Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.008.00: Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor. Op 6 No 8 (Christmas Concerto) Bach-Busoni Four Chorale Preludes
Respighi Trittico Botticelliano
8.009.00: Berlioz L 'Enfance du Christ, Part 1 (excerpts) Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068
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Andrew McGregor presents a special edition of the programme, featuring some of the best CD releases from 2004. Plus at:
10.30 Highlights (and perhaps the occasional turkey) from the Christmas discs that lain
Burnside reviewed in last week's programme.
11.00 Andrew McGregor takes a look at some of the musical families who've been in the recording studio recently, including Adrian and Alfred Brendel. the Capucon brothers and GilandOrliShaham.
12.00 An interview with Stephen Cleobury , director of music at King's College, Cambridge. and chief conductor of the BBC Singers.
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A concert recorded on Thursday at London's Wigmore Hall, presented by Lucie Skeaping. Soprano Lorna Anderson and Florilegium perform a range of Baroque music from
Germany and Italy, including Handel's Gloria, Vivaldi's Concerto in D minor for flute and organ, RV541. and Alessandro Scarlatti 's cantata 0 di Betlemme Altera Poverta.

From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Another chance to hear the complete service first broadcast yesterday on Radio 4. In addition, the service concludes with Joseph Jongen 's Toccata, Op 104, performed by the organist Tom Winpenny.
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Charles Mackerras conducts the Philharmonia in excerpts from the ballet
Pineapple Poll, compiled and arranged by the conductor from Arthur Sullivan 's music for the Savoy Operas.

40th Birthday Party
Celebrating 40 years of the programme with a selection of listeners' seasonal jazz requests, Geoffrey Smith and Humphrey Lyttelton look at how listeners' tastes have changed over the years.
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In the Mood
4/4. Guy Barker chronicles the arrival of Glenn Miller 's band in Britain to support the Allies' invasion of Europe, and listens to some of the theories about the bandleader's disappearance in December 1944. How much of Miller's continued fame is influenced by this. or would his music have survived anyway on its own merits? Producer David Roper

Live from the Met: Katya Kabanova
Janacek 's brooding, tragic opera, Katya feels she's fading away in the house of her weak husband, Tichon, and his fearsome mother Kabanicha. Katya has a fling with Boris during Tichon's absence, but on his return she confesses everything out of shame and drowns herself in the Volga.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek Acts land 2

A literary feast of classic and contemporary
American prose and poetry for Christmas Day.
8.15 Act 3

A concert given in Ely Cathedral earlier this month. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Timothy Robinson (tenor), Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), BBC Singers, Britten Sinfonia , conductor Stephen Layton
Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley
Head The Little Road to Bethlehem John Rutter Nativity Carol Cornelius The Three Kings Ireland The Holy Boy
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Charles Dickens 's tale about looking into the tree, beyond the lights and baubles, and seeing many a curious thing. Abridged and produced by Duncan Minshull , and read by Oliver Ford Davies.
10.10 Britten St Nicolas , Op 42

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Sarah Walker presents the first performance of a work by Joanna Bailie , and Rebecca Saunders 's dichroic seventeen performed by musikFabrik with Marco Blaauw (trumpet) conducted by Richard Baker. Plus the UK premieres of Phonotope // by Rolf Wallin performed by Poing, and Here by Michel van der Aa and Lantern Lectures III by Klas Torstensson played by the Asko Ensemble.

With John Shea.
Chopin Berceuse in D flat, Op 57; Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20: Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44;
Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor. Op 31; Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat. Op 61: Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor. Op 39: Polonaise in A flat. Op 53 (Eroica); Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 2.20 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) 2.55 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor. Op 19 3.35 Martin ft la Vie l'Emporta 4.00 Tartini Violin Sonata (Senti to Mare) 4.05 Strozzi L 'Eraclito Amoroso. Op 2 No 3 4.10 Beethoven Variations on Quanf e Piu Bello, WoO69 4.20 Sweelinck Hodie Christus Natus Est 4.25 J Strauss (son) Overture;
Tik-Tak Polka: Csardas (Die Fledermaus) 4.40 Pachelbel Jauchzet dem Herrn 4.50 Trad, arr Rutter Rise Up. Shepherd, and Follow 4.55 Lassus Quo Properas
5.00 Satie En Habit de Cheval 5.10 Francaix Wind
Quintet No 1 (3rd mvt) 5.15 Schmelzer Sonata No 12
5.20 Bach Piano Concerto in G minor, BWV1058
5.35 Grieg With a Primrose. Op 26 No 4: With a Water Lily. Op 25 No 4; Cow Call 5.45 Bennett Voluntary No 9 in F5.50 Handel Saro Qual Vento (Alessandro)
5.55 Bach flute Sonata in B minor, BWVI030
6.15 Schubert Incidental music: Rosamunde
6.45 Kirnberger An den Flussen Babylons