With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville Howells Sing Lullaby
8.00-9.00: Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Praetorius Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

With Louise Fryer. Including a chance to hear Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, as recommended in yesterday's CD Review.
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 9 New World Symphony, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas Bach Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor, BWV232) Alfred Deller (countertenor),
Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins and cello, RV580 Virtuosi di Roma, conductor Renato Fasano
Franck Panis Angelicus Beniamino Gigli (tenor), Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bruno Seidler-Winkler
Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G, Op 92 Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Warsaw National PO, conductor Stanislav Wislocki Anderson Lo, How a Rose e're Blooming:
I Saw Three Ships (Suite of Carols for Brass Choir) Leroy Anderson and his Orchestra Redner
O Little Star of Bethlehem
Richard Crooks (tenor), Clarence Dickinson (organ) Del Riego Star Was His Candle
Lawrence Tibbett (baritone), Stewart Wille (piano) Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet) Chicago SO, conductor James Levine Wagner, arr Clytus Gottwald Traume
(Wesendonk Lieder) SWR Stuttgart Vokalensemble Schiassi Concerto (Pastorale per il Sanctissimo Natale di Nostro Signor Jesu)
Masques, conductor Olivier Fortin Cornelius Weihnachtslieder , Op 8
Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Erik Werba (piano) Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 (Part 4) Regensburger Domspatzen , Collegium
St Emmeram, conductor Hanns-Martin Schneidt

Michael Berkeley talks to Paul Woodmansterne , managing director of the greetings card makers, whose musical choices range from Bach's
Mourning Ode to Haydn's Cello Concerto in C, Beethoven's Eroica, and a much-loved Christmas carol by John Gardner.

2/2. Lucie Skeaping continues her journey through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, featuring music from the poet's contemporaries.

A recital from the Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Stephanie Hughes. Stephen Hough (piano)
Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K475 Schumann Fantasy in C, Op 17
Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K333
Stephen Hough Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc)
Liszt/Buson! Figaro Fantasy

A very festive line-up of requests, including music by Vaughan Williams , Delius, Nicolai and Charpentier. Producer Deborah Preston
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In the 50th anniversary year of Bertolt Brecht's death, Ivan Hewett explores music's vital role in the development of Brecht's radical new political theatre, through his collaboration with leading composers such as Kurt Weill , Paul Hindemith and Hans Eisler. With contributions from those who knew him: his daughter, Barbara Brecht -
Schall and director Carl Weber from the Berliner Ensemble: interpreters of his songs, including Gisela May , Ute Lemper, Robyn Archer and Dominic Muldowney ; and the directors David Hare and Stephen Unwin. With Brecht's comments about music read by Simon Russell Beale. Producer Jessica Isaacs

In the first of a special Christmas series of highlights from last summer's Proms, John Shea introduces a performance of Handel's oratorio in the version made by Mozart.
Sally Matthews (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), the English Concert, Choir of the English Concert/Andrew Manze

Handel, arr Mozart Alexander's Feast

A modern mystery cycle by WH Auden that reinterprets faith for those exposed to the horror of the Second World War and anticipates next year's celebration of Auden's centenary.
Music by Lucinda Mason Brown ; Producer Jessica Dromgoole

Classicist Bettany Hughes sets out on a journey to find the real women behind the great goddesses of prehistory.
Archaeologists and feminists have assumed that Bronze-Age female figurines depict a female deity. But Hughes discovers that the lives of women otherwise lost to history can be decoded from these beautiful, baffling figures. Producer Philip Sellars

Handel in London: Five Musical Walks
1/5. With Donald Macleod. Hallelujah Chorus
(Messiah); Verdi Prati ; Mi Lusinga ; Sta nell'lrcana (Alcina); Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe
(Samson); Fugue in B flat; II Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita (Act 2, excerpt) Repeated from Monday

With John Shea. Grieg Four Norwegian Dances, Op 35
Sibelius Symphony No 2 2.04 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in G, Wql69 2.28 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 1313.09 Mozetich The Passion of Angels 3.31 Dohnanyl Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19 4.00 Stenhammar Ithaka, Op 214.10 Wagner, transcr Liszt Isolde's Liebestod
4.21 Frescobaldi Canzon Quinta a 4; Canzon Seconda a 4; Canzon Vigesima, Detta La Lipparella 4.32 CPE Bach Cantata: Heilig, Wq2l7 4.38 Marais La Sonnerie de
Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris 4.51 Glazunov Concert Waltz No 2 in F, Op 515.00 Bennett Murder on the Orient Express 5.14 Goodall Romance of the Angels 5.18 Falla Spanish Dance 5.23 Wolf-Ferrari Two Intermezzi, Op 4
5.32 Weber Sonatina, Romance and Menuet, Op 3
5.39 Szymanowski Variations in B flat minor, Op 3
5.53 Fesch Concerto No 3 in G, Op 5 6.01 Dupre
Variations on Adeste Fideles 6.09 Henderson Come Holy Spirit 6.14 Handel In'den angenehmen Buschen, HWV209
6.22 Ravel Piano Concerto in G 6.45 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, RV127 (II Piccolino) 6.49 Stoyanov Rhapsody