Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Anon, arr Pitts 0 Come, 0 Come Emmanuel Tonus Peregrinus , director Antony Pitts Alkan Etude pour les Mains Réunies, Op 76 No 3 Ronald Smith (piano)
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Gil Shaham
(violin), Jonathan Feldman (piano)
8.30-10.00: Puccini Capriccio Sinfonico Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Jacek Kaspszyk
Field Piano Concerto No 4 in E flat Benjamin Frith , Northern Sinfonia, conductor David Haslam

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Bruckner Ecce Sacerdos Magnus; Ave Maria Bavarian Radio Choir, Hedwig Bilgram (organ), conductor Eugen Jochum
10.12 Listener request: Bantock Old English Suite Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Leaper
10.30 Rameau Pigmalion (excerpt) Claudine Collart (soprano),
Eric Marion (tenor), Raymond St Paul Choir , Lamoureux Chamber Orchestra, conductor Marcel Couraud
10.56 Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D703 Juilliard Quartet
11.12 Bruckner Mass No 2 in E minor
Bavarian Radio Choir,
Members of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum

4/5. Resolution. After a period of despair and rootlessness, Carl Nielsen was finally reconciled with his wife on the day he signed off his Fifth Symphony, now considered his greatest masterpiece, in January 1922. With Donald Macleod.
Oriental Festive March (Suite: Aladdin) Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
So Bitter Was My Heart (The Mother)
John Laursen (tenor), Tove Lonskov (piano) Symphony No 5
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Wind Quintet, Op 43 (3rd mvt) (excerpt) Athena Ensemble
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Far from Home
From the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, presented by Humphrey Burton. Llyr Williams (piano)
Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42
Grieg Homesickness, Op 57 No 6 Homeward, Op 62 No 6
Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 30;
Polonaise Fantasy in A flat, Op 61

A Great and Mighty Wonder - BBC Singers
Edward Seckerson introduces choral music for the Advent and Christmas seasons by some of the best-known English and Continental composers of the Renaissance, including Gombert, Palestrina, Byrd and Sheppard. The concert comes live from the church of St Bartholomew the Great in London and is conducted by Bo Holten.

More musical discovery for younger listeners, presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Today there's Verdi's
Anvil Chorus from // Trovatore, and a song about a hippopotamus.

On offer today are works by Eric Coates ,
Robert Farnon and Charles Ancliffe ; plus a suite from Angela Morley 's music for the film Watership Down.

Sean Rafferty introduces a selection of music and news from the arts world.

Nash Ensemble
A concert given last month by the Nash Ensemble at London's Wigmore Hall.
Maxwell Davies Seven Skies of Winter
Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452
Schubert Octet in F, D803

This year is the tenth anniversary, of playwright Dennis Potter 's death. Paul Allen and guests consider why Potter's The Singing Detective is regarded as one of the greatest of all television dramas.
Producer Aasiya Lodhi

s. By
Kazuko Hohki. Tottenham streets and Japanese serenity collide in a fantastical, funny story with music, in which a teenage girl living in Tottenham believes she's the Moon Princess in a famous
Japanese folk story.
Director Polly Thomas

Buddhist chant from Lama Karta, traditional music from Yemen and the songs of Norfolk farmer Harry Cox. With Verity Sharp.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores music written by Byrd in the last years of his long career.
Pavan and Gaillard (Sir William Petre ) Sophie Yates (virginals) Propers for the Nativity (Gradualia, 1607) Cardinall's Musick, director Andrew Carwood Retire My Soul (Psalms, Songs and Sonnets) Quink Vocal
Ensemble Fantasia a 6 Capriccio Stravagante , director Skip Sempe Pavan and First Galliard (The Earl of Salisbury) Davitt Moroney
(virginals) Come Help, 0 God Quink Vocal Ensemble Ave Verum Corpus Cambridge
Singers, conductor John Rutter Repeated from Fri

With Louise Fryer.

Svendsen Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op 14; Symphony No 2 in B flat

Lie Symphony in A minor

2.15 Josquin des Prez Missa de Beata Virgine

2.50 Bach Chaconne (Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004)

3.10 Fodor Piano Sonata in F sharp. Op 2 No 2

3.25 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Roccoco theme in A, Op 33

3.45 Holst Wind Quintet in A flat. Op 14

4.00 Verdi, arr Liszt Paraphrase: Rigoletto

4.10 Verdi Ella Mi Fu Rapita (Rigoletto)

4.15 Lisinski Mazurkas: in F, E flat and B flat

4.20 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in A, Op 46 No 5

4.25 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan

4.35 Kjerulf Hirtenwiese; Lied ohne Worte: Novelette; Fruhlingslied, Op 28

4.45 Wiren March: Serenade for Strings, Op 11

4.50 Schubert Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899

5.00 Mozart Vorrei Spiegarvi, Oh Dio, K418

5.05 Faure Nocturne in D flat, Op 84 No 8

5.10 A. Scarlatti Cor Mio Deh Non Languire

5.15 Huet Fantasia

5.20 Hidas Adagio

5.30 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 9

5.40 Debussy Images Oubliees

5.55 Wilbye Adieu Sweet Amarillis

Borodin No Sleep, No Rest (Prince Igor)

6.05 Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music (Tannhauser)

6.25 Strauss Deutsche Motette, Op 62

6.45 C. Schumann Quatre Pieces Fugitives, Op 15