Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Tchaikovsky Five dances (Ballet:
The Nutcracker) Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy Barber Night Flight LSO/David Measham Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols Thomas Allen (bass), Charles Tunnell (cello), Corydon Singers/Matthew Best
8.30-10.00: Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7
Maurizio Pollini Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola COE/Abbado Tippett The Heart's Assurance
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), lain Burnside (piano)
With Rob Cowan and Jonathan Swain.
Harrison, arr Krticka Here Comes the Sun Wihan Quartet
10.04 Gershwin, arr Wild Variations on Someone to Watch Over Me Earl Wild (piano)
10.19 Bizet Carmen (Finale) Soloists, Turin RAI Chorus and SO, conductor Arturo Basile
10.34 Schubert, arr Bream Duo in A (arr from String Quartet in G minor, D173)
Julian Bream and John Williams (guitars)
11.00 Caplet Septet
Soloists, Calvet Quartet, director Louis Aubert
11.15 Rubbra Symphony No 7 in C LPO/Boult
11.52 Reqer Ninna-Nanna della Vergine,
Op 76 No 52 Claudia Muzio (soprano), orchestra conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli
5/5. Swan Song. Hummel, pupil of Haydn and Mozart, was left behind as the musical world entered the Romantic era. With Donald Macleod.
I Saw Thee Weep (Scottish, arr Hummel) Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Thomas Plam (piano) Variations in B flat, Op 115 London Mozart Players, director Howard Shelley (piano)
Quod in Orbe Czech Philharmonic Choir, Vienna Academy Orchestra, conductor Martin Haselbbck Etudes, Op 125 Nos 21-24 Mary Louis Boehm (piano) Ballet Music: Das Zauberglockchen London Mozart Players, conductor Howard Shelley Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight
Celebrating Mozart
4/4. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch . Vienna Piano Trio
Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K454;
Rondo in D, K485; Piano Trio in C, K548
BBC Symphony Orchestra 75th Anniversary Presented by John Shea.
Edward Eigar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) Conducted by the composer
Berlioz Overture; Ah! Mourir, Chère Belle
(Benvenuto Cellini , Act 1) Christine Eda-Pierre (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor),
Robert Massard (baritone), conductor Colin Davis Elgar/Payne Symphony No 3 in C minor Conductor Andrew Davis
Strauss Tod und Verklarung Conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Julian Joseph salutes jazz piano giant
Oscar Peterson , who is 80 this year. Producer Keith Loxam RT Direct: Oscar Peterson 's Piano Power (4 CDs) is available for E14.99 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate) quoting [number removed], or visit selections.com/rtdirect
5/10. Our Friends from the North
Peter Maxwell Davies 0 Magnum Mysterium Cirencester School Choir/the composer
Elgar Howarth Mosaic Eikanger-Bjorsvik Band/ the composer Arthur Butterworth Symphony No I Ostmvt) Munich SO/Bostock
Harrison Birtwistle White and Light
Mary Wiegold (voice), Composers' Ensemble/ Muldowney Rawsthorne Violin Concerto No 2 Rebecca Hirsch , BBCSSO/Friend David Ellis Elegiac Variations, Op 66 John Turner
(recorder), Tom Dunn (viola), Jonathan Price (cello) Thomas Pitfield Studies on an English Dance John McCabe (piano) John McCabe
Cloudcatcher Fells Britannia Building Society
Band/Snell Philip Wilby Sonnet: If God Survives Us Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford/Lydon
Presented by Verity Sharp.
De Falla Seven Popular Songs Alison Balsorn (trumpet), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Bacewicz String Quartet No 4 Royal Quartet
Kalliwoda Morceau de Salon Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
Bizet/Waxman, arr Markovich Carmen Fantasia Alison Balsom (trumpet), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
An American Tragedy
The first broadcast of American composer Tobias Picker 's fourth opera, based on the controversial 1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser.
Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Conlon
5/5. Joan Bakewell asks writer, performer and academic Tom Shakespeare about his beliefs.
Jez Nelson selects the best of the concerts recorded for Jazz on 3 this year, including music from Ken Vandermark , Jazz Britannia, Acoustic Ladyland, Ganelin Trio , Hermeto Pascoal and McCoy Tyner. Producer Kathryn Willgress
Presented by John Shea. Rimsky-Korsakov Boyarinya Vera Sheloga 1.52 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 6, Op 82
2.17 Couperin Bruit de Guerre 2.21 Janequin EscouteZ
Tous Gentilz 2.29 Tournemire Choral Improvisation sur Victimae Paschali 2.38 Franck Symphony in D minor
3.16 Schubert Three Lieder 3.35 Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor 3.59 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in D minor, Kk64 4.01 L Sorkochevlch Symphony in D
4.08 Handel Oboe Sonata in B flat, HWV357 4.13 Bach Flute Sonata in A, BWV1032 4.28 Komitas Hymn of Supplication 4.31 Schreker Symphonic Interlude: Der Schatzgraber 4.46 Lemmens Marche Triomphale in D
4.51 Pierre de la Rue 0 Salutaris Hostia Willaert Pater Noster 5.00 Mozart Overture: Die Zauberflote
5.07 Samuel-Rousseau Variations Pastorales surun
Vieux Noel 5.16 Bach Credo (Symbolum Nicenum) (Mass in B minor, BWV232) 5.28 Ahrens Lobe den Herren
5.36 Poulenc, orch Berkeley F/ute Sonata 5.50 Weill Lost in the Stars: Saga of Jenny 5.58 Hubay Der Zephir , Op 30 No 5 6.02 Rlmsky-Korsakov Overture: Boyarinf Vera Sheloga 6.10 Puccini 0 Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi ) 6.13 Contant Piano Trio No 16.32 Britten Choral Dances (Gloriana) 6.41 Waqner Siegfried Idyll
