07:00
16 December 2006
Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00am
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
Tchaikovsky, transcr. Liszt: Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
8.00am
Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Gyorgy Fischer (conductor)
Saint-Saens: Septet in E flat
Ian Brown (piano)
Mark David (trumpet)
Marianne Thorsen, David Adams (violins)
Larence Power (viola)
Paul Watkins (cello)
Duncan McTier (double bass)
09:00
16 December 2006
Andrew McGregor is joined by Hilary Finch, Stephen Johnson and Geoffrey Smith to celebrate the Christmas season with their collective critical response to some of the year's best recordings.
10.20am
Simon Heighes compares three recent recordings of Handel's Messiah from Edinburgh, Oxford and Freiburg.
12.30am
Disc of the Year 2006 (as voted for by listeners).
13:00
Handel and the Orchestra
What sort of ear did Handel have for orchestral colour? What factors dictated his choice of instruments in an aria?
Looking back to a time when the orchestra was yet to be standardised, Catherine Bott considers the subject with music from Handel's operas and oratorios, including Giulio Cesare, Riccardo Primo and Saul.
14:00
Mendelssohn's second Piano Concerto
Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloist David Owen Norris in an exploration of Felix Mendelssohn's second (and lesser known) Piano Concerto.
15:00
On location in Peru
Lucy Duran presents a series recorded on location in Peru.
She records musicians on the banks of the Amazon in Iquitos and travels to the remote Andean town of Huancayo, famed for its massed saxophone orchestras. Also featured is the real sound of Peruvian panpipes with a group from Lake Titicaca.
16:00
16 December 2006
Helen Mayhew talks to alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman who recently toured and recorded with legendary British pianist Stan Tracey. She also meets American pianist and vocalist Patricia Barber.
17:00
16 December 2006
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
Arrangers Anonymous
Programme Three
Russell Davies presents a series which analyses and deconstructs a selection of outstanding jazz scores, discovering how each arrangement actually works and what was in the mind of the arranger when the piece was conceived.
18:30
Verdi's Rigoletto
Act One
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto (Act 1).
A masterpiece of betrayal, deception, seduction and love, the plot features an embittered and sinister hunchback jester, his beautiful daughter and a lust-crazed duke.
Rigoletto ...... Carlos Alvarez (baritone)
Duke of Mantua ...... Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Gilda ...... Ekaterina Siurina (soprano)
Sparafucile ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Maddalena ...... Nancy Fabiola Herrera (contralto)
Giovanna ...... Diane Elias (soprano)
Monterone ...... James Courtney (bass)
Marullo ...... Brian Davis (baritone)
Borsa ...... Eduardo Valdes (tenor)
Count Ceprano ...... Keith Miller (bass)
Countess Ceprano ...... Yvonne Gonzales Redman (mezzo)
Guard ...... Joseph Pariso (bass)
Page ...... Elaine Young (mezzo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Friedrich Haider (conductor)
19:20
Richard Bonynge: the Complete Magpie
Richard Bonynge: the Complete Magpie.
Conductor Richard Bonynge gives Martin Handley a guided tour around his collection of musical memorabilia, including original manuscript scores, composers' letters and portraits of singers.
19:40
Verdi's Rigoletto
Act Two
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto (Act 2).
A masterpiece of betrayal, deception, seduction and love, the plot features an embittered and sinister hunchback jester, his beautiful daughter and a lust-crazed duke.
Rigoletto ...... Carlos Alvarez (baritone)
Duke of Mantua ...... Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Gilda ...... Ekaterina Siurina (soprano)
Sparafucile ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Maddalena ...... Nancy Fabiola Herrera (contralto)
Giovanna ...... Diane Elias (soprano)
Monterone ...... James Courtney (bass)
Marullo ...... Brian Davis (baritone)
Borsa ...... Eduardo Valdes (tenor)
Count Ceprano ...... Keith Miller (bass)
Countess Ceprano ...... Yvonne Gonzales Redman (mezzo)
Guard ...... Joseph Pariso (bass)
Page ...... Elaine Young (mezzo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Friedrich Haider (conductor)
20:20
16 December 2006
Opera buffs pit their wits against teasers sent in by listeners.
