07:00
Martin Handley
From 7.00am
Brahms: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe (director)
Glinka: Souvenir d'une nuit d'ete a Madrid
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
From 8.00am
The 48 at 8:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 9 in E, BWV 854 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Colin Tilney (clavichord)
Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
From 9.00am
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Handel: Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7, No 3
Bob van Asperen (organ)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
10:00
9 December 2007
As the nights draw in, Iain Burnside explores fairytale music.
Sondheim: Hello little girl (Into The Woods)
Clive Carter, Tessa Burbridge (singers)
RD60752
Medtner: Fairy tale
Nicolai Medtner (piano)
APR APR5547
Sibelius: Wedding Scene (Svanevit)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD815BIS
Frank Loesser: Hans Christian Andersen
Danny Kaye (singer)
Varese Sarabande VSD5498
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Dacapo 8226048
Sondheim: A very nice prince; 1st Midnight; Giants in the Sky (Into The Woods)
London Cast Recording
RD60752
Prokofiev: Cinderella Overture
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 4458302
Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice
Berlin Philharmonic
James Levine (conductor)
DG 4196172
Opening of Red Shoes, film score
Silva Screen FILMCD713
Stravinsky: Coronation (Firebird)
CBSO
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5855382
Tchaikovsky: The cats scene (Sleeping Beauty)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 4765321
Bridge: A Fairy Tale Suite
Continuum CCD1016
Frank Loesser: The Maladjusted Jester
Danny Kaye (conductor)
Varese Sarabande VSD5498
Schumann: Der Spielmann from Fünf Lieder, Op 40
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 445 8812
Schumann: Marchenbilder, Op 113
Kim Kashkashian (viola)
Robert Levin (piano)
ECM 4379572
Suk: Swans and Peacocks Game; Funeral Music; Pohádka (Fairy Tale)
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaclav Talich (conductor)
Supraphon 1119042
Sondheim: Any moment; Moments in the woods (Into The Woods)
Clive Carter, Imelda Staunton (singers)
RD60752
12:00
Claire Bloom
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Claire Bloom, whose most famous stage roles have included Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, while on TV she memorably appeared as Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited.
Music is central to her life, and her choices reveal a passion for opera, plus Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Heinrich Schiff playing Bach on the cello, and the radiant end of Schoenberg's Transfigured Night.
13:00
Masaaki Suzuki
Catherine Bott is joined by harpsichordist, organist and conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Since 1990, Suzuki has been the musical director of Bach Collegium Japan, and his interpretations of Bach and, in particular, the cantatas have received great acclaim for their fresh, lyrical approach.
Catherine talks to him about his musical education, his approach to composers such as Bach and the impact of his Christian faith in his music-making. Music includes recordings of works by Bach, Monteverdi and Zelenka.
14:00
9 December 2007
To mark the beginning of the Saturday night Opera on 3 season from New York, Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a collection of scenes and arias requested by Radio 3 listeners.
Her selection includes some great Met performers of the past and present, and an unlikely collaboration between Pavarotti and Sheryl Crow. Plus guest requester Paolo Gavanelli pays tribute to a fellow Italian baritone who trod the boards at the Met.
16:00
9 December 2007
Live from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Introit: A Spotless Rose (Howells)
Responses: Philip Moore
Office Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New)
Psalms: 48, 49 (How, Bertalot)
First Reading: 1 Samuel 2 vv1-10
Canticles: Hereford Service (Richard Lloyd)
Second Reading: John 1 vv19-28
Anthem: The Clouded Heaven (Judith Bingham)
Final Hymn: Lord, save thy world (West Loatmead)
Advent antiphons: O Rex Gentium and O Emmanuel (Bob Chilcott)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata on Veni Emmanuel (Andrew Carter)
Director of Music: Judy Martin
Assistant Director of Music: Tristan Russcher
17:00
Ligeti Violin Concerto
Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and violinist Ernst Kovacic for an in-depth exploration of Gyorgy Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
Plus Jennifer Martin takes an inside look at a BBC SSO learning programme centred around another challenging work by Ligeti, his Chamber Concerto.
