With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Nicolai Christmas Overture Purcell Behold , I Bring You Glad Tidings Strauss Die heiligen drei Konige aus Morgenland, Op 56 No 6
8.30-10.00: Arnold Fantasy on Christmas Carols (The Holly and the Ivy)
Handel For unto Us a Son Is Born (Messiah) Massenet L'Extase de la Vierge (La Vierge)

A 2006 retrospective of great historical Mozart recordings presented by Jonathan Swain. Mozart Les Petits Riens, K299b
Fernand Oubradous Chamber Orchestra
10.21 Sonata in D, K448
Jean Wiener and Clement Doucet (pianos)
10.40 Dove Sono (Le Nozze di Figaro) Ninon Vallin (soprano), with orchestra
10.47 Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 Germaine Thyssens-Valentin ,
Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica, conductor Bernhard Paumgartner
11.17 String Quintet in C, K515 Arthur Grumiaux and Arpad Gerecz (violins), Georges Janzer and Max Lesueur (violas), Eva Czako (cello)

1/5. In 1781, against his father's wishes, Mozart decides to stay in Vienna as a freelance composer and performer. But what kind of competition does he face?

Gassmann Overture: L'Amore Artigiano - ECO, conductor Richard Bonynge

Salieri Wenn dem Adler das Gefieder (Der Rauchfangkehrer) - Patrice Michaels (soprano), Classical Arts Orchestra/Stephen Alltop

Haydn Coll'Amoroso Fuoco (Le Fedelta Premiata) - Roberto Scaltriti (baritone), Les Talens Lyriques, conductor Christophe Rousset

Sachini Overture: La Contadina in Corte - ECO, conductor Richard Bonynge

Mozart Six Variations in F on the aria Salve Tu, Domine from Paisello's I Filosofi Imaginari, K398 - Ingrid Haebler (piano)

Vorrei Spiergarvi, O Dio, K418 - Edith Gruberova (soprano), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager

Per Pieta, Non Ricercate, K420 - Thomas Moser (tenor), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager

(Rptd on New Year's Eve at 12 midnight)

Presented by Stephanie Hughes. Kopelman Quartet.
Schubert String Quartet in E flat, D87
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22

From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Another chance to hear the service broadcast yesterday on Radio 4; including the first performance, by organist Oliver Brett , of Steuart Fotherington 's In the Bleak Midwinter. For details see yesterday at 3pm on Radio 4

Legends: Liza Minnelli
Broadway and Hollywood star Liza Minnelli talks to Edward Seckerson about her career. In this Christmas Day special she talks in detail about her parts in Flora the Red Menace, The Act and The Rink and pays tribute to Fred Ebb , author of virtually all her greatest roles. Producer Bill Lloyd
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen. Room 220. Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

1/5. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner introduces his own recordings of Bach's Christmas music.

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Bach Jauchzet, frohlocket auf, preiset die Tage (Christmas Oratorio, Pt 1, BWV248)
Ciaron McFadden (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Christoph Genz (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (bass)

Cantatas No 63: Christen, atzet diesen Tag
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Rufus Muller (tenor), Stephan Loges (bass)

Cantata No 91: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ Katharine Fuge (soprano), Robin Tyson (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)

Cantata No 110: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens Joanne Lunn (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)

A special Christmas series featuring studio recordings by Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Plus jazz improvisations by the scheme's first ever jazz musician, Gwilym Simcock. Presented by Verity Sharpe.
Chopin Ballade No 2 in F Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370
Alexei Ogrintchouk , Psophos Quartet
Bach Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV1034 Sharon Bezaly , Charles Medlam (cello), Terence Charlston (harpsichord)

Martin Handley introduces a concert featuring three works by French composers.
Christine Brewer (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Philippe Fenelon Gloria (first UK performance) Poulenc Gloria
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

1/10. Joan Bakewell talks to Cardinal Cormac
Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, about his beliefs. Producer Norman Winter

Presented by Donald Macleod.
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, director Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 2 in D, K211; Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 With Lawrence
Power (viola); Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218; Symphony No 29 in A, K201

2/5. With Donald Macleod. Coronation Anthem No I: Zadok the Priest, HWV258; Utrecht Te Deum; Water Music: Suite in D/G (excerpt): Eternal Source of Light Divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne) Repeated from Tuesday

Presented by John Shea.

Grieg Holberg Suite

Sibelius Song of the Earth; Symphony No 3

2.12 Grainger To a Nordic Princess

2.20 Dowland King of Denmark's Galliard: Lady Clifton's Spirit

2.27 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in 0, K218

2.52 Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25

3.33 Kodaly Chi Vuol Veder: Fior Scoloriti; Chid'Amor Sente: Four de la Bella Caiba

3.44 Alexander Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto

4.00 Schubert Piano Sonata in C. 0840

4.21 Abel Symphony in C, Op 10 No 4

4.30 Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, B WV225

4.50 Anon Middle Age Suite

5.00 Sibelius Music to a Scene, Op 45 No 2

5.06 Busoni Finnish Folk Song Arrangements, Op 27

5.18 Telemann Trio No 2

5.31 Ernesaks The Christmas Goat

5.34 Schumann Fairy Tales, Op 132

5.49 Debussy Arabesque No 2

5.53 Grieg Norwegian Bridal March, Op 19 No 2

5.57 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D. BWV1050

6.18 Machaut N'es Qu'on Porroit les Estoiles Nombrer (Le Voir Dit)

6.27 Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38

6.35 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor

6.47 Haydn Symphony No 27 in G