20:40
Verdi's Rigoletto
Act Three
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto (Act 3).
A masterpiece of betrayal, deception, seduction and love, the plot features an embittered and sinister hunchback jester, his beautiful daughter and a lust-crazed duke.
Rigoletto ...... Carlos Alvarez (baritone)
Duke of Mantua ...... Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Gilda ...... Ekaterina Siurina (soprano)
Sparafucile ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Maddalena ...... Nancy Fabiola Herrera (contralto)
Giovanna ...... Diane Elias (soprano)
Monterone ...... James Courtney (bass)
Marullo ...... Brian Davis (baritone)
Borsa ...... Eduardo Valdes (tenor)
Count Ceprano ...... Keith Miller (bass)
Countess Ceprano ...... Yvonne Gonzales Redman (mezzo)
Guard ...... Joseph Pariso (bass)
Page ...... Elaine Young (mezzo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Friedrich Haider (conductor)
21:45
Benjamin Markovits
Ian McMillan presents the weekly language, literature and performance cabaret.
Studio guest is novelist Benjamin Markovits, author of a specially commissioned Christmas children's story.
Plus an interview with the acclaimed poet Alan Brownjohn as he looks back at his life and work.
22:30
The Charming Mr Kharms
A look at the life and career of Daniil Kharms, a Russian absurdist who wrote hilarious microscopic playlets about the silliness of the human condition. He continually fell foul of the authorities and died in prison in 1942.
With music by Haflidi Hallgrimsson.
23:00
2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
The programme features music from John Cage alongside works from James Tenney and John Lely.
Zeitkratzer
Tenney: Critical Band
Phil Thomas (piano), James Saunders (electronics)
John Cage: Electronic Music for Piano
Alvin Lucier: Still Lives
John Lely: All about the piano (World Premiere)
01:00
16 December 2006
16 December 2006
With John Shea.
1.00am
The Kopelman String Quartet at Louisiana Musieum of Modern Art
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893): String Quartet No 3
1.39am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): 3 Pieces
1.46am
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): String Quartet No 3
2.19am Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1925): Piano Concerto
Janina Fialkowska
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
2.56am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe and Winona Zelenka (cellos)
3.09am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trumpet Concerto
Odin Hagen
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Per Kristian Skalstad (conductor)
3.28am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Sonata in Gm, Op 65
Claes Gunnarsson (cello)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
3.59am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in Am, HWV 362
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom André Laberge (organ)
4.06am Gershwin, George (1898-1937): Piano Preludes
Donna Coleman
4.14am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Serenade for Strings
Seoul Chamber Orchestra
Yong-Yun Kim (conductor)
4.26am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Return, O God of hosts (Samson)
Maureen Forrester (contralto)
I Solisti di Zagreb
Antonio Janigro (conductor)
4.35am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): 12 Variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
4.48am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von (1644-1704): Sonata violino solo representiva
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)
5.00am
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784): Sinfonie in F, F67
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)
5.12am
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887): String Quartet No 2 - notturno
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
5.21am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in C, K545
Vanda Albota (piano)
5.32am
Groneman, Johannes Albertus (1710-1778): Sonata in G
Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen (flutes)
5.40am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Vattene pur, crudel
Consort of Musicke
5.47am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Praeludium and Allegro
Patrik Ringborg (violin)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
5.53am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Prague Waltzes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Robl (conductor)
6.02am
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): Wind Quintet in A flat
Cinque Venti
6.16am
Gade, Niels Wilhelm (1817-1890): At Sunset
Danish National Radio Choir
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
6.24am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Three Etudes, Op 104
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
6.32am
Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (1715-1777): Trombone Concerto
Warwick Tyrrell
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
6.42am
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759): Dica il falso, dica il vero (Alessandro)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)
6.48am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto da Camera in D, RV 94
Camerata Köln
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