Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Adams's O Holy Night, Strauss's Vienna Bon-bons, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library: Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
3 hours, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; New Liszt releases; Disc of the Week: Verdi: Falstaff.
The Rev Richard Coles assesses the influence the Authorised Version of the Bible has had on music over the past 400 years with the help of composers, writers and musicians. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who wrote arguably some of the most engaging Christmas music of the French baroque, including the Messe de Minuit. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall, London, Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and Jose Gallardo (piano) perform music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Boulanger and Astor Piazzolla. Show more
Saturday Classics
John Wilson: Screen Music Greats of Hollywood
Episode 2: Curl up in Front of the Fire for a Christmas Movie
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
John Wilson selects music by Hollywood composers Dmitri Tiomkin, John Williams, Malcolm Arnold and Danny Elfman, and films including It's a Wonderful Life and Gremlins. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Yves Abel conducts a performance of Donizetti's opera La fille du regiment, set in a Swiss village in the Tyrolean Alps. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri, a classically trained singer of Hindustani music, reflects on how music has a common root in both Eastern and Western traditions. Show more
Choral music by David Sawer and Michael Finnissy and two works for cello and electronics by Juste Janulyte, and Roger Smalley. Show more
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby. Michael Parsons: Parapahrase. Saunders: Things whole and not whole. Wolff: Spring Two. Plus Hear and Now 50: music by Arvo Part. Show more
Alyn Shipton is joined by a group of the country's leading jazz critics, broadcasters and writers to select the best new releases of 2011.
Jonathan Swain presents Berlioz's version of the story of Christ's early life, L'enfance du Christ. Show more
