Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Bantock Overture: Pierrot of the Minute Janacek Starodavny (Lachian Dances)
8.00-9.00: Tchaikovsky Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden, Op 12)
Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin
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Andrew McGregor ends the year by recalling some of the best releases of the past 12 months.
9.30 Bach Cantata No 41: Jesu, nun sei gepreiset Soloists, Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki
10.00 A round-up of recent releases of Shostakovich's film music.
11.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein) Paul Lewis
11.30 Bax The Garden of Fand
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
12.00 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K454 Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis (piano)
12.30 Strauss Elektra (excerpt)
Gerda Lammers and Hedwig Muller-Butow
(sopranos), Georgine von Milinkovic (mezzo),
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Rudolf Kempe www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed].
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Catherine Bott presents instrumental music from the court of Dresden, including works by Hasse, Heinichen and Veracini. Producer Rebecca Bean

With Stacey Kent and Brian Morton. Including news of who is playing where in the UK this week.

Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' favourite jazz requests from the last 12 months. Producer Felix Carey ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
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Arrangers Anonymous
4/4. Russell Davies , with Barry Forgie and Steve Gray , explore Bill Finegan 's 1949 arrangement of The Continental for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Producer Graham Pass

The Magic Flute
Director Julie Taymor 's abridged version of Mozart's opera, with a new English text by JD McClatchy. Presented by Margaret Juntwait.
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
RT DIRECT: Mozart's The Magic Flute (2 CDs), with Maria Stader , Rita Streich , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Ernst Hafliger , Josef Greindl with the Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir, and the Berlin RIAS Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay , is available for E14.99 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

One of Harold Pinter 's finest radio pieces; a short, powerful insight into a family: a highlight from the recent Pinter season at Sheffield's
Crucible Theatre.
Music by Andrew Diey ; Producers Justine Potter , Polly Thomas

Another chance to hear a major event marking Harold Pinter's 75th birthday in 2005. Some of the tormentors and the tormented from Pinter's later plays are assembled together in a new dramatic work with a harrowing musical setting by the composer James Clarke. Voices taking part include Harry Burton, Gawn Grainger, Gabrielle Hamilton, Anastasia Hille,
Douglas Hodge, Roger Lloyd Pack, Harold Pinter, Andy de la Tour and Indira Varma. With music by Azeri singer Fatma Mehralieva, Eileen Aagaard and Rolande van der Paal (sopranos), Apartment House, Prometheus Ensemble conducted by Etienne Siebens, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and David Porcelijn.
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La Nativité du Seigneur Thomas Trotter (organ)

Three and the Third
A collage of voices from three-score years of BBC cultural broadcasting to celebrate 60 years from the start of the Third Programme.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the last of the current series of visits from the 2006 Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music. Tenney Harmonium 2; Never Having Written a Note for Percussion
Caqe Hymnkus Zeitkratzer Cardew Ode Machines
Exaudi with Apartment House Richard Barrett Melos Elision

Presented by John Shea.
Mozart Piano Sonatas: in F,K533/494; in A (Alia Turca), K331; in minor, K310 Murray Perahia
2.02 Spohr String Sextet in C
2.28 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
4.00 Nielsen Overture: Masquerade
4.05 Geminiani Concerto Grosso No 3 in B minor
4.13 Vivaldi lo Ti Getto, Eimo ed Usbergo: Ho Cento Vanni al Tergo (Orlando Furioso) 4.15 Berlioz Danse des Sylphes (La Damnation de Faust) 4.18 Gluck Dance of the Furies
(Orfeo edEuhdice) 4.23 Mozart Six German Dances, K509
4.34 Pezel German Dance Suite
4.42 Czerny Etude in G flat 4.45 Litolff Scherzo
(Concerto Symphonique No 4) 4.53 Pachelbel Jauchzet dem Herrn 5.00 Moniuszko Overture: Paria
5.10 Vauqhan Williams Serenade to Music
5.23 Liszt Tarantella 5.33 Bottesini Tarantella
5.39 Rautavaara With Joy We Go Dancing 5.42 J Strauss (son) Spanish March, Op 433 5.50 Albeniz Cordoba, Op 232 No 4 5.58 Glazunov Drinking Song, Op 27 No 1
6.01 Martucci Noveietta, Op 82 No 2 6.07 Mozart Fantasy and Fugue in C, K394 6.17 Zarebski Dances Polonaises
6.43 Bach Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen