07:00
Martin Handley
Including from 7.00am
Mozart: String Quartet in C, K157
Chamber Players of Canada
Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op 70
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Chamber Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)
From 8.00am
The 48 at 8:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 15 in G (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Vaughan Williams: Concerto in A minor for oboe and string orchestra
Neil Black (oboe)
English Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
09:00
Round-Up 2007
Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music.
9.30am Critics' Highlights and Challenge
Harriet Smith, Stephen Johnson and Simon Heighes choose their favourite recordings of 2007, and Andrew challenges them to see what they can buy for £50. Will they go for quality or quantity? Buying in a shop or online, or maybe opt for some digital downloads?
11.45am CD Review Listeners' Choice
Listeners are invited to vote for their favourite recordings of 2007 from the shortlist of fifteen drawn up by our critics. The shortlist is available at bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview.
12:15
Stockhausen
Tom Service presents a special programme looking back on the life and music of one of the 20th century's most distinguished and controversial composers - Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died last week.
13:00
Dieterich Buxtehude
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day.
Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668.
14:00
15 December 2007
Gaudier Ensemble
Another chance to hear the Gaudier Ensemble perform two of Beethoven's finest early chamber works at the Wigmore Hall in London. Presented by Verity Sharp.
Beethoven: Quintet in E flat for piano and wind instruments, Op 16; Trio in B flat for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 11
15:00
In Georgia
Since gaining independence in 1991, Georgia has been a land of political disorder, culminating in the peaceful Rose Revolution of 2003. Lucy Duran travels to this little-visited country to find out how its ancient musical traditions have fared after decades of occupation and instability.
1/2. Music recorded on location for the programme includes lively polyphonic drinking songs and the beautiful choral music of the Georgian Church.
16:00
Kurt Elling
With Claire Martin.
Including a look at new releases and an exclusive interview with iconic jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, who performed in London recently. Claire focuses on his current CD Nightmoves, while he chats about his famous scat and hard swinging style.
17:00
15 December 2007
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Conducted by Placido Domingo
Margaret Juntwait and English tenor Philip Langridge introduce the New York Met's production of Gounod's emotional rollercoaster of an opera. Operatic superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna are the star-crossed lovers in this romantic setting of Shakespeare's tragedy conducted by Plácido Domingo. Including a feature about setting Shakespeare and backstage interviews with members of the cast.
Juliette, daughter of Capulet ...... Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Roméo, son of Montague ...... Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Tybalt, Juliette's cousin ...... Marc Heller (tenor)
Mercutio, Roméo's best friend ...... Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Stéphano, Roméo's page ...... Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano)
Gertrude, Juliette's nurse ...... Jane Bunnell (mezzo-soprano)
Count Pâris, friend of Tybalt ...... Louis Otey (baritone)
Benvolio, friend of Roméo ...... Tony Stevenson (baritone)
Grégorio, Capulet's servant ...... David Won (baritone)
Frère Laurent, a friar ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Count Capulet, head of the Capulet family ...... Charles Taylor (bass)
Duke of Verona ...... Dean Peterson (bass)
Orchestra and Chorus of New York Metropolitan Opera
Plácido Domingo (conductor)
21:30
Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx
A tour of the vast Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, which is the final resting place for numerous jazz luminaries including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver and Max Roach.
With contributions from historian Susan Olsen, novelist Laura Shaine Cunningham and musician Maxine Roach, daughter of Max Roach. Plus original music by Iain Ballamy and Ashley Slater.
22:00
Conducted by Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jackson conducts the BBC SO, with soprano Carolyn Foulkes and baritone Ashley Holland, in Gerald Finzi's In Terra Pax and Herbet Howells's A Maid Peerless.
22:30
A Tribute To Karlheinz Stockhausen
Robert Worby presents a special programme in memory of Stockhausen, who died on the 5th December, and introduces a selection of music from his earliest to his most recent works.
00:00
Alessandro Scarlatti: The Sicilian Godfather of the Oratorio
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life of the Sicilian born composer, and some of the music he composed for oratorios during the early part of the 18th century.
The Vatican had placed a ban on opera and theatrical productions which lasted nearly 30 years, but Scarlatti found ways around that inconvenience and wrote some of the most influential stage works during this time. Music includes excerpts from Ishmael, Maddalena, Il Giardino di Amore and Cain, ovvero Il Primo Omidicio.
Simon Lole presents a feature about Scarlatti's younger brother Francesco, whose life took a much less successful path.
01:00
15 December 2007
15 December 2007
With John Shea.
1.00am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Sonata in D, D850
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
1.41am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Quintet in A, D667
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Are Sandbakken (viola)
Leonid Gorokhov (cello)
Dan Styffe (double bass)
2.25am
Festa, Costanzo (1528-1601): Magnificat octavi toni
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
2.42am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 6 in A minor
Orchestre National de France
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
4.00am
Arban, Jean-Baptiste (1825-1889), arr. Stanhope: Fantasy and Variations on a Cavatina from Beatrice di Tenda by Bellini
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Michael Halasz (conductor)
4.08am
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835): Eccomi in lieta vesta?. Oh! Quante volte (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
Adriana Marfisi (soprano)
Oslo Philharmonic
Nello Santi (conductor)
4.19am
Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840): Rondeau, Op3
Frans van Ruth (piano)
4.26am
Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697-1773): Trio Sonata in E flat
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble
4.34am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Di marmo siete voi, SWV 17
4.36am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Giunte è pur, Lidia, SWV 18
4.39am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Vasto mar, nel cui seno, SWV 19
Consorte of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (conductor)
4.43am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Concerto grosso in D, Op 6 No 4
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
4.52am
Dandrieu, Jean-Francois (c.1682-1738): Rondeau - L'Harmonieuse (Pièces de clavecin, Book I)
4.58am
Dandrieu, Jean-Francois (c.1682-1738): Rondeau - L'Étourdie (Pièces de clavecin, Book 2)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
5.00am
Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich (1837-1910): Overture on Russian Themes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5.08am
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Serenata, Op 121 No 5
Arto Noras (cello)
Tapani Valsta (piano)
5.10am
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Lohdutus (Consolation)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
5.16am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Valsette in E minor (10 Pensées lyriques for piano, Op 40 No 1)
5.17am
Merikanto, Oscar (1868-1924): Improvisation, Op 76 No 3
Eero Heinonen (piano)
5.24am
Offenbach, Jaques (1819-1880): C'est une chanson d'amour (Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act 3)
Lyne Fortin (soprano)
Richard Margison (tenor)
Orchestre Symphonique du Québec
Simon Streatfield (conductor)
5.31am
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896): O Vin, dissipe ma tristesse (Hamlet)
Gaétan Laperrière (baritone)
Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières
Gilles Bellemare (conductor)
5.35am
Paganini, Nicolò (1782-1840): Cantabile
Peter Michalica (violin)
Elena Michalicova (piano)
5.40am
Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (1908-2002): Le cantique des colonnes
Isabelle Perrin and Ghislaine Petit (harps)
Maîtrise de Radio France
Denis Dupays (conductor)
5.53am
Brumel, Antoine (c.1460-c.1515): Agnus Dei (Et ecce terrae motus)
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (director)
6.00am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sonata in B minor for violin and harpsichord, H512
Les Adieux
6.18am
Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826): Symphony in D major/minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula (conductor)
6.47am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse (for two pianos)
Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos)
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