instruments to make an imaginary radio ballet. Producer Martin Cotton

Huddersfleld Festival
Sarah Walker presents two concerts paying tribute to Luciano Berio , who died this year. Donatonl Spice (Ronda No 2) Berio Sequenza /
Emanuele Casale Composizione per Cinque Strumenti Berio Sequenza VI Donatoni Ciglio
Claudio Ambrosini De Vulgari Eloquentia Ex Novo Ensemble
Berio Sequenza III Salvatore Sciarrino L 'Alibi delta Parola
George Aperghis Petrrohl (first UK performance)
Berio A-Ronne Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in A, Op 101; in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier) 2.10 CPE
Bach Sonata in D for flute and harpsichord, Wq83 2.25 Corteccia Musica della
Commedia 2.45 Anon Pastorella in G;
Organ Sonatas: in D, GandC 2.55 Haydn
Violin Concerto in G, H Vila 4 3.25 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)
4.00 Rossini Non Piu Mesta (La Cenerentola)
4.05 Verdi 0 Padre Nostro 4.15 Bach
Violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002
4.30 Mendeissohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fingal's Cave) 4.40 Schumann Novelette in F, Op 21 No 1 4.45 Borgstrom Music to Johan Gabriel Borkman 5.00 Chopin Polonaise in E flat minor, Op 26 No 2
5.05 Moniuszko Gypsy Dance (Jawnuta)
5.10 J Strauss (son) Waltz: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op 314
5.20 Schoenberg Erwartung; Schenk Mir Deinen Goldenen Kamm , Op 2
5.25Andriessen Miroir de Peine
5.40 Saint-Saens Bassoon Sonata in G,
Op 168 5.55 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 3, Op 28 6.05 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34 6.20 Ravel Piano
Concerto in G 6.45 Auric, arr Lane Suite: It Always Rains on Sunday