With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, RV128 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Dussek Piano Sonata in D, Op 31 No 2
8.30-10.00: Reinecke Ballade , Op 288 Debussy Marche Ecossaise
Bach Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch der Sunde
With Jonathan Swain.
Mozart Laudate Dominum (Vesperae Sollennes de Confessore, K339) Maria Stader (soprano), RIAS Chamber Choir. Berlin RSO, conductor Gustav König
10.07 Piano Sonata in A, K331 Vladimir Horowitz
10.27 Duo in B flat, K424
Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola) 10/46 Rondo in A minor, K511 Artur Schnabel (piano)
10.57 Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
David Oistrakh , Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
11.23 Requiem in D minor, K626 (excerpts)
Natalia Shpiller (soprano), Varvara Gagarina (mezzo), Pyotr Malyutiyenko (tenor), Sergey Krasovsky (bass), USSR All-Union Radio Choir and SO, conductor Nikolai Golovanov
5/5. 1790-91. In 1790, Mozart writes Cosi Fan
Tutte. Next year his sixth child is born, one of only two to survive infancy. Mozart becomes involved with a German-language opera troupe - but will not survive kidney failure and acute rheumatic fever. His reputation grows posthumously as that of his contemporaries declines.
Paisiello II Mio Ben Quando Verra (Nina, 0 Sia La Pazza per Amore, Act 1) Teresa Berganza
(soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, conductor Alexander Gibson Mozart/Cimarosa No Caro, Fa Coraggio (for Guglielmi's La Quakera Spirituosa) Patrice
Michaels (soprano), Classical Arts Orchestra, conductor Stephen Alltop
Mozart Eight Variations in F, K613 on Ein Weib ist das herrlischste Ding (for Schack and Ger/'s Der Stein der Weisen) Soloists, Boston Baroque, conductor Martin Pearlman
Salieri Armonia per un Tempio della Notte II Gruppo di Roma
Repeated on Thursday 4 January at 12 midnight
Fiona Talkington presents the Echo rising stars, 2006 - outstanding young musicians hand-picked by the directors of important concert halls in Europe and America. From LSO St
Luke's, the Cuarteto Casals play the third string quartets by Arriaga and Shostakovich.
Kids and Carols: BBC Concert Orchestra
Presented by John Shea.
Coleridge-Taylor Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme) Conductor Barry Wordsworth Carwithen On the Twelfth Day
BBC Singers, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Paul Patterson Little Red Riding Hood Narrator Brian Blessed, conductor Charles Hazlewood Vaughan Williams Christmas Cantata: Hodie
With Janice Watson (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), James Rutherford (baritone), Middle School Choir of St Catherine's School, Guildford, Guildford
Choral Society, conductor Hilary Davan Whetton
Stan Tracey
Julian Joseph celebrates the 80th birthday year of Stan Tracey , talking to the legendary pianist and composer about his writing and performing over the years. Tracey's interest in music began in the 1930s with the accordion, but it was the radio and gramophone records, by artists such as Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, that inspired him to improvise and develop an interest in jazz. Producer Keith Loxam See also 11.30pm
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5/5. Music for the first Sunday after Christmas and for New Year's Day from John Eliot Gardiner. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied! BWV225; Cantata No 152: Trittaufdie Glaubensbahn Gillian Keith (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Cantata No 122: Das neugeborne Kindelein Joanne Lunn (soprano), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Cantata No 28: Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende Katharine Fuge (soprano), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Cantata No 190: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied! Daniel Taylor (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Presented by Verity Sharp.
Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45 Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
Faure Reflet dans I'Eau Ronan Collett (baritone), Nicholas Rimmer (piano)
Messiaen Vingt Regards sur I'Enfant-Jesus (excerpts) Martin Helmchen (piano)
Debussy String Quartet, Op 10 Psophos Quartet
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Simon Rattle Szymanowski Violin Concerto No I Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E
5/10. Playwright Howard Brenton talks to Joan Bakewell about what he believes in and why.
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall revisit some favourite alternative music releases from 2006.
Stan Tracey at 80
Jez Nelson celebrates the music of pianist, bandleader and composer Stan Tracey , marking his 80th birthday tomorrow. Producer Robert Abel
With John Shea.
Grieg Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op 51; Double Bass Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No 7
2.15 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
2.36 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op n (Gassenhauer)
2.58 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London)
3.26 Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533
3.49 Hummel Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 87
4.09 Chopin Impromptu in G flat, Op 51
4.18 Henriques Air for strings
4.25 Tchaikovsky Introduction and Waltz (Eugene Onegin)
4.36 Musorgsky Cornimi Tibo Letela Dusha Nebesami
4.39 Hubay Spinning Room
4.44 Sibelius Romance for strings, Op 42
4.50 Svendsen Festival Polonaise, Op 12
5.00 Telemann Concerto in D for flute, two violins, viola and continuo
5.12 Fruhlinq Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 40
5.39 Bottesini Reverie
5.44 Ward Upon a Bank with Roses
5.47 Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4
5.58 Spohr Fantasie and Variations on a theme of Danzi in B minor, Op 81
6.05 Pettersson Two Elegies and Romanza
6.11 Grieg Three Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op 72
6.20 Beethoven Overture: Die Geschopfe des Prometheus
6.26 Brahms Capriccio in B minor, Op 76 No 2
6.29 Martinu Four Madrigals
6.39 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 2 in E, BWV1053
