Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Albinoni Concerto a 5 in C, Op 5 No 12 Poulenc Flute Sonata
8.00-9.00: Waxman Variations on Auld Lang Syne
Bridge There Is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook
With Louise Fryer.
Godar Regina Coeli Iva Bittova (voice),
Milos Valent (violin), Bratislava Conservatory Choir, instrumental ensemble, conductor Marek Stryncl Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV481 Klaus Thunemann , I
Musici Bernstein A Simple Song (Mass)
Bruce Hubbard (baritone), Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Dennis Russell Davies
Albeniz, arr Kreisler Malaguena (Espana) Ivry Gitlis (violin), Shuku Iwasaki (piano) Dittersdorf Andantino in G
Lajos Lencses (oboe), Budapest Strings
Schubert Vormeiner Wiege , D927 Elisabeth Grummer (soprano), with unnamed pianist Dvorak Miniatures , Op 75a No 1 Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV807 Myra Hess (piano)
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 8 in D Heidelberg SO, conductor Thomas Fey Pergolesi Salve Regina in A minor Dorothea Roschmann (soprano),
Europa Galante , conductor Fabio Biondi
Rossini Andante and Variations
Alexander Trostiansky (violin), Ann Verkholantseva (harp) Glazunov Scenes de Ballet in A, Op 52 Minnesota Orchestra, Edo de Waart
Gade Benedictus and Amen Danish National
Radio Choir, conductor Jesper Grove Jorgensen
Michael Berkeley is joined by writer and performer Sandi Toksvig. Although her first love is musical theatre, she is now exploring other areas of classical music, including operas by Mozart, Bizet and Puccini, and Haydn's The Creation.
Feast of Fools. Lucy Skeaping looks back at the medieval celebrations between Christmas and Epiphany, a time of mockery, parody and foolery. Producer Chris Wines
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given last month at London's Wigmore Hall. Jerusalem Quartet.
Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6 Janacek String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11
Among this week's requests are Handel's
Concerto a Due Cori, No 2, Schumann's song cycle Frauen-liebe und -Leben and a symphonic synthesis by Stokowski of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Producer Deborah Preston
Christopher Frayling discovers how the act of listening, from balladry to hip-hop, has changed with developments in technology - the printing press, the gramophone and the iPod - and changes in cultural history, such as the evolving role of the audience. Producer Fiona Croall
Another chance to hear Alan Bennett's highly successful play, adapted for radio by Richard Wortley from Nicholas Hytner's smash-hit National Theatre production.
The History Boys 6.30pm R3
Radio 3 need not apologise for repeating this drama for it is one of those rare things, a real tour de force that leaves you exhausted by the end from the sheer work-out of emotions it pushes you through. Its creator, Alan Bennett, has rightly been decorated with awards for this play on education, the anarchy of adolescence and the tussles of staff-room rivalries. Performed by the original stage cast, radio drama simply doesn't get any better than this. (Jane Anderson)
Every year the Sakura Zensen or Cherry-Blossom Front sweeps at about 8 mph through Japan.
Through interviews with the keepers of the trees, recordings of hanami (when people gather to drink and sing under the flowering boughs), and with stories, poems and sounds, writer and translator Stephen Henry Gill and composer Malte Jaspersen evoke the national love affair of the Japanese with cherry blossom. Producer Julian May
Presented by Stephanie Hughes with Rob Cowan.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Viktoria Mullova (violin), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Borodin No Sleep, No Rest (Prince Igor)
Verdi Gran Dioi O de Verd'Anni Miei (Ernani)
Rubinstein Epithalamium (Nero)
Colin Matthews Vivo
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
Wagner Entry of the Guests (Tannhauser)
Coates Calling All Workers
Bizet Toreador's Song (Carmen)
Soloviev-Sedoy Moscow Nights
Sonia Possetti, arr Matthew Barley Bullanguera
Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1 in D
Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs (with additional numbers, arr Bob Chilcott)
Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem
Arr Wood The National Anthem
1/5. 1781-83. Gassmann Overture: L'Amore
Artigiano Salieri Wenn dem Adler das Gefieder (Der Rauchfangkehrer) Haydn Coll ' Amoroso Fuoco (Le Fedelta Premiata) Sachini Overture:
La Contadina in Corte Mozart Six Variations in F, K398 on the aria Salve Tu, Domine from Paisello's I Filosofi Imaginari ; Vorrei Spiergarvi , ODio, K418 (Aria for Anfossi's II Curioso Indiscreto); Per
Pieta, Non Ricercate , K420 (Aria forAnfossi's II Curioso IndiSCreto) Repeated from Christmas Day
With John Shea. Stravinsky Mass Arvo Part De Profundis Faure Cantique de Jean Racine Poulenc Litanies a la Vierge Noire Nystedt Immortal Bach Eric Whitacre Sleep: Water Night Liszt Inno a la Vergine Maria Walton Coronation
Fanfare; Te Deum Per Salo (organ), Danish National Choir, members of the Danish National Orchestra, conductor
Stephen Layton 2.12 Raichev Symphony No 2 (The New Prometheus) 2.57 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370
3.10 Rachmaninov Two Pieces, Op 2 3.19 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 5 in F (Egyptian) 3.47 Bach Violin
Sonata in E minor, BWV1023 4.03 J Strauss (son), arr Berq Wine, Woman and Song 4.13 Lanner Old Viennese Waltzes 4.20 Svendsen Overture: Carnival in Paris 4.33
Stravinsky Ragtime 4.38 Liszt Scherzo and March, S177
4.51 Lehar Dein ist mein Herz (Das Land des Lachelns)
5.00 J Strauss (son) Waltzes: Annina, Op 415; Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op 333; Sans-Souci, Op 63; Durch's Telephon, Op 439 5.23 Palestrina Litaniae de Beata Virgine Maria
5.23 Nemeth-Samorinsky Birch Trees 5.53 Abel
Symphony in A, Op 10 No 6 6.06 J Strauss (son) Tritsch-
Tratsch-Polka, Op 214 6.09 Lehar Meine Lippen, siekussen so heis (Giuditta) 6.14 Schubert Sixteen German Dances, D783 6.25 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWVI047
6.37 Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso 6.52 Debussy Waltz: La Plus Que Lente 6.57 Britten A New Year Carol
