Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Tchaikovsky Farewell of the Guests and Waltz (Swan Lake)
Bach Canons: BWV1072-I078; BWV1086
Satie Little Dance Overture; Gnossiennes land 5
8.30-10.00 Handel Un Pensiero Nemico di Pace (II Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) Dvorak Cypresses
Shostakovich The Assault on Beautiful Gorky

With Jonathan Swain. This week featuring Beethoven's late String Quartets and performances conducted by Hermann Scherchen.
10.00 Handel For unto Us a Child Is Bom (Messiah) London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hermann Scherchen
10.05 D Scariatti Sonatas: in E, Kk46; in G minor Kk30 (Cat's Fugue) Igor Kipnis (harpsichord)
10.15 Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069 English Baroque Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen
10.36 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 127 Flonzaley Quartet
11.10 Stenhammer Three Fantasies, Op 11 Staffan Scheja (piano)
11.25 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Orchestra of the RTSI, Lugano, conductor Hermann Scherchen

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Handel in London: Five Musical Walks
1/5. Donald Macleod embarks on his first walk through Handel's London, featuring today the composer's home of 36 years. Sarah Bardwell gives him a guided tour, beginning at the Handel House Museum on Brook Street, followed by St George 's Hanover Square, the church in which Handel worshipped. The final stop is
Carlisle Street in Soho, currently the offices of Private Eye and the former residence of JC Smith, Handel's friend and amanuensis.
Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) The English Concert and Choir, director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Verdi Prati ; Mi Lusinga ; Sta nellircana (Alcina) Ann Murray (mezzo), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Charles Mackerras Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Samson) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras Fugue in B flat Jennifer Bate (organ)
11 Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita (Act 2, excerpt) Gillian Fisher (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), London Handel Choir and Orchestra, conductor Denys Darlow
Producer David Dwight Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: Handel: Water Music and Royal Fireworks Suite and other popular classics (2CDs) with Consort of London,
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Live from the Wigmore Hall, London. Radio 3 New Generation Artist
Martin Heimchen plays a programme of Viennese piano classics. Presented by Stephanie Hughes. Mozart Variations on Ah, Vous Dirai-Je Maman , K265 Schubert Moments Musicaux, D780 (excerpts) Beethoven Piano Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)

Bridge Cycle - Part 2
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales Continuing the series featuring the complete orchestral music of Frank Bridge, conducted by Richard Hickox.
Bridge Norse Legend; Adoration; Where She Lies Asleep; Love Went A-Riding; Thy Hand in Mine With Philip Langridge (tenor)
Allegro Moderato (Symphony for string orchestra) (unfinished)
Grace Williams Fairest of Stars With
Ailish Tynan (soprano), conductor James Judd Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 Conductor James Judd
Bridge A Prayer

Edward Seckerson reports from New York on the latest crop of Broadway musicals. Including music from Disney's Tarzan, the Tony Award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone, a Frankie Valli tribute show called Jersey Boys, and a new production of A Chorus Line. Producer Bill Lloyd
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen. Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen<5bbc.co.uk

Sean Rafferty with music and arts news.

Christmas Choral Classics
Each evening this week, Aled Jones presents a series of Christmas choral works, starting with Handel's Messiah. "Words are wanting to express the exquisite Delight it afforded to the admiring audience," raved the Dublin Journal after the work's premiere in 1742, and since that famous night in Fishamble Street the Messiah has enjoyed a special place in British and Irish hearts. Handel Messiah Lynne Dawson (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), David James
(countertenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Michael George (bass), The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers

A terrible accident on a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska provides the starting point for Richard Powers 's latest novel The Echo Maker, which explores how memory, instinct and relationships define people's personalities. The author talks to Philip Dodd. Producer Mohit Bakaya

Verity Sharp presents the usual rich mix of music from different places and eras, and looks back at some of the most notable releases of 2006.

2/5. With Donald Macleod.
Scheiden und Meiden; Der Verfolgten in Turm; Wer has dies Liedlein erdacht?; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Urlicht (Des knaben Wunderhorn); Symphony No 2 (final mvt) Repeated from Tuesday

Presented by John Shea.
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 Mozart Quintet in E flat for horn and string quartet, K407 Dauprat Quintet for horn and string quartet, Op 6 No 3 With Renate Hupka (horn) Ravel String Quartet in F Mandelring Quartet 231 Bach, arr Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
2.40 Brahms Symphony No I in C minor 3.26 Schubert Ständchen, D957 3.33 Bruch Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor
4.02 d'lndia Fiume, Ch'a rOnde Tue 4.08 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor, Op I No 12 (La Folia) 4.18 Mozart Rondo in B flat, K269 4.25 Beethoven Six Variations in F on a Swiss Song, Wo064 4.31 Debussy Children's Corner 4A9 Steve Martland Three Carols 5.00 Trad 17th-Century Dances 5.07 Schumann Arabeske in C, Op 18 5.13 Brahms Schaffe in mir, Gott. ein rein Herz, Op 29 No 2 5.20 Dvorak Overture: King and the Charcoal Burner 5.31 Weber Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor, Op 35 5.42 Jonqen Elégie Nocturnale (Two Pieces for Piano Trio, Op 95 No 1) 5.53 Roussel Suite: Le Festin de I'Araignee, Op (76.11 Poulenc Oboe Sonata
6.26 Schiitz Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum, SWV468
6.36 Holborne Muy Linda, Pavan, Galliard
6.41 Haydn Symphony No 11 in E flat