This week Penny Gore introduces Bach
Advent Cantatas and instrumental works inspired by song. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Rebel Les Caractères de la
Danse Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor
Marc Minkowski Glinka Divertimento Brillante on themes from Bellini's La Sonnambula
Russian National Symphony Orchestra
Soloists Ensemble Sibelius The Bard, Op 64 CBSO, conductor Sakari Oramo
8.30-10.00: Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38 Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Bach Cantata No 36: Schwingt freudig euch empor Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale , director
Philippe Herreweghe Delius In a Summer Garden Halle , conductor Vernon Handley

This week featuring Bach's organ works and recordings by the Stern-Rose-lstomin Trio. Presented by Rob Cowan.
Bach (attrib) Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Anton Heiller (organ)
10.13 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat,
Op 70 No 2 Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Eugene Istomin (piano)
10.46 Walton Suite: The Wise Virgins Concert Arts Orchestra, conductor Robert Irving
11.10 Bach Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582 Herbert Tachezi (organ)
11.25 Listener request:
Elgar, orch Jacob Organ Sonata in G, Op 28
Royal Liverpool PO, conductor Vernon Handley
11.50 Bach (attrib), ed
Manze Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Andrew Manze (violin)

Donald Macleod discusses Debussy's formative years, when he fell under the spell of the symbolist poets, encountered Javanese gamelan and the English pre-Raphaelites, and first fell in love. Musique Dawn Upshaw (soprano), James Levine (piano)
C'est /'Extase Langoureuse; Chevaux de Bois (Ariettes Oubliees) Sylvia McNair (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
La Damoiselle Elue Maria Ewing (soprano),
Brigitte Balleys (narrator), London Symphony Chorus and SO, conductor Claudio Abbado Prelude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Producer Deborah Preston Repeated Sunday 12 midnight

New Generations - -Andrew Kennedy
Live from Wigmore Hall, London,
Verity Sharp presents the award-winning young tenor with Simon Lepper (piano).
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39 Britten Winter Words, Op 52

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Glinka Souvenir d'une Nuit d'Ete a Madrid Shostakovich Suite: The Gadfly
Liapunov Symphony No 1 in B minor

Musical discovery for younger listeners, including a skater's waltz and Christmas music from Russia. With CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

Alfred Newman
Tommy Pearson pays tribute to one of the fathers of film music, who, as head of music at 20th Century Fox, composed classic scores and nurtured a generation of composers, from Bernard Herrmann and John Williams to his sons David and Thomas and his nephew Randy. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen. Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, interviews and news from the arts world.

Strings Attached
Another concert from the William Primrose
Centenary Viola Festival at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. With Sandy Burnett.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
David Dorward Viola Concerto
(first performance) Philip Dukes
Vaughan Williams Suite: Flos Campi Scott Dickinson (viola), RSAMD Chamber Choir Bartok Viola Concerto Nobuko Imai

Marc-Antoine Charpentier 's Christmas Eve Mass, based on old French carol tunes. Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noel BBC Singers, St James 's Baroque, conductor Bo Holten

Film-maker Jonathan Nossiter describes wine as the "guardian of western civilisation" and argues, in his new film Mondovino, that globalisation is destroying its soul. Tonight's guests swill the argument around the glass to see if it has legs. Plus the first in a series of letters about sacred buildings around the world. Producer Thomas Morris

Fiona Talkington with winter music and seasonal blues, including a special commission from Dhafer Youssef , recorded at the London Jazz Festival.

2/5 A Mighty Call from the North
Donald Macleod traces Nielsen's life and work up to 1911, when the composer was at the peak of his creative self-confidence. Repeated from Tuesday

Presented by Louise Fryer.
Chamber music by Australian and Danish composers, including Graeme Koehne , Wayne Siegel , Ross Edwards , Carl Vine , Percy Grainger , Robert Davidson , Elena Kats -Chernin, Rued Langgaard , and Carl Nielsen , performed by the Tankstream Quartet with Ron Chen-Zion (clarinet), Peter Morrison (cello) and Marianna Shirinyan (piano).
2.45 Fux Missa Pro Gratiarum Actione 3.10 Dvorak Symphony No 3 in E flat 3.45 Stravinsky Dumbarton
Oaks 4.00 Josquin des Prez Cantate Domino; 0 Bone et Dulcissime Jesu 4.05 Mozart Flute Concerto in D, K314
4.25 Verdi Duet (La Forza del Destino) 4.40 Georg Muffat Toccata Undecima in C minor 4.50 Sink Ave
Maria; Pater Noster 5.00 Schumann Arabesque in C, Op 18 5.05 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat
(Philosopher) 5.20 Durufle Quatre Motets sur des Themes Grégoriens, Op 10 5.30 S Rossi Odekha
Ki'Anitani 5.30 Clara Schumann Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op 20
5.40 Krasa Overture for chamber orchestra 5.50 Bach Organ Trio in G minor, BWV929: Praeambulum in G minor, BWV930 5.50 Brahms Academic Festival Overture 6.05 Benoit Rorate Coeli 6.10 Casterede Fantaisie Concertante 6.15 Van Noordt Psalm 6
6.25 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A. K219 (Turkish)