With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Bernstein Overture: Candide Baltimore SO, conductor David Zinman
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV270 (II Riposo, per il Santissimo Natale )
Europa Galante , director Fabio Biondi (violin)
8.00-9.00: Bach Cantata No 121: Christum wir sollen loben schdn Monteverdi Choir, English
Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek
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Andrew McGregor presents some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library Fiona Talkington explores the available recordings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Andrew McGregor visits a primary school in Hertfordshire, and takes along some recent classical discs made for children.
11.15 Andrew McGregor talks to clarinettist
Martin Frost about Mozart, Brahms and Weber's collaborations with players, and about his own collaboration with composers such as Kalevi Aho.
11.45 The Listening Booth A chance to sample the latest CD releases from the programme website .
12.15 Disc of the Week: Pilgrimage to Santiago With the Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Music includes Victoria's
0 Quam Gloriosum. www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]. (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: cdreviewiSbbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] (standard rate) Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651
1/2. First of two programmes focusing on poet Geoffrey Chaucer and the music connected with his works. Chaucer was influenced by French lyric forms in music and owed much in particular to Guillaume de Machaut. Lucie Skeaping explores the music of his contemporaries.
Producer Rebecca Bean Part 2 is broadcast tomorrow at 1pm
Helen Mayhew presents a selection of Christmas jazz and looks back at some of the top jazz albums of 2006. Plus a UK gig guide for the festive Season. Producer Keith Loxam
Geoffrey Smith presents a seasonal selection of listeners' favourites. Producer Peter Thresh
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Don Carlo
An all-star cast sings Verdi's drama of personal, political and religious passion amid the Spanish Inquisition. Father is pitted against son, wife against spurned mistress, reason against religious fanaticism. This epic yet intimate opera, based on Schiller, is considered to be Verdi's most profound work and contains some of his greatest dramatic music. Presented from the New York Met by Margaret Juntwait.
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine Parti
7.40 Twenty Minutes: Let Distant Lands
Converse Radio 3 pays tribute to an unsung hero and marks the centenary of a historical event. On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden transmitted the first planned radio programme. Sean Street investigates the story of the broadcast from Brant Rock,
Massachusetts, of a speech, a gramophone record and a live violin solo.
8.00 Part 2
8.45 Met Opera Quiz
Send questions to: Met Opera Quiz, 30 Lincoln Center.
New York, New York 10023, or via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
9.05 Part 3
RT DIRECT: Verdi's Don Carlo (3 CDs), with Czaba Airizer.
Roberto Alagna , Donna Brown , Anat Efraty , Eric Halfvarson , Thomas Hampson , Karita Mattila , Waltraud Meier , Jose van Dam, Scot Weir and the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Antonio Pappano , a recordinq of a 1996 live performance, is available for E29.00 including p&p. To order please send a cheque. payable to Selections to: [address removed] or call the orderline on [number removed], or visit www. selections.com/rtdirect Quote Ref [number removed]. UK delivery only
New Carols
John Woolrich Spring in Winter Jonathan Dove The Three Kings Harrison Birtwistle The Gleam
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury.
Huddersfield 2006
Robert Worby continues his selection of highlights from this year's Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival with a programme featuring the first performance of an extensive BBC/HCMF commission from composer Michael Finnissy - an hour-long song cycle called Whitman. Plus music from Elision.
Presented by John Shea.
Grieg Symphonic Dances, Op 64; Norwegian Folksongs and Dances (excerpts)
Sibelius Symphony No 1
2.12 Nenov Christmas
2.47 Schumann Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80
3.12 Fodor Symphony No 2 in G
3.38 Meulemans Five Piano Pieces
4.00 Forster Jesu Dulcis Memoria
4.07 Jarnefelt The Sound of Home
4.22 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in F Op 3 No 3
4.33 Nowowiejski Weihnacht in der uralten Marienkirche zu Krakau
4.42 Lassus Gratia Sola Dei
4.53 Torelli Christmas Concerto. Op 8 No 6
5.00 Halvorsen Norwegian Rhapsody No I in A
5.12 CPE Bach Sinfonia in D for two violins and continuo
5.22 Heyral Le Noel de la Rue
5.30 Faure Pavane, Op 50
5.36 Rontgen Theme with Variations
5.48 Purcell See, See, Even Night Herself Is Here; Hark How All Things (The Fairy Queen)
5.56 Eisner Overture: Sultan Vampum
6.00 Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K396
6.09 Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani
6.31 Praetorius In Dulci Jubilo
6.35 Lipinski Violin Concerto No 4 in A
6.50 Cavalli Sonata a 8
6.56 Scheidt In Dulci Jubilo