18:30
BBC Singers history of Choral Music - Council of Trent
Aled Jones is joined by Renaissance specialist Peter Phillips, who explains why polyphony upset the Church authorities and how, after the Council of Trent was convened, composers such as Palestrina and Jacopus de Kerle got round their subsequent demand for simplicity in music. With specially recorded examples provided by the BBC Singers.
Plus there's news from Philip Ledger, fresh from the British premiere of his Requiem and with several other choral commissions in the pipeline.
20:00
The Homecoming
By Harold Pinter.
Electrifying audiences when it was first performed in 1965, The Homecoming has quickly established itself as a modern classic.
In this production for BBC Radio, Pinter himself takes on the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America. There, amongst the shadows of the past and the realities of the present, a compelling drama unfolds.
Max, a man of seventy ...... Harold Pinter
Lenny, a man in his early thirties ...... Samuel West
Sam, a man of sixty-three ...... Michael Gambon
Joey, a man in his middle twenties ...... James Alexandrou
Teddy, a man in his middle thirties ...... Rupert Graves
Ruth, a woman in her early thirties ...... Gina McKee
21:35
In the Beginning was the Song
Ivan Hewett explores the origins and evolution of music. The urge to make music is rooted deep in human nature, but why that urge arose in the first place is a hotly debated question that divides the scientific community.
Ivan Hewett goes in search of the answer, drawing on a fascinating body of evidence that ranges from Palaeolithic cave settlements and observations of apes making music, to laboratory studies of infants' musical abilities, and a new brain-scanning experiment to map the neural basis of the music faculty.
22:20
Magic
Nicholas Farrell and Miriam Margolyes conjure up words on magic by Shakespeare, Pushkin, Martin Feinstein, Chaucer, Derek Walcott and Keats. These are accompanied by the music of Wagner, Mendelssohn and Tippett, among others.
00:00
1685
The year 1685 is considered an annus mirabilis as it was the birth year of three great composers, Handel, JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.
Catherine Bott presents a programme that puts this year into the context of the musical world these three were born into. Music includes works by Purcell, Corelli, Bononcini and Lully.
01:00
9 December 2007
9 December 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1759): Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano)
Britta Schwarz (mezzo-soprano)
Markus Schäfer (tenor)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Arsys Bourgogne Chorus
Concerto Köln
Pierre Cao (conductor)
2.45am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Preludes No 1 in C; No 2 in A minor; No 3 in G; No 4 in E minor; No 5 in D (24 Preludes, Op 28)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
2.52am
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908): Zigeunerweisen, Op 20
Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
3.02am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
Karmen Pecar (cello)
Slovenian Radio and Television Orchestra
David de Villiers (conductor)
3.41am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel (1714-1788): Quartet No 3 in G, Wq 95
Les Adieux
4.00am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Ligita Sneibe (organ)
4.08am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): String sextet, H224
Wiener Streichsextet:
Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violin)
Thomas Riebl, Siegfried Fuhrlinger (viola)
Susanne Ehn, Rudolf Leopold (cello)
4.25am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Abendempfindung for voice and piano, K523
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Jörg Demus (piano)
4.30am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance in G for violin and orchestra, Op 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
4.39am
Rodney Bennett, Richard (b.1936): Aubade for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4.52am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Three Pieces for String Quartet
Vogler Quartet
5.00am
Juon, Paul (1872-1940): Fairy Tale in A minor for cello and piano, Op 8
Esther Nyffenegger (cello)
Desmond Wright (piano)
5.05am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K513
Robert Holl (bass)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
5.14am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)
5.38am
Wikander, David (1884-1955): Förvarskväll (An evening early in spring)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)
5.43am
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961): Variations sur un thčme dans le style ancien, Op 30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
5.53am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Quartet in A for strings, Op 41, No 3
Faust Quartet
6.20am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonata in D for trumpet, two violins and continuo
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)
6.26am
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975): Piano Concerto No 2 in F
Patrik Jablonski (piano)
Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
6.47am
Anon: Istampita parlamento
Les Ménéstrels
6.51am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Slavonic Dances No 8 In G minor; No 3 In A flat, Op 46
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Arvid Engegard (conductor)
